"Grate" Treats & Eats
Finally spring, the season we have all
been waiting for. With the brutal winter
behind us, let’s enjoy the warmer days
ahead. Yes we are going to have some
cool days and nights, and with this
crazy weather maybe some single digit
temperatures, but the warm days will
out number the cooler days.
My hubby has big plans for me this
year, working in the yard, planting flowers, and having a garden this year. This
will be our first garden at this house.
We haven’t had a garden in a long time.
At the old house we had one out in the
side yard beside the garage and grew all
sorts of vegetables. One year we had so
much produce my hubby even canned
tomatoes and pickled vegetables. The
tomatoes were out of this world and the
vegetables were a great compliment to
any meal or snack.
We have Easter coming and that sounds
so good because I know by then we
shouldn’t have seven inches of snow
lying on the ground! The last five years
we have not had Easter dinner with
family so this year we are going to try
and do so. The Timko Family Easter
dinner always included, along with
Baked Ham, what we called Barberton
Sausage. It was made at a local family
owned butcher shop and it was wonderful, it was like nothing you could get
anywhere else around. It was a garlic
sausage with just the right spices. You
either loved it or didn’t. The family
owned butcher shop went out of business when the owners decided to retire
and we have never been able to find it
since. My Grandma Timko is the one
that served it and then got it for us
when my Mom took over the Easter
dinner cooking. Once Grandma died
By: Chris Timko-Grate
Cousin Tim Baker would get it for us,
and once we couldn’t get the garlic he
found a spicy sausage for us to use. I Ё