Tell us how you honor traditions
Perhaps it’s your grandmother’s cannoli or a bread pudding that was passed down through the generations. Instead of turkey or ham for Christmas dinner, maybe your family has a Mexican feast that features tamales.
For many people Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanza are the perfect time to celebrate their heritage with a recipe or a meal that has become a family tradition. Whether the nod to your ancestors is with a simple dessert or a lavish five-course extravaganza, we’d like to hear about it.
Send us a note to tell us about your tradition and what it means to you and your family for a story we’re planning to write in December. Please send a letter of 500 words or less to: Holiday Food Traditions, Features Department, The Spokesman-Review, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210, fax to 459-5098 or e-mail lorieh@spokesman.com. Be sure to include a daytime phone number.
KREM 2 favorites
Serve up some of the favorite dishes from the personalities at KREM 2 news for a good cause.
All profits from a new hardcover cookbook called “KREM 2: In The Kitchen,” will be donated to the Spokane County United Way. The book features more than 200 recipes including some of the favorite dishes from Nadine Woodward, Randy Shaw, Charles Rowe, Tom Sherry and Tom Hudson. It also includes recipes from some of the folks who work behind the scenes at the news station as well as those submitted by KREM 2 viewers. The book also helps KREM celebrate its 50th anniversary.
“KREM 2: In The Kitchen,” is $20 and can be found at local bookstores including Auntie’s Bookstore, Hastings, Huckleberry’s Natural Market and Borders Books and Music in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene. KREM 2 personalities will be signing the book Saturday at Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Scandinavian Bazaar
The Central Lutheran Church will hold its annual Scandinavian Bazaar on Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 512 S. Bernard St.
The sale will feature Scandinavian specialties such as lefse and meatballs, as well as cookies, includeing rosettes, krumkakes and sandbakkels.
Other holiday cookies, baked goods, candy and crafts will be sold as well.
The proceeds from the bazaar benefit local charities. Last year, more than $9,000 was given to the Union Gospel Mission, Crosswalk, Anna Ogden Hall, Lutheran Outdoor Ministry, Hospice of Spokane, SPEAR, Second Harvest Food Bank, Lutheran Community Services, Mid-City Concerns, Downtown Women’s Shelter and the Salvation Army.
A Norwegian coffee hour, or kaffe stua, will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For just $3, you’ll be served homemade desserts served by women in traditional dress, along with coffee.
For more information about the bazaar, call 624-9233.