ce ry an a a a ae Sra January 22, 2003 Oe e Op-fd http://otherpress.douglas.bc.ca Jazz Up Your Lunch Hour With a Free Concert Join the Douglas College Little Night Band on January 30 as part of Douglas College’s free Noon at New West concert series. Under the direction of musician and college instructor Blair Fisher, the band will perform a variety of jazz and contemporary arrangements. Noon at New West takes place every Thursday (September through April) at 12:30pm. All per- fermances are free and open to the public and take place in Douglas College's Performing Arts Theatre, fourth floor north at 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster (one block north of the New West SkyTrain station). For more information, please call 604-527-5495. I chose the health care field because | like people and I'm determined to make a difference, any way I can. I know all about the pace, the shift work and the occasional heartache because people are fragile and sometimes don't recover. Its not glamorous — but I know my skills are needed and my efforts are appreciated, so I'm prepared to give it all I’ve got. When the work is done, I go home to a place that is mine. Its just a short drive away. I know my neighbours. | feel safe here. There’ plenty of space and clean air - and my kids go to a great school. Everything I want and need — theatres, good restaurants, clubs, parks, plenty of shopping — is within easy reach. 1 am part of a community. I can afford my own home. My kids can take music lessons, skating lessons and learn how to play hockey and baseball. I have time for myself too, and once in a while, I indulge in something really special. I am valued as a health care provider and as a human being. In Saskatchewan, my life is in balance. Saskatchewan's health care system offers rewarding careers where your education, experience and efforts are appreciated. For further information on opportunities in our province, visit www.skhealthjobs.org or call 1-888-242-4844. Ee Saskatchewan. ui Keep life in balance. Saskatchewan Our Future is Wide Open the other press Mother Hubbard OP Recipe Guru I don't have a problem eating the same food groups as long as I can disguise them as something else. ‘Take sausages. Chew enough of those links and your stomach starts to recoil at the thought of sliding another one of those babies down your gullet. The trick is to get rid of the shape. You can squeeze the sausage meat (think toothpaste) from out of the cas- ings and make little balls. Fry them up in a pan, add a can of your favorite tomato sauce and voila, you have something different to eat. Another nifty trick is to, once again, squeeze out the meat and shape it into patties. Fry it up and then fry an egg. Slap the patty and the egg between two slices of bread and you have yourself a poor man’s McMuffin. Now, let’s get really adventurous. There's an English thing called Yorkshire pudding but don’t let the name fool you. It’s not a dessert. It’s not even a pudding. We're going to make that Yorkshire pud- ding, and pour it over cut-up cooked sausages, bake it and call it “Toad-in-the-Hole.” And you have to ask why Britain lost its Empire? Toad-in-the-Hole You will need: 4 sausages 1 cup flour 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 cup milk Cut each sausage into two or three pieces. Throw the pieces into a pie plate and cook in the oven at 325°F for 1 hour. While the sausages are cooking, you can mix up the Yorkshire pudding, then relax for the remaining 28 minutes. If you have a blender, toss everything in and turn it on for a few seconds. If you don’t have one, you'll have to stir it up yourself. This isn’t rocket science, you can do it. The mixture should be really runny and the more you stir it, the more youre adding air into the mixture and the more airier it is, the higher your Yorkshire pudding will rise! Okay, you can stop stirring now, but before you pour this over your cooked sausages, give it one last stir. Once your sausages are cooked, take a spatula and loosen the pieces of sausages off the bottom of the pan. Throw a lump of margarine (2 tbsps) into the pan and turn the oven to 450° F. Put the sausage- margarine mixture back in the oven and give it a couple of minutes to melt the margarine and make it sizzle. Take the pan out yet again and quickly pour the Yorkshire pudding mix over the sausages, and bake for 15-20 minutes, until the top is browned. Eat and enjoy!