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Podcasts, Family Fun in the Kitchen
Lavon and Miss NiNi talk about soup.
QUICK VEGETABLE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP
2 teaspoons vegetable or olive oil
½ onion, chopped
½ cup celery, chopped
½ cup carrots, chopped
4 cups (2 cans) chicken broth
5 oz can of chicken meat
1 to 2 cups thin noodles
Pepper to taste
Optional: Fresh or frozen spinach
Heat oil in skillet or cooking pot to medium heat.
Add onion, celery and carrots. Cook 3 to 5 minutes.
Add broth, chicken, noodles and seasoning.
Simmer until vegetables are almost tender and noodles are cooked
About 10 minutes. Add frozen spinach. Heat through.
Note:
Use ½ to 1 cup leftover chicken instead of canned
Substitute any pre-cooked vegetables. Add at end.
Cook fresh spinach before adding to soup.
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President Barack Obama made a trip to Cuba this week to continue his push to open relations with the country. An Iowa group that included Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) Chairman Jerry Mohr (More), a farmer from Eldridge visited the country on a trade trip in February. Mohr says it was a new experience. “All of us went back in time 50 years, we just did,” Mohr says. “It took us two hours to get baggage off the planes and through customs and out the door — and there were only two planes at the airport.”
“The drive to the Hotel Nacional was easy, they don’t have a lot of traffic on the road. At that time, you paid for everything in cash.” Mohr says there is no embargo on U-S food exports to Cuba, so some products are already being exported, but there is room for more. “We’ve got whole grains going down there, there’s corn, soybeans, I think there may even be some distillers (grain) going down there. But as far as value added, our meat products, there’s none of those going down that. And the Cuban people are desperately short of food, desperately short of quality foods,” Mohr says.
Mohr says he doesn’t care if Iowa corn is exported to Cuba as whole grain or as value-added food after being fed to cattle. He says there is also a need for grain to feed to chickens, which are important to the food supply. Support for farming is also needed in the country. “When the Soviet Union departed Cuba in 1991 — that’s when the expertise for the farming went away or the industrial farming, however you want to call it — went with the Soviets. So a lot of the land that was cultivated was taken over by invasive species. Which does happen, weeds grow, trees grow and everything else,” according to Mohr. He says they visited a farmer who is trying to get things restarted.
“The government has relaxed the standard on ownership, so if a family wanted to come in there and wanted to cultivate the land, reclaim the land, they could do that,” Mohr says. “It’s a long and arduous process.” Mohr says Brazil recently built a huge port on the south side of the island to handle the increased shipping that is to be expected. But he says the United States has a logistical advantage being only 90 miles away from Cuba and will be able to compete for exports. Mohr says the country’s infrastructure poses one of the greatest challenges as it tries to catch up with the rest of the world.
(Radio Iowa)
In an update to our earlier report, KCCI TV in Des Moines says two Des Moines Police officers were killed in the line of duty this morning while transporting a prisoner. Des Moines Police Public Information Officer Sgt. Paul Parizek told the station the officers were driving eastbound, returning a prisoner from Council Bluffs to Des Moines when they were struck head on by a vehicle driving the wrong way on the interstate. The prisoner and the driver of the second vehicle involved were also killed. The crash happened on Interstate 80 near the Waukee exit at mile marker 117 around 12:40 a.m.
The crash is being investigated by the Iowa State Patrol.Des Moines Police say the names of those killed in this crash are being withheld pending notification of their families. A news conference with the Des Moines Police Department and Iowa State Patrol will take place Saturday at 10 a.m.
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One of the legislature’s leading gun rights advocates is taking aim at a group called “Iowa Gun Owners”. The legislature has voted to legalize gun silencers or “suppressors” AND let landowners carry loaded guns when they drive ATVs and snowmobiles on their property. But both bills were scaled back to win passage. A fundraising email from the Iowa Gun Owners group accuses the “naive…establishment gun lobby” of getting hoodwinked by the “gun grabbers” in the legislature.
Representative Matt Windschitl of Missouri Valley — a trained gunsmith — says he wants to set the record straight. “When you get those emails that tell you the sky is falling, send somebody money because they’re the only ones that can fix the problem…don’t be fooled by those scam artists,” Windschitl says. “Don’t be fooled by those charlatans.” Windschitl praises the Iowa Firearms Coalition and the National Rife Association for their work on the bills.
“Are we fighting on every front to try and advance every possible piece of legislation to enhance your Second Amendment rights?” Windschitl asked. “Absolutely.” Windschitl works in his family’s gun store in Missouri Valley. Iowa Gun Owners touts itself as the only “no compromise” gun group in Iowa and it vows to defeat “anti-gun” legislators this fall.
(Radio Iowa)
(Update 6:37-a.m. – All lanes open)
A fatality accident early this morning on Interstate 80 near the Waukee exit blocked both east and westbound traffic for about three-hours. Eastbound traffic was being detoured at Exit 117 as of 5:30, but by 6:30-a.m., all lanes had been re-opened.
No other details concerning the accident are currently available. The original road closure notice was posted at 2:32-a.m.
DONALD ARTHUR HOPP, 85, of Elk Horn, died Thursday, March 24th, at Myrtue Medical Center, in Harlan. Funeral services for DONALD HOPP will be held 10:30-a.m. Tue., March 29th, at the Congregational United Church of Christ, in Harlan. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Monday, March 28th, from 5-until 8-p.m.
Burial will be in the Harlan Cemetery.
DONALD HOPP is survived by:
His sons – Larry (Linda) Hopp, and Gary (Jodie) Hopp, all of Harlan.
His daughters – Cynthia (Keith) Hulsebus, and Kristie [Hopp] Sterler, all of Harlan.
His brother – Franklin (Sylvia) Hopp, of York, PA.
13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great grandchild.
346 AM CDT SAT MAR 26 2016
EARLY THIS MORNING…CLOUDY. NOT AS COOL. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.
TODAY…A CHANCE OF RAIN THROUGH MID MORNING…THEN RAIN LIKELY BEFORE NOON. SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT.
TONIGHT…CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE EVENING…THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN BEFORE MIDNIGHT. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON THEN CLEARING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
SUNDAY NIGHT…CLEAR. LOW IN THE LOWER 30S. WEST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
MONDAY…SUNNY…WARMER. HIGH IN THE MID 60S. SOUTH WIND 5 TO 15 MPH.
TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HIGH IN THE MID 60S.
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