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caitmcg

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  1. They all had the same amount of prep time, two hours. The pasta group was first in the kitchen, then after a while the soup group joined them, then chicken.
  2. That is way more than the little snips here and there they usually do. Especially the first part. I really hope it does not portend a trend.
  3. That's Mexican guy – and Colorado resident, I think – who won immunity for soup (posole, a Mexican soup).
  4. No, the one whose chicken wasn't cooking fast enough was in the roast chicken group, and ironically, he ended up being the top in his group (they loved his sauce and said his chicken was perfectly done).
  5. No surprise, in that we've seen her maintain her cool in past crises plenty of times, but I also like that the trainee, who initially was not so successful or confident in calming the patient, found her mettle in dealing with the husband once he fired the shots.
  6. For anyone in the US with YouTube TV, I just wanted to note some confusion in the labeling there: there is an episode currently available as VOD that is labeled 13.2, that is actually 12.2. (Obviously, S13 episodes aren't available yet here except for those with PBS Passport subscriptions.)
  7. The Prestige TV podcast episode Did "Mad Men" Stick the Landing?, about how effective "Person to Person" was made an interesting listen. The host and guest are admitted megafans of the show, but had some good discussion about how various character arcs wrapped up and whether the show actually intended us to buy that Don dreamt up "I'd like to buy the world a Coke."
  8. Season 13 premieres on PBS March 17.
  9. It has very good flavor for being so simple. I've used it when I needed to make a vegan cake, but also for black-bottom cupcakes with a cream cheese filling, so...
  10. The classic recipe for wacky cake, aka crazy cake, which dates to the Depression and is egg- and dairy-free (so is now popular as a vegan or just plain easy chocolate cake) was for mixing it in the pan, with three holes for oil, vinegar, and vanilla. I've always found it easier to just mix it in a bow, and I prefer Margaret Fox's Amazon cake for its higher proportion of cocoa powder than the original.
  11. As a WaPo subscriber, I can give the article as a gift link, so you don't need to worry about free access.
  12. The Season 1-5 DVDs have the most generous commentary of any show I've seen on DVD. There's commentary for every single episode, and most have two commentary tracks, one with actors with prominent storylines in the episode, and the other with Matthew Weiner and someone else from behind the scenes (writer, director, etc.). I know they didn't continue at that pace for the final two seasons, but I don't know how much commentary they include, because I don't own them.
  13. It's really the CTM wig vs. her real hair, more than the modern suit that makes it hard to see Lucille.
  14. Yes, it is a heritable condition, so it stands to reason.
  15. I'd happily partake, those descriptions match my preferences. This is the same dough that's generally used for rugelach and pecan tassies, and I agree, it's very easy to work with, whether you're rolling it out or pressing it into a mini muffin tin (for tassies). Pro tip: chilling the formed cookies or tassies for at least a couple of hours or up to overnight makes for maximum flakiness.
  16. I first heard of porphyria when I read the author Isabel Allende's memoir Paula almost 30 years ago; her adult daughter (Paula) had it and eventually fell into a coma and passed away as a result.
  17. I believe the Christmas special (or as PBS styles it, the Holiday special) is the only one that we get that's not edited. This is a show that has a huge cast of regular characters, plus stories of the week. Half-hour sitcoms usually have A and B plots, and hour-long dramas often A, B, and C plots, but yeah, CTM always seems to add a letter or two. The episodes were less hectic in the early seasons, perhaps because the plots were largely lifted from Jennifer Worth's memoirs. Funny story, when we were in our teens I knew two sisters who were two-thirds of a set of triplets, and one of them told me her parents had planned to do A, B, and C names and picked out boy and girl names for each possibility. They were Betsy and Cindy — and their first-born brother was Michael, because their parents simply could not agree on how to spell their A name (Alan vs. Allen). I was glad that there was a quick mention early on about setting up the Shelbys with resources for after the birth of their "twins," because they'll (literally) doubly need them with four newborns. When Shelagh kept looking worried as she listened for Toni's baby's heartbeat (again and again, as Toni kept talking), of course I was worried about a full-term stillbirth. But as someone said above, we can't have a sad ending in the Christmas special.
  18. I think the best payoff, so to speak, was how Barbara's death affected Phyllis, not just in that episode itself, but also going forward, where we saw practical, take-in-stride Phyllis still grieving the loss of her friend.
  19. On the first point, it's unusual for sure, but certainly possible IRL. A good friend of mine had an unplanned, unassisted pregnancy at 44. She did comment that missing a couple of cycles at that age, her first thought was perimenopause and not pregnancy. On the second point, I concur.
  20. I watched this, now that it's shown up on Netflix in the US a year later. I too enjoy these more than the Christmas specials with TV personalities (both because of the clueless fumbling and also that, for the most part, the participants are usually random folks for those of us across the pond). This was a surprisingly even bunch. In regular seasons, there's usually some talk about how much the technical counts, with the conclusion often being not a lot relative to first, the signature, and especially, the showstopper. Since they praised the showstoppers essentially equally, and really only nitpicked the signatures, it was interesting to hear Paul say the deciding factor was Manon's first place in the technical. I had forgotten how dry and funny Lottie is. I guess these specials are the last those of us in the US will see of Matt Lucas. I fast-forwarded through all his and Noel's bits, but he wasn't too bad on his own here.
  21. Obviously they don't do eyeglass frames, as when have we ever seen Prue in black ones vs. some bright color to match her outfit?
  22. There is also vegetable suet available in Britain, which is essentially a shortening with the particular texture of suet. I did a double take of sorts when the roundup at the end said that Matty and Lara had been together eight years, because he hardly looks old enough for that to be true. Looked him up; he's 28, so he was 20 when they got together.
  23. If they awarded the win based on personality/personableness and skipped the quiet ones, Rahul wouldn't have won his season.
  24. I've been making all-cream scones like this for many years, with endless variations. It's the easiest ever (no cutting in butter) and produces a very tender, light result, but the texture is different than the flaky biscuit style or crumbly texture you get from recipes that include eggs.
  25. Some of them were shown uncovering a pudding and using a tester, and then finding the puddings weren’t cooked (this why Tasha took hers out of the bain marie). But when they all pulled them out and began unmolding them, it was definitely because they were completely out of time. None of them got the puddings in the oven early enough to have them fully done within the allotted time.
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