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1 theconcord Grapevine monthly Happy February! Money Saving Tips for Valentines Day! Valentine's Day. It is that special time of year when a bouquet of roses sells for up to five times its regular price. You can't escape it. Here are some ideas to help you have a memorable, yet inexpensive Valentine's Day with your family. 1) Bake Cookies - easy, taste great, and great to do with the kids. 2) Homemade Cards - Break out the construction paper, glitter and glue and create a special memory for your loved one. 3) Heart Shaped Food - Make heart shaped cookies, sandwiches or even pancakes. Amazing African American Inventions February is "Black History Month," and below are just two examples of many inventors and innovators in our nations history. George Washington Carver ( ) George Washington Carver changed lunchtime sandwiches forever when he invented peanut butter. Born a slave, Carver didn t attend college until he was 30 years old, but he went on to create 400 new uses for peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes, and pecans. These new discoveries transformed the southern United States from a one-crop region of cotton into multi-crop farmlands, providing farmers with hundreds of profitable uses for their land. Madame C.J. Walker ( ) Orphaned at age 7, Mrs Walker grew up poor, but her hair-care invention turned her into North America s first self-made female millionaire. But making money and styling hair wasn t what Walker was about. Her goal was to empower poor black women and show them how to become successful. Through her hair-care college, Walker trained thousands of working-class black women and gave them the opportunity to become self-sufficient. Movie Madness 2 Coloring Fun 3 Recipes 4 February 2013 ISSUE 2 Source:

2 February Edition Movie Madness! Coming this month to Theatres Beautiful Creatures - February 1st A young man is drawn to a mysterious young girl who moves to his small town and stumbles on a crypt of her family secrets in this adaptation of Kami Carcia and Margaret Stohl's series of novels. Escape From Planet Earth 3D - February 13th The 3D animated family comedy Escape from Planet Earth catapults film goers to planet Baab, where we meet astronaut Scorch Supernova and his quiet nerdy, by-the-rules brother, Gary. As Scorch finds himself caught in a fiendish trap set by the evil Shanker, it's up to scrawny, risk-adverse Gary to do the real rescuing. A Good Day To Die Hard - February 13th John McClane (Bruce Willis) heads to Russia in this fifth installment of the Die Hard film series. February 2013 PAGE 2 Source:

3 Coloring Fun A Special Place Just for Kids! February 2013 PAGE 3

4 Recipes Food for Concord Chowhounds Easy Skillet Cordon Bleu Ingredients: 1/2 cup Italian-seasoned bread crumbs 1 teaspoon pepper 1/2 teaspoon salt 8 chicken tenders (about 1 lb.) 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon olive oil 8 Canadian bacon slices, cut into thin strips 4 Swiss cheese slices, halved 1. Combine bread crumbs, pepper, and salt in a large zip-top plastic freezer bag. Rinse chicken tenders, and add to freezer bag. Seal bag, and shake to coat. 2. Melt butter with oil in an ovenproof skillet over medium heat. Cook chicken 3 1/2 to 4 minutes on each side or until done. Arrange Canadian bacon strips over chicken in skillet, and top each with 1 cheese slice. Broil 5 1/2 inches from heat 2 minutes or until cheese is melted. Southern-Style Cuban Sandwiches Ingredients: 1 (12-oz.) French bread loaf Chipotle Rémoulade 1 pound sliced barbecued pork without sauce 4 (1-oz.) provolone cheese slices 1 cup sweet-hot pickles 1. Cut French bread loaf in half horizontally; scoop out soft bread from center of each half, leaving a 1/2-inch-thick shell to make filling the sandwich easier. (Reserve soft bread for another use.) 2. Spread inside of bread shells with Chipotle Rémoulade. Layer bottom shell with barbecued pork, provolone cheese slices, and sweet-hot pickles. Top with remaining bread shell. Cut into sandwiches. February 2013 PAGE 4 Source:

5 Your Safety Saftey First Please be careful when you are cooking. For cooking to be successful it is important to be prepared. Before you turn on the stove please make sure that the stovetop is clear of any combustibles including kitchen towels, recipe cards, food boxes Also, please make sure your stovetop and oven is clean; especially the drip pans. After each time you cook please take a minute and wipe the drip pans out and at least every three months please clean the oven. Even if you are careful accidents still happen; so if you have a pan catch on fire; DON T PANIC, just put a lid on it. Using an oven mitt pick up the appropriate size lid for the pan that is burning and put it on the pan and then shut the burner off. Do not remove the lid until the pan is cool to the touch. If there is a fire in the oven, just turn off the oven and let the dish cool. Putting a lid on the pan and turning off the burner or turning off the oven will smother the fire and cool the pan. These actions will extinguish the fire. And lastly, if you are frying DO NOT LEAVE the kitchen unattended; even for a second! February 2013 PAGE 5