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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Oklahoma's Route 66 Food by Ruth Paget

Oklahoma’s Route 66 Food by Ruth Paget 

You can see that Oklahomans enjoy eating state fair food year round as you read through Eat and Explore Oklahoma by Christy Campbell. 

The recipes in this cookbook are clearly explained and use ingredients that can be found in chain grocery stores. 

The following recipes look delicious and are relatively inexpensive to prepare: 

-cowboy caviar made with black beans, black olives, lime juice, cumin, red pepper, and cream cheese 

-raspberry punch made with lemon-lime soda, raspberry juice, lemonade, and raspberry sherbet 

-cold peach soup made with peaches, sugar, sour cream, lemon juice, sherry or white wine, orange juice concentrate, and fresh peaches 

-strawberry soup made with frozen strawberries, sour cream, grenadine syrup, vanilla extract, powdered sugar, and half and half 

-fresh veggie pasta made with tri-color pasta swirls, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini squash, green onions, carrots, celery, and dressing 

-carrot-macaroni salad made with curly noodles, grated carrots, condensed milk, and green pepper 

-beer bread made with self-rising flour, sugar, beer, and butter 

-Parmesan rice made with rice, green onions, cottage cheese, sour cream, milk, parsley, and Parmesan cheese 

-sour cream chicken made with chicken breasts, butter, mushroom soup, mayonnaise, sour cream, and crushed Ritz crackers as a topping 

Eat and Explore Oklahoma by Christy Campbell also lists may bed and breakfasts where you can sample these Route 66 dishes on vacation. 

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France


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Monday, May 1, 2023

Yummy Ohio by Ruth Paget

Yummy Ohio by Ruth Paget 

As I read through Eat and Explore Ohio: Cookbook and Travel Guide by Christy Campbell, I remembered my teen outings with my buddy E. from Detroit when we would drive to Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio on Lake Erie. Cedar Point had great roller coaster rides. 

We spent all day buying food like cotton candy, funnel cakes, candied apples, caramel apples, corn dogs, and slushsies to help bide time as we waited in line to scream down the roller coasters with our hands in the air. We were young and did not vomit the state fair food. 

After being out in the sun for eight hours, we returned home sunburnt with blond streaks forming in our hair. We sang all the way home to our favorite disco artists like Donna Summer, Chaka Khan, Gloria Gaynor, and Gloria Estafan. We collapsed in bed once home in Detroit and thought Cedar Point was just wonderful. 

Ohio and Michigan have a famous college football rivalry, which I still ignore. I thought Car City Detroit was jealous of all the fairs and music festivals in Ohio and the nice houses. Eat and Explore Ohio lists some of these envy-inspiring festivals with a description of activities, some of which other fairs might want to incorporate in their offerings. A list of festivals I particularly liked follows: 

-Apple Fest 

This fair is organized by the New Paris Area Chamber of Commerce and features: 

-a classic car show 

-food 

-music 

-a flea market 

-Oktoberfest 

This 100+ years old event features: 

-races 

-children’s activities 

-wine 

-music 

-shopping 

-games 

-Circleville Pumpkin Show 

The Pumpkin Show draws 400,000 visitors and features: 

-parades 

-contests 

-games 

-crafts 

-vendors 

-Fulton County Fair 

The Fulton County Fair draws 280,000 visitors and features: 

-antique sales 

-fine arts sales 

 -Asian Festival 

The Asian Festival outside Columbus draws 100,000 visitors and features: 

-Asian food 

-entertainment 

-games 

-career fair 

-children’s activities 

-cultural exhibits 

-dragon boat races 

-a health pavilion 

-a market place 

-martial arts demonstrations 

Ohio also does a good job in turning its history into tourism sites such as the Zoar Village founded in 1817 by German Separatists. 75 families still live in the community and maintain German cuisine and cultural traditions. 

You have to drive the speed limit in Ohio when you tour, because the Amish still drive black, horse-drawn buggies alongside the freeway and other roads. 

Ohio offers many reasons to visit and Eat and Explore Ohio: Cookbook and Travel Guide by Christy Campbell provides information on many places to visit as well as healthy food ideas, but I will forever associate Ohio with funnel cake. 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France


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