TO REACH USFare Exchange is a longtime meeting place for people who love to cook and love to eat. We welcome both your recipes and your requests. Be sure to include precise instructions for every recipe you send.• Mailing address: Jane Henegar, 913 Mount Olive Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750• E-mail: chattfare@gmail.com
Jane HenegarWelcome to Fare Exchange, and here’s a toast to good health along with good taste.
The first request is a kind of umbrella request, and it has to do with Southern Sqweeze, the new store selling the most natural of juices and smoothies in North Chattanooga. The questions are these: “There are ingredients in this store that I never heard of, and they can tell you exactly what benefit they offer to the body. Their drinks are delicious combinations of vegetables and fruits. The cold-pressed juices are a favorite. Now, how can we make similar drinks at home? I would like some recipes and ideas for combinations. And the drink I ordered contained coconut yogurt, which I was told is nondairy. How do you make coconut yogurt?”
Here are a couple of questions about last week’s recipe for Barney Brody’s pickles, once served at Shapiro’s. Carolyn Cofer wonders if one should use whole cucumbers. Charlotte Stanfiel would be grateful for more specific instructions since she has memories of these legendary pickles. “I do remember these and would like to try to make them, but I’m a little intimidated at the vague measurements on the spices. Is it possible to get some approximate amounts on the spices? Like what he would have used for the 20 pounds of cucumbers he was using, so we could reduce the amount of spices as we would reduce the 1 cup of salt according to the amount of cucumbers we were using.”
And finally, Jane Guthrie has been doing what grandparents do best: making sure her granddaughter has her favorite foods. They include mac and cheese and Allen’s green beans. “How to get rid of the flavor that says canned beans … there are frozen, cut, flat Italian green beans.”