Alli's Cranberry Relish Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 peeled oranges
• 1 bag cranberries
• ¾-1 cup sugar
• ½ cup crushed pineapple

Grind up the oranges and cranberries together. Add the sugar and crushed pineapple and mix.

Aunt Mary’s Greek Cookies

Ingredients
1 cup butter – softened (2 sticks)
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda

Steps

1. Mix together butter, eggs, sugar, and vanilla.
2. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and baking soda.
3. Slowly pour the powder ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix together until the dough is very stiff.
4. Put the dough on a large cutting board and knead well.
5. Refrigerate dough for 2 hours.
6. Make twists and put on cookie sheets (ungreased).
7. Bake on pre-heated 350-degree oven for 15 minutes.

Makes about 50-55 cookies.

Surf the Web While You Drive!

Laptop steering wheel desk: the perfect holiday gift for all the homicidal multitaskers on your list!




You live in a real-time world, where everything demands your immediate attention. Why wait till you get home or to the office to answer that e-mail? And what about that brilliant tweet that just popped into your head? You might forget it by the time you’re off the road. Send it now, while you’re zipping along on the Dan Ryan. The laptop steering wheel desk makes it easy!

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The clockwatchers' anthem. And don't fail to note the class analysis in the lyrics.

Phillip Does It Again

Perennial Ray School chess star Phillip Parker-Turner is certainly starting off his senior year in grand fashion. Last weekend he defended his 2008 5th-grade title in the Illinois All-Grade Championship by winning this year’s 6th-grade trophy. For that he ventured to downstate Bloomington, a great Illinois chess mecca where the All Grade was held this year. Two weeks earlier Phillip had a great tournament closer to home—right here in Hyde Park at the University of Chicago. Among the high points of that event was Phillip’s victory over Expert Dusan Tutush (his first over a > 2000-rated player?) as well as wins over other higher-rated guys. His rating has skyrocketed of late to 1670. Congratulations, Phillip!

photo: Phillip Turner

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Chess-centric Restaurant Review

I thought the food, service, and décor were all quite good at the newly renovated Giordano’s pizzeria in Hyde Park, which reopened this week after several months of remodeling. I’ll leave it at that and let people who know about restaurants fill in the details. What struck me about the place was that the tabletops are perfect for chess. Just bring pieces, and the board’s right there. The squares are about two inches and take standard-size chessmen just fine.

Props to Giordano’s, by the way, for preserving the historically significant glazed façade of the building. Hyde Parkers of a certain age will remember that the space was once the site of the Eagle, a classic neighborhood bar that closed in the late 1970s.

photo: Michael Panelas