Page 20 Thursday, December 13, 2007 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION WESTFIELD FOOD 4 THOUGHT WESTFIELD FOOD 4 THOUGHT Eat, Drink and Be Merry

By JAYNE SALOMON Divide the batter into 2 bowls. Add the Specially Written for the Westfield Leader and the Times red food color until desired color is Calories don’t count from now until achieved to 1 portion. Add the green January 1. That is why the diet always food color until desired color is achieved begins on January 1 and lasts on and off to the remaining portion. Spread the more or less until Thanksgiving. Once batter into 2 greased and floured 8-inch Thanksgiving is here, then all bets are round cake pans. Bake in a preheated off and it’s off to the races. It’s just too 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes. ridiculous to even think about dieting Let cake cool before frosting. and calories now. INGREDIENTS (FROSTING) It’s not only stockings that are getting ½ cup (1 stick) butter, softened stuffed, and Santa isn’t the only one 4 cups confectioners’ sugar THE 18TH AMENDMENT IS TOAST!...Left to right, Wesftield residents As- chowing down cookies. Now is the ¼ cup milk (more if necessary) semblyman Jon Bramnick and Mrs. New Jersey American Beauty Sherryl Pascal time to be enjoying things like roasted 2 teaspoons vanilla extract stand alongside Mark Censits, owner of CoolVines, at the Elm Street liquor store, Red and green food color photo by Stephen Barcan which held a Repeal Day celebration on December 5. After reviewing the 1919 goose with chestnut stuffing and gin- resolution that deemed the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating gerbread-men cookies with hot choco- PROCEDURE liquors illegal in the United States of America, Mr. Bramnick and Mr. Censits tore late drizzled with crème de menthe and Cream the butter. Gradually add the the document in half. A wine tasting party followed, with toasts made to the 21st Christmas pudding and eggnog spiked confectioners sugar and the milk alter- WF Resident Shows Amendment, which repealed Prohibition, passed 13 years later. with a little rum and nately until a sugar cookies, and creamy frosting candy canes and like consistency is Collection of Photographs whatever your heart achieved. Add the WESTFIELD – Westfield resident to express something about the place desires. vanilla. Beat until Stephen Barcan will show a collec- he is photographing. He said he tries It’s the time of the smooth. Divide tion of his photographs in an exhibi- to find something unique and tell a year when we into half. Add the tion called “People and Places” at the story. shouldn’t feel guilty red food color to Donald B. Palmer Museum in the He said some of his favorite photo- about eating des- one portion and the Springfield Public Library from De- graphs are of windows in Italy and serts, as they are green food color to cember 26 to January 31. France, of rowboats tied up on the everywhere we look the other portion. Mr. Barcan, a partner in the law River Cher at Chateau de Chenonceau – in the markets, at Note: Use a lot of firm Wilentz, Goldman and Spitzer, in Loire and of shop window reflec- the office and at the food color to P.A. in Woodbridge, has pursued pho- tions in Bisbee, Ariz., and Rouen, many holiday par- achieve the proper tography as a hobby for more than 40 France. He also enjoyed recording ties and gatherings. And if you’ve been color. Beat again until smooth. When years. After years of photographing moments with people in Italy and good all year, then a few sweets are the cake is cooled, place the first layer his family amid Martha’s Vineyard Greece, New England shore scenes certainly well deserved. upside down on a plate and frost the top. scenery, he began using photography and elk grazing in Yellowstone. This colorful Christmas cake (pic- Place the next layer on top. Frost the to record his interest in nature and Mr. Barcan will host a reception on tured on page 20) requires taking only sides with the green frosting. Carefully travel, as well as capturing moments January 6 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the a few additional steps from a cake mix frost the top with the red frosting. in the lives of people in the places he museum; attendees will have the op- Mostly Music Seeks Younger but has the healthy benefit of eliminat- visits. portunity to speak with the artist. ing the chemicals found in cake mixes. Traditional He received an award from the Cape The museum is located in the Crowd with Next Program Of course, you can always take the Cod Art Association in its National Springfield Free Public Library at 66 shortcut and use a cake mix, but it won’t Sugar Cookies Exhibition in Banstable, Mass., in Mountain Avenue. Hours of the ex- By MICHAEL J. POLLACK Weyman, viola, and Jude Tedaldi, cello save you that much time and it won’t Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times INGREDIENTS July for his photograph of a single hibit are Monday, Wednesday and – will perform Mozart’s String Quartet taste as good. These delicious sugar 1 cup butter (2 sticks) softened man praying at the Western Wall in Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. WESTFIELD – Mostly Music, a No. 19 in C major, K465 (“Disso- cookies may be basic but they are supe- 1 cup sugar Jerusalem. and Tuesday, Friday and Saturday chamber-music series that brings first- nance”), Beethoven’s String Quartet in rior in the way they deliver pure tradi- 2 eggs He said he uses his camera to find from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday rate artists and talented young perform- E-flat major, Op. 74 (“Harp”) and tional flavor. Both recipes provide a 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla 2 cups flour the details in such things as windows hours are from 1 to 3:30 p.m. ers to Maplewood and Westfield, has Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor. perfect ending to any holiday meal. 2 teaspoons cream of tartar and doors, and in the juxtaposition of For more information, call (973) existed for more than 25 years, regu- Gabriel performed solo at the 2004 Happy holidays and enjoy! 1 teaspoon baking soda buildings to the things around them 376-4930. larly visiting Westfield’s Temple Democratic National Convention in ¼ teaspoon salt Emanu-El and First United Methodist Boston and filled in as a last-minute Christmas Cake Red and Green sugar POPCORN™ Church. But the series is ready for replacement for Yo-Yo Ma. INGREDIENTS (CAKE) something new. Emily has made concert appearances ¾ cup butter (1½ sticks), softened PROCEDURE As Bernard Turiel, the series’ chair- in New York, including one at Alice 1¾ cups sugar Cream the butter and the sugar to- The Golden Compass: man, explains, Mostly Music boasts a Tully Hall last winter, performing 3 eggs gether. Add the eggs one at a time. Beat 3 cups all-purpose flour Can’t Seem to Find its Direction “very loyal audience,” one that typi- Bartok’s first string quartet. 1 ½ tablespoons baking powder well. Add the vanilla. Gradually add the cally “pours out” contributions volun- This past summer, Elzbieta won the 1 ½ teaspoons salt flour and mix. Add the cream of tartar, tarily, which have helped the organiza- concerto competition at the Aspen 1 ¼ cups milk baking soda and salt and mix until well One Popcorn, Poor • Two Popcorns, Fair • Three Popcorns, Good • Four Popcorns, Excellent tion run in the black for 28 years. Musical Festival in Aspen, Colo., per- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract blended. Cover with saran wrap and By MICHAEL S. GOLDBERGER sexy power broker imperceptibly flit- “They have responded phenom- forming the Walton Viola Concerto with Red and green food color refrigerate for 2 hours. Preheat the oven 1 and 1/2 popcorns ting between camps. What’s more, enally,” he said. the festival orchestra there. PROCEDURE to 350 degrees. Roll the dough into Director Chris Weitz’s The Golden she knows from Dust. But judging by However, he said, as he scans the Jude won the gold medal in the junior In a large mixing bowl, cream the balls just a little bigger than the size of Compass, wherein 11-year-old Lyra her tyrannical monkey daemon, cau- crowd during a standard performance, division of the 2005 Fischoff Interna- butter and the sugar. Beat in the eggs, golf balls. Then press them flat into Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) tion is advised. most of the evening’s attendees re- tional Chamber Music Competition and one at a time, beating well after each your hand. Place onto an ungreased fights to rescue her abducted pals and Hence, we are concerned when the semble more “50” than “50 Cent.” first prize in the Chamber Music Founda- one. In a separate bowl, mix together cookie sheet. Bake for 8 to 9 minutes. put the world right, proves it once bewitching vision takes a curious in- For Mostly Music’s next concert, on tion of New England’s “International the flour, baking powder and salt. Add Remove from the oven and immedi- again: seen one of these neo-Harry terest in Lyra. Making like an December 16, the series will shift its Chamber Music Ensemble Competition.” half the flour mixture to the butter ately sprinkle with the colored sugar. Potter-parallel-universe fantasies, and otherworldly Auntie Mame, replete focus to attracting young people. Mr. Turiel, whose granddaughters mixture. Add half the milk and the Let cool before removing with a spatula. you’ve seen them all. with invitingly posh digs, Mrs. Coulter “We want to do something extra,” will attend, said his goal is to “intro- vanilla and mix until well blended. Add Enjoy them while still warm if pos- Rudely plummeted into this con- talks of heading to the Arctic North, Mr. Turiel remarked. duce and attract a younger crowd to the remaining flour mixture and the sible. fusing land without so much as a and subsequently invites our gal on Starting at 2:30 p.m. at Temple attend chamber concerts.” remaining milk and beat until smooth. Yield: approximately 16 large cookies. libretto or a scorecard to tell the bad the journey. Lyra is gung-ho. Maybe Emanu-El, the December 16 Claire Angel-Harmon,who started blokes from the good, you’ll note she’ll find her suddenly missing raga- concert,which features the Newton the program 28 years ago in her living CONTINUED from Pg. 22 LES MARMITONS – KENILWORTH VFW Jordan College more or less resembles muffin pals there. String Quartet – “four young, outstand- room, said the venture has “grown from also had to become a member of Les the three-dozen-or-so men who like to the kind of place where Mr. Chips Call it the Big Dust Conspiracy. At ing people who are now students at 35 friends” to a two-venue series. Marmitons.” cook at the VFW in Kenilworth, it was might have taught. Except that here, Bolvangar, way up in the frozen lati- conservatories,” according to Mostly Ms. Angel-Harmon admits that while Mr. Bevan added, “JP’s job was to a festival of duck – duck pâté, duck old incongruously mixes with new. tudes, mad scientists do their worst. It Music – will welcome students and the regular audience is extremely loyal, open new offices for the company, and confit and orange-glazed duck breast And if anyone knows what year it is, seems that separating children from those under 21 for free. it is beginning to age. with each new office came a new Les with couscous, as well as poached pears they’re not sharing. their daemons is precisely the social “We wanted to give something to the By offering the free concert to the Marmitons chapter.” for dessert. But while the evolutionary process engineering necessary to keep cer- community and generate interest in a younger crowd, she said the group hopes Mr. Jobin was commuting weekly to After each course of the gourmet of invention obviously differs from tain oligarchs on top. But fear not. positive way,” he said. to “attract younger people to think about New Jersey in 1991, meal was prepared, our own, it’s comforting to know that Only six years younger than Jean Mr. Turiel said he hopes a host of classical music.” and the New Jersey the men sat down the elements of greed, suspicion and d’Arc was when she saved France, younger performers will help further She said seeing young performers Les Marmitons was to tables set with deceit have traversed whatever cos- Lyra takes up the mantle. entice a younger audience to attend. hopefully will “encourage them to con- founded shortly af- linen, silverware mos it is that separates us from these War ensues. And with it, we are The quartet – Gabriel Lefkowitz, vio- tinue studying music and coming to ter. When Mr. and china. After fin- folks. Except, well, maybe in their introduced to all manner of ally and lin, Emily Smith, violin, Elzbieta (Izla) concerts.” Bevan relocated in ishing each dish, the world we don’t exist. And if we do, foe. Among the former, the most no- 1995, he began re- men stood up and the big kahunas just don’t want it table is Iorek Byrnison (verbalized by cruiting his friends discussed the known. Ian McKellen), a deposed Polar Bear Juxtapose Hosts and neighbors, in- preparation and In any case, that’s the muffled un- king who battles best when in his cluding current gave a critique. dercurrent at Jordan, where Lyra, the trademark armor. Helping in the aerial 2 Trunk Shows president Mr. Rial Each course was niece of professor/adventurer Lord attack is Sam Elliott’s Lee Scoresby, WESTFIELD – The Juxtapose to Les Marmitons. also paired with a Asriel, serves as school mascot and an aeronaut from Texas. Then there Gallery of Westfield, located on 58 Primarily different wine by ringleader of the other brats. The are gyptians. Again, don’t ask. Elm Street, will feature two upcom- through word of the group’s scuttlebutt isn’t lost on the preco- Naturally, the special effects are an ing trunk shows on consecutive Sat- mouth, the nucleus A TOAST...Les Marmitons toast with sommelier, George cious lass. Heresy of heresies. There eyeful. However, if you’re not among urdays in December. of the club formed. tawny port served with poached pear “Chip” Frank, a US are whispers about “Dust”…the stuff the faithful and have neither the incli- On December 15, the gallery will Due Sorelle Others, like Rich- in red wine with chocolate sauce and Army Lieutenant that could prove a connection to other nation nor the space on your psychic showcase the works of Suzanne On December 22, Juxtapose will ard Drier, the club’s vanilla ice cream. Colonel who com- universes. hard drive to add yet another fake Garofalo, a jewelry designer based host a trunk show by Due Sorelle. vice president and mands the 479th Just the mere mention of it arches world, complete with vocabulary, in Sussex County. Gina and Tania Spil own and oper- treasurer, heard of the club through Chemical Battalion at Fort Tilden, N.Y. eyebrows. Figure it’s their Copernicus mores and myths, save yourself the Ms. Garofalo has designed and ate Due Sorelle, which, when trans- media coverage featured on Al Roker’s When he’s not called up for duty, Mr. contending the Earth revolves around agony. Mr. Weitz’s adaptation of sold her jewelry for four years. lated from the Italian, means “two cooking show. Frank enjoys going beyond traditional the Sun, Martin Luther claiming a Philip Pullman’s novel is raucous, After working in a corporate set- sisters.” Others at the event were new to the pairings of food and wine at Les right to his beliefs or Al Gore sup- but never really rousing. ting, Ms. Garofalo found her talent One of the Spil sisters handpicks group, some attending for the first time. Marmitons events. He noted that he porters questioning election results. Especially disappointing is the title for creating jewelry after repairing a all the semi-precious stones used to Marty Silverman, a Westfield resident, often likes to introduce the members to That is, those powers that be don’t gadget, also known as an alethiometer. favorite necklace that had broken. produce Due Sorelle’s jewelry at na- said he didn’t know about the club until some “funky pairing” – Pinot noir with want to hear about it. There are no Given to Lyra by the Master of Jordan With encouragement from family tional jewelry shows. The sisters recently when he saw an article in The salmon or, his personal favorite, blue other worlds. Don’t make trouble. College, it supposedly can answer all and customers, she started a part- make each individual piece by hand. Leader. “It piqued my interest,” he said. cheese with Cabernet Sauvignon. Being a kid, Lyra can smell that sorts of inquiries. But while the time design company that quickly Both events will run from 11 a.m. “I’ve always liked to cook. I was always “Nothing’s better than when you canard a mile away. And so can her antiquish Google counterpart ulti- grew into a full-time business. to 5 p.m. my wife’s sous chef.” He added that he have your wine epiphany,” Mr. Frank daemon. A note of explanation: It’s the mately proves helpful in Lyra’s world- Ms. Garofalo’s jewelry features a For more information, call (908) “liked the opportunity to meet like- said. story’s one truly original concept. saving campaign, its fascination quo- creative mix of colors and texture. 232-3278. minded people.” At the conclusion of the event, Mr. These people don’t carry their souls tient barely registers on our enter- When asked about the cooking a Rial stood up and proclaimed, “As is within but alongside them…in vari- tainment meters. habits of the members, Mr. Rial said, the Les Marmitons tradition, nobody ous animal forms. And just to make it If anything, this film will have you “at home, some guys do all the cooking, leaves until the place is clean!” more complicated, children’s daemons consulting that boredom gauge on JUXTAPOSE GALLERY some do special occasion cooking and Then he added, “with the excep- can morph into different species. your wrist. After 20 minutes, it’s ap- some guys don’t do any except when tion of the ladies from The Westfield Lyra’s daemon, Pan, short for parent you’re in for an endless, de- they’re here.” Leader.” For us, that sounded every Pantalaimon and voiced by Freddie rivative stream of minutiae and lore. The late November evening’s fare bit as good as the chocolate-covered, Highmore, favors the form of either a And while some of the accompany- resembled something one might see burgundy-soaked pears served with a mouse or a ferret, though he makes ing metaphors are not without merit, when dining at Allard, a famous bistro side of vanilla ice cream and one last for a formidable cat, too. But here’s it’s too bad the lackluster Golden in Paris. For two Leader stringers and sip of tawny port. the inconsistency. In Lyra’s case, he’s Compass couldn’t find a less painful a pal, a Sancho Panza. With others, way to deliver them. this external soul may be an ironic * * * reflection or alter ego. The Golden Compass, rated PG- Take the case of Nicole Kidman’s 13, is a New Line Cinema release strange Mrs. Coulter (Nicole directed by Chris Weitz and stars Kidman), a dragon lady who carries Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole herself like the intriguers Marlene Kidman and Daniel Craig. Running Dietrich played so well. She is the time: 113 minutes.

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