Join OFPL LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary Friday, January 21st at 4:00 PM to try a new recipe! Follow along as we replicate a random recipe from one of our cookbooks. Recipes are available using the Supply Request Form.
Join OFPL LIVE on Facebook @galluplibrary or Zoomfor a baking demonstration by Indigenous author Lisa Platero-Brown on Saturday, November 6th at 12:00 PM.
The author of The Living Full Cookbook: Making Family Meals Abundantly Good and features New Mexican cuisine, Native American food, and other family favorites. It contains over 100 recipes plus a toolbox for hosting, serving, and setting the table along with stories of growing up on the Reservation.
Join OFPL and the Just Craftin’ Around Club LIVE on Zoom Saturday, June 12th at 12:00 p.m. for an afternoon of chatting and crafting!
Virtually chat with other community members to exchange craft ideas, stories, and food recipes as we craft together through knitting, collaging, painting, sewing, drawing, crocheting, and more.
OFPL will celebrate Day of the Mushroom by providing a cooking demonstration. Join us on Friday, April 16th at 1:00 p.m. on Facebook @galluplibrary or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library to learn how to cook a vegetarian-style mushroom rice recipe that is not only delicious but can be made for the entire family.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Vegetarian Mushroom Rice
INGREDIENTS: • 2 teaspoons butter • 6 mushrooms, coarsely chopped • 1 clove garlic, minced • 1 green onion, finely chopped • 2 cups vegetable broth • 1 cup uncooked white rice • ½ teaspoon chopped • fresh parsley • salt and pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. 2. Cook mushrooms, garlic and green onion until mushrooms are cooked and liquid has evaporated. 3. Stir in vegetable broth and uncooked rice. 4. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. 5. Season with parsley, salt and pepper.
Join OFPL on Facebook LIVE @galluplibrary on Saturday, December 19th at 1:00 p.m. for an afternoon of coloring and mocktail making. Request coloring pages, colored pencils, and an ingredient leaflet with mocktail/cocktail recipes below:
Color different pages from characters, scenes, and mandalas. Mocktail & Cocktail Recipes below:
Mocktail Recipes:
Lime Rickey
Ingedients: • 1 oz. Lime Juice • 1 oz. Sugar Syrup • 4 oz. Soda Water • 1 Lime
Directions: 1. Take the limes and squeeze them into a glass. 2. Pour in the sugar syrup 3. Top the glass with a shaker and shake the contents thoroughly. 4. Take a tall glass, add ice. 5. Pour the shaken contents through a strainer and into the glass. 6. Add the soda water. 7. Stir. 8. Garnish with lime peel 9. Drink and enjoy!
Shirley Temple
Ingedients:
• 1.5 oz. Grenadine • 6 oz. Ginger Ale • 1 Lemon
Directions: 1. Pour grenadine into tall glass. 2. Add ice. 3. Pour in ginger ale. 4. Stir. 5. Garnish with lemon peel.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.
Cocktail Recipes:
Mojito
Ingedients: • 1.5 oz. White Rum • 0.75 oz. Lime Juice • 0.5 oz. Sugar Syrup • 4 oz. Soda Water • 1-2 Sprigs Mint Leaves • Lime Slices, Garnish
Directions: 1. Muddle mint leaves with simple syrup in mixing glass or tin. 2. Add lime juice, lime hull, and rum. 3. Add to milkshake glass. 4. Top with ice and soda water. 5. Roll drink back and forth in mixing glass. 6. Top with ice and garnish with mint bouquet and lime slice. 7. Drink responsibly & enjoy!
Shirley Temple
Ingedients: • 1 oz. Vodka • 1 oz. Grenadine • 8 oz. Ginger Ale • Lemon Slices, Garnish
Directions: 1. Add Ice 2. Pour vodka into the glass. 3. Pour in ginger ale. 4. Add Grenadine. 5. Garnish with lemon peel. 6. Drink responsibly & enjoy!
Throughout December, help OFPL determine which is better: Red Chile or Green Chile.
All month long, there will be a display where you can vote on Red, Green, or Christmas as the best way to have chile served. In addition, please share your favorite chile recipes on our community board.
Come by the OFPL Main Library at 115 West Hill Ave. and cast your vote!
