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I would also add cocoa butter, but not from the drug store. If you are going to slather your hands with something, a dairy product may not be the best idea... Pure aloe is safe as well.

As far as the first idi.. I mean "chef", the only term that comes to mind is "Failure to grasp the concept". Painful to watch. I found myself cursing at the little dumbas... "chef" almost as much as Ramsey did.

Well, I'll tell the Crown, then.... Your only other option is 3am Wednesday. Sorry I can't be of more help. Full listing of future episodes here.

FWIW, TV guide has it listed with a TV-MA rating. My guess is not much will be bleeped. Although, the bleeps themselves can be quite entertaining. As The Osbournes has shown. edited to add: It repeats tonight at midnight eastern - For those who want to watch other programming...

Being that I have Tabasco running through my veins, Mr. Mcilhenny's concoction is like mother's milk. But I've found another one to run a close second. Grace made with habaneros. It's the same basic idea, just salt, peppers, and vinegar. Superb stuff. edited to correct tiepoz

I saw a recipe last night that was called "Meal on toast" that involved canned peas, a cream sauce, and a tin of anchovies. The cookbook was written in 1947, and was accompanied by a (thankfully) black and white photo.

Cakewalk, That article is wrong on a number of points. You quoted from a site that sells stuff called Dr. Jeff's Joint Cream, Lax-Max, and M2000 weight loss products. I believe this should be taken with a large grain of salt... And as I've said before, I'm not really trying to defend them, though I do enjoy them. They don't taste like crap to me. Black eyed peas taste like crap to me. If I want to spend money on sodas, it's my choice. It's a mostly harmless product that should be used in moderation just like anything else on the face of the earth. I'm just saying, don't believe the stuff you get in emails. 90 percent of the forwarded email running around out there is either completely false, or 15 years old. edited for typos.

A note on the recipe, a lot of them come from wire services, and they can contain errors (Ex: I've heard of a blueberry muffin recipe that went out to papers way back when, by mail. The wire service then had to call up each paper and tell the editor to add the following "To the ingredient list, add '1 cup blueberries'". ) Here's a good way to stir the pot and get your licks in at the same time. Take out ad space on her page, and publish a correction to her previous recipe, since you probably won't get the current one ahead of time. Or start a website to correct her recipes, and advertise the website on her page. Go on CC, let her have it. And couldn't reading a cookbook or watching a demo be technically considered "Training with" someone? In that case, I'm in her league, if you count Food Network.

Calcium content for sodas seems to be something like 2-5 mg per 100g, with most at 3mg. Tonic water has 1mg. http://www.jdhodges.com/nutritional-inform...ood-group-1400/ edited to add - the link above is an easier to read version of the USDA data, which is available here.

You may want to try making a stock with one leg, and drop another one in the dish itself. It's gilding the lily a bit, but at least it's turkey. I wonder if the thigh can be deboned and sliced thin so it could be seared and served in the morning with eggs? Smoked turkey confit anyone?

And I doubt they will have the college senior breakfast of choice: Rice Crispies and beer...

That's why I said mostly harmless. Anyone can go overboard on anything. Skinny people have bad hearts and high cholesterol. Fat guys and drunks live to be 98 and more. Jim Fixx died at 52. Healthy as a horse until he keeled over. Florence Joiner at 38. Top fitness levels until the end. Pete Marvich at 40. The list goes on and on. Life's short. I'll have a Pepsi, easy on the ice. And maybe a refill.

how does this work exactly? do you just put kernels in the bag, seal, and pop? I've never heard of doing this before ← I do this one all the time. Use 1/4 cup unpopped popcorn, 2 tablespoons good oil (like olive), a healthy pinch of salt plus other seasonings. Place all of the ingredients in a small lunch sized-plain paper bag, fold the top a couple of times, then close with a couple of staples, and microwave it like any store bought corn, but watch it closely. this is a smaller batch that the store-bought kind, and it will be done quicker. Just listen for the pops to slow down to 3-4 seconds between pops. Good stuff, and easy to do. I don't recommend butter in the bag though. it just does not work well. Use the olive oil.

Popcorn balls, made with Steen's syrup... For the savory kind, I (believe it or not) have found the one and only use for margarine. It melts better, it does not deflate the kernels, and it can be doctored easily with whatever spices or whatnot you care to add.

I just think that Philadelphia, college students or not, would not be the best place to try the experiment. People though the Wright Brothers were nuts, too. Don't take that as a bad thing...

Saw part of a segment on NBC's Today show where they were plugging the thing. Methinks these folks watch a bit too much Seinfeld. It's all they talked about. Edited to say: I didn't hear about the Philly connection. I assumed it was for NYC. If it's not in Manhattan, they're nuts.

Look, None of the arguments hold up, except for the one about avoiding excess sugar. And even that is overblown. Coke (for example) is less acidic than orange juice. It is less acidic by volume than your normal stomach acid. If anything, the acid in sodas would DILUTE the normal acid in your stomach. The carbonation will make you feel full, and could aggravate an existing stomach problem, but only because of the pressure the carbonation place on those tissues. It's not the acid, it's the CO2 that's in solution in the carbonated water. Burp, and everything is back to normal. Grape juice (on average) is close to 5% sugar by weight, and is 84% water. Wine is something like 6% alcohol (which used to be sugar) and still has 2 or 3% of the sugar left, with 91% water. Coke is 3.5% sugar by weight and 89% water. Wine and fruit juice are supposed to be good for you. Yet they have more acid and sugar than sodas do???? Edited to add that I may be over symplifying things a bit. There are compunds in wine that are supposed to be good for you, and that could be argued to out weigh the sugar and acid. Fine. But the point is that sodas are seen as some artificial nightmare, when they really are mostly harmless.

Well, yeah, but there is no moderation in the product itself. Regular sodas may have the equivalent of as much as 12 teaspoonfuls of sugar -- that's ONE QUARTER CUP, FOLKS. Do we really know the longterm effect of ingesting the equivalent in artificial sweeteners (6 packets of Sweet N Low, Equal, etc.)? And anyway, what good does carbon dioxide do a body -- maybe that's the supposed GERD culprit? -- besides helping you to make rude noises? ← The carbonation is a major flavor and texture component. OK, they have sugar in them. Bourbon has alcohol in it too, and most people know that they shouldn't drink too much of that. People just haven't really gotten the message about moderation in sodas, since they are such active advertisers. Most sodas have less than that 12 teaspoons per serving. The major brands are more like 7-9 teaspoons per serving. 3.75 to 4 calories per gram times the 4 grams per teaspoon. Fat (like the butter and olive oil that we throw about with wild abandon) has 9 calories per gram. 4 grams per teaspoon. So gram for gram, sugars have 4 calories and fats have 9 calories. Which is worse? Sugar has it's health benefits and risks, just like fats, salt, and any other thing. The dangers of soda? I don't think so. It's certainly not health food. But everything we do in this life is risky. Lighten up. Cut back on the butter a bit, save your arteries, and have a soda.

If Iron Chef has taught us anything, it's that any item can be part of a sweet dessert. Pork, nato, etc...

People tend to forget that the overwhelming portion of soda is water. Some doctors say that you shouldn't even count it as part of your fluid intake. It's all horse hockey. Certain people should maybe avoid sodas. My wife, following gastric bypass, was told to never drink soda again, but only because it can stretch the new stomach. Not because it would kill her or anything. Obviously, people who have to avoid sugar for whatever reason should avoid the ones with sugar, but there are plenty of other options out there for the non-sugar people. As far as all of the rumors about sodas, cops do not carry a botttle of it in their car to clean blood off the road, it will not dissolve a tooth or a nail in a matter of days (or even years), Coke and aspirin will not get you high, Pop Rocks and Coke will not make you explode, etc. etc, etc. Just like everything else, it's a matter of moderation. People worry too much about nothing.

Update: I soaked the bird for 8 hours, using a thick plastic (unscented) garbage bag. The pot I wanted to use was too short, so I ended up improvising with the waste bin for the paper shredder. It wasn't watertight, so I used the garbage bag. Too tall to fit in the fridge, I looked in on it every couple of hours overnight and dumped another tray of ice cubes in. Added some more salt about halfway through, since I had increased the water content. I started cooking at 7 am, to be ready in time for us todrive to the MIL. A 12 pound bird cooked in 2 hrs 15 min, and was a major hit. A beautiful specimen, survived a 45 minute trip after cooking plus a quick reheating. It carved easily, without flaking apart, and stayed moist throughout the process. I will definitely do it again. Makes a superb turkey, and I'm going to start doing chickens that way as well. This is highly recommended, and definitely worth the extra work. I'm a believer....

For those waiting for an update, it ain't neccesarily good news. KLFY story The HH is less than a mile from the step-dad's house. Not only are they going to take forever to fix the pipe, but another 28 miles of pipeline is going to be installed in the area. I may as well resign myself to paying retail....

For the Danish words, I like: Butter = smør - or smör in Swedish Everything else I could think of was just unappetizing. Sukkar, Kram, etc, etc.... From http://www.freedict.com/onldict/dan.html

Turkey is still mostly frozen, despite being in the fridge since Saturday. I've read that you can defrost in a brine, so I'll cut back on the salt a bit and try that to maybe speed things up a bit. I'll use the probe thermometer with the alarm set for 40 degrees. I can maybe get it in the fridge, but I was really planning on putting it in the kitchen sink or a big ice chest, which I can fill with ice if needed. I wouldn't brine the turkey itself in the ice chest, as it has been used for a fair amount of fishing. Not one of the flavors I want to add to the bird.

I'm going to give Uncle Alton's brining technique a whirl this week. The only vessel I have that's big enough for the bird (a 14 pounder) is a large aluminum stock pot. Like something you would boil crawfish in. I've been looked upon with great suspicion when asking for an empty 5 gallon bucket from the local bakeries... Question is, looking at his recipe, is there anything in there that would contraindicate the use of aluminum? Recipe is here. If aluminum is a bad idea, can it be brined in a plastic bag and held in place by the aluminum? Only reason I'm hesitating on the bag is the idea of the plastic sticking to the turkey and not allowing contact with the brine. Help? First turkey I'm doing for the in-laws, and turkey gumbo does not really seem like a good idea for this group....