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Friday December 26th 2025
Nordic Ice with Spice ”“ Having fun with spice, food, and imagination
By Carstens Smith
“It”'s yummy, wicked good, ”enthusiastically exclaims Heather Jansz as she tastes rice pudding with lingonberries, coconut milk, cardamom, and ginger, a recipe she developed for the “Nordic Ice with Spice” class hosted by Ingebretsen”'s on November 7. The class is a four course dinner and cooking class that features favorite Nordic ingredients, combined in new ways with liberal doses of spices.
Heather is well qualified to create such recipes. She is the Curry Diva, a chef who specializes in the cuisine of Sri Lanka and who incorporates Ayurvedic principles in her use of spices. A former co-owner of the Sri Lanka Curry House, a cookbook author, and chef for the Highland Grill”'s Monday evening Curry Nights, Heather grew up on the island of Sri Lanka and is of Portuguese-Dutch descent. She learned from an early age how different ingredients and cultural foods can be combined in new and appealing ways.
Curries are a popular “food fashion” in the Scandinavian countries right now. The “Nordic Ice and Spice” class was inspired by this trend. It is intended to give participants a knowledge of spices and the confidence to create their own recipes. The four course dinner will have an appetizer course with imported Scandinavian cheeses and chutneys, and a platter of fish, bread, and curries, including a curry sauce the specifically complements lutefisk, (because we couldn”'t forget lutefisk”¦).… Read the rest “Nordic Ice with Spice ”“ Having fun with spice, food, and imagination”
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The Aura Of Tomas Young
By Peter Molenaar
Truly, the new science of brainwave imaging has begun to reveal some interesting things. For example, moments of compassionate giving manifest as definitive and relatively expansive “cloud” formations. As Christmas is approaching, we might now reconsider old reports that the spirit of Jesus emanated a visible aura.
But for now, I contemplate the image (year 2005) of a crew-cut “lad” named Tomas Young. Confined to a wheel chair, his sign reads: MR. BUSH WHY WON”'T YOU MEET WITH ME? Alongside Tomas stands Cindy Sheehan. Cindy”'s son Casey was killed in Sadr City (same city, same day) as the bullet severed Tomas”' spine. QUESTION: What “noble cause?”
From Tomas Young “The Last Letter” (an excerpt):
“I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney”¦your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth”¦I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, know fully who you are”¦Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago.”
“My day of reckoning is upon me”¦ I hope, for your sakes, that you will find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.”… Read the rest “The Aura Of Tomas Young”