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Icon bakery: Spinach Salad and Dressing

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, October 3, 2015

Spinach Salad and Dressing
By Nancy Yeager -
from "Country Cookin'," Bluffton Community Cookbook II

Salad
• Spinach, torn
• Romaine lettuce, torn
• Mushrooms, sliced
• Hard boiled eggs, chopped
• Bacon, crispy and broken

Prepare the amount of lettuce as needed

Dressing
1/3 cup vinegar
1 cup oil
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp. dry mustard
Bacon bits
1/4 cup onion - diced
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. celery seed

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Monty Siekerman: Insight in unexpected places

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, September 17, 2015

By Monty Siekerman
Sometimes you find insight in unexpected places.

I recently attended a gathering of writers and artists at ONU, but came away with some insight about my job, which is neither writing poetry nor putting beautiful lines on canvas.

I learned to look at my job differently, my job as a simple gardener at the Railroad Depot Park.
Sure, I love gardening, seeing the beautiful flowers bloom, watching mothers push baby carriages through the park, business people scurrying to work, students walking dogs (even one guy with a cat on a leash).

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August features at Mustard Seed Cafe

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, August 9, 2015

Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main St. Bluffton, (567-226-1120) is featuring local summer vegetables in its offerings for August:

●Rolled Skirt Steak stuffed with herbed goat cheese, mushrooms and spinach, served over potato cakes with pan-flashed green beans and drizzled mushroom sherry sauce

●Summer Ratatouille over lemon herb pasta

●Marinated herbed shrimp over lemon sautéed zucchini ribbons, marinated tomatoes, ricotta cheese and basil pesto risotto

●Eggplant Caponata flatbread with fresh goat cheese and fresh basil

●Smoked Salmon BLT

●Chocolate Dipped Watermelon

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Have you stumbled upon this? Can you locate it?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Few could answer this question because, I imagine, few have stumbled upon it.

This is found in a trail in the woods southwest of Fraternity Circle. Growth in the woods has been cut away, a path of cut logs to walk on extends just a few paces.

Looking up, one sees a "monument" of wood circles with colorful bottles attached.

There used to be a small brochure there telling about what the passerby has discovered and why the pathway is there, but the pamphlets are long gone.

Look for an opening in the northwest corner of the woods to find this hidden gem.

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Here's a pie for all seasons: Chocolate Pecan

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Here's the recipe for the first-place pie in this year's Bluffton's Relay for Life pie baking contest held in mid-June.

Marj Rettig’s Chocolate Pecan Pie
1 unbaked 9-inch deep-dish pie pastry
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
1 cup (6 oz.) semisweet chocolate morsels
1 cup dark corn syrup
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup water
4 large eggs
¼ cup butter, melted
2 teaspoons cornmeal
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
½ teaspoon table salt

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.  Place pastry into a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate, folding edges under, and crimp.

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Mustard Seed Cafe offers Jumpin' July specials

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Thursday, July 9, 2015

Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main St. Bluffton, is back from vacation with some Jumpin’ July Features:

● Ruby Red Trout with Marinated Tomatoes, Fresh Corn and Potato Salad

● Crab over Gnocchi with Roasted Corn, Sugar Snap Peas, Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes in Lemon Ricotta Cream Sauce drizzled with Basil Oil

● Roasted Chicken Breast and Andouille Sausage over house created Corn Bread Shortcakes with Fresh Peach Salsa and Grilled Leeks

● Cobb Flatbread: Avocado Cream, Torn Romaine, Tomato, Bacon, Crumbled Gorgonzola, Hard Boiled Eggs

● Swordfish Tacos with fried cabbage, House Pico de Gallo, and Sour Cream

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