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CARA STAPLETON’S MUSHROOM BREAD

INGREDIENTS:

One long loaf of artisan bread
6 plum-sized  Crimini mushrooms
1/3 stick of salted butter
¾ teaspoon of dried basil
¾ teaspoon of dried thyme

DIRECTIONS:

Finely chop the mushrooms.
Melt butter in microwave in a bowl big enough to hold chopped mushrooms.
Add all ingredients to the bowl and stir.
Cut loaf of bread long-wise.
Spread ingredients on both sides of bread, close and wrap in aluminum foil.

Place in pre-heated oven at 350 degrees until warm, about 15 minutes.  Slice and enjoy.

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I remember Drexel’s cafeteria back in the day.  I’ve never been a picky eater;  I’ve always been an omnivore.  I liked eating in the cafeteria.  Today that memory and its basic food would be a nightmare in higher education marketing and students lives.

As a father looking at paying for two college educations, more and more though I am all about the Chinese menu style of buying a residential education for my daughters.  Give me the option to sign on for bare-bones and then choose whether the Stapleton family pays for a 4-year membership at the university fitness center, a 1-semester membership or none.  What would that save me?

Jeremy Lord is on the board of a Kentucky College.  They’re planning new dormitories, single rooms!  I wonder, will the friendships those residents make be as strong as the ones my generation made with roommates?  I don’t need to wonder though that they will cost more.

And, what is this fascination with climbing walls?  I don’t have the answers but it seems to me that maybe we (parents, administrators, trustees, even the kids) have gone too far.  Socrates and Aristotle just invited students to the city square and then sat on stone benches to discuss and learn from each other.

This is complex situation that I hope will be recognized as a problem and discussed and solved before it melts down like the mortgage industry.

For my part, I am teaching my girls to make really good food and suggesting they learn how to climb trees and real rocks at national parks.  Maybe if we don’t order everything on the menu we will be able to afford my alma mater.