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Slow Cooked: Tasty options to impress sweetheart this weekend
Spend more time with your sweetheart this weekend while cooking these sure-to-be delicious meals in your slow cooker.
BEEF BURGANDY
Makes: Eight servings
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 6 1/4 to 8 1/4 hours
Ideal slow cooker size: 4-quart
2 slices lean turkey bacon, cut in squares
2 pound lean sirloin tip or round steak, cubed
1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
1/4 teaspoon dried marjoram
Help for nut allergies
There are lots of Internet sources for help in dealing with peanut and tree nut allergies.
The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, http://www.foodallergy.org, is recommended by several mothers with allergic kids. Among its information is how to read a label for a peanut-free diet and the following advice:
-- Avoid foods that contain peanuts or artificial nuts, goobers, monkey nuts and peanut protein hydrolysate among other items.
Peanuts, soybeans, other foods strike fear in those with allergies
Gwen Martens of Atwood has almost died three times because of her food allergies.
The first time was at a bank when she was 5 years old.
"Mom was in the middle of a transaction when someone cried out, 'That little girl is turning blue!'" Martens said. "That was my first trip to the ER – then, throughout childhood, trips to the hospital as they discovered I was also allergic to tree nuts."
Next, Martens was deprived for years of cow's milk and chocolate when her family feared she was allergic to those substances.
Traditions part of Chinese New Year celebration
DANVILLE – Kathy Lan sometimes misses the good old days of her childhood in China.
The Danville Area Community College sophomore would like to get another red envelope like the one she got when she was 8.
Lan received a large amount of money from her grandmother and other adults, part of a tradition for older adults to give children and young single people money to help with their education or to be used during the upcoming year.
Sony acquires Champaign-based iCyt Mission Technology
CHAMPAIGN – Sony Corp.'s acquisition of Champaign-based iCyt Mission Technology brings a big player on the global stage into the fast-growing field of biological instrumentation.
Sony announced Tuesday that it has acquired iCyt (pronounced like "eyesight"), a maker of flow cytometry equipment that employs about 30 in the University of Illinois Research Park.
