COUNTY LIFE
Get your salsa ready for the melon festival
It’s once again time for the annual Forestburg Watermelon Festival on Aug. 14.
It’s also time to get your salsa entries ready for the festival contest, along with any baked goods or craft items for the Kountry Kitchen and Kraft Store.
Back by popular demand is the salsa contest featuring the tops in local homemade salsa.
Entries will be accepted from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Aug. 14. Salsa should be delivered to the LifeChurch 2:42 building next to the Forestburg Country Store. Judging is by popular vote of the festival patrons after sampling each salsa.
Each contestant must furnish two pints or one quart of salsa for the judging. Salsa must be homemade and can either be canned or fresh.
Salsa will be served at room temperature and safe food handling processes must be followed. The contest will close at 2 p.m. Any salsa remaining after the contest must be picked up by 2 p.m. that day.
First, second and third place winners will receive a “chili pepper” trophy engraved with 2021 Forestburg Watermelon Festival, Salsa Contest and the placement. Winners will be awarded at 2 p.m. the day of the contest.
The festival will once again feature the Kountry Kitchen and Kraft Store open from 9 a.m. – 2p.m. at the LifeChurch building on Main Street next to the Forestburg Country Store.
The Kraft Store will have homemade baked goods and canned goods, as well as an assortment of craft items for sale. Anyone who would like to donate items for the store can bring them between 3-6 p.m. on Aug. 13 or 8:30 -9:30 a.m. Saturday to the LifeChurch Building.
All proceeds from the donated items go to the Forestburg Community Service Club which oversees the community center and the Historic Log Cabin.
It has been quite a busy few days at the Montague County Youth Fair with schedule changes, juggling of events and trying to cope with the unexpected snow storm. However, the youth fair always rolls on thanks to the dedicated volunteers, coordinators, parents and students.
Friday the rabbit how starts at 10 a.m., with heifer and steer show at 2 p.m. Ag. mech. check-in at 6 p.m. with that show at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Swine will move into the barn later today with its show at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Saturday the home economics silent auction will start at 6 p.m. and run to 9 p.m. in the show barn. Showmanship buckles will be presented at 6 p.m. in the barn followed by leadership day awards. The premium sale is at 6:30 p.m. Make plans to come out and support these hard working kids and families.
See all the winners in the Thursday Bowie News.
Top photo – Poultry show photo taken by Rashonda Hobbs of Unfazed Creations, official photographer for the youth fair. Make sure and check out her photos.
When we were going through my grandmother’s house in Nocona after it sold, I found a few neat keepsakes, but the biggest treasure I thought I had found was her biscuit cutter. I was so excited to show my mother (her daughter) and just knew she would be happy it was found and would still be used after all this time.
My mother, however, had a different thought about my precious biscuit cutter. She said, “Suzanne, you know that biscuit cutter is just an old tomato paste can that has both ends cut out.”
I was still no less delighted with my cutter. I continue to use it today. My husband has bought me vintage, new and fancier cutters, but this cutter is something I go back to time and again.
My Memaw was recruited to be a lunch lady from 1952 to 1958 at Nocona Elementary, back when lunches were cooked, not “fixed.” Lenora Brown Burnett was an excellent cook and everyone knew it. She went on to work at the Nocona Major Clinic kitchen from 1958 to 1969.
You could only use shortcuts if you knew how to do it the long way. That is how I still approach cooking. You can only use a cake mix if you know how to make a cake with lots of ingredients, time and effort.
Read Suzanne’s Love & Luck column in the Thursday Bowie News on the On the Table page.
Top photo – Grandmother’s biscuit cutter and hand written recipes. (Photo by Suzanne Storey)
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