YOURWEEKEND Music
n SANFORD: The Flame Steakhouse and Brewer’s Pub now features live music every Thursday night. For more information, contact the restaurant at 776-7111. n SANFORD: The Steele Street Coffee and Wine Bar features live entertainment featuring local musicians every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. For more information, visit steelestreetcafe.com. n RALEIGH: North Carolina Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn will lead the orchestra in concerts featuring three works
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by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Jan. 7 at Kenan Auditorium on the UNC-Wilmington campus and on Jan. 8 and 9 at Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh’s Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. All three concerts begin at 8 p.m. For tickets and more information, visit the North Carolina Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org, or call Audience Services at (919) 733-2750 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. n PineCone and the N.C. Museum of History present “Songs of the Soul”, featuring Teresa Fernandez, Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band.
This program is part of the Music of the Carolinas series, and it is free and open to the public. n RALEIGH: Violinist Joshua Bell will perform at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14 at the Meymandi Concert Hall at downtown Raleigh’s Prograss Energy Center for the Performing Arts. For ticket and more information, visit the N.C. Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org or call audience services at (919) 733-2750 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. n SANFORD: Carolina Philhar-
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n The Country Comedy Tour show featuring Matt Mitchell (above) and MG Gaskin will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Temple Theatre. Tickets are $15. For more information call the Box Office at (919) 774-4155.
WEDNESDAY FOOD&DRINKS
Curry, the taste of India By ANN LEVIN For The Associated Press
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Anyone Hungry? For more recipes, visit Lindsay Tipton’s blog at lindsayrose.wordpress.com
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am is becoming a new favorite of mine. I never disliked ham, but recently I find myself craving it more often. The more I crave it, the more I try to find ways to prepare it. In doing so, I am finding that ham is a very versatile meat — it is suitable for appetizers, breakfast dishes, casseroles, frittatas, and so much more. Ham is also a reasonably priced meat to purchase. Not only INSIDE is it fairly See our cheap, weekly Dining but you Guide for can buy a local menu package options of ham Pages 4-5C steaks and it can stretch to cover several meals. Most casseroles that call for ham only require a cup or two of diced ham. While its saltiness may not be the best for the blood pressure, it allows the ham to keep well in the refrigerator. This way, you don’t have to have several ham dishes all in one week. Use half of the ham steak for a meal this week and set the rest aside for a meal next week. Leftovers from a Christmas or Easter ham are also perfect for preparing a dish such as this Creamy Ham and Veggie Pasta. This recipe was given to my Mom by my Aunt. I am not sure what the original recipe was, but I know that my Aunt changed it some, my Mom changed it some, and I’ve made a bunch of changes to it as well. It’s like a game of telephone — the recipe is changed a bit each time it is passed down. Instead of the message being altered and distorted, the changes to a recipe only make it better — or at least more unique. Test this recipe out and make your own changes to suit your own taste buds. Try a sharp cheddar cheese instead
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For the home chef who wants to ride the wave of popularity of Indian food this chicken and cashew nuts in black spices adapted from Camellia Punjabi’s “50 Great Curries of India” is a good place to start. An increased presence of Indian food, both on supermarket shelves and in restaurants on Main Street, has many thinking it may be the next big thing.
ndian food in America is having its “Slumdog Millionaire” moment. Supermarket shelves are lined with chutneys, pickles and sauces and all manner of boxed heat-and-serve Indian meals. The quality and number of Indian restaurants has soared, offering an alternative to cheap all-you-can-eat buffets. And a flurry of new cookbooks is introducing home cooks to subtle regional differences in Indian cuisine shaped by climate, geography, religion and caste. In Chicago, Indian businessman Vijay Puniani is betting Indian food will be the next big thing. After studying the success of Chipotle, Puniani opened the first in what he says will be a chain of “fast-casual” Indian restaurants modeled after the popular Mexican eatery. Chutney Joe’s, which opened in downtown Chicago in February 2009, features the sleek, minimalist decor of Chipotle —
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AROUND THE STATE
Woman with big heart rescues big dogs By MONTE MITCHELL
Susan Condlin is county extension director for N.C. Cooperative Extension in Lee County. She can be reached at 775-5624.
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WINSTON-SALEM — There are more than 1,000 pounds of dog in the garage of Martha Rehmeyer’s home, and a story behind each bark. As president of Carolina Great Pyrenees Rescue, Rehmeyer has heard about the dogs who got too big for the apartment or the owners who had to move, and all the other reasons dogs need new homes. She’s working with foster homes in North Carolina and South Carolina to keep 17 of the extra-large fluffy white dogs, and keeps another 10 dogs in kennels in her home near Peace Haven Road in western Winston-Salem. She’s had to turn down 300 dogs this past year. “You can only take care of what you can take care of,” she said. “This (past) year, with the economy, I think people are just dumping their dogs, can’t feed them and take care of them. I’ve been doing this for 18 years and I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s not just Pyrs (pronounced: peers), it’s every breed.” In the midst of a terrible time to be a stray dog, Ozzie the Great Pyrenees limped into the right place. He was born Feb. 27, 2008, near the North Carolina coast. The breeder, who couldn’t sell the puppies, abandoned Ozzie, along with his two brothers. For five months, the brothers wandered the countryside. Area animal control tried in vain to catch them. Finally, they walked into a kennel that a sympathetic neighbor had left open with food inside. She closed the door behind them and called Rehmeyer, who brought
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them home. The dogs were dirty and emaciated. None of them had ever worn a collar. They didn’t really trust people, as do most Great Pyrenees, a social, gentle breed named for the mountain range of southern France and northern Spain, where they’ve guarded livestock for centuries. Rehmeyer and other volunteers worked for months to teach the brothers how to be pets, to do things like walk on a leash and relieve themselves outside. Once that was accomplished, Ozzie’s brothers, Big Um and Titan, quickly found what volunteers call their forever homes. But people noticed Ozzie walked funny, like a duck. His back paws splayed out at a 90-degree angle. X-rays showed that the knee ligaments in Ozzie’s back legs weren’t properly developed from birth. When a veterinarian put
hat does high blood pressure; stroke; high blood cholesterol; diabetes; cancer of the colon, rectum, prostate, gallbladder, breasts, uterus, ovaries; sleep apnea and respiratory problems; and a shorter life span have in common? Each one of these items is directly related to obesity, being overweight, or simply being FAT. It’s January, the time of year most of us talk about and make plans to shed those extra pounds. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 67 percent of U.S. adults over 20 years of age are overweight and 34 percent are obese. Over 18 percent of our adolescents age 12-19 years are overweight. Overweight adolescents often become obese adults. For the first time in over one hundred years, out children’s life expectancy is declining due to an increase in overweight. North Carolina is ranked the 12th highest state in the nation for overweight and obese adults with 26percent or our total population considered obese. Obesity and overweight are a result of an imbalance between food consumed and physical activity. We have increased
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Barb, a Great Pyreneese, is available for adoption at Carolina Great Pyrenees Rescue in Winston-Salem. For more information, visit www.carolinapyrrescue.com