Monday, December 31, 2007

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About Me, My Website and the Humanitarian Organizations

I am an Ethiopian, married, a mother of three children, a grandmother and a New Yorker. For decades, I was working full time. At one point, I was a student too. However, nothing changes my love of cooking for my family every day, including my relatives and friends. In general, my hobby is cooking and creating my own twist to any food I have tasted.
The other matter close to my heart is the humanitarian issues that exist in Africa and around the world due to conflicts and natural disasters. While I was working in the information analysis of the humanitarian sector, I understood the gravity of the situation and learnt more about the continuous efforts of the humanitarian community to alleviate the human suffering.
Therefore, while I share my recipes, I voluntarily promote the humanitarian organizations, at their consent, who are actively involved in assisting especially the Ethiopian people in time of conflict and natural disasters.
The Humanitarian Organizations posted on this website are the following, I hope you will visit their websites and observe their achievements, activities and needs:
CARE - Since 1984, CARE continues on emergency feeding in Ethiopia. Moreover, Care concentrates on (1)rehabilitation and development projects such as agricultural extension services (2) income generation and food-for-work (primary infrastructure, conservation, agriculture) and (3) family planning and HIV/AIDS education.
Catholic Relief Services - CRS has been working in Ethiopia since 1958. Key CRS Projects in Ethiopia are: (1) Water and Sanitation (2) Agriculture and livelihood (3) Emergency Preparedness.

Ethiopian Benefactors Society Inc. Ethiopian Benefactors Society is a non-profit organization that strives to provide the children of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the emotional and financial support they need to dream big about life and fulfill those dreams.

Ethiopian Elderly Women Project Inc. Ethiopian Elderly Women Project is a non-profit organization established in 2010 to promote dignity, nutrition, healthy life and hope to vulnerable elderly Ethiopian women.

ReliefWeb Homepage - ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters.

ReliefWeb Ethiopia Country Page - Provides Latest Updates (information), Appeals and Funding, Maps, Who is Reporting (Working), Vacancies, Training, and etc.

Save the Children - Save the Children has been in Ethiopia since 1984 to provide life-saving food, water and health services for over half a million people devastated by famine. Today, its programs focuses on Ethiolpia chronic poverty and food insecurity, the poor health of the general population, a growing HIV/AIDS crisis and a substandard education sector.

The Rainbow Humanitarian Caretaker Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization. Its mission is to provide basic services such as housing, food, clean water, medical care, counseling, education and job training to the urban homeless in Ethiopia, specifically those areas surrounding Addis Ababa. Click here to watch a video

Other organizations will be added in due time.

Thank you for visiting Yewoin's website.

Monday, October 15, 2007

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Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake

This cheesecake is easy to make, and easy to do variations on. Use whatever kind of chips you think will taste good. I like it with white chocolate and a graham cracker crust. Tom likes it with peanut butter chips and a graham cracker crust.

Crust: Mix together and press into a 9-10 inch springform pan:
2 c Oreo Crumbs
1/4 c sugar
1/2 c melted butter

Filling:
3 (8 oz) packages of cream cheese
1 c sugar
3 eggs
3/4 tsp vanilla
1/2 c. raspberry chocolate chips, melted

Cream the cream cheese. Add sugar a little at a time. Add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. Pour 3/4 of the filling into the crust. Combine remaining filling with raspberry chips. Swirl into filling. Bake at 350 until center is set. Add a pan of warm water to oven to create a moist environment for cake to back.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

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Kolachky

1 Egg
1/2 Stick (1/4 Cup) Butter, cut in tiny pieces
3 Teaspoons of Orange Juice
3/4 Cups of Milk
1/4 Cup of Water
1 Teaspoon salt
1/4 Cup Sugar
3 Cups of Flour
2 Teaspoons of Yeast

Put ingredients in breadmaker in the order listed. Run 'dough' cycle. Roll out the dough in to a square a foot and a half long, and cut it into 4" squares (a pizza cutter works well for this). Then drop teaspoonsfull of canned pastry filling onto the squares. I prefer Apricot. Plum, poppyseed, and apple are also common choices. Stretch the four corners of each square out a little, then pinch opposing corners together and seal the fruit in the middle. Let rise for 15 minutes (no longer, they'll split open) and bake them for 15 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Brush butter on the tops right when they come out of the oven, golden brown.

Stef's Grandma Kukachka used to always serve these at family gatherings, and I missed them since she passed away, so I dug around on the internet, found a bunch of recipes, tweaked them a little, and came out with something that is pretty close. In Memory of Millie Kukachka.

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Pratt Family Cooking

It is what it is. Post recipes. This is NOT a family blog, it is a cookbook. (even though we're running it on blogware), but I do want the stories that you associate with the recipes. Put them in a way that we can put them in print some day, and in the mean time we'll all have access to them online.

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