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SPRING Flavor for Everyday Life | May/June 2016 TRAVEL SaltSouthwest Ohio ISSUE Housestrike the concertsright note Check out the 25 Ohio Scenic Byways A museum for all the world’s dummies 2 | Salt | Southwest Ohio | May/June 2016 40859859 Salt | Southwest Ohio | | May/June 2016 3 40866510 Hide & Shake Find the shaker in this issue and be entered to win a $10 grocery card. Visit our website, thesaltmagazine.com, and click on the Shaker Contest link at the top to be entered. Please Salt include your name, street number, street name, city and zip code. Flavor for Everyday Life Only your name and city will be published. All entries must be received by June 1, 2016. Only online entries will be accepted. www.thesaltmagazine.com In the March/April issue, the shaker was hidden in the top image on page 18. Southwest Ohio Congratulations to our most recent winner, Sharon Gray of Wilm- ington. May/June 2016 You could be our next winner! 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Follow us @thesaltmagazine Southwest Ohio January/February 2016 | Salt | 4 Salt | Southwest Ohio | | May/June 2016 5 40867050 Salt CONTENTS 13 features Get going: 10 Travel the Ohio Scenic Byways Painting 13 a tradition An honor 18 to be quiet A ‘magical 24 experience’ Out & 18 26 About Salt Homemakers 33 Show recipes Getting 34 conned A berry 36 good tradition columns Publisher’s note 7 By Pamela Stricker 24 Salt notes 8 By Lora Abernathy May/June 2016 Dinner: It’s all in the details | 32 By Andrea Chaffi n Southwest Ohio | Salt | 6 34 A little help from my friends By Pamela Stricker many sweet friendships. I have lived in so many different loca- My mother recently connect- tions in my life, and preserv- “I get by ed with a friend of hers. Not just ing a good friendship has its any friend, but one she had lost challenges when geography with a little contact with for decades. separates. The two of them roomed Two very special friends, my help from together in Dayton where BFFs, are Dana Cochran and they both worked at Wright- Anita Workman. For nearly 20 my friends.” Patterson Air Force Base. Mom years, we met at least monthly. — John Lennon was so excited to discover her Sometimes for breakfast, some- long, lost friend. The amazing times lunch, sometimes pedi- part of this story to me was how cures, sometimes a weekend From left, Anita my almost-90-year-old mother at Dana’s lake house. I cannot Workman, Dana Cochran and Pamela Stricker. found her. tell you how important their “How did you fi nd her?” friendship has been to me. We “I Googled her name.” My have wept, laughed, celebrated, And it’s so true! cream. Set aside. mother doing searches on the prayed and shared life together. I have another dear friend, In a separate bowl, mash internet. Hmm. The encouragement and life Kathy Plummer, who used to bananas and milk. Mix well with She explained the tedious support is priceless. come and help me keep my sour cream mixture. process of the search. She came Since moving to Lima nearly house clean. Every time Kathy Mix fl our and baking soda up empty several times but was a year ago, I have been lonely visited, she would come bear- and add to other mixture. Mix tenacious. She came across an for my familiar friends — my ing the gift of her remarkable well. Add extract. Blend in wal- obituary that gave her the clue tribe. I am working on new rela- banana bread. I loved coming nuts, if you want. to her friend’s married name. tionships, but it takes a while. home to a clean house and a Fill either 2 regular size loaf Then, on to Facebook. She Here are a few necessary slice of banana bread. pans or 5 mini loaf pans, after fi nally found the daughter on ingredients it takes to have a Here’s Kathy’s Banana greasing them with oil or bak- Facebook, sent her a message, good friendship: Bread recipe: ing spray. Foil pans work great, and asked if she was the daugh- • Stay in touch. Don’t wait for Ingredients: too. ter of her friend. Nothing. No someone else to call or write or 1 1/2 cups sugar Bake the larger pans 60-75 reply … until nearly a year later. text. Just do it. 1 stick butter, softened minutes, bake the smaller pans She got a message from the • Be honest. Don’t be afraid to 2 dollops sour cream 40-50 minutes or until knife daughter who confi rmed to her share who you really are. Share 3 bananas, overly ripe (the comes out clean. that, indeed, it was her mother your struggles, your challenges, blacker the better) Option: Right before putting my mom was seeking. And, and they will feel free to do the 4 tablespoons any type of pans in the oven, sprinkle cin- yes, she is still living and is now same. milk or buttermilk (I use half namon sugar on top of batter. 93 years old. They have been • Be intentional. Plan your and half) Now, go call that friend and catching up on the phone and “girlfriend” time into your busy 2 cups fl our make some plans together. And having the time of their lives. schedule. Make it a priority. 1 teaspoon baking soda in the meantime … please pass Friendships are like that. They • Support each other. Be 1 teaspoon vanilla extract the Salt! come into our lives often for there for each other when there (almond is also good) only a season, but remain such is despair or when there is an 3/4 cup walnuts, chopped precious relationships. There event to celebrate. (optional) are friends we will cherish for Proverbs 27:9 says, “Just as Directions: Salt life, even though it may have lotions and fragrance give sen- Preheat oven to 350 F. | sual delight, a sweet friendship Using electric mixer, mix Publisher Southwest Ohio only been a few years. Southwest Ohio I have been blessed with so refreshes the soul.” I love that! together sugar, butter and sour [email protected] Visit our website, thesaltmagazine. com, and click on the Recipe Salt | | May/June 2016 Scoop Submission link at the top to be May/June 2016 Send us your entered. Include a photo of your favorite recipe. dish, too, if you’ve got one. All entries must be received by June We may feature it 1, 2016. Every submitted recipe | will be entered in a drawing for a | 7 in the next issue. 7 $25 grocery card. Salt Notes Putting my foot down By Lora Abernathy from a society marketing preconceived no- ply and demand. I have limited 1-inch heel tions of femininity. Whatever. choices at the shoe store because women I’ll admit it. I rocked them like a super Either way, like any good patient, I listened are either buying the high heels or the flats model and didn’t care about the health of my to half of my doctor’s advice, the half that was — or clogs, which no one should be doing. future 40-year-old self. Yes, through pour- most convenient for me, of course. I could High heels are not good for us, for so ing rain or blowing snow, on green grass or not go completely flat, so I bought 3-inch many reasons. We know it, but we keep sandy beaches, covering a trial or a festival, heels instead of 6-inch ones, and easily wearing them anyway. (Guilty over here!) If my high heels have always kept me “up” on called my efforts progress. we are going to change the culture of shoe things. In the back of my mind, though, I knew shopping, of the health of our feet, we must I started wearing heels early, probably he was right, that I had to do better.