Reservations are now open for our annual pizza and wine fundraiser! For several years I have been partnering with my good friend Sam Allen to host a pizza and wine fundraiser. Sam is the wrestling coach in our school, and was lamenting on how hard it is to come up with original fundraising ideas, especially something that didn’t require our students to sell a certain number of tickets or products to family and neighbors. (Parents who are reading this are nodding and sighing i

Ingredients 1 pkg. active dry yeast 1¼ cups warm water (100° to 110° F.) ½ cup whole wheat flour 2 Tbs. brown sugar 1 tsp. salt 2 Tbs. vegetable oil 1 Tbs. Chinese five spice 1 egg 3 ½ to 4 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup chopped dates ½ cup chopped pecans In a medium size bowl, combine yeast with warm water and stir until completely dissolved. Add whole wheat flour, brown sugar, salt, oil, spices, and egg; stir until thoroughly blended. Add 3 cups of flour, one cup at a tim

One of my favorite bacon recipes is for Austrian povitica ("poh-VEE-teetz-ah" or "poh-vuh--TEETZ-ah" depending upon which Slovenian you ask). My recipe for povitica has been in my family for four generations. My great-grandmother, Frances Zunic Sardick, brought it to this country from Austria. You most often see the Croatian or Slovenian versions of this bread (usually called potica) which use ground walnuts, cream, honey, and a much sweeter dough rolled into very thin laye