_______________________________________ Volume 12 Number 56 US Library of Congress ISSN: 1530-3292 _______________________________________ RECIPE DU JOUR Simply the BEST daily recipe E-zine on the Web! Delicious recipes delivered daily via email. Recipes, columns, and nostalgia. Send a blank email to [email protected] Archives are at http://www.topica.com/lists/rdj/read Cancel instructions are at bottom of mailing. Encourage your family and friends to join the fun! _______________________________________ Cheeseburger Meat Loaf 1 pound lean ground beef 3/4 cup uncooked regular oats 1/2 cup milk 2 tablespoons minced onion 1 large egg 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 (12-ounce) bottle chili sauce 3 packaged Cheddar cheese slices, cut into 1-inch strips Stir together first 10 ingredients in a large bowl just until combined. Place in a 9- x 5-inch loafpan. Bake at 350F for 40 to 45 minutes. Pour chili sauce over meat loaf, and bake 20 to 25 more minutes or until meat is no longer pink in center. Arrange cheese slices in a crisscross pattern on top of meat loaf. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing. Yield: Makes 4 servings. (nutritional info not available) _______________________________________ AT THE MIDDLE PASSAGE By Walter Mills A Box of Sunshine My plane flight to South Florida was quick, three or four hours spread out across three airports. My brother met me at Ft. Lauderdale and we stored my bag in his van before crossing to the Delta terminal to pick up my younger sister coming in from Cincinnati. I have never gotten used to the way an airplane ride can tear us away from our lives and thrust us into another world in the time it takes to mow the lawn. At five a.m. I was shivering in the cold of a central Pennsylvania morning, and by lunch time I was stepping out into the glare of Florida sunlight, feeling a jet lag more radical than crossing time zones. I was at least a season or two behind. My family was there for the memorial service for my Aunt Clare. Clare had been spending more time in the emergency room than on the phone in the last few months, and from what I gathered from those at the service, she had spent most of her waking hours on the phone. Sometimes it is evident that one's time is measured in days and weeks instead of years, and Clare was staying in touch and saying farewells with a clear awareness of her approaching finale. The church was a third full, with the average age nearing eighty. My brother and I had agreed to speak briefly after the opening words of the Baptist minister. All morning we had scribbled our thoughts on sheets of yellow notebook paper, crossing out the inappropriate remarks and trying not to top each other's stories. His thoughts were focused on recent memories of Clare, her irascible moods, her struggle to survive, and the calls he received from her four or five times a day at work. She was preparing the groundwork for her transition to a better world, one that, from her comments, looked a lot like Miami in the old days, but where everyone spoke English. My earliest memory of Aunt Clare was of her green Nash Rambler pulling up the long drive to our little house out in the orange groves twenty miles south of Miami. When she stepped out of the car she was dressed in a suit, which hardly any women wore in my small circle of acquaintances. She was smoking, waving her hands, and talking nonstop, as usual. Small and sharp featured, she reminded me of a fox. When I was young, I always thought of Aunt Clare as the glamorous one. She was the relative who had been to nightclubs and fancy restaurants, who wore sophisticated clothes and fashionable black rim glasses and rode trains to distant cities, like New York and Boston and Chicago. She was the one who drank Manhattans in the club car and went to Broadway shows. She was my father's older sister, repository of all family lore, some of it of dubious accuracy. One of her more irritating habits was to portray my father as perpetually lazy and irresponsible, the way she remembered him as a boy of twelve or thirteen. But aside from certain odd distortions, her memory was reliable. In the frequent letters she wrote me over the last year, I heard again the old stories from what seems like another age. Her father was born in the 1870s; she had grown up in the 1920s, when Miami was turning from a village into a small town. She was a direct link to the Florida of the Indian Wars, alligator poachers, and cabins on stilts with palmetto thatched roofs. Once I was old enough to no longer be afraid of Clare's sharp tongue, I came to enjoy her company. We would leaf through her old photo albums together, and she would tell me the stories behind the yellowing snapshots. The past several winters Clare sent us, her northern relatives, a large box of oranges and grapefruit. This year's box arrived the day after we learned that she was dead. It was sad and strange to receive it, but still the fruit tasted good, like distilled sunshine, and we missed her. (The above column originally appeared in the Centre Daily Times and is copyright © 2009 by Walter Mills. All rights reserved worldwide. To contact Walt, address your emails to [email protected] ). _______________________________________ _______________________________________ Recipe du Jour is made possible only by donations from subscribers like you. If you enjoy receiving RDJ, please support us by sending a check payable to "Recipe du Jour" for any amount to: Recipe du Jour, PO Box 195, Henrico NC, 27842. Or use PAYPAL ( http://www.paypal.com ) and donate (via your account or their secure credit card site) directly thru Rich's email address ( [email protected] ). 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