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Ask Aunt Nettie

We're delighted to share our Aunt Nettie with you. She's agreed to answer any questions you might ask about food, its preparation, and even clean-up tips. But we have to prepare you. She just might want to come right over to your house and help you fix dinner.

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Dear Aunt Nettie,

It seems every winter I catch one or two nasty colds and suffer for weeks with lingering symptoms. Is there anything I can take to prevent a miserable winter?

Your friend,

Diane




Diane Darlin'

Gosh, sufferin' from a miserable cold that wants to be a hanger-on-er kin be a terrible ordeal fer anybody, but there's help fer it. But when I tell ya what it is, don'tcha git yer dander up 'n' say, "I cain't." Onion

Git yerself over ta the market, 'n' treat yerself to a heap o' those nice sweet onions, maybe those dee-lishious Maui onions. Now yer gonna eat 'em ever' day, 'n their best when they's raw as kin be. Cut 'em inta yer salad, tuck a nice thick slice inta yer san'wich, or jes bite inta the whole thing jes like it was an apple.

Now if'n ya cain't find them sweet onions, git them brown ones 'er even them red beauties. They's a little stronger, but mighty good with the antibacterial 'n anti-viral power.

One o' my favorite onion treats is a nice thick raw onion slice top o' some sprouted rye bread with some fresh ripe avocado spread on it. Now that's good eatin' 'n' it's good fer ya, too.

If ya really cain't stand 'em raw, well, then cook 'em 'n eat 'em ever' day that way. Now, ya might could jes add some fresh garlic to yer fixin's fer a bigger protection.

Here's hopin' y'all have a healthy winter, darlin'.

Yer ever lovin' Aunt Nettie





If You Haven't Met Aunt Nettie. . .


Our Aunt Nettie has a head like a hard disk. It's filled with gigabytes of information about food and cooking. And she's just itchin' to share her learnin' with city folk who live in mortal fear of the stovetop.

Aunt Nettie grew up on the farm. She did not eat out of a can or reach into the freezer. There was no microwave to pop her food into. Everything she made was from scratch. All the food she ate was natural, without pesticides. It was grown right there on the family farm, and she had to cook to survive. At eighty-three years young she still leaps and bounds around the kitchen and can shake, rattle, and roll those pots and pans with the best of them.

Nowadays, Aunt Nettie just shakes her head and complains, "Nobody cooks anymore. They have no idea about puttin' a meal together." She's on a mission. She wants to help those younguns eat better so they can grow up healthy like her own eight kids.



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