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grew up Catholic and every Lent my mom and dad encouraged me to give up something. Though no longer Catholic, many traditions are still with me, like eating fish on Fridays. Mom’s habit was to give up something she loved, some years coffee, other years sugar, but she would not eat meat on Fridays. She told me her family couldn’t afford fresh or frozen fish. Her mother cooked the meal with canned tuna every Friday during Lent. My mom made tuna fish and peas on toast. Over the years I have heard it called creamed tuna fish and peas or creamed chipped tuna. I saw a recipe once for “Hillbilly” hot-dish, but it was tuna fish and peas on toast. There is even a children’s book about creamed tuna fish and peas on toast. My mother liked this dish so much we usually ate it once a month year round. Sometimes she would serve it
over mashed potatoes or she would make fancy toast cups that she baked in the oven before fi lling them. I searched for the recipe in my grandmother’s cookbooks. Strangely enough, in her 1933 kitchen guide, where the recipe would have been, the recipe was torn out. It was the Wild Chow only page torn out of the cookbook. Lisa After doing some research, I found this Erickson dish was popular during the Great Depression, which explained why my i h grandmother cooked it. I didn’t know that it was a dish you ate if you were poor. It was what we ate, and I really liked it. I know we have access to lots of fish
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“After doing some research, I found this dish was popular during the Great Depression, which explained why my grandmother cooked it. I didn’t know that it was a dish you ate if you were poor. It was what we ate, and I really liked it.” and foods at more than reasonable prices, but there is nothing wrong with cooking up a reminder of the past or sacrificing for something that is important to you.
Tuna Fish and Peas on Toast Serves 4 1/4 cup flour 1/4 cup butter 2 cups milk (2% or whole works best) 1 cup frozen peas, cooked to the package directions. 1 -5 oz. can tuna fish, drained Salt and pepper to taste 8 pieces of toast
In a medium size saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add the flour and cook for one minute. Add the milk, stirring quickly while adding the milk. Continue to cook and stir constantly until the mixture thickens, about 5 minutes. Add peas and tuna; bring back to a slow simmer. Remove from heat. Place two pieces of toast on each plate and spoon 1/2 cup of creamed tuna fish and peas over the toast. Lisa Erickson is a food columnist who loves adventure and food. You can find more recipes at www.wild-chow.com.
DEATH NOTICE
Paul Leo Kolb Paul Leo Kolb of Faribault passed away peacefully on March 15 at the Minneapolis Veteran’s Home from failing health due to multiple strokes. A funeral service was held March 18 at St Patrick’s Church in Shieldsville, with a private family burial at St. Mary’s Calvary Cemetery in Chatfield. He is survived by his wife Patricia of Faribault, his sons Patrick (Jennifer) of White Bear Lake and Peter (Alisha) of Faribault, his four grandsons, Andrew, Jeremy, Karson and Kendal, his brother Joe (Gladys) and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Matthew and Ethel Kolb, stepfather Fred Oelfke, brothers Donald, Eugene, James, Roger and sisters Marvel and Pamela. The family prefers memorials to Bethlehem Academy Athletics Department in Faribault, or Morristown Legion Post #149 in Morristown, Minnesota in Paul’s memory.
Paul A. Burth Paul A. Burth, 68, of Willernie. Funeral service was March 21 at Honsa Family Funeral Home in White Bear Lake. Interment Ft. Snelling National Cemetery.
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O Oppose school h l voucher legislation Currently in the Minnesota Legislature, bills are working their way through that propose “school choice” through the use of tax breaks, which are essentially school vouchers. I am a public school teacher, a parent of a child in public schools and a product of public schools. School vouchers are in fact proven to do the opposite of what they propose: give choice. School voucher programs say they would allow parents to choose a private school for their child. However, private schools still keep tuition costs higher than voucher reimbursements, limiting who can attend. Private schools also keep entrance requirements, limiting which students are allowed into the school. These schools, even with a voucher system, can and will discriminate against students based on past academic achievement, standardized test scores, past behavior, gender, religion and even special needs. On the contrary, our wonderful public schools here in the White Bear Lake area are required by law to accept every student no matter their income level and other personal factors. And we, White Bear Lake s Press Publication Avenue 4779 BloomLake, MN 55110 White Bear ED REQUEST SERVICE CHANGE
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I was pleasantly surprised to come home on March 13 to see my driveway clear of snow. I thought the sun had melted it, but upon looking in my mailbox, found a letter addressed from “two Central Middle School students.” The letter stated that they shoveled my driveway for a service project and, in return, they requested I do a random act of kindness to brighten someone else’s day. This is one of the many reasons my husband and I chose to move to Vadnais Heights with our newborn son,
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Clean energy not a partisan issue I appreciated reading Sen. Chuck Wiger’s column regarding Minnesota’s clean energy goals on the day we learned that President Donald Trump’s proposed budget seeks to undermine all the progress this country has made. Even those who don’t believe in climate change could agree that our economy and our quality of life must embrace new technologies that provide cheaper, more efficient renewable energy. If the federal government backslides on protection of our earth because of
corporate be up tto t greed, d then th it will ill b the states to reject these regressive policies. What other issue can be more important than the protection of our earth? Is putting a few thousand coal miners back to work by allowing coal companies to again pollute our rivers, or providing temporary jobs to pipeline workers rather than investing in renewable technologies, really the direction the majority of this country wants to go? Will the trillion dollars that Trump wants to put toward infrastructure be used for more lanes on our freeways? I urge the Minnesota Legislature to build on what this state has accomplished in its commitment to renewable energy development. Leaving our earth a better place for our children cannot be a partisan issue. Mary Alice Divine White Bear Lake
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