European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                60, by Pierre f8aney new York times n fhe Nch let Motoy a dish with tomatoes garlic Olive Oil. Peppers olives and Saf Ron is considered to come Iron Hie Mediterranean regional tradition. Such dishes Eta gaining in popularity and Chicken 13 one of the easiest and  appropriate foods a Cook in Mediterranean style in this Ruopp Tho Chicken is Cut up and the pieces browned on All sides in Olive Oil. The fat is then poured out of inc Svet. And onion garlic and Salton Aro added a is not absolutely essential to use Saffron one of the Mosi d pensive spices but Only a fraction of an ounce Mill impart an extremely special flavor. Add loan tics. Pittisi olives and spices and the dish is ready to simmer until done. The total cooking Lime Attl 30 a mics. While tic Chicken is cooking there is ample Lima to prosaic a Side dish of Rice which requires Only 17 minutes to Cook. The Rice May be served Plain bul i prefer a bit of additional flavor irom fresh herbs Grald fresh Gina a gives an unusual flavor and so does finely chopped Irish coriander an Herb bund year round in Lisl Rale vegetable markets. Ii is not essential to accompany this meal with a tossed Green salad but it is not at All out of place Mediterranean style Chicken 1 31vpoimd Chicken Cut into serving pieces Salt to file it desired freshly ground Pepper to taste 2 tabla spoons Olive Oil 1 cup finely chopped onion 2 Teaspoons finely minced garlic i Teaspoon loosely packed thread Saffron optional 1 Tablespoon flour i cup Olry White wine 1 it cups fresh or canned Chicken Broth 2 cups coarsely chopped Sweet Pepper. Prelim my red 1vi cup coarsely chopped red Ripe tomatoes or canned 1 Tablespoon Tomato paste 40 pitted Green olives ebon a cup 1 Teaspoon dried Rosemary leaves crushed i Teaspoon dried hot red Pepper flakes 1 Bay Leaf 9, till Zucchini about i Pound ends trimmed Cut into half Inch rounds. Sprinkle Chicken pieces on All sides with sail and Pepper. Heal Oil in a heavy Skillet and add Chicken pieces skin Side Down. Cook until browned on one Side about 5 minutes and turn continue cooking turning pieces often until browned on All sides about 5 minutes pour off and discard Lal ram Skillet and add onion garlic and Saffron and Cook stirring about i minute Spain to with hour and stir until the pieces Are coated add wine and Broth acid chopped Pepper and tomatoes. Stir in Tomalo paste and add olives Rosemary Pepper Hakes and Bay Leaf. Cover closely and Cook about 5 minutes. Add Zucchini Salt and Pepper and Cook about 5 minutes longer. Uncover and Cook about 5 minutes. Yield 4 Servings Rice with Ginger Aho coriander z Tablespoons butter i cup finely chopped onion 1 Teaspoon grated fresh Ginger it Teaspoon dried hoi red Pepper flakes 1 cup Rice 1 it cups fresh or canned Chicken Broth Salt to taste if desired 3 Tablespoons finely chopped fresh coriander. Meal Butler in a Saucepan and add onion Cook. Stirring until milled and add Ginger and Pepper flakes. Cook briefly stirring add Rico and sir. Add Broth and sail. Cover closely and Coop exactly 17 minutes. Stir in coriander. Yield 4 Servings the curious i notice it s getting harder to and fresh garlic that has t started to sprout t prefer  protect Gertle Tor health end flavor and wonder commercial practices have change that la Are they increasing the weight of the garlic by noticing Ota drying time Are my chances of getting Una routed garlic better with homed garlic or do they use what s leftover at the end of the Seaton Lor this stove Pastek Palo Hawaii Suzanne Muller Brand manager of Gilroy farms Home of inc annual Gilroy garlic festival in Gilroy. Calif., answers your question sprouted garlic is garlic thai has been out of the ground Long enough Lor the germination process to have begun moaning the garlic is reaching the end of us life which is normally Ihre Eto Lour months. There is nothing unhealthy about sprouted garlic although flavor tends to become Milder As garlic gets older. When garlic is exposed id High temperatures the sprouting process accelerates. It s possible thai the garlic your Reader sees in hawaiian stores has encountered High Lamper lures during Ocean shipment since to my knowledge no garlic is grown in Hawaii. California garlic is harvested during july and August end on Tho Mainland sprouting does no usually occur until november or december. Aslo crushed and minced garlic our production takes place during july and August immediately after the Harvest we use Only the freshest garlic to make our product to do nol use old garlic. The same applies to dehydrated garlic. The product is dried within weeks of Harvest. Fresh garlic intended for supermarkets is harvested by 1he grower packed in 5-. 10 or 30-Pound boxes and stored under Cool temperature. Fresh garlic is not dried. Some growers keep their garlic in co d storage to ensure pics Ness. Alter the garlic is removed irom cold Lorage. It must be stored both by the supermarket end the consumer in a Cool Well ventilated place " should leftover meat the cooled at room temperature before placing into the refrigerator or la it better to putt directly in the refrigerator mrs. 0 h., now Brunswick Canada food for health a nutrition encyclopedia published by Pegasus press of Clovis calif., advises the following leftover cooked meals should be cooled within one 10 iwo hour alter cooking then covered or wrapped to proven drying and stored in Iho refrigerator. Meats cooked in liquid lot future serving should Atso to cooled uncovered Lor one to two hours then coveted and stored in the refrigerator. Questions will to answered in you write to the department of agriculture food safely and inspection service room 1163 South Washington. . 202so tread that claimed butter  no Chot Atterol. Lathe True Mary Collingwood Venice a. No. When you Moll Bulter you win Noleca that some sediment Falls to the Bottom and dearer Oil is on Trie lop. When you separate the dearer Oil irom the sediment you have clarified Bulter. The sediment consists of milk solids while the Oil on top is almost pure Butler fat. The cholesterol is in the Butler fat. Butler is clarified of use in certain recipes. You can Fry with it Al a much higher temperature before it starts to smoke. Ii is the milk solids that make butter scorch easily and they have been removed clarified Butler also has a longer storage life. Butter that is super clarified known As ghee in India can be stored at room temperature for months. If you clarify Bulter for any reason Don t discard the milk solids. This sediment has practically no cholesterol a lot of protein and has a buttery taste. Something in your column particularly caught my attention. You mentioned that Wormwood should of avoided for Ute As an herbal Tat. Why it i harmful we have form Farmer Friend who made a tee of Wormwood and put Kin their turkeys drinking water to cure them of some Dlettie and to cur himself of a lung disease a got from Ore Turkey Leathern. How they grow in their Yard and have i fresh All me time. They Bell the stems and leaves about to minutes Drain and Cool tote liquid and Petit into ice cube trays. Every morning they make cop of hot Poi Tumanda put one Wormwood ice cube into it the Pratum helps disguise tha outta mean. . Until about 1915 Wormwood was an ingredient in Many tonics designed to stimulate appetites act As diuretics or expel intestinal Worms. Wormwood is still an ing Redions in Sorne herbal worm medicines made Loi animals. In the 19th Century and up until world War i Wormwood was also used to flavor Abs Nohe a liqueur thai eventually acquired a notorious reputation in France for being habit forming toxic and causing deleterious effects when it was discovered that the offending ingredient was Wormwood Oil the absinthe formula was banned in France the United Stales and Many other countries. Wormwood was also implicated in tha appearance of brain cortex lesions among heavy absinthe drinkers. I Don t know if drinking Postum laced with Wormwood has the same elect As drinking absinthe but ii so your Turkey Farmer friends arc Starling Olf the Day with a Buzz on. Canadian poet John Glasco who sampled absinthe years ago described his impressions this Way the elect was As gentle and insidious As a drug. In five Romiles the world was bathed in a Fine Amol Lonal Haze unlike anything resulting irom other forms of  coup you Tan Roe where i might obtain replica of tha Constitution of the United states Douglas e. Cote Fresno Calif i suggest you while to the Bicentennial commission . Constitution. Washington. . 20599 and ask Lor information about the Constitution. It s free you la receive a packet of material including the full text of the Constitution. H you want a replica write to one of the members of the commission. Their names Are listed to the packet re4dea feedback a guards Gator a while ago i asked readers to please Send me recipes for Chicken gizzards and hearts and judging irom the flood of mail everybody in America loves these chewy chunks of Chicken because you can do just about anything you want with them. The Basic re does received aug Gesl that you cover them with water to which onions end soup greens have been added and Cook them on Low heal until Lender which lakes about an hour. Then add Aimer a can of Cream of mushroom celery Cream of Chicken or Chicken mushroom soup to the gizzards hearts and Broth add some peas or carrots and Servo Over noodles potatoes or Rice. You can Cook them italian style frying in Olive Oil Wilh garlic and oregano and then simmering in tomatoes chinese style by Par boiling cutting into bite sized pieces then stir frying in sesame Oil and soy sauce along Wilh vegetables hungarian style by adding lots of paprika to your own White sauce German style by adding lots of Parsley to the sauce Indian style by adding Curry powder St Rogaff by adding sour Cream or armenian by Par boiling then putting them on skewers for shish Kebab you can put them in Spaghetti sauce grind them up and add them to meal Loal coat them in hour and deep Fry and even make a Gizzard pie. Have a consumer related question please write to Sonja Hirae care of stars and stripes Apo 09211, us forces. Pa9 16 the stars and stripes wednesday May 11,1988