St. Elizabeth Hospital ready to cook-up a cure for cancer

From preparing gourmet meals to heating up hot dogs, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff is calling for recipes that will be part of a special new cookbook.

The hospital’s nutrition services department, with manager Tamina Carver stirring the pot, is creating a cookbook that will be sold with the proceeds benefiting the St. Elizabeth Relay for Life team contribution.

Ardith Metcalf, nutrition services employee, cooked up the idea, explaining, “I know we have many wonderfully creative cooks among us, and I thought it would be a great way to share our home-cooked concoctions while serving the needs of cancer survivors and victims.”

Said Carver, “We try to create a healthy menu while also appealing to the comfort food craving that many of us get from time to time. We want the cookbook to do the same, provide a variety of recipes ranging from the healthy to the decadent.”

In addition to the books taste-tempting recipes, it will also provide an area where recipe contributors may pay tribute to the memory of a loved one or a special message for the living.

Metcalf said they are still in the process of evaluating the cost of the cookbook, but that they wanted to keep it affordable.

Recipes must be turned in by Sept. 5. A copy of the recipe card can be found at www.redbluff.mercy.org by clicking on the “Who We Are/Press Center” page of the Web site.

Electronic copies of recipes may be sent to tcarver@chw.edu or mailed to Tamina Carver, c/o SECH, 2550 Sister Mary Columbia Drive, Red Bluff, CA 96080.

The books are scheduled to be available Oct. 11 at the annual St. Elizabeth Health Spree at the Tehama District Fairgrounds. They will also be available in the hospital gift shop and cafeteria.