Taste

It has been a couple of years since I gave you some recipes for Valentine’s Day dinner, so this year I have several recipes for you to ponder over before you fix a special dinner for your family. Some of you might be having a romantic dinner out on the town tonight, but if not, there is no reason you can’t put a tablecloth on the table light a candlewith a candle for the two of you, the whole family or even extended family.

This “One of Hardin County’s Finest Cooks” is no stranger to folks in Vine Grove and residents there probably have eaten the three recipes shared today at a pot luck supper or some other community gathering. She was nominated by her sister-in-law, also “One of Hardin County’s Finest Cooks,” Alta Hargan.

One of my all-time favorite meals is a special egg salad made with grilled asparagus served on a good multi-grain bread. I always have a loaf of Tastefully Simple’s Wheat Beer Bread made, so this is my bread of choice. The recipe for the egg salad originally came from Debbie Ferrante, who had a coffee café, Uncommon Grounds, just off the square in Elizabethtown some 15 or 20 years ago.

You can make the egg salad with boiled asparagus, but it is much better with grilled or roasted asparagus.

When we moved to Hardin County some 25 years ago and I started attending Radcliff Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), I fell in love with it. We had lived in Lexington previously and I had been employed as secretary to the minister of music at the church I attended, Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The church in Lexington was wonderful; it was a very large church that had a great, large choir and many activities for people of all ages.