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Crafting cookies: Baker Peterson schools students in decorative desserts By Zarah Parker zarah@theleadernews.com Sometimes prettily iced sugar cookies look too perfect to eat and way too complicated to make. That’s where Underwater Oven’s Samantha Peterson comes in. She not only makes beautiful cookies. She teaches decorating classes that give students the skills to decorate them at home. “I started this whole adventure by taking a class,” Peterson said. “I learned through someone who was making cookies and doing classes.” The first time Peterson took a decorating class she was able to learn so much that it made her hungry to dive deeper into cookies. Three years later, she’s teaching cookie decorating classes and helping people learn the craft the same way she was taught. But before Underwater Oven was used for selling homemade cookies, Peterson’s original idea for the business was for cupcakes. This concept was first flirted with while she lived in Rhode Island, but when a move to Houston made her realize humidity
Christmas cookie creations by Samantha Peterson, owner of Underwater Oven.
wasn’t kind to cupcakes, she opted for cookies. It wasn’t just the humidity that changed her mind, but the art aspect of
an iced sugar cookie. “I can’t draw on a piece of paper to save my life, but give me a bag of icing and I’m
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It’s leading a Toys for Tots drive that began Nov. 23, concludes Dec. 16 and includes 30 participating bars and restaurants. By Adam For every Eureka Heights pint Zuvanich sold at those businesses, which have committed to offer three of Editor’s note: If you’re thirsty for more beer columns like this the company’s beers during one, good news. Zuvie’s Brews the drive, it will donate $1 to the Houston-area Toys for will appear monthly. Tots organization. The same Children under 21 should goes for pints of the Wicket not drink beer. Let’s make Awesome ESB sold at the Euthat clear, because it’s clearly reka Heights tap room. Co-founder Casey Motes against the law and not a good said the brewery hopes to idea anyway. But needy kids all over raise between $5,000 and Houston should raise a pint $10,000 for Toys for Tots, a glass – filled with juice, of national charity run by the course – to a kind-hearted United States Marine Corps brewery in the heart of the Reserve. “We feel like that can make Heights. Eureka Heights Brew Co., a difference for a whole lot of the 2-year-old craft brewer families,” Motes said. Many of the participating at 941 W 18th St., caught a case of the Christmas spirit locations, which stretch from this year and decided to pour Magnolia to Webster and just holiday cheer all over the city. about everywhere in between,
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great at it,” Peterson said. Underwater Oven’s name came from Peterson’s primary vocation as a marine biologist, though she says cookies are taking more and more of her time. Cookie decorating has become the creative outlet she doesn’t necessarily have while being a marine biologist. Underwater Oven doesn’t imply she bakes the cookies underwater. For a little over a year, Peterson has been selling her cookies at Eleanora’s Market, which is held in the parking lot of Cavatore Italian Restaurant, 2120 Ella Blvd., every Saturday from 9 a.m.–1 p.m. “I started going to Eleanora’s right after (Hurricane) Harvey,” Peterson said. “I had heard great things about the market, and this is a good area for the product. I meet people and through that get custom orders. It’s where I build my business even if I don’t sell a lot that day. I get my name out there.”
Tina Tran, one of Peterson’s cookie-decorating students, discovered Underwater Oven at Eleanora’s Market. “They were beautiful and tasted great. I started buying her cookies on a regular basis for over a year now,” Tran said. “I have tried sugar cookies from several bakeries all over Houston and hers are the best.” The creativity Peterson can express in custom orders is what she enjoys most. Some customers give her just an idea of what they want, such as a theme, and she’s able to build a cookie set from that direction. The customer can put faith in Peterson’s product when she’s designing with creative freedom. Conversely, when a customer provides a photo of what they want a cookie to look like, Peterson enjoys the challenge of breaking down the image See Cookies P. 6B
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also are accepting toy donations. So is the brewery itself. Last Friday, there were more than a dozen boxes of toys sitting under a big Christmas tree in the tap room that was decorated with empty beer cans turned into ornaments. Eureka Heights topped off the week by holding the “White Oak Holiday Pub Crawl” that stopped at some of the participating locations. The charitable idea came from Zach Growcock, who does sales and marketing for Eureka Heights. He said he wanted to support Toys for Tots because it fit the season and is an apolitical cause he knew would be well-received. The drive also provides a means for promoting and selling Eureka Heights beer, of course. “It’s definitely helped get some extra taps out on the market and some more exposure for our brand,” Growcock said. Onion Creek Coffee House, See Zuvie’s P. 7B
Readers vote for Aladdin as area’s best new restaurant By Zarah Parker zarah@theleadernews.com When a year comes to an end it’s time to reflect on the past 12 months. Instead of thinking back to all that was done right or wrong, let’s think about food. The number of restaurants that opened in the area this year seem innumerous. So we’re going to focus on the top three restaurants of 2018 as voted on by readers of The Leader in a poll on Facebook. Aladdin Mediterranean Cuisine The neighborhood favorite is Aladdin Mediterranean Cuisine, 1737 W 34th St., which opened in July. Owner Ali Nahhas had been looking forward to the location opening
Photo supplied Neighborhood favorite Aladdin Mediterranean Cuisine offers a variety of delicious, healthy dishes.
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The promise of an experience unlike any other. Christmas and cookies go hand in hand Zarah Parker Managing Editor
As a child, cookie making was just as magical as Christmas Day. On a Saturday morning in December I’d wake up to a refrigerator full of cookie dough ready to be rolled out, cut out and baked. Half the dough was sugar cookie, the other half chocolate chip. My family would ice the sugar cookies with the four colors that came in the food dye kit from the grocery store, and as we did that we began eating the still-warm chocolate chip ones. After finishing our Christmas cookies my brothers and I would go off to play before we crashed from a sugar-induced coma. The next day all the dishes would be cleaned, all the cookies would be stored in Tupperware. More magic for 5-year-old me. This year “Cookie Day” is this weekend, and I’m reminded how baking Christmas cookies throughout my childhood taught both me and my brothers the importance of family traditions, especially around the holidays because of the bond it created between us. If we don’t get to cut out a reindeer from sugar cookie dough at least once during December, we complain that it doesn’t feel like Christmas. Our chocolate chip cookie recipe comes from the back of the Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chip bag, with one addition of our own. We add more flour to the recipe. How much more? Call it an eye-ball-I-think-that’s-enough amount. Without the extra flour the cookies are only good for a day before they get too hard, but with the flour the cookies come out softer and fluffier (and tastier). We have a gingerbread man cookie sheet that somewhere along the road we started using for chocolate chip cookies. One of the most well-known sounds of our cookie baking day, other than the timer on the oven, is the sound of metal banging against the counter. It’s the sound of my mom trying to get the gingerbread men-shaped chocolate chip cookies out of the pan. My family swears by chocolate chip cookies tasting better in a gingerbread man shape. But that magic I was talk-
ing about only lasted through the ‘90s. Once we kids were old enough to intentionally avert our eyes from the growing pile of flour-dusted dishes in the sink, my mom decided it was time to share the magic. And by share the magic I mean she threatened never to make Christmas cookies again unless someone helped her make the dough the night before and wash the dishes after. To this day my brothers have always managed to get out of both of those responsibilities. With our Christmas Cookie Day firmly ingrained in my family’s head as a necessary day to take part in every year, we’ve steadily grown in number of attendees. From an immediate family of six to one of 17, we end up literally having a refrigerator full of cookie dough. This weekend we’ll wrap all the tables in parchment paper, throw flour on everything and hope the kids don’t make too big of a mess (and watch closely for any nose pickers). We’ll stress ourselves out and swear that next year there won’t be a Cookie Day when everyone is being more annoying than usual. We’ll also laugh, throw flour on each other and make fun of someone’s poorly iced cookie. But we won’t actually regret Cookie Day, even if it’s because we get to have our gingerbread man chocolate chip cookies. Below is the recipe we use to make sugar cookies: • 2 cups all-purpose flour • 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 6 tablespoons butter or margarine • 1/3 cup shortening • 3/4 cup sugar • 1 egg • 1 tablespoon milk • 1 teaspoon vanilla - Stir together flour, baking powder and salt. In a large mixer bowl beat butter and shortening until butter is softened. Add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add egg, milk and vanilla and beat well. Add flour mixture and beat until well mixed. Divide dough in half. Cover and chill at least three hours or until easy to handle.
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Art Valet: Potter finds niche in creating, teaching It is quite the challenge for me but also a lot of fun.” AV: How about the, “You’ll never believe this but …” category? JD: “As an infant, my parents took me to Disneyland. My dad saw Walt Disney walking around, greeting guests, checking out the facilities. My dad said, ‘Walt, I want you to
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After a mild midlife crisis, potter John Delafield left his career in the software industry and became an eighth-grade art teacher in his hometown of Pasadena. After getting over the shock of his first year of teaching, he believes he’s got the best job now. Perhaps it was the job he was meant to have. It was in eighth grade when Delafield started to fall in love with art -- and school. “School was difficult for me,” he said. “My parents had my eyes checked to see if that was the problem. No. I had good vision and hearing. I just didn’t find school that interesting until I hit eighth grade and was put in an art class. From then on school had a purpose to me.” Delafield grew up in Pasadena and kept himself entertained as a child by making things out of any material that was available. He thinks he got the artistic gene from his father, a professional attorney who would occasionally break out the oils and paint a landscape. Delafield would make figures out of clay, crossbows out of wood and springs, and even ships that had a ballast so that they could float upright. “I once made a cannon out of a copper tube and scraped gunpowder out of caps,” Delafield recalled. “That thing fired. Everyone heard it and ran out of the house. I was told not to do it again.” AV: What got you interested in pottery? JD: “I went to San Jacinto College for three years and University of Houston for two. I got a (bachelor’s) degree in art with an emphasis in ceramics. Huey Beckham was my primary instructor at U of H. While there I learned the potter’s wheel and we fired a wood-burning kiln. I collected cow poop and did a primitive firing. But primarily I learned that I loved clay and its properties.” AV: What are you best known for? JD: “My work is functional. I am compelled to have function. I am also compelled to have glazes that I find interesting. However, glazing is not as high a priority to me as form and function. Customers will bring ideas to me and I will sometimes use the ideas but I will try to put my own spin on it. My best sellers are coffee cups and soup bowls. At this point in the game, I feel obligated to bring a good selection of both to a market along with other supporting pieces. The latest idea to take off is a
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Zuvie’s from P. 1B Bar and Lounge in the Heights, one of 11 participating locations in the area, had as many as six Eureka Heights beers on tap during the pub crawl. General manager Gunnar Crew said Onion Creek has been ordering four slim kegs per week from the brewery. Crew, who likes to frequently rotate taps to offer customers as much variety as possible, said he doesn’t mind making the three-week commitment to Eureka Heights because it’s for a good cause. Motes said the brewery has been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support for the drive, saying he initially expected only eight or 10 bars to participate. Motes said businesses and organizations that don’t even serve beer also have chipped in with toy donations, such as the Houston Roller Derby and Houston Zombie Walk. The willingness to get behind the cause has filled Motes’ glass with warm feelings. Toys for Tots is tickled, too. The children’s charity will take all the support it can get, even from a business that produces adult beverages. “Any and every bit helps,” said Gunnery Sgt. Herman Crawford, a Toys for Tots coordinator in Houston. “If they want to try to help raise some money and some toys for some kids out there, I’m definitely happy about it.” Cheers to that. Email azuvanich@theleadernews.com
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Dream Wings Next on the list of what locals love is Dream Wings, 3425 Ella Blvd., which opened in July. This is the first brick and mortar for The Dream Wings Truck. On the menu you can grab the “World Famous Dream Wings Platter,” which is seven flavored chicken wings, fries, a roll and dipping sauces. Or try their fresh seafood, savory pastas, wraps and salads.
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In September 1960, I woke up one morning with six hungry babies and just 75 cents in my pocket. Their father was gone. The boys ranged from three months to seven years; their sister was two. Their Dad had never been much more than a presence they feared. Whenever they heard his tires crunch on the gravel driveway they would scramble to hide under their beds. He did manage to leave $15 a week to buy groceries. Now that he had decided to leave, there would be no more beatings, but no food either. If there was a welfare system in effect in southern Indiana at that time, I certainly knew nothing about it. I scrubbed the kids until they looked brand new and then put on my best homemade dress, loaded them into the rusty old 51 Chevy and drove off to find a job. The seven of us went to every factory, store and restaurant in our small town. No luck. The kids stayed crammed into the car and tried to be quiet while I tried to convince whoever would listen that I was willing to learn or do anything. I had to have a job. Still no luck. The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town was an old Root Beer
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8 am Holy Communion, 9:30 am Sunday School, 10:30 am Holy Communion
8:15am & 10:30am HolyandCommunion Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols Communion. 6 pm 6:00pm Lessons andHoly Carols 6:00pm Lessons and December 25 Carols
211 Byrne Christmas•Daywww.holytrinityrec.org Service of Morning Prayer. 10 am. 211 211Byrne Byrne •• www.holytrinityrec.org www.holytrinityrec.org
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Christmas from P. 7B far gone to repair. On Christmas Eve, the usual customers were drinking coffee in the Big Wheel. There were the truckers, Les, Frank, and Jim, and a state trooper named Joe. A few musicians were hanging around after a gig at the Legion and were dropping nickels
in the pinball machine. The regulars all just sat around and talked through the wee hours of the morning and then left to get home before the sun came up. When it was time for me to go home at seven o’clock on Christmas morning, to my amazement, my old battered Chevy was filled full to the top with boxes of all shapes and siz-
es. I quickly opened the driver’s side door, crawled inside and kneeled in the front facing the back seat. Reaching back, I pulled off the lid of the top box. Inside was a whole case of little blue jeans, sizes 2-10! I looked inside another box: It was full of shirts to go with the jeans. Then I peeked inside some of the other boxes. There was candy and
nuts and bananas and bags of groceries. There was an enormous ham for baking, and canned vegetables and potatoes. There was pudding and Jell-O and cookies, pie filling and flour. There was a whole bag of laundry supplies and cleaning items. And there were five toy trucks and one beautiful little doll. As I drove back through empty streets as the sun
slowly rose on most amazing Christmas Day of my life, I was sobbing with gratitude. And I will never forget the joy on the faces of my little ones that precious morning. Yes, there were angels in Indiana that long-ago December. And they all hung out at the Big Wheel truck stop.
Santa came for our Holiday Tamales
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GREAT for your GIFTS favorite man! Duke Cannon Inspired by soldiers, benefitting veterans
2199
$
Each
Kitchen Boa
• Fashionable dish towel hangs conveniently around the neck • No Hostess or mom should be without it • Assorted style and colors • 68” long
• Manly scented soaps, solid colognes (TSA approved), hair products and beard care.
2399
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Flower Diffuser
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Precision Tuned Wind Chimes Musically tuned to beautiful scales and well-known melodies. Priced from
2199
$
1999
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Light-up Christmas Tree Scarf • Acrylic • 36 x 4.7” 658038
Studewood
(Just across the bayou from previous location)