What to serve for the holidays? UB cooks have plenty of ideas!

The Reporter's annual recipe contest brought ideas and suggestions for holiday partying as well as everyday meals from all over the two campuses. A recipe for Charles Dickens' Cornmeal Muffins, submitted by Louise Continelli, a Ph.D. student in English at UB and a reporter for The Buffalo News, was selected as the winner. Continelli's recipe for Christmas morning munchies appealed to the judges for its unusual ingredients and its seasonal aspect.

The judges were John Edens, assistant director of libraries for technical services and Bison bibliographic database manager, and Hope Aldrich, clerk 1, CTS cataloging department. They recently took part in the production of a cookbook A Taste of CTS, benefiting SEFA. The Reporter thanks them for their time and effort in evaluating the entries.

In selecting the winner, they noted, "The combination of ingredients was unusual-the cornmeal with the raspberries," pointing out the fact that "it's a healthy recipe for Christmas morning." The judges liked the seasonal aspect of Continelli's entry, and found the Charles Dickens title "clever."

"The chart was interesting," the judges added.

Continelli and her husband, Bob Smith, worked out the math on their computer. "He likes muffins," she said. "and muffins are usually just fat sponges." These Christmas morning muffins, she said, "are the giant ones."

The Reporter thanks all who participated in the contest-entries came by campus mail, E-mail and by fax. All the recipes were great fun to read, especially ones with comments on the origin of the recipe, and the editors enjoyed looking at each and every one. We are printing as many as space allows.


[Current Issue] [Search 
Reporter] [Talk 
to Reporter]