Desert Dinner Circles Cap Laughing Desert Feast
Judy Reynolds profiles Cave Creek Desert Dinner gatherings where Mrs. Curt Cockburn and friends prepare dishes from desert flora and fauna. The event, a four year tradition, blends social ritual with inventive, plant and animal based recipes served as a festive party.
Apricots and desert dishes spark summer menus
Apricots arrive in markets and inspire desserts such as Apricot Mousse and Apricot Danish Salad. The piece highlights adventurous desert cooking by Corky and Marie Mallory, including mesquite beans, agave roots, jojoba nuts, rattlesnake bites, prickly pear dishes, saguaro fruit uses, and homemade wine attempts, with practical tips and quirky anecdotes.
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Marie Mallory
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Desert cooking tips and cactus jelly recipe from Corky and Gladys Nisbet
A column offers desert cuisine ideas from Ocotillo and Cave Creek. It includes advice on making cactus jelly from prickly pears, alternatives like chia bean gruel, and notes on picking edible plants such as Ocotillo leaves and watercress. The piece mentions cautious handling of wild meat and notes prickly pear ripeness for jelly.
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Corky
Cave Creek
Wine tasting highlights at editors conference in San Francisco
The United Press editors conference in San Francisco featured a wine tasting aboard a restored whaling ship hosted by California wine growers. The Almaden newsletters discuss Vin Rose, a popular light wine, and offer serving tips and two avocado wine recipes Guacamole Wine Pate and Guacamole Wine Dip with ingredients and steps.
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United Press Editors
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Cheese Pound Cake Delights With Cream Cheese Flavor
A cheese pound cake recipe from the Borden Kitchen uses cream cheese or Neufchatel with Danish margarine and eggs. Beat cheese and margarine, add sugar and eggs, blend vanilla and dry ingredients, bake in a leaf pan at a moderate oven for about 90 minutes, then cool.
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