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<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! | NOVEMBER 28, 2015<br />
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Elizabethan Madrigal<br />
brings medieval times to Estherville<br />
Hawarden hosts<br />
Holiday Tour of Homes fundraiser<br />
Community: Festival of Lights<br />
jumpstarts the holiday season<br />
Community: Orange City promotes<br />
history with Sinterklaas tradition<br />
Tour six homes in Hawarden that<br />
have been decorated for Christmas.<br />
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<strong>DIS</strong>COVER! is your guide to all the special events and activities in the greater<br />
northwest Iowa, southwest Minnesota, southeast South Dakota and northeast<br />
Nebraska areas. It is distributed free throughout these areas.<br />
Copyright, 2015. Nothing may be reprinted, photocopied or in any way<br />
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Iowa Lakes Community College will host an Elizabethan Madrigal Feaste on Dec. 5-6.<br />
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Playbill: Spencer Community Theatre<br />
presents “A Christmas Carol”<br />
Other Happenings: Other<br />
must-see area events to check out<br />
Screen: New releases for the big<br />
screen and new rental options<br />
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Side Trips<br />
Food Network was filled with Thanksgiving<br />
cooking shows over the weekend.<br />
There were traditional menus, the “perfect”<br />
roast turkey and debates about stuffing vs<br />
dressing. One cook advocated<br />
for corn bread<br />
as the basis of her dressing,<br />
another insisted<br />
adding oysters was a<br />
real holiday treat and a<br />
third loaded her recipe<br />
with mushrooms, to<br />
which my son commented<br />
as he passed<br />
through the kitchen,<br />
“Please don’t do that.”<br />
The most interesting<br />
were the classic side<br />
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dishes with a twist. Green beans, without<br />
cream of mushroom soup. Caramelized Brussels<br />
sprouts with butternut squash and dried<br />
cranberries. Sweet potatoes with marshmallows<br />
folded in, not sprinkled on top.<br />
I decided to try that last one.<br />
The celebrity chef I watched placed a baking<br />
sheet of miniature marshmallows under the<br />
broiler, toasted them until they were just one<br />
step before charred, let them cool, then broke<br />
them apart and folded into the sweet potato<br />
mixture along with cream, eggs, butter and<br />
brown sugar.<br />
I kept a close eye on the broiler, thought the<br />
marshmallows weren’t quite toasty enough, so<br />
returned to the recipe and finished chopping<br />
pecans.<br />
Unfortunately, I finished that task and<br />
moved onto another, completely forgetting my<br />
marshmallows.<br />
The smell of a campfire reminded me of the<br />
oven. Too late. We were now several steps past<br />
toasted.<br />
That big black mess of marshmallows was<br />
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the traditional is best. Forget the “twist.”<br />
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