6 • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002
FOOD BOOKS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2002
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN * 7
Maintain traditions this holiday season Spread the holiday cheer with family, friends and food
As the world of holiday traditions has been celebrated or is awaited this year, one commonality is shared throughout this joyous season love. Families from country to country unlock past customs and recreate timeless memories by unfolding family traditions. This year, help decorate cookies, spend time with loved ones, have a glass of eggnog (spiked if necessary) or go ahead and help roast that turkey. Relish the feasts and holiday activities that your family upholds and continue the tradition of these special days.
Take pleasure in this truly enchanting time this season and partake in other holiday food favorites. Please welcome favorite Italian recipes from my home into yours this holiday season, and have a wonderful winter break. Happy Holidays!
Grandma Giardino's Pasta Sauce
EAT THIS
Serve sauce with cooked capellini pasta and rigaton)
Christina DiGiacomo
edgiacomor@kansan.com
Egg 2 15-ounce cans of tomato sauce
oil 1 28-ounce can of diced tomatoes, drained
butter 1 small yellow onion, chopped
Honey 3 cloves of garlic, minced
lacqua 2 teaspoons of sugar
1/4 cup of chopped fresh basil
1/4 cup of chopped fresh basil
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 dried bay leaf
1 1/2 teaspoons dried parsley
2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add onion and cook for 5 minutes or until translucent. Add garlic and cook about one minute. Add tomato sauce and diced tomatoes. Mash tomatoes with a masher in the pot until almost completely mashed. Add 1/2 cup of water to the tomato sauce. Add all of the remaining ingredients, except for the basil. Turn down the heat between low and medium low and let simmer for 30 minutes or more. When ready to serve tomato sauce, add the fresh basil and mix. Serves 8 to 10.
Eggplant Parmesan
I learned this recipe in Florence, Italy, and it's still the best eggplant Parmesan I have ever tasted. (Double recipe for more guests)
1 small eggplant, peeled with a knife, and cut into 1/2 inch thick slices
1/4 teaspoon of kosher salt
Enough olive oil to cover bottom of a large pan
Fresh Mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup of Romano or Parmesan cheese
Grandma Giardino's pasta sauce
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place eggplant slices in a large bowl and sprinkle with salt. Let the eggplant sweat for 15 minutes (this takes the bitterness away) and pat dry. Heat oil between medium and medium-high heat for 5 to 7 minutes. Gently place eggplant slices into the oil and let cook on both sides for 5 minutes or until golden brown. Stack paper towels on top of one another and set aside. Carefully lift eggplant slices out of pan and onto the paper towels. Pat excess oil off.
In a small casserole dish, ladle one spoonful of pasta sauce onto bottom of dish. Add eggplant slices on top of tomato sauce. Next, cut slices of mozzarella cheese and layer on top of eggplant. Ladle another spoonful of pasta sauce over mozzarella,
and sprinkle with Romano cheese. Repeat layers if necessary. Bake for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted, and serve. Can be kept warm in a 200-degree oven as well. Serves 4.
Filet of Sole
4 filets of sole fish
18-20 buttered crackers
2 tablespoons fresh parsley
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 beaten egg
Canola oil, just enough to cover bottom of sauté pan
1 cup of milk
Soak filets in milk for 30 minutes. While fish is soaking, place crackers into a food processor, crumble, and place cracker crumbs onto a plate. Mix in parsley and pepper into crumb mixture. Set aside. Place one beaten egg into a shallow bowl. Setaside. Drain milk from fish, and pat dry Heat oil in pan, between medium and medium high heat for 5-7 minutes. While oil is heating, dip fish into egg, and then into cracker mixture covering the whole filet of fish. Repeat. Place filets into the oil and cook on both sides for 2-3 minutes Serve immediately. Serves4.
Approach matters more than time when studying
Prioritizing could reap rewards in time crunch, every minute counts
Leslie Kimmel
lkimmel@kansan.com
HEALTH
You have four borderline grades, four finals and one week to study.But there's no need to freak.
When it comes to anything that causes stress, sometimes the problem doesn't lie in the limited amount of time you have to finish a project, but how you actually go about getting it done.
Stress builds up over time, but eliminating it only takes a few minutes. You can save yourself a whole week's worth of worry by applying a few simple methods to your daily study routine.
Take time to prioritize. A good idea is to follow the 80-20 rule introduced by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. He said that 80 percent of the reward comes from 20 percent of the effort, so it's best to concentrate on that 20 percent that you feel
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Distinguish between urgency and importance. Does something have to be done immediately, or can it wait until you get around to it? Getting urgent things out of the way allows you to concentrate on other important projects.
holds the greatest reward. Take a few minutes to determine which final is the most important to you and focus in on that material.
Figure out your type. Do you work best late at night and like to sleep in? Or does waking up with the sun get you ready to start studying? Determining when you
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are most productive could be half the battle when it comes to studying.
Write down some de-stressing activities. Instead of zoning in on The Real World during a study break, find something that you enjoy that keeps you active at the same time. Remember, when you were a kid, you played games to feel happy. The same should hold true for today. Activities like games and playing music stimulate your brain and help you feel less tense.
Don't waste time. Remember that five minutes is a lot longer than you think it is.
Waiting for the bus? Then go over your notes from class. Have to make a phone call, wrap a present, or do the dishes? A few minutes is usually all it takes.
Break study material down. Instead of thinking of the chemistry final as one big chunk of concepts you need to learn, take 15 minutes to break it down into sections that can be learned individually.
When anxiety hits its peak, sit back and recall that no one is perfect. In the Malaysian culture, only the gods are seen as able to produce anything without flaws. Striving for that A may only stress you out more, leading to a lower grade than if you would have decided to approach the material in the best way you could.
Consider a few words of wisdom: "He that worry hath little joy, and few things are fatal." Chances are, things that stress you out the most today are things you won't even remember when the new year rolls around.