It's a shame that you didn't get to the library on Sunday Feb 3 at 2pm to see our alternative superbowl programming. The Americana Family Jamboree featuring the Demolition String Band played a fantastic blue grass and more set with singing, banjo-playing, dancing, and fun! Included for a few songs were our own Dan Weiss with the wonderful Ms. MaryOlive.
More music is coming to the library in March, April, and in May (Fanwoodstock with be back with Mr Ray opening the show!). Check out our events calendar or come to the library to get a copy of our monthly events schedule.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy New Year
Did we all make resolutions? Lots and lots? I hope the included coming to the library for all we have to offer. Books, magazines, books on tapes, dvds, reference, computers, and programming! Lots and lots.
If you check our events calendar, or receive the local Fanwood update by email (sign up available at the Borough site), or read the local newspapers you will find information about the many and varied things we have going on at the library.
Laughing Yoga
Tuesday, January 22nd - 7:15pm to 8:30pm Concerts WHERE: Fanwood Library - Fanwood Room
Let's not even think about the post-holiday blues and come LAUGH with us! Learn what is takes to laugh, laugh. laugh our stress away and put a smile on your face while doing it. Everyone can come, registration is required. For more information Call Nancy Kipping at (908) 322-6400Presented by Fanwood Memorial Library
4th Wednesday Film Series
Wednesday, January 23rd - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Programs For Adults WHERE: Fanwood Library - Adult Department
The Four Fourth Wednesdays Film Series begins tonight. Selection TBA For more information Call The Library at (908) 322-6400Presented by Fanwood Memorial Library
January Book Discussion: The Whistling Season
Tuesday, January 29th - 7:15pm Adult Book Discussion Group WHERE: Fanwood Library - Adult Department
The January selection for our book discussion group is The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk of the library. For more information Call The Library at (908) 322-6400Presented by Fanwood Memorial Library
HISTORY of ANIMATION
Wednesday, January 30th - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Programs For Adults WHERE: Fanwood Library - Adult Department
Tonight local film/video archivist Russell Scholl returns to present a whirlwind historical survey of animated shorts.From the earliest silent experiments to the Golden Age of animation, right up to today's computer-generated imagery, this program covers the waterfront. We won't visit only with the familiar characters (though we'll see some marquee names), tonight we'll also view the work of early American pioneers such as James Stuart Blackton, Windsor McKay and those who followed in their footsteps. Ample due will be given to the more experimental / non-commercial end of the spectrum as well. Included will be the wonderful and bizarre efforts of Melies, Starewicz and other early European innovators, as well as important later figures such as Svankmajer, Trnka and others.Fun! Violence! Propaganda! Claymation! Hot Jazz! Anime! It's all here.Prepare yourself for an evening of Extreme Entertainment.
And that's just January. In February there will be financial advice for Seniors, Romance writer Lois Winston, and a program celebrating the presidents.
So enough exercising (resolution # 3) and join us at the events at the Library.
If you check our events calendar, or receive the local Fanwood update by email (sign up available at the Borough site), or read the local newspapers you will find information about the many and varied things we have going on at the library.
Laughing Yoga
Tuesday, January 22nd - 7:15pm to 8:30pm Concerts WHERE: Fanwood Library - Fanwood Room
Let's not even think about the post-holiday blues and come LAUGH with us! Learn what is takes to laugh, laugh. laugh our stress away and put a smile on your face while doing it. Everyone can come, registration is required. For more information Call Nancy Kipping at (908) 322-6400Presented by Fanwood Memorial Library
4th Wednesday Film Series
Wednesday, January 23rd - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Programs For Adults WHERE: Fanwood Library - Adult Department
The Four Fourth Wednesdays Film Series begins tonight. Selection TBA For more information Call The Library at (908) 322-6400Presented by Fanwood Memorial Library
January Book Discussion: The Whistling Season
Tuesday, January 29th - 7:15pm Adult Book Discussion Group WHERE: Fanwood Library - Adult Department
The January selection for our book discussion group is The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk of the library. For more information Call The Library at (908) 322-6400Presented by Fanwood Memorial Library
HISTORY of ANIMATION
Wednesday, January 30th - 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Programs For Adults WHERE: Fanwood Library - Adult Department
Tonight local film/video archivist Russell Scholl returns to present a whirlwind historical survey of animated shorts.From the earliest silent experiments to the Golden Age of animation, right up to today's computer-generated imagery, this program covers the waterfront. We won't visit only with the familiar characters (though we'll see some marquee names), tonight we'll also view the work of early American pioneers such as James Stuart Blackton, Windsor McKay and those who followed in their footsteps. Ample due will be given to the more experimental / non-commercial end of the spectrum as well. Included will be the wonderful and bizarre efforts of Melies, Starewicz and other early European innovators, as well as important later figures such as Svankmajer, Trnka and others.Fun! Violence! Propaganda! Claymation! Hot Jazz! Anime! It's all here.Prepare yourself for an evening of Extreme Entertainment.
And that's just January. In February there will be financial advice for Seniors, Romance writer Lois Winston, and a program celebrating the presidents.
So enough exercising (resolution # 3) and join us at the events at the Library.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
On Chesil Beach
The adult book discussion group is meeting tonight at 7:15pm. The book we will be discussing is ON CHESIL BEACH by Ian McEwan. Everyone is invited to join us tonight, or for any of our monthly book discussions. In December we will be reading Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Cunningham. Copies of the book are available at the front desk of the library.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Two Thanksgiving recipes
Thank you all for the kind words about my baking: I owe it all to Sara Lee!
Candy's Pound Cake
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 sticks butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup milk
3 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
5 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
Cream together the cream cheese and butter; add sugar and mix until thoroughly blended. Then add milk, vanilla, and eggs. Follow with the flour and baking powder. Bake in springform pan or in an angel food pan at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Maida Heatter
12 ounces (4 cups) fresh cranberries
5 ounces (1 1/4 sticks butter) at room temp.
1 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
1 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg, large
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup milk
finely grated rind of 1 large orange (I used a clementine!)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. You will need a 9 by 1 1/2 inch layer cake pan.
Using 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) of the butter, spread a bit on the sides of the pan and then spread the rest on the bottom of the pan. It should coat the pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup plus the 2 tablespoons of sugar over the butter. Sprinkle the cranberries over the sugar. It's alot.
Beat the remaining 3/4 stick of butter until soft. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Then, on lowest speed, add the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt alternately with the milk until just combined. By hand add the rind.
Smooth the top.
Bake for 1 hour, the top will become brown while baking ( I baked it for 50 minutes).
Cool the cake in the pan. After 10 minutes run a knife around the edges to loosen. Ten minutes after (twenty in total) run the knife again. Then cover the cake with a flat cake plate, hold the pan and the plate firmly, and turn them both over. I knock it twice (for good luck) and remove the pan. If any of the cranberries stick to pan and not cake I just loosen them with the knife and place on the cake.
Maida adds lots of other instructions. She glazes the cake with red currant jelly, which is warmed to melt, and puts it on the cranberries so they glisten. She makes a ricotta cheese cream to serve with. She also likes vanilla ice cream with the cake. Anything Maida likes is okay by me. I once wrote her a letter and asked if she would be my second mother. She said she would think about it. We have a few Maida Heatter cook books in the library. They should be treasured!
If you make either cake, leave a comment and let me know how they turn out.
Happy Thanksgiving
Nancy
Candy's Pound Cake
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 sticks butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup milk
3 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
5 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
Cream together the cream cheese and butter; add sugar and mix until thoroughly blended. Then add milk, vanilla, and eggs. Follow with the flour and baking powder. Bake in springform pan or in an angel food pan at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
Maida Heatter
12 ounces (4 cups) fresh cranberries
5 ounces (1 1/4 sticks butter) at room temp.
1 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
1 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 egg, large
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup milk
finely grated rind of 1 large orange (I used a clementine!)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. You will need a 9 by 1 1/2 inch layer cake pan.
Using 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) of the butter, spread a bit on the sides of the pan and then spread the rest on the bottom of the pan. It should coat the pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup plus the 2 tablespoons of sugar over the butter. Sprinkle the cranberries over the sugar. It's alot.
Beat the remaining 3/4 stick of butter until soft. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Then, on lowest speed, add the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt alternately with the milk until just combined. By hand add the rind.
Smooth the top.
Bake for 1 hour, the top will become brown while baking ( I baked it for 50 minutes).
Cool the cake in the pan. After 10 minutes run a knife around the edges to loosen. Ten minutes after (twenty in total) run the knife again. Then cover the cake with a flat cake plate, hold the pan and the plate firmly, and turn them both over. I knock it twice (for good luck) and remove the pan. If any of the cranberries stick to pan and not cake I just loosen them with the knife and place on the cake.
Maida adds lots of other instructions. She glazes the cake with red currant jelly, which is warmed to melt, and puts it on the cranberries so they glisten. She makes a ricotta cheese cream to serve with. She also likes vanilla ice cream with the cake. Anything Maida likes is okay by me. I once wrote her a letter and asked if she would be my second mother. She said she would think about it. We have a few Maida Heatter cook books in the library. They should be treasured!
If you make either cake, leave a comment and let me know how they turn out.
Happy Thanksgiving
Nancy
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Holiday Cookies
Care to share a holiday cookie? I'll post a family favorite and you can post one too!
| Christmas Cornflake Wreath Cookies |
| | Yields: 18 servings |
"These cookies look like little Christmas Wreaths and are great fun for the kids to help with. Very Easy. People always look at these suspiciously, but once they try them, they can't get enough. Recipe may be halved."
INGREDIENTS:
| 1/2 cup butter 4 cups miniature marshmallows 1 teaspoon green food coloring 1/2 teaspoon almond extract | 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 cups cornflakes cereal 1 (2.25 ounce) package cinnamon red hot candies |
DIRECTIONS:
| 1. | Microwave marshmallows and butter on High for 2 minutes. Stir, then microwave on High for 2 minutes more. Stir. (This can be done in a double boiler if one doesn't have a microwave.) |
| 2. | Add and mix quickly the coloring, extracts, then cornflakes. Drop by spoonfuls in clumps on greased wax paper and decorate with 3 red hots each. |
| 3. | Once cool, transfer to lightly greased serving/storage tray with lightly greased fingers. |
Holiday Books
For all of you who enjoy reading those special and inviting Holiday Books; we have put them on the bookshelf between the window and the copier in the front of the main room of the library. Come find a new book or an old favorite.
And don't forget that on December 16 at 2pm we will have a presentation of a one-man show of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This performance will last approximately one hour, is appropriate for children ages 10 and up, and should be fantastic!
And don't forget that on December 16 at 2pm we will have a presentation of a one-man show of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This performance will last approximately one hour, is appropriate for children ages 10 and up, and should be fantastic!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Adult Book Discussion
The book for November 27 is ON CHESIL BEACH by Ian McEwan. Copies are available at the front desk at the Fanwood Library. Come get a copy, read the book, and join in on the discussion.
December 18 book is SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS by Laura Cunningham. Copies will be available after the November meeting.
Always interesting, lively conversations, and coffee!
December 18 book is SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS by Laura Cunningham. Copies will be available after the November meeting.
Always interesting, lively conversations, and coffee!
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