Denny’s restaurant chain hopes to score another home run with customers by offering free Grand Slam breakfasts after next month’s Super Bowl.
The 24-hour-restaurant chain will give away its signature breakfasts from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 9 at its outlets across the country. That’s the Tuesday following Super Bowl XLIV.
Last year, Denny’s, with 1,500 locations nationwide, including seven in Brevard, served about 2 million Grand Slams after announcing the offer during the Super Bowl match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. Read More Here...
A South Florida community watchdog group that monitors sex offenders, 'Protect Our Children', is sending postcards to 1,500 homes to warn parents that former sex offender Pete Townshend is coming to the area to perform at the Super Bowl. He was arrested in 2003 for cruising online sites for photos of child sex. Townshend said he was doing research for a book. He was placed on England's list of sexual offenders for five years.
Protect Our Children’s Kevin Gillick says, “As far as we’re concerned, Pete Townshend could be dangerous for the community. No one who isn’t interested in child sex visits porn sites. And he was on his country’s sex offenders list. Why is he in what amounts to a family event?”
The NFL rejected 'Protect Our Children's' plea to cancel The Who's Super Bowl halftime performance.
I don't watch the Super Bowl... but this time I am pro-actively boycotting it. Good ol' Pete needs to learn that his celebrity-ism is not going to float him through his sick sexual addictions.
I have never intended this blog to be about cooking... this is just my 'current phase'. This blog is all about what is in my head at the time, so unfortunately there will be a lot of A.D.D. posts. Recently I was on a Gizmo Kick, a Twilight Kick, a Viral Video Kick... and somedays I just post random pictures from my life. So, without further ado, here is the video of me making Aebleskivers. Delicious, and if you have a sweet tooth, you should try the chocolate ones!
Fill them with cheese or jam. These mildly spicy Jalapeño-cornbread pancake puffs will leave your mouth watering for more.This makes nice soft, moist, egg-rich aebleskiver! You can get started with these mixes and pans here.
With only four ingredients and three steps, this is an easy flourless cake. And it’s scrumptious—perfect to make for your sweetheart. As with other flourless chocolate cakes, this is dense and chocolatey.
A simple dusting of powdered sugar makes this cake elegant. Drizzle it with raspberry sauce, raspberry chocolate sauce, or chocolate sauce. (A recipe for raspberry sauce follows.) Finally add a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.
Be sure and use good quality, dark cocoa. I used Ramstadt-Breda Dark Cocoa which has three times the cocoa butter of most national brands. This will not be the same with ordinary cocoa.
8 large eggs 1 cup rich, dark cocoa, Ramstadt-Breda or equal 1 cup butter, melted and cooled slightly 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
In your stand-type mixer and with the whip attachment beat the eggs for three minutes at medium speed, until they are bubbly and lighter colored. While the eggs are beating, melt the butter and measure the other ingredients. Measure the cocoa by spooning cocoa into a cup—do not compress the cocoa.
Add the sugar and cocoa and beat in. While the mixer is running, drizzle in the melted butter. Continue beating until mixed. Scrape the batter into the pan.
Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or an insta-read thermometer registers 165 to 170 degrees when inserted into the center of the cake. Cool on a wire rack and then place in the refrigerator to chill. The cake will become dense as it cools. Dust with powdered sugar if you desire.
Yield: 12 servings.
How to Make Raspberry Sauce
Raspberries alone are not tart and flavored enough for a dessert sauce even when thickened with a starch. There are two possible solutions: Cooking the fruit down to concentrate the flavors or adding a jelly for thickness and flavor. This recipe uses the latter.
12 ounces, about 3 cups frozen, unsweetened raspberries 2/3 cup red currant jelly about 1/4 cup sugar
Thaw and puree the raspberries. Strain them twice through a sieve/strainer or until nearly all of the seeds are removed. Place the puree in a small saucepan. Add the jelly.
Cook, stirring occasionally, until the jelly is completely melted and blended with the fruit. Sweeten to taste with the sugar while it is still hot. Stir to make sure that the sugar is dissolved. Let cool.
Yield: About 1 1/3 cups of raspberry sauce.
What You’ll Need
For the cake, you will need a good quality nine-inch springform pan. We recommend our glass-based springform pans. We have baked this cake many times and have not had a single leak. We cut the cake right on the glass base.
A good quality cocoa is essential. You want at least 16% cocoa butter. Most store cocoas are 8 to 10%. Ramstadt-Breda cocoa is 24%.
An insta-read thermometer. The proteins in the eggs will coagulate at 165 degrees and create the structure for the cake.
For the raspberry sauce, you will need a medium sieve/strainer, one about 6 inches in diameter. The mesh in this size of sieve is usually the right size to catch most of the raspberry seeds and still let the puree pass.
I saw this... and went through a range of emotions. First, my heart melted, then it sunk... only to top it off with laughing hysterically. This is one of those "unexpected" comedic relief videos. Enjoy
Owl City's "Fireflies" courtesy of the New York all-male collegiate acapella group, Ithacappella. This song already gives me a warm fuzzy when I hear it... but hearing this performance gave me goose-pimples (in other words, it is amazing to listen to this)
Ahhhh, lunch break. I'm sitting at my desk, just finished a healthy salad that made me feel like a cow or a bunny, 'cuz I was munching on so many weird shaped leaves and carrots. I like eating healthier, and I am ready to take my food to the next level. Now just because I am a Geek Girl doesn't mean I can't "geek-out" over kitchen gadgets. Crazy thing is, I have given all mine away in the past, and have never looked back... until now. I made a New Years resolution a little yearly last year. On the 1st day of November 2009, I vowed that I would cook. Not cook more... just... cook. I am the queen of re-heating, microwaving/nuking, toasting and turning on the stove to boil water for WHATEVER was in a box or a can. I used my title of "Working Mother" as a crutch... an excuse, to not experiment in the kitchen. Because of this, my kids have grown up on Hot Dogs, Mac-N-Cheese, Frozen Nuggets, Fast Food and anything and everything that was frozen boxed or canned. Lets just say, they have not been the healthiest of kids thus far. So I decided to create. I have tried my hand at making up recipes, following recipe cards and try my hand at foreign dishes... as well as fine-tuning my sweet tooth by playing with sugar, eggs, and flower in some of the most delicious creations my tongue has tasted in a while (while still being healthy). It has been fun! Only problem is... I want/need two additions to my kitchen. A mixer and a bread maker. I don't know much about kitchen appliances, so I didn't know where to start. But, being the "Geek girl" I am, I went hunting. After reading consumer reports, forums, baking blogs and inputing my needs and wants from a machine in a pro's and con's list... I decided on two models. For the mixer: And the Bread Maker from Zen:
*singing* "These are a few of my favorite things!"
Mark McGwire Steroid Parody - "Juice Me Up For the Ballgame" is a parody of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"
Mark McGwire has admitted using steroids. He released this statement:
“Now that I have become the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals I have the chance to do something that I wish I was able to do five years ago. I never knew when, but I always knew this day would come. It’s time for me to talk about the past and to confirm what people have suspected. I used steroids during my playing career and I apologize.
“I wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.
“I’m sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids. I had good years when I didn’t take any and I had bad years when I didn’t take any. I had good years when I took steroids and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn’t have done it and for that I’m truly sorry.”
Hence, another reason why you don't use celebrities as role models*cough*Britney spears *cough*Hannah Montana*cough*Tiger Woods*HACK, cough*..... just sayin'
Hollywood is finally pulling no-name hotties out of the wood-work. Screw Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, George Clooney and all the other Hollywood defined "it" guys. They all suck in my eyes, always have. I love the no-name actors. I was obsessed with Gerard Butler before anyone even knew he existed. And now, three new hotties have emerged and are gaining momentum in the popularity department in some of my favorite films to date. Sam Worthington, Mathew Goode, and Robert Pattinson (in that order). Hence why this movie appealed to me. I love the Irish and their accents (ditto with the Scottish ones). I especially love IRISH romantic comedies like "The Matchmaker", "The Quiet Man", "Waking Ned Divine" and "Circle of friends", just to name a few. I have now put this movie on the list! I love it, and I so desperately needed this movie.
Plot line: (no spoilers) A young woman anticipates marrying a guy who just isn't very romantic or spontaneous. She waits and hopes for things that never happen... so she sets off to make those romantic things happen herself... only to stumble upon a sweet down to earth guy who knows how to be romantic, funny and sweet... in Ireland. And thus a romantic comedy ensues. Romance, spontaneity, taking chances, following your heart...*swoon* This movie was just what the love doctor ordered. (Although Avitar 3D is my 1st choice)
UPDATE: Now I KNOW I'm starved for romance and attention... I keep coming back and re-watching this trailer on my own blog. I need help
I like to pride myself on being a sassy irreverent chick. I pretend I'm tough, but lets face it... I have hormones. And there is one set of hormones that I can never suppress. I like to call them my "Little Voice Hormones". No, not because I hear little voices, but because when a baby or child speaks it touches my heart. They sound so cute, I can't help but turn to mush. Today as I was going through my news updates at work, I cam across this 911 call with audio. I listened to the whole thing, and actually 'sup-supped' a few times (on the verge of tears). This little girl sounded like she was delivering the best lines ever in a movie about the most heartwarming tale EVER. But, in reality, it was just a little girl... saving her daddy's life.
"The Cutest 5 Year-Old Girl In the World Saves Her Father's Life With A 911 Call ... 'Savannah' called a 911 dispatcher from Hancock County, Indiana after her father began to have a heart attack. She told Jason Bonham that they were in their jammies, that he was having a hard time breathing and that he needed oxygen. As the medics arrived Savannah then began to have a discussion about what to wear."
What a cruel, cruel world... one where I cannot afford a Nexus One. I was excited about the iPhone... and while I still am... THIS phone tops that one. Why? Well, it has features the iPhone doesn't, that I am in need of more. It is a developer's paradise. Come to mama!
Seriously people, how many kids lives do we have to put in danger before everyone sobers up? Alcohol is not a good mix with children. If you're gonna drink, lock yourself in a closet.
Here is the drunk 911 call. The call appears to have been made by the toddler's father, Michael Bargeron, of Palm Bay.
The caller told the dispatcher his son had fallen into a fire about 20 minutes prior and the boy's mother took him to the hospital, but he did not know where it happened. He began the call by asking if the dispatcher had heard any reports of a 3-year-old being burned.
"Are you serious? I can't sober up," the caller told the dispatcher when she told him to sober up and find out where his son was burned.
When asked for his name, the caller said, "I'm not going to fall for that trap."
Palm Bay police said Bargeron was drunk at a party and began wrestling with his son near a fire pit. Witnesses told investigators the boy fell into the fire and Bargeron did nothing to get him out.
"He fell. He fell into the fire," the caller said when describing what happened. "Not completely into the fire, but he fell.
The boy's mother rescued him from the flames and took him to the hospital where he was treated for severe burns.
Bargeron, 24, was arrested and charged with aggravated child abuse.
This story makes me sick to my stomach. No child should go through this. Just watching it gives me anxiety. It was so sweet to see the bigger kids comforting the small ones. I would like to have a windowless room to tell that bus driver how I felt about what she did to those kids. Here is the video of the bus driver who was drunk behind the wheel with more than three dozen kids aboard her school bus. i HOPE she’s going to spend a lot of TIME in jail.
Watch as one student on the video screames, “Put on the brake!”
This is surveillance video of the dangerous school bus ride in the Alfred-Almond school district . 55-year-old Martha Thompson had a blood alcohol content of .15. At the time, she thought the children were "overreacting". (Proof enough of what alcohol does to your judgement)
In the video, you can hear Thompson say, “Will you guys stop?”
To which a student replies, “Well, you’re not okay and I know it.”
The bus hit high speeds, ran over a mailbox, and started rolling backwards downhill.
A student shouts, “Turn the bus off!”
“No,” says Thompson.
“You’re backing into the freaking ditch, you’re making the little kids cry…Stop!” screams another student.
Finally, the children opened the emergency door in the back of the bus to get out, despite Thompson pleading against it.
Thompson hollers, “You can’t get off the bus!”
UPDATE: The bus driver will spend the next 12 weekends in jail on her guilty plea to 37 counts of child endangerment and driving while intoxicated.
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