On the Subject of Food

Not long ago I read an article by another missionary wife, Laura Hausman, where she said cooking in a foreign country was all about substitutions. We've been missionaries in Ukraine since 1995 and various times other missionaries and I have tried to make something that tasted like American cheese cake. Problems: no graham crackers and no philadelphia cream cheese. We've tried other cream cheese that we could buy here and different types of cooky crumbs. Finally I found something that tasted like cheese cake. Butter cookie crumbs and with the regular cream cheese that we've tried before. It wasn't picture perfect but it tasted good!

The beginning of summer was very dry. Onions that friends planted didn't come up until fall after it started to rain regularly. They cleared their garden and shared their bounty with us. This picture shows half of what we were given. They guessed that they had 10 pounds or more of green onions. What do you do to make use of green onions? We had one idea--dry them for use later.

We haven't tried the dried ones in recipes yet. But it seems like they'll be a success.