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The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook
Aliske Webb
advantage, hoping for the last sales to finish the day. Sparrows glean crumbs near the
park benches. Bargains are offered to clear stock that won’t keep fresh until next
Market. The late bird may not get the fattest worm, but does get the slimmest prices.
Around dinnertime, on a silent and mysterious signal, everyone heads home like
the starlings who have begun to wheel in unison around the tall oaks and maples.
Trucks pull up to the now-empty curbside to be loaded and the vendor gypsies steal
away into early nightfall with sunburned faces and money in their pockets. There is
hardly any energy left to talk. Good day, someone asks? A smile and nod in reply.
Farewells are just weary waves or nods, and they are gone into the twilight. The green
is empty again. The starlings roost noisily in the tall maples and oaks. Streetlights
come on. As if the whole flighty community had not even been there today.
Pasta and Feta Casserole
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/2 lb. pasta shells
/2 lb. feta cheese, cubed
/2 cup grate Parmesan cheese
/2 cup sliced green olives
/4 cup diced pimiento
onion, chopped
cloves garlic, chopped fine
green pepper, chopped coarsely
/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cups milk
tbsp. tomato paste
/2 tsp. salt
/4 tsp fresh ground pepper
tbsp. fresh dill
/2 tsp. oregano
/4 cup butter
Cook pasta in boiling water. Rinse and drain well.
Melt butter in saucepan. Saute onion, garlic and green pepper until tender. Stir
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Aliske Webb 1999. All rights reserved.
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