Lifestyle

GODDARD – The Goddard High School student council is hosting winter 2024 “Old Hollywood” homecoming this week. The homecoming ceremony will take place this Friday when the Lions basketball teams host the Andover Trojans.

GARDEN PLAIN – It is homecoming week at Garden Plain High School. Students have been participating in spirit days this week.

CHENEY – The annual Cheney High School Heart-to-Heart winter homecoming will be held this Friday, when the Cardinals' basketball teams host the Trinity Academy Knights. This year's queen candidates are Peyton McCormick, Rachel Rosenhagen, Tatum Ingram and Reagan Ayres, and the king candidates are Aiden Lynch, Drew Tolar, Jack Gregory and Tre Black.

Do you have those friends in your life where you have to try several times to plan a get-together before you can actually find a date on the calendar that works? This past weekend, the stars aligned for us to finally spend an evening with just such a pair. They were gracious enough to invite us to their home, where they had a delicious bowl of chili and fresh cornbread waiting for us.

Cake Ingredients 3 cups flour 1 cup sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 eggs 4 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups milk (I used skim) 1/2 cup butter, melted Filling Ingredients 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons flour 4 tablespoons cinnamon Glaze Ingredients 2 cups powdered sugar 5 tablespoons milk (I used skim) 2 teaspoons vanilla Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a nine-by-13-inch baking pan by spraying it with cooking spray.

CHENEY – Lauren Lofton, a graduate of Cheney High School, has been named as one of two winners in the Jeff Jordan Composition Competition from the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA). Lofton was honored for “Espacio,” a composition for full band and choir that debuted at Cheney High School last spring.

GARDEN PLAIN – Marek Rex of Garden Plain was named to the University of Sioux Falls fall 2023 dean’s list. Rex is majoring in computer information systems and business administration.

Despite being a “food columnist,” I have to admit that a lot of my tastes are fairly, well, childish. For rare meals where I’m eating on my own, I’m likely to give in to my cravings for a serving of box macaroni and cheese or a bowl of cereal, or even more likely, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Ingredients 2-3 tablespoons peanut butter (creamy or crunchy) 4 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 inch fresh ginger, grated 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1/2 to 1 tablespoon chili crisp 1 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1/2 packet ramen seasoning or 1 bullion cube 1 packet ramen or other Asianstyle noodles (I used udon) green onions/scallions, for garnish chopped peanuts, for garnish sesame seeds, for garnish Begin by cooking your noodles according to package directions (minus the seasoning). Save back about 1/3 cup of the pasta water when you drain the noodles.