Chocolate Quote
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. - Judith Viorst
01 October 2009
Funny Chocolate Quote 1 Oct 2009
Chocolate Quote
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. - Judith Viorst
10 Choices This Weeks Posts 1 Oct 2009
Retro poster - do you ever feel like the banks are playing chess with the American and European public...?
Warning: Tsunami karmic backlash on its way!
From Denny: Here's some of what's going on...
Dennys Global Politics:
Videos: Hidden Bank Practices Regarding Deceptive Fees - this will make your blood boil; it did me!
Video: Making a Difference - American High School Kids From Chicago Helping Casablanca Poor
- this is really cool! these young kids go to help others in their sister city across the world. what's more impressive is the local man who helps kids out of poverty by supporting them in their education, including girls.
Video: American Diplomatic Mistake Goes Viral - a common mistake by a young administration when they should have their aides consulting the diplomats for correct protocol.
3 Videos: Free Health Clinics Serving Middle Class America Now, Republicans Party of No Answers - this is sure sad to see people making $60,000 a year forced to drop their health insurance and use free health clinics as their only resource. Many have held off on various maintenance for years.
7 Videos: Former President Bill Clinton on Meet The Press - all short videos on various subjects, all interesting!
Photo by liber @ flickr
Dennys Funny Quotes
7 More Funny Cooking Quotes, Bad Cooks Cartoon - worth the look just to see how I reinterpreted the cartoon (read the caption).
5 Funny Cooking Quotes to Give You a Grin! Funny Einstein Photo - worth the look just for the funny photoshoped Einstein playing rock guitar! :)
Cute Monday Morning Job Quotes, Cartoon too
3 More Funny Coffee Quotes and Coffee Cartoon
5 Funny Coffee Quotes & Coffee Cartoon
30 September 2009
Cheeky Quote Day over at The Social Poets 30 Sept 2009
This lampshade chef had a very long day at the hotel kitchen... - Photo by Tracy Hunter @ Flickr
From Denny: Had some fun today and put up a post chock full of funny cooking quotes! When it comes to cooking there are a variety of opinions. Here's a "chef's table" sampling of the cheeky quote menu:
* In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child
* Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. - Harriet Van Horne
* The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin
* When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. - Gail Sheehy
* Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G. K. Chesterson (1874-1936)
* Recipe For Chili: Put a pot of chili on the stove to simmer. Let it simmer. Meanwhile, broil a good steak. Eat the steak. Let the chili simmer. Ignore it. - Allan Shivers, former governor of Texas
* I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead. - Woody Allen
* Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine
* In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. - Jose Simon
For more of Cheeky Quote Day, go here! :)
29 September 2009
Recipe: Paula Deens Chocolate Chip Cake
From Denny: I just love it when celebrity chefs come on TV morning shows to hawk their latest cookbook and give out some interesting yummy recipes! Here's the latest from chef Paula Deen from her down home Southern style of good food. She appeared on NBC's The Today Show this month. This recipe is an easy one made with a yellow cake mix.
From: "Paula Deen's Cookbook for the Lunch-Box Set"
INGREDIENTS
• Cooking spray
• Flour for dusting pan
• One 18 1/4 ounce yellow cake mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• One 3 ounce package instant pudding mix
• One 12 ounce package semisweet chocolate chips
• Confectioners' sugar for dusting top of cake
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a bundt pan with cooking spray then put about 2 tablespoons of flour in the bottom of the pan. Tap the pan and turn it all around until the flour coats all surface of the pan. Dump out any excess flour into the trash can.
In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, sour cream, eggs, oil and pudding mix. Combine with an electric mixer until very smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Place the batter evenly in the bundt pan and smooth the top. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until the top appears set and the cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan. Have an adult help you remove the pan from the oven.
Allow the cake to cool in the pan for about 15 minutes, then take a butter knife and run it around the sides of the pan. Invert the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Dust the top by placing confectioners' sugar into a strainer, holding it above the cake, and tapping the sides of the strainer. Move the strainer from place to place until the cake is dusted.
From: "Paula Deen's Cookbook for the Lunch-Box Set"
INGREDIENTS
• Cooking spray
• Flour for dusting pan
• One 18 1/4 ounce yellow cake mix
• 1 cup sour cream
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• One 3 ounce package instant pudding mix
• One 12 ounce package semisweet chocolate chips
• Confectioners' sugar for dusting top of cake
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a bundt pan with cooking spray then put about 2 tablespoons of flour in the bottom of the pan. Tap the pan and turn it all around until the flour coats all surface of the pan. Dump out any excess flour into the trash can.
In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, sour cream, eggs, oil and pudding mix. Combine with an electric mixer until very smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips.
Place the batter evenly in the bundt pan and smooth the top. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until the top appears set and the cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan. Have an adult help you remove the pan from the oven.
Allow the cake to cool in the pan for about 15 minutes, then take a butter knife and run it around the sides of the pan. Invert the cake onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Dust the top by placing confectioners' sugar into a strainer, holding it above the cake, and tapping the sides of the strainer. Move the strainer from place to place until the cake is dusted.
Video and Recipe: Whole-wheat creamy fettuccine with chicken sausage, olives and rabe
From Denny: This looked really great! As a pasta lover, I've never quite adjusted to whole wheat noodles. However, one of the toppings that tastes good with the heavier more flavorful whole wheat noodles is anything with spicy tastes like sausage or olives and this recipe has both.
This is a healthy version made with chicken sausage and lots of yummy garlic. Any time you add greens you are addings lots of minerals like calcium to your diet. She's using milk instead of heavy cream like so many fettacine dishes. Whew! Tastes good and fewer calories, works for me. This is a great easy and quick dish for busy parents at the end of a busy work day!
Whole-wheat creamy fettuccine with sausage, olives and rabe
From: Chef Cat Cora
Serves: 4-6
INGREDIENTS
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 pound fennel or hot light Italian turkey sausage, cut into 1/2-inch slices
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 1 pound fresh whole-wheat fettuccine
• 1/2 pound broccoli rabe, cleaned and rough chopped
• 1/2 cup kalamata olives, pitted (about 1/4 pound)
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon pepperoncini or chili flakes
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
• Salt and pepper, to taste
DIRECTIONS
Put water on to boil in a large pot or a pasta pot, fitted with a strainer.
Pour the olive oil into a skillet and set over medium heat. Cook the sausage slices just until they begin to brown, about 3 minutes. Toss the minced garlic into the skillet and cook just until fragrant and beginning to brown, about 2 minutes. Add the broccoli rabe and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes. If the water in the pot is boiling, add the fresh pasta to the pot. Cook until al dente, about 5 minutes.
Now add the olives to the skillet. Saute 1 minute, then stir in the milk. Strain the pasta and transfer to a large pasta bowl. Add the olives to the pasta and toss. Season with oregano, pepperoncini, salt and pepper before serving.
This is a healthy version made with chicken sausage and lots of yummy garlic. Any time you add greens you are addings lots of minerals like calcium to your diet. She's using milk instead of heavy cream like so many fettacine dishes. Whew! Tastes good and fewer calories, works for me. This is a great easy and quick dish for busy parents at the end of a busy work day!
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Whole-wheat creamy fettuccine with sausage, olives and rabe
From: Chef Cat Cora
Serves: 4-6
INGREDIENTS
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 pound fennel or hot light Italian turkey sausage, cut into 1/2-inch slices
• 2 tablespoons minced garlic
• 1 pound fresh whole-wheat fettuccine
• 1/2 pound broccoli rabe, cleaned and rough chopped
• 1/2 cup kalamata olives, pitted (about 1/4 pound)
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon pepperoncini or chili flakes
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh oregano
• Salt and pepper, to taste
DIRECTIONS
Put water on to boil in a large pot or a pasta pot, fitted with a strainer.
Pour the olive oil into a skillet and set over medium heat. Cook the sausage slices just until they begin to brown, about 3 minutes. Toss the minced garlic into the skillet and cook just until fragrant and beginning to brown, about 2 minutes. Add the broccoli rabe and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes. If the water in the pot is boiling, add the fresh pasta to the pot. Cook until al dente, about 5 minutes.
Now add the olives to the skillet. Saute 1 minute, then stir in the milk. Strain the pasta and transfer to a large pasta bowl. Add the olives to the pasta and toss. Season with oregano, pepperoncini, salt and pepper before serving.
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