Tickets still available for cooking show

MOSES LAKE - Buy your tickets for Tuesday's Taste of Home Cooking Show while they're still available.

Tickets can be purchased for $13 each at the Columbia Basin Herald, located at 813 W. Third Ave., Moses Lake.

For more information about tickets, call 509-765-4561 or visit www.tasteofhome.com/cooking-schools to learn more about Taste of Home.

Doors open at 5 p.m. Tuesday to see vendor booths and demonstrations, at the Grant County Fairgrounds, located at 3953 Airway Dr. NE, Moses Lake.

The cooking show begins at 7 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m.

Former Othello resident Kristi Larson is the star of the show as she prepares 10 dishes for the audience.

The featured recipes are berry puff pancake, Reuben casserole, hot cheesy mushroom dip, potato leek soup, mango-basil chicken and rice salad, lemon cake angel roll, easy chicken enchiladas, Parmesan, walnut and arugula baskets, shrimp cakes with wasabi tartar sauce and chocolate eclairs. 

Larson said attendees receive gift bags with the recipes inside.

"It has always been a good hit, which makes it fun to do the show," she commented.

Larson also appeared in shows in Oregon, California, Nevada and Utah this spring. Last week, she had a show in Lewiston, Idaho, and in Bremerton.

She found people are cooking more at home because of the recession.

"It's obviously a more economical way to feed a family most of the time," Larson said.

She is also seeing people trying to cook healthy, as one has more control over their food, instead of eating out.

Tuesday's show in Moses Lake is a chance to learn new recipes and make cooking easier and fun at home, she said. 

The vendor booths offered before the show stock items that attendees maybe aren't aware of.

Cookbooks and other prizes from national food sponsors and local businesses are also given away.

The event is "family-friendly," she said.

"We encourage people to come out with everyone," Larson commented. "It's a good fun event."