Olivia Hull swept the candy category in this year’s Boulder City Review Christmas Cookie and Candy Contest.
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With the holiday season arriving in Boulder City, so have the Christmas light displays. To help navigate through them, the Boulder City Review is compiling a list of great ones to see. Some are included in today’s paper, and others will be included in future issues.
Christmastime is a season of giving often delivered in a big box of stress.
DEC. 5, LUMINARIA AND LAS POSADAS:
Have you ever wondered what children say to Santa Claus when they sit on his lap?
Puff pastry is a freezer staple year-round, but I find myself using it constantly during holiday season. It’s ease is matched only by its versatility.
Seventy is a magic number for Boy Scout Troop 7 this year.
Hours of operation: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday at 813 Arizona St., 702-293-3320. Visit the center’s website at www.seniorcenterbouldercity.org.
If you have a turkey carcass in your refrigerator today (and who doesn’t?), you’re going to want to get all the goodness you can from it. Right? So, let’s make a rich stock. But can we say frame instead of carcass? Because I don’t think the word carcass is remotely appetizing.
Hours of operation: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday at 813 Arizona St., 702-293-3320. Visit the center’s website at www.seniorcenterbouldercity.org.
After 28 years of serving the community, Zach Inman of the handyman business Zach of All Trades is scaling back and starting a nonprofit organization to help the community and to keep Boulder City clean and green.
There is a small room at Boulder City Hospital where you can find what you need for just about any situation. And you won’t need a prescription to get it.
Do you want to give the inexpensive, unassuming butternut squash a sophisticated, glamorous makeover? Do this: Hasselback is a popular technique of preparing a potato or other similar vegetable by cutting a bit more than halfway through so that it looks like a fan. Then butter, herbs, spices, breadcrumbs and/or nuts are added between the slices and baked.