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Making meals in a mug
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Serena Pasquale sat with her mother, Carrie Pasquale, at the event and mixed the dry ingredients together to put in their gift bags.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Different meals in mugs books were available for guests to check out during the Make it in a Mug .event at the Austintown library on Dec. 18.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Guests had bowls to mix the dry ingredients before they put them in gift bags. When the bags were finished, they stapled them together with a instruction sheet.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Dorothy and Sandy enjoyed snacks and coffee after they finished putting together their gift bags for the mug meals.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
The Austintown library hosted a Make it in a Mug event on Dec. 18. Books, snacks and supplies were all available to learn more about making snacks in a mug.
Jen Kuczek, Austintown librarian, came up with the event to be festive and a good gift for anyone. Guests surrounded the supply table filling their little bags up with different ingredients to make their mug meals. Chocolate pudding cake and Rice Krispy Treat ingredients, and instructions were set out for the participants to use.
“Send it to college students, give it to your grandkids, stocking stuffers, all kinds of different things you can do with these,” said Kuczek.
Gifts like these are great for college students who, in many cases, just have microwaves and mugs available in order to cook. Anything simple and fast works well with a college student’s busy schedule.
Coffee, tea and cookies were available for the guests to enjoy while making their gift bags. The plastic gift bags were used to contain the dry ingredients and toppings, like marshmallows and chocolate chips. To seal the bags together, a little piece of paper was provided with the rest of the wet ingredients and instructions on how to make the treat in a mug.
Meals in mugs have become very popular recently and can be found in a variety of places. Kuczek got the idea when she saw a lot of cooking in mug books starting coming into the library and seeing the response of people being interest in them.
The librarians try to gage what is becoming popular and try turn it into events that the community can come to and enjoy, while also learning something new.