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I wasn't sure which thread to post this in, but I saw on the news tonight that Richard Schaal died today. The news story showed a clip of him as Chuckles the Clown, in the episode where he delivered the election results on the morning news. He actually appeared several times: as bumbling Howard Arnell, his suave brother Paul, and a swinging single guy in the episode that featured a news broadcast from a singles bar. He also appeared on Rhoda and Phyllis and, of course, was married to Valerie Harper for many years.
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Yes, Ghirardelli makes unsweetened cocoa powder and sweetened hot chocolate mix. I used to make the brownie recipe on the Ghirardelli can, which gives a result that is similar to their box mix, so I just use that. I am not really a fan of mixes, but there are a couple - Ghirardelli brownies, Krusteaz lemon bars - that give a better result than what I can make from scratch.
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I especially love Sheldon explaining things to other people - why he dislikes Christmas to Penny and football to Leonard, in particular. I also like the one where he works at the Cheesecake Factory and the one where he and Penny are shopping for a birthday gift for Leonard and he ends up taking over the computer store. And his visit to the DMV.
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http://nypost.com/2013/10/10/sandra-lees-magazine-dreams-complicated-by-cuomo/ This is what the NY Post said about the magazine last year. I swear I have seen a Sandra Lee Magazine in a store recently but I have no idea who her publisher is or how often it comes out. Six times a year sounds about right, it's definitely not every month.
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The Blue Templars and Joe's death were major storylines in the earliest episodes. Then there were behind-the-scenes personnel changes, those people wanted to move on to other storylines, and the whole thing was quickly resolved (pretty much just dropped, because it was over in one episode).
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For the first time ever, I pre-ordered Ina's new cookbook. I hope there aren't too many recipe repeats, or I'm going to be very disappointed. Incidentally, I thought that someone said you could peek inside the book to check out the contents, but that feature wasn't available when I went to Amazon to order it two days ago
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The preview pages are available on the Barnes & Noble website.
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ANOTHER 16-minute meal show? GAHHHHH!!!!! Why that particular interval of time?
That's the theme of her next book.
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We have a Waring Pro Waffle maker, like the ones you see on hotel breakfast bars. My husband used to travel a lot for business and those hotel waffles were his favorites. Once he stopped travelling so much, he treated himself to a waffle maker. It does make really good waffles, I'll give it that.
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Does she ever say anything tastes like anything except lemon, licorice or sweet? I can't think of any other descriptions she has ever used.
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I don't think Tug McGraw was a yet big star in the world of baseball at the time he impregnated Tim's mother.
When Tim's mom Betty got pregnant, she was still in high school. Tug was 22 and pitching in the minors. No one could have known how famous he would become. And the secrecy began when Betty's parents sent her to Louisiana to stay with relatives. Tug didn't even know she was pregnant. Times were very different in the 1960's and there was still a lot of shame around teenage pregnancy or any baby born out of wedlock. Around the time that Tim McGraw became famous, I worked at a country radio station, and he has been very open about the whole story, right from the start.
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The last several episodes, she's been dressed all in black and wearing that black leather jacket. It's like they decided to cut the wardrobe budget to the bone and have her just wear the same outfit for a month.
These episodes were filmed a while ago - like almost a year? - when she was still carrying some weight from her last pregnancy, but she recently announced that she's pregnant again. No idea how that will affect the filming schedule, assuming the show continues.
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Good thing Carrie remembered how to go through tunnel maze. Surprised SWAT and a big bright light couldn't have joined them.
When they went through the tunnel the first time, my husband turned to me and speculated, "Later on, she's going to have to find her way through the tunnel in the dark, with only her magical memory to guide her." This show is so predictable.
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Wow, she really does sound insane. Some of her points have a bit of validity - yes, most Americans snack too much, we don't eat the right kinds of foods, and many parents teach their kids that it's OK to eat chicken nuggets and pizza to the exclusion of everything else. But the solution isn't rigidity, it's modeling healthy behaviors, providing plenty of good food choices, getting kids interested in tasting lots of different things, and choosing your battles. I'd love to know what really goes on in her house re: Jade's eating habits. Either it's full-on war every night of the week, or Giada is full of crap and Jade eats whatever she wants. We'll never know, until Jade is an adult and publishes a tell-all book. : )
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Barnes & Noble's website indicates that the Make Ahead cookbook will be released on October 28. Just in time for Christmas gifting! They have a few sample pages you can look at, including an index page where you can see some of the recipe names. None of the names appear to be anything she's made on the show.
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Is the one that airs Sunday the season finale? Maybe they are treating it as a summer show and trying to get all the episodes aired before September?
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Yes, anneofcleves, the farmer's potluck was one of the current set of new episodes. The wheatberry and farro salad was a "new" recipe, in that Ina had previously made the exact same recipe with all wheatberries. This time, she used half wheatberries and half farro, everything else was exactly the same, voilà, a brand new recipe! There are lots of recipes online for salads that include wheatberries and chickpeas or farro and chickpeas, so it seems like the three would go well together.
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Tom Hanks I believe is distantly related to Nancy Hanks (Abraham Lincoln's mother) - I would've loved to see that family tree broken down.
Tom Hanks and George Clooney are both related to Lincoln through Nancy Hanks. I'd also love to see the family tree.
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Not sure why folks are down on Kelsey Grammer's episode. I just watched it today and found it very interesting. I am sure the producers skip around in search of whatever part of the story is going to make an interesting show. To me, the jump back to the ancestors who traveled the Oregon Trail seemed completely logical. It makes sense that they are going to try to find something of historical significance to highlight and, depending how far back and which line it is in, there is going to be some jumping over generations.
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anneofcleves, look for the Nabisco Famous Wafers in the area of the grocery story where they sell the baking items like flour and sugar. They aren't usually with the other cookies. They come in a cardboard box that is covered in a plastic sleeve - I think the box is yellow. They are not very sweet and also make a great chocolate pie crust, if you crush them up and use them as you would graham cracker crumbs in a graham cracker crust. No, I don't work for Nabisco. It just took my mother, my sister and me a long time to figure out where those cookies were in the store!
I did get to watch today's show this afternoon and I was disappointed that it was basically a clip show with recycled recipes. Ina has made the tomato soup with the grilled cheese croutons, the wheatberry salad and the broccoli with bowties before. Geez, I've made all of them myself, more than once. Is she really completely out of ideas? The cheese show a week or two ago was also a clip show. I haven't watched the one with Toni and the flower arranging, but I guess I can prepare myself for more of the same.
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I haven't made the cake again - it is huge, so you need a large group to eat it all up - but I have since seen the Tate's cookies in Wegman's. I haven't tried them but have heard from various sources that they are very salty.
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That mocha icebox cake always makes me drool. Any suggestions for a good cookie to use in it?
I made it for my son's birthday a couple of years ago and I couldn't find any super-thin chocolate chip cookies anywhere. I used the classic Nabisco Famous Wafers - the plain chocolate ones - and the cake was fantastic.
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Brooke Shields' grandmother was Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi. Her father was Marino Torlonia, 4th prince of Civitella-Cesi. Her mother was an American socialite, Mary Elsie Moore, daughter of Charles Arthur Moore, a shipping broker and hardware manufacturer from Connecticut.The Torlonia family gained its fortune in the administration of Vatican finances.
Or so the google machine tells me.
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Today's episode repeats tomorrow at 4:00 and next Monday at 12:30. I see that last week's will be on again tomorrow at 12:30. I still haven't gotten around to watching it or this morning's that I recorded. Sunday at 10:00 am isn't a good time for me. :(
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If I remember correctly, when Wolfie was born, Eddie wanted to name him Amadeus. I guess Wolfgang is a slight improvement on that.
Kicked off a long discussion of how history is taught in different parts of the country/world.
Mr. Charles grew up in a military family and moved four times just in elementary school. He managed to learn about the Civil War in both upstate NY and southern VA. Talk about getting both sides of the story! He gets a bit irritated by how many of the subjects give that little fist pump when they find out that their ancestor was not a Confederate soldier. Somebody had to be! It is silly for these modern-day folks to think that their ancestor being on the right side is any reflection on them. Most if it was just luck of the draw, people. I happen to have ancestors on both sides, just because my family was very well entrenched in a border state. Most of choosing a side to join was probably a matter of who was recruiting at a particular time and what they were offering for joining up.
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Semi-Ho Test Kitchen
in Semi-Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee [V]
Oh, my God, I googled that meatloaf recipe and I think the picture is enough to give me nightmares! Love the ingredient list - 12 items and everything except the meat and an egg is from a can or a box. I would love to see the sodium count for that recipe.