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21 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Oct. 20, 1986 What's CookingSt. Louis Spinach Lasagna: A Hearty Meatless Dish 1 Im4 1 by-13-inch baking pan, arrange a layer of noodles, a layer of ricotta mixture, a layer of spinach and a layer of shredded Mozzarella cheese. Continue building layers until, as Daly says, "You have reached the top of your pan or you run out of noodles, whichever comes first." Bake, covered, in a 350-degree oven 1 hour.

If desired, serve spinach lasagna with green salad and garlic bread. Yield: 6 generous servings. Variations: Add '2 cup red wine to sauteed onion and garlic; simmer 10 minutes, then continue as directed. Add I anchovy fillet, l2 teaspoon crushed red pepper or 1 cup sauteed mushrooms to tomato sauce, if desired. Note: Lasagna can be assembled, baked and then frozen.

Also, leftovers can be refrigerated and reheated for later use. Would you like to share a favorite recipe from your kitchen? It's easy just send the recipe along with a short introductory paragraph. The recipe doesn't have to be original, just one you would like to share. Make the recipe as I14 (16-ounce) packages lasagna noodles (24 ounces) 1 (16-ounce) carton ricotta cheese or cottage cheese 1 egg, beaten 11 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 clove garlic, minced Salt and pepper, to taste 2 pounds fresh spinach (or three 10-ounce boxes frozen chopped spinach, thawed) 1 pound Mozzarella cheese, shredded For sauce: Heat olive oil in a skillet. Saute onion and garlic in oil.

Stir in oregano, marjoram, basil, thyme, parsley, sugar, salt and pepper. Add tomato paste, tomato sauce and pureed tomatoes, stirring to mix well. Simmer 30 minutes. For filling: Cook noodles according to package directions. Meanwhile, combine ricotta, egg, Parmesan cheese, garlic, salt and pepper in a bowl.

Remove stems from spinach; steam in just a little water for about 5 minutes. Drain spinach well; squeeze out all the water, shred the spinach and set aside. To assemble lasagna: Using a 9- and Michael, 6. In her spare time, Daly makes quilts. "I've made many, many quilts.

I've made 16 baby quilts 10 of them last year. Tim has a studio Indiana Avenue Pottery and I sell my quilts right along with his pottery. Several of my quilts have been chosen for display in shows." No wonder this pretty red-haired woman likes to piece together spinach lasagna! Why don't you try her recipe? SPINACH LASAGNA Kitty Daly, St. Louis For sauce: i4 cup olive oil 1 large onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon dried marjoram 1 teaspoon dried basil i2 teaspoon dried thyme i4 cup chopped fresh parsley 1 teaspoon granulated sugar Salt and pepper, to taste 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste 1 (15-ounce) can tomato sauce 1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes, pureed For filling: By Patricia Corrigan Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Kitty Daly has recipes for a number of hearty meatless dishes, because her husband is a vegetarian. A number of the couple's friends also are vegetarians.

But Daly says that even devoted meat-eaters have been known to enjoy her spinach lasagna. "It's easy to prepare ahead of time and everybody always likes it a lot," she said. The leftovers are just as good as the original serving, and Daly has been known to show up at work with spinach lasagna to share with her co-workers. Daly is an administrative assistant with Metro Theater Circus, a St. Louis-based touring company known throughout the country for its performances that encompass music, dance, mime and theater.

"This year, we're cooking up snarks," she said, in reference to the company's new show, "The Hunting of the Snark," based on the Lewis Carroll poem. Daly also is a waitress at O'Con-nell's, where she has worked for 12 years. Her husband, Tim, is a cook at O'Connell's and a potter. They have two children, Peter, 18, Renyold FergusonPost-Oispatch Lunch at the Metro Theater Circus office is something special. Kitty Daly shares her spinach lasagna with her boss, Kim Bozark.

complete and accurate as possible. Be sure to include your name, address and a telephone number where you can be reached during the day. Send your recipe to "What's Cooking," Food Department, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 900 North Tucker Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo.

63101. Or, nominate a friend or rela tive to be in What's Cooking, if you prefer. Recipes for this feature are submitted by readers and have not been tested by the Post-Dispatch although we may reword recipes as necessary. Some recipes may be used in other features of the food section, as appropriate. Flood Almost Doomed Old Covered Bridge Back To You, Dick 11 "-Ws By Grover Brinkman CHESTER, III.

A vintage statistical reference guide lists 1,344 covered bridges in the nation. Illinois is listed as having 132 such bridges, but many have perished since the guide was published. Today, Illinois has seven covered bridges. This month's floods came near to writing finis to one more, the picturesque covered bridge that spans the Marys River, north of Chester, alongside Illinois Route 150. When the waters of the Marys River crested here after 8 inches of rain in the area, the covered bridge sat like a wooden duck in the flood, the water spilling over its traffic deck.

Only the fact that "they built better in those days," with the wooden structure nailed down securely to its supporting timbers, kept the bridge from floating off its foundation. This covered structure has long been given the title of "The Christmas Card Bridge," because of its unique Currier Ives nostalgic look. Several nationally known artists have sketched the bridge, and innumerable photographers have trained their cameras on its ancient timbers. It is protected by the Illinois Department of Transportation, with a small picnic park at its approach. A night light is a further protection.

Even so, someone tried to torch it recently, but luckily a passing motorist saw the fire and extinguished it by dipping up water from the river in the nick of time. Once it was part of a plank toll road leading through southern Illinois. To the northeast, near Cowden, over the Marys River near Chester. I drifted back to Channel 2, which tipped me off in exclusive fashion that it had found spray- painted messages on the street. But the camera sat still, lest it draw Channel 5's attention.

Hey, I thought, Dog-Eat-Dog Competition, just like the Chicago papers in the '20s. I asked Channel 2 about it. "Yeah, sometimes guys from another station will pretend to leave but just drive around the block until we leave. "Of course, when we leave, we also just drive around the block and sneak back. Sometimes it gets kind of silly." It got very silly when Channel 5 did a standup take.

The reporter tried to go into his Concerned-And-Solemn, Back-To-You-Dick mode, but a bee kept flying -around his head, flubbing his efforts. Channel 2 snickered. I marveled at it all. When you see these people on TV, they're talking directly to you, personally, in your living room. But out there on the street, they're talking selfconsciously to a camera, with bystanders and other TV people staring at them.

I tried to picture myself writing this column while being watched over my shoulder by two guys from the Globe-Democrat and a roomful of Concerned Neighbors. Tough business, TV. Finally, a teen-age kid emerged from the house to tell the TV people that they needn't hang around, that nobody would say anything. He spoke nervously but used all the right phrases: not at liberty to say no statement forthcoming at the present time It could have been the transcript from a State Department press briefing, and I marveled again, this time at how TV has turned all of us into Spokesmen. I scribbled a few notes for the city desk and went home to get ready for work.

When I drove past the scene on the way to work, Channel 2 and Channel 5 were hanging in there, eyeball to eyeball. Tough business, TV. That night, I watched our subdivision on the news. Channel 2 called us "upper-middle class." That's overstating the case, but it took some of the sting out of notoriety. Thanks, guys.

I owe you one. Harry Levins Communities pick up tags when they make the news "booming" St. Charles County, "picturesque" Elsah, "the fashionable" Central West End, etc. When my West County subdivision made the news recently, it got the tag I expected: "Usually quiet." The Usual Quiet had been, as they say, Shattered by a pipe bomb that blew a hand off a man in the middle of the night. The bomb went off in the block in back of my house, but I slept through it.

I learned about it the next morning when Tracy from up the street rang my doorbell to ask why police cars and television trucks were prowling about our Usually Quiet Subdivision. I had no idea, but I grabbed a reporter's notebook and set off to find out. I walked to the scene, where Tight-Lipped Detectives were loosening their lips only only to sip coffee. Channel 5 rolled up in one of those monster news vans and seemed, in the way of television news people, to be busy being busy. But Channel 2 was at ease, Awaiting Developments, so I approached my brother journalists for A Quick Fill-In.

"What's going on?" "Pipe bomb. In that station wagon there. Somebody said it blew a guy's hand off. Cops aren't saying anything. Family's not saying anything.

Oh God, here comes Channel 5." I went to a nearby house, explained to the woman that I was a neighbor as well as an intruder, and begged the use of her phone. After alerting the city desk, I asked the woman what she knew. "Nothing. We just moved in. Geez, does this stuff happen all the time around here?" No, not really; things are Usually Quiet.

As we chatted, Channel 5 approached to interview The Concerned Neighbor. I walked away, confident that nothing exclusive would be said. Teacher Makes Trivia Game A Tool For Economics was built by Timothy Palmer, a Massachusetts millwright, over Schuylkill river at Philadelphia in 1806. Although writers have often stated that General George Washington crossed a certain covered bridge during the Revolution, this evidently is in error, for the first covered structure of record was hot built at that date. A Missouri covered bridge at Smithville, moved because of flood hazards, now graces a city park at Platte City.

Indiana has a covered The Morton class' project was selected one of the 12 best from among more than 325 entered, the sponsoring Council on Economic Education said. The council said the project by Everetts and his class of mostly seniors was an innovative, effective approach in presenting economics in the classroom. Or, as Everetts puts it: "It makes learning economics fun." He will be honored with the other national winners at an educators' The "Christmas Card Bridge" is another covered bridge that escaped the flood; it is the only one remaining on the Kaskaskia River. Longfellow wrote: "The grave itself is but a covered bridge leading from light to light, through a brief darkness." There is little evidence of timber-truss bridges in the ancient world. But in North America the covered bridge achieved maturity in the late 1700s.

The first long covered bridge sored by Bradley University of Peoria. They wedded Trivial Pursuit's rules with such topics as inflation, international trade, supply vs. demand and revenues vs. expenditures and, viola! invented Economics Trivia. The game won Bradley's $50 first-place prize and was entered in a statewide competition.

The Illinois Council on Economic Education's contest committee unanimously chose Economics Trivia the winner, and will give Everetts and one of his students a $500 cash prize at a banquet Nov. 2 in Chicago. But the excitement over winning the local and state competition paled next to the thrill of winning an honorable mention in this year's 24th annual national competition, Everetts said. MORTON, 111. (AP) Rick Ever-etts thinks economics is fun to learn.

To prove it, the high school teacher came up with "Economics Trivia," an award-winning board game patterned after the popular Trivial Pursuit. "Learning economics is not trivial, and besides, this is a great motivational tool" for students, Everetts, a Morton High School economics instructor since 1976, said of his game. But don't go looking for the game at a toy store. It's at Illinois State University, with other winning entries in a national storehouse for the Council on Economic Education. Everetts, 35, has always fought the idea that economics is boring.

So, last spring, he led 35 students in a project for an economics fair spon Grover Brinkman bridge moved to the city golf course, and Minnesota's only covered bridge is now part of a park at Zumbrota. Illinois' Riddle Hill covered bridge that spanned Spring Creek, six miles west of Springfield, had a special attraction for tourists, for supposedly Lincoln used it often while he rode the law circuit. But this historic association meant nothing to vandals; they burned the bridge. Grover Brinkman is a free-lance writer. conference in New Orleans in March if Everetts can work out the economics of the trip.

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