Spring Flavor for Everyday Life | Spring 2017 TRAVEL SaltWest Central Ohio ISSUE loating F on air In a jam ...or a jelly Get your eat on VISION PURPOSE Empowering our To improve the health community through of our community so education, people can spend prevention, more time doing what diagnosis, and they love with those treatment. they love. NOW OPEN! CLINIC HOURS: After Hours Clinic Monday - Friday The Care You Need, The Name You Trust 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. Open evenings and weekends. Saturday No appointments necessary. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Spring 2017 Spring | West Central West Ohio | WILSON HEALTH (937) 498-9464 (WHMG) After Hours Clinic is located in the Salt | Professional Building, Suite 100 (Door 4) 40974577 2 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 and enter your Salt contact information. 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Emory Adams Park, Findlay. | Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Spring 2017 Instagram and Pinterest @TheSaltMagazine. | 3 Staff/Contributors LORA ABERNATHY Lora is the editor in chief of Salt magazine and the director of editorial digital strategies for Civitas Media. She lives in Hillsboro with her husband, Gary. Reach her at 937-382- Salt 2574 or on Twitter @AbernathyLora. CONTENTS ADRIENNE MCGEE STERRETT Adrienne is the editor of Salt magazine and the lifestyle/special sections editor for The Lima News. She believes everyone has a life features story worth sharing. Reach her at 567-242- 0510 or [email protected]. Floating on air: 6 Findlay’s Flag City BalloonFest Get your eat on: JAYLA WALLINGFORD Miami County Food Truck Rally Jayla is the designer of Salt magazine and is 8 the manager of the special sections team for In a jam...or a jelly: Civitas Media. She lives in Harveysburg with two cats, and offers free handouts to a slew Glass Rooster Cannery 12 of feline drifters. Reach her at jwallingford@ civitasmedia.com. Alumapalooza 8 16 coming to Jackson Center MELODY VALLIEU Reader Melody is the editor of the Troy Daily News Recipes and Piqua Daily Call newspapers. She lives 18 in Piqua with her husband, Todd, and has two Out and adult children and two dogs. She loves scrap About booking and reading. She can be reached at 20 [email protected] or 937-552-2131. MELANIE SPEICHER Melanie is the editor of the Sidney Daily News. A graduate of Ohio University, she columns resides in Wapakoneta, and has two adult chil- dren and six grandsons. She can be reached Salt Notes at 937-538-4822. 5 By Lora Abernathy MATT CLAYTON Matt is a freelance writer who frequently writes feature stories and columns for the Sidney Daily News. Matt is an accomplished Spring 2017 Spring | photographer and award-winning artist who Recipe Index enjoys capturing and sharing the essence of Amish Recipe Chocolate Chip/Oatmeal Brownies ........18 all life has to offer with pen, paintbrush and Black-Bottom Cupcakes ......................................................5 camera. Matt and his wife, Darlene, reside in Carmel Corn ala Easy .......................................................19 Sidney and have two daughters. Chocolate Peanut Buddy Bars ..........................................19 Glass Rooster Bread Dough .............................................13 Glass Rooster Fruit Crisp ..................................................13 JANE BEATHARD Grandma’s Cinnamon Rolls ..............................................13 Jane is a writer for Salt magazine. She is a Mushroom Mozzarella Bruschetta ...................................19 West Central West Ohio retired staff writer for The Madison Press in | Pasta Fagioli ........................................................................18 London, Ohio, and is also the retired media Pizza Dough ........................................................................13 relations manager of the Ohio Department of Salt Red Hot and Cherry Jell-O ................................................18 Natural Resources. | Zucchini Quiche .................................................................19 4 Salt Notes Welcome to Salt magazine By Lora Abernathy We are thrilled to bring readers of the Troy Daily News, Piqua Daily Call and Sidney Daily News the fi rst local edition of Salt maga- zine. In other parts of Ohio where it has been published for several years, Salt has become one of the most popular publications we produce. Tucked in between the recipes each issue pro- vides, I hope you discover the secret ingredients that make Salt magazine unique. Not only do people enjoy reading stories highlighting their neighbors, friends and communities, they love the recipes included in each issue. A special thanks to Victoria Frohna, Tana Ingle, Christi Thomas and Frank Mariano for sending in their favorite recipes for our inau- gural edition of Salt, and to Jeanine “Jeannie” Seabrook at the Glass Rooster Can- Photo by Lora Abernathy nery for sharing hers. So, I thought I’d welcome readers with one of my BLACK-BOTTOM CUPCAKES favorite recipes: my black- bottom cupcakes. These Servings: 2 dozen Directions: chocolate delights are not Heat the oven to 350 F. Salt only scrumptious, they’re Ingredients: Line two 12-cup muffi n pans with paper or unique in their fl avor, tex- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature foil baking cups. Using an electric mixer, com- | ture and presentation. 2 1/2 cups sugar bine the cream cheese, 1 cup sugar and 1/8 Central West Ohio I hope you enjoy these Salt teaspoon salt. Add the egg and mix well. Fold in cupcakes, and I hope you 1 large egg the chocolate chips and set aside. enjoy reading Salt as much 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the as we enjoy bringing it to 2 1/4 cups fl our fl our, the remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar, 3/4 tea- you. 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda spoon salt, the baking soda and cocoa powder. 1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa Add 1 1/2 cups water, the oil, vinegar and powder vanilla and stir until smooth. 1 1/2 cups water Fill each baking cup two-thirds full with the 1/3 cup and 3 tablespoons vegetable oil cake batter, and top with 1 tablespoon of the | 1 1/2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar cream cheese mixture. Bake until the edges are Spring 2017 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract fi rm to the touch, about 25 minutes. (Recipe from rachelraymag.com.) | 5 Photo by Melanie Speicher Floating on air By Melanie Speicher FINDLAY — The city of Findlay is preparing to fly up, up and away during the annual Flag City BalloonFest, which is planned for Aug. 11-13 at Emory Adams Park. Admission is free. Balloons of all shapes and sizes have been included in the past. Some of the shaped balloons included a football, lighthouse, dragon, monkey, parrot, Tweety Bird and Syl- vester the Cat. An American Flag has also floated over the city of Findlay. In 2016, 46 balloons filled the skies. There are events on the ground as well, from chil- dren’s activities to car shows to food vendors. Balloon launches — weather permitting — are planned for Friday morning, Aug. 11, which includes a limited number of balloons and paid balloon ride pas- sengers. A mass launch will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday from Emory Adams. A hot air bal- loon illumination — “glow” — will be around 9 p.m. Saturday begins at around 7 a.m. with a fly-in at Emory Park. A 5K Up, Up and Away Run will start at 8 a.m. at the park. Another balloon launch with glow is planned for Saturday night, and a fly-in will be held Sunday morning. Spring 2017 Spring No pets are allowed at the | park, but service animals are welcome. The area is also a drone-free zone. The first festival was held in Findlay in 1999. It was founded by Findlay busi- nessman Dan Clinger and his son, Phil, who is a hot air balloon pilot. West Central West Ohio | For more about the festi- val, or to become a volun- Salt teer, visit flagcityballoonfest. | com. 6 Salt | West Central Ohio | Spring 2017 | 7 Kyleen Green hands out an order from the Tin Roof during the rst food truck rally in 2015 at the Miami County Fairgrounds.