Von Anthony Salon Staff Share Their Favorite Family Recipes

Leigh Vest at Von Anthony Salon shares a family favorite recipe:

Pumpkin Bread

1 cup chopped walnuts

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups packed dark brown sugar

2/3 cup white sugar

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

2 cups pumpkin puree

1 cup vegetable oil

2/3 cup coconut milk

2/3 cup flaked coconut

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8x4 inch loaf pans.

2. Spread walnuts in a single layer on an ungreased baking sheet. Toast in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Set aside to cool.

3. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, brown sugar, white sugar, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Add the pumpkin puree, oil, and coconut milk, and mix until all of the flour is absorbed. Fold in the flaked coconut and toasted walnuts. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.

4. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven, and cover loaves tightly with foil. Allow to steam for 10 minutes. Remove foil, and turn out onto a cooling rack. Tent loosely with the foil, and allow to cool completely.

Von Anthony Salon Staff Share Their Favorite Family Recipes

Angela Fayard at Von Anthony Salon shares this about her Thanksgiving meal:

"My Dad is such a Awesome Cook who is assisted by my Mom! He has kept family recipes alive from past generations. For Thanksgiving we are blessed with: Chicken and Oyster Gumbo made with a dark rue, Turkey, a Broccoli rice casserole and my favorite – a Baked Sweet Potato and Apples dish topped with melted marshmallows."

Angela shares this family favorite recipe:

Dessert: Layer Cake

Two options for the iced layers – Cherry Pecan or Cherry Coconut

Start with yellow cake mix - use 2, 8” pans follow box directions

Cut each cake in half, this will give you 4 layers.

Icing:

2 cups sugar

1 cup milk

2 cups chopped pecans

Or

2 cups shredded coconut

20 large marshmallow

12 chopped maraschino cherries

1 tsp Vanilla

Build:

Heat sugar and milk in sauce pan over medium heat until it forms a soft ball (you will stir consistently during this process)

test for completion by drizzling the sugar milk mixture into a glass of room temp water, you want it to form a ball not a puddle on the floor of the glass.

Remove from heat and add marshmallows, stirring until melted.

Stir in vanilla, pecans or coconut and cherries

Time to ice the cake: work quickly the icing will set fast.

Spread the icing over each layer stacking as you go.

Ice the top, I suggest not icing the sides this is a very rich desert.

Let cake rest at least an hour before serving. Serve as thin slices VERY RICH!

Love It!!!

Von Anthony Salon Staff Share Their Favorite Family Recipes

Angela Lyman, Massage Therapist at Von Anthony Salon shares one of her family favorite recipes!

My Dads Dressing

1 hen

5 boiled eggs

1 bunch chopped green onions

1 large pan cornbread

Broil the hen (season) & de-bone, mix onions, eggs & cornbread. Use broth from the hen. Pour into a 9x13 dish bake 350 degrees for 30 min. until brown.

Place 3 or 4 sliced chicken on top of the dressing.

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Tangled Fun Facts

Hair is everywhere in the new Disney movie, Tangled.

Here are some fun facts about all that hair in the movie.

• Rapunzel has 70 feet of golden hair. That’s more than 100,000 individual strands!
  
  
• Special software had to be created to simulate movement for the hair, no one had ever animated that much hair before and no leading lady has ever had that much hair before!
  
  
• If all the hairs on a single head of hair 12 inches long were laid end-to-end, they would stretch 26 miles. If all the hair on Rapunzel’s head were laid end to end they would stretch for 1,820 miles.
  
  
• Hair software engineer Kelly Ward (one of three software experts charged with creating the hair simulation for Rapunzel and all of the film’s main characters) got her computer science PhD in the study of hair, and has spent the last ten years specializing in that area. She is considered one of the leading experts in her field.
  
  
• Ten women from the production grew their hair out during the making of the film; ultimately each cut about 10 inches of hair to donate to an organization that makes real-hair wigs for people who’ve lost their hair due to illness.

Von Anthony Salon will give a free hair cut to those who want to donate their hair to Locks of Love.

Wednesday, December 1.

Please call 972-731-7600 for your appointment.

Read Amy Kott Hovland's tips for those with long hair: