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• ¼ cup olive oil
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 crushed garlic cloves
• ¾ tsp salt or coarse salt

Bake at 350 F for 10 to 15 minutes. Add more salt if desired. Serve while still crisp.

A Look Back
In November, last year, Helen and I were honored to entertain 80 members of the Young President’s Organization during their stay in Churchill. For their closing banquet, we presented a feast of truly northern cuisine, coupling each course with a Canadian wine and finishing with our famous cranberry cake, butter sauce, and ice wine!

March of 2006 found us in Florida – guests of Hubert and Bernice Kleysen – at their Ocean Reef home on Key Largo. Helen and I were there on an official mission to oversee a wild game dinner as a fund-raiser for a private medical centre. The dinner featured our own recipes, exclusively, and we were provided with a staff who would do the actual preparation for us – though we did manage a little hands-on ourselves, and so did our husbands, Gary and Doug. The dinner was a success, thankfully, because for us four Canadians, the whole experience was more holiday than work, thanks to balmy Florida weather and the superlative generosity of our hosts.

And then it was back to work at Webbers Lodges with Spring Goose opening in May and Ice Bear just now finishing up in November. Probably the highlight of our season was meeting and entertaining Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, the Constant Gardener) That even overshadowed the dinner we did for the Premier of Manitoba and his honored guests.

We know that many of our guests go home with our cookbooks and spice and we trust that you have tried out some of our recipes. If you have enjoyed them, perhaps you’d think about giving them as gifts to friends or family. All our books area still available along with 2 sizes of Dymond Lake Seasoning. They can be ordered on our website, or by calling 1-800-490-2228. That number reaches our Calgary office where you can speak to Marie or to Helen’s daughter, Shari, and order in person by credit card.

It was Shari’s husband, Dave, who first dubbed Helen, “Mother Goose”. Appropriately enough, we were cooking at Dymond Lake Lodge for Goose Hunting, when Dave had some guests out along the coast in the Tundra buggy, and the buggy got stuck in muck! He radioed in for help, saying “Mother Goose, Mother Goose, this is Chicken Little!” Needless to say, the names have stuck and pop up at the most unexpected times.

Marie came by “Foxy Lady” only recently. When her husband, Gary, came to work for Webbers Lodges in his retirement 5 years ago, he became known as the Silver Fox – and since a lot of communication is done by radio, it is used regularly. So when Marie got her motorcycle license last year and headed out on her first long road trip riding her Honda Shadow 750, her handle was really a no-brainer! Foxy Lady, she is!

This letter comes with Best Wishes for a Wonderful Holiday Season.

Marie Woolsey
Helen Webber

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