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annabelle

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  1. I'm sick of everyone being "outraged." Look what just happened to Gary Oldman and that was in an article in Playboy (known for its investigative journalism or so my brothers told me when they were "reading it for the articles"). I thought adults got over getting their knickers in a twist around the time they graduated from high school. Park the drama over there. Richman looks great and he isn't the first celeb to lose a person's worth of weight. We have Graham Elliot, Al Smith, Joe Bastianich and others. The folks who want to pack around what amounts to double their normal weight, can't expect the rest of us to cheer for them and their poor lifestyle choice.
  2. Hell's Kitchen is awful. I watched one season of it and tried to watch another and thought "Why am I watching this crap?" You can't even root for the contestants since they are so detestable. Smoking, boozing, cursing, physically fighting. Who needs that?
  3. Yup. Savvy celebs have a crew of minions to manage their social media. Unless they are Nick Searcey who will cut you like a knife. And then block you.
  4. Thanks for posting pictures, Andiesenji. The one on the left looks a great deal like the one I have. I have to agree about it not being very efficient for large batches of cherries or olives, but I don't have a good source of fresh cherries for jam, so it's fine for a pie's worth.
  5. It is. I always want to hold him down and "manscape" his brows.
  6. Martha is a businesswoman, not a chef. I bought one of her cookbooks about 20 years ago and ended up giving it away. I also love the Brit shows. There was one, "Come Dine With Me" that was hilarious. It pitched together four random strangers they took turns cooking in their homes for the others. There was one with an Indian woman who brought her own chilli sauce with her and doused all her meals with it before she tasted the food. One had a vicar who cooked a meal at the rectory. Another a woman of some means who lived in a castle. Others lived in row houses, on farms, &c. I liked it not so much for the cooking---although that was interesting---but for the character studies. The voiceover was overly dramatic and you knew the whole show was a gag. Sometimes literally.
  7. I have a cherry/olive pitter that looks a bit like a punch. It has grips like a pliers and a rod on one side and a cup to catch the stone/pit. It's easy to grip and works like a champ even if it is tedious to do them one at a time. I can't recall the brand, but it is stainless steel and cost about $15.
  8. The UK version is fantastic. No nonsense, tough judges, realistic praise and technique! Something we don't get on the American version.
  9. I'm interested in your results, as well. I've made cream cheese, but never mozzarella.
  10. Wait! It's Marc, with a "c", Thuet. There is a Mark Thuet, as well. A son, maybe?
  11. Mark Thuet, yes. My gosh that show was so awful. And it was on Canadian Television, the same network (there is more than one, isn't there?) that made the excellent "How It's Made" series that shows productions lines of everything from snacks to lawn tractors to industrial tooling.
  12. Kathy Hoshijo? She was in Hawaii and had a young son. She cooked a lot of really terrible vegetarian recipes and used a lot of carob in her icky desserts.
  13. Terrible cooking shows aren't all hosted by Americans. There was one from Canada that featured a husband and wife who took a group of troubled "yutes" under their wing to teach them a trade in the restaurant business either in the kitchen (husband) or FOH (wife). The husband was a big heavy guy with a Quebecois accent that need to be trimmed with a knife, the wife was very slim and they both swore like sailors. The kids/parolees were all attitude, tattoos, substance abuse problems and parole violations. It had potential, but was mainly cringe-worthy.
  14. I appreciate learning about this from Liuzhou. I am a consumer of frozen shrimp and this is distressing, if true. If nothing else, I have begun to look at the county of origin labels on the packaging.
  15. Anna is correct. I am unclear about where Tyler lives, but in the US and Canada parchment paper is sold in rolls at the market or in sheets at specialty shops that cater to bakers. Could you include a link to this oven, please? I am not familiar with a steam oven and it sounds intriguing. Thanks!
  16. Never having owned a Silpat mat or any other fiberglass cooking mat, it seems to me that the OP could use parchment paper. It has the advantage of being relatively cheap, can be cut to any shape and doesn't contain any potential hazards. Or will this not work in such an oven?
  17. It sounds disgusting. I'll stick with half and half.
  18. Drop a serving spoon on the floor and still use it after wiping it off.
  19. My OCD refuses to allow me to make drop biscuits unless they are in the form of dumplings on stew. I agree that they taste very good, they just offend my sense of tidiness.
  20. I didn't mean anyone here, GF. It is wrong in general to engage in a War on Foods.
  21. Yeah, but you like your eggs grossly underdone. I'd gag. Anna, you order the toast and cut it into soldiers, silly.
  22. I've been thinking on the soft-cooked egg request and I can't recall getting them in a restaurant, ever. Not even Howard Johnson's when they were the destination breakfast place when we were doing road trips when I was a kid. Truly, they are a PITA to eat without an egg cup and good luck getting one of those in a diner in NA. The kitchen can't shell them for you and they're too hot to hold to shell at the table. Plus, you get bits of shell in the egg. Maybe if you ordered a pot of hot water for tea and cooked them at the table would be the way to go, but I think they'd be under-cooked.
  23. You really can make yourself crazy trying to control every aspect of your kids lives. Everyone needs to take a large step back and decide why it is so important to make all the decisions all the time. Let the kid chose now and then. I like what your mother did, quiet1. You got input from a trusted authority figure in a non-threatening way. Kids need to learn to make choices and we need to be okay with the fact that Cheetos taste better than pita chips.
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