Thursday - December 10, 2009
Hard Crack
Impress your friends and relatives this season with home made candy. It’s easier than you think. I just made this batch of peanut brittle in a little more than half an hour, including clean up.
It tastes almost as good as See’s Candies product, which goes for $10/lb plus tax and shipping. Mine cost less than a third as much to make. This recipe will properly fill an American sized baking sheet (11” x 17"). So here you go:
2 cups sugar
1 cups light corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons butter - 1/2 of a stick - softened but still in it’s wrapper (ie get the butter out an hour ahead of time and leave it on the counter)
2 slightly rounded teaspoons of baking soda
extra butter
2 cups of salted peanuts. Cocktail peanuts are fine. If using plain peanuts, use a bit more salt. Dry Roast peanuts are Ok too. Buy the party size can of peanuts at Walmart for $4.
1 11” x 17” no-stick cookie sheet of average weight. Not the ultra heavyweight kind.
1 8 quart saucepan - the “pasta for two” pot
1 12 quart saucepan mostly filled with water
Teakettle with boiling water in it
1 medium heat resistant mixing spoon. Wood works fine, or use one of those silicon ones. Just make sure it can handle 350 °F
2 or 3 cup glass measuring cup
candy thermometer
Set the 12 quart pan of water to heating. Turn on the oven and get it warm ( 175°F ). Generously butter the no stick baking pan and put it in the oven. Turn off the oven.
Half unwrap the butter and slightly squash it down. Sprinkle the baking soda on it evenly.
Measure the sugar and pour it in the 8 quart pan. Add the salt. In the same measuring cup you used for the sugar, measure the corn syrup and pour it in. Now pour 3/4 cup of the boiling water from the kettle into the measuring cup. Mix it around so it dissolves any leftover sticky, then pour it into the 8 quart pan. Start heating the 8 quart pan. Set the heat to a bit less than half, and stir. Keep stirring. When the sugar mixture gets hot enough it will start to bubble, and the sugar might cake up a bit. Stir it vigorously and use the spoon to scrape free any stuck bits. When all the sugar is dissolved and you have a nice clear liquid, turn up the heat. Stop stirring. Get out your candy thermometer and keep an eye on the temp. It will take a good while to hit 225°F, but will take only a couple of minutes to reach 275°F. Stir it a little. Around 300° the sugar will begin to brown. Hey, you’re making caramel here. When the liquid hits 305-310 it will be nicely brown. Take the pot off the heat. Toss in the butter and stir it around. The baking soda will cause the mixture to foam up a bit. Stir it for about a minute until you get a nice creamy looking mix. Stir in the peanuts. You get a mixture about as thick as hot asphalt. Open the oven and pour it all onto the cookie sheet while moving the pot around. Scrape out as much as you can. Try and push the mixture around so it’s even on the pan, but it won’t move much. Return cookie sheet to warm oven.
Put the 8 quart pot back on the stove. See that hardened brown mess in there? And look at the crust on the spoon! How the hell are you ever going to get that clean? Ha. Take the 12 quart pot of water, which should be boiling by now, and pour in enough to mostly fill the smaller pot. Stir it around with the same mixing spoon. The boiling water will soften the hardened caramel and most of it will dissolve. Once you’ve loosened all the chunks, pour out the steamy water and you’ll have a clean pot and a clean mixing spoon. Pour some more boiling water into your glass measuring cup. Stir, dump. Goo? Gone!
Take the cookie sheet out of the oven and let it cool. Give the sheet a little twist and the peanut brittle will come loose and break into nice sized pieces.
You can make endless variations on this recipe. You can use pecans, almonds, mixed nuts, whatever. Make your first batch for yourself, then adjust the recipe. Some people like more nuts, some want less. Some want it saltier, some want it a little foamier - which is where the brittle part comes from - so they add a bit more baking soda. Some even dust the cookie sheet with baking soda as well.
The batch I just made was done with half cocktail peanuts and half dry roast peanuts. I did not add any salt, since the peanuts were already salted. I took the mixture off the burner at 315°F. While my experimental guinea pigs neighbor ladies downstairs raved about it, I think I can do better next time. A bit more butter, and go with the salt. Use straight cocktail peanuts and then press a couple handfuls of dry roasted ones into the mixture once it’s on the cookie sheet. Maybe butter up the rolling pin and roll it down a little. This batch came out finger thick, with a serious Brazilian tan, the exact color of a Kraft Karamel; what I wanted was more of a honey blond. So I’ll take the next batch off the heat just when it hits 300-305°F. And perhaps try just a smidge less baking soda. But either way, there won’t be anything left of this batch by morning.
This recipe is so easy that a child could do it. But be careful; the sugar mixture gets much hotter than boiling water, nearly as hot as fry oil. So you can get badly burned. Therefore I recommend that you make sure your kids are past the klutzy age, say around 30, before letting them make this without supervision.
PS - “hard crack” is the candy maker’s term for sugar solutions heated to 300-310°F. Even just a tiny bit hotter than that and caramelizing starts to take place. With peanut brittle you want things to just start to caramelize, and that’s it. I think my cheapo $3 candy thermometer reads a little low too. My mom has had her commercial grade candy thermometer longer than I’ve been alive, and it still works great. Expensive? As if - it’s less than $9.
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 09, 2009
A LADY IN NEED OF SOME HELP …. AND EYE CANDY TOO.
It’s 4:50p, it’s dark, I’ve been busy all day and this might be my only posting. ?? Reason being that it sure caught my eye and so I thought ok.
Maybe I need to post this just to keep me sane. Also cos I think it kinda looks nice too . Hey. Old doesn’t mean dead ya know.
Meanwhile we are waiting for a repair guy, they’re called “engineers” over here, for our water heater.
Get this BMEWS .... when the hot water heater is turned on, it started giving a mild zap when running the tap. Ever hear of such a thing?
What I mean is, you got the zap when you hand is in the water. Not from touching the tap itself.
I knew there was something weird going on by the oddball noise the damn thing omitted a week ago. Like rushing water. But no leak anywhere. Then the noise went away and seemed ok. But today the zap thing happened. Now as it happens, I had a repair (engineer) sched. for sometime Friday anyway to take a look at the thing, thinking there might be a problem with the immersion element. So I went thru two or three calls to our insurer, was told someone would call back within the hour. So two hours and 45 minutes later I got a call saying someone would be out here by 6 this evening.
So we’re waiting. Groan. This is a very old place and I wish I could move into the new one being built next door.
So here. This makes things sort of okay. Well not really but I like to kid myself. lol.
This is SARAH JESSICA PARKER and she seems to be having a hell of a problem with this dress.
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Permalink • Saturday - December 05, 2009
The French, in the person of Mr. Sarkozy, have managed to anger the Brits this past week.
Just so you know, Sarko is referring to London when he says “city.”
Woo-Hoo and another Hoo. That caused a bit of a flap this week I must say. Whatcha gonna do? Brits and French have this love/hate thing. But really, Brits do not I don’t think, actually dislike the French. I may be wrong on that score. I think they laugh at em a lot though and the French know it.
War has not been declared.
We are in charge now, Sarkozy tells the City
Francis Elliott, Suzy Jagger, Martin Waller and David Charter
The TimesAlistair Darling has delivered a blunt warning to the EU’s new French finance chief against meddling with the City of London.
As Nicolas Sarkozy gloated over impending curbs on the City, the Chancellor said that such moves would drive financial services out of Europe.
The French President’s glee at the appointment of Michel Barnier as Commissioner for the Single Market took on an edge of menace when he said that unfettered City practices must end.
“Do you know what it means for me to see for the first time in 50 years a French European commissioner in charge of the internal market, including financial services, including the City [of London]?” he said yesterday.
One of the very bothersome things about the new French EU finance chief is .... he is very left wing and much given to govt. control.
He hasn’t been very big on capitalism either, and has made no bones about that in the past.
The Brits I think were hoping to get that post btw. At some point in time, either the EU will solidify and RULE supreme, or else collapse in upon itself.
“I want the world to see the victory of the European model, which has nothing to do with the excesses of financial capitalism,” he said.
His implicit threat was just what Downing Street had feared when Mr Barnier, formerly an agriculture minister, was given the portfolio last week.
Mr Darling, writing in The Times , said that it would be a “recipe for confusion” if firms were supervised by the EU as well as national watchdogs and that Britain would not accept new laws that could lead to taxpayers picking up the bill for bailouts ordered by Brussels.
He rejects claims that the economic crisis was the fault of the “Anglo-Saxon” model, pointing out that French and German banks were among the biggest creditors of the failed US insurance giant AIG.
Terry Smith, a prominent banker, said that the threat of increased regulation was already threatening the City’s future.
“I’ve never seen so much work going on by companies, individuals and teams of people to evaluate relocation out of the UK,” he said.
SOMETHIN TELLS ME THAT THIS IS THE ONLY SARKOZY THE BRITS WANT TO SEE FOR AWHILE! LOL
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Permalink • Saturday - November 07, 2009
WEEKEND WOMEN
I haven’t followed Country Music since leaving the business many years ago. In fact, even when I was working in it, I hardly ever listened to the radio.
Still wasn’t hard to keep up of course because I was mostly right there in Nashville. In fact, I was right here.
That’s the old Faron Young Bldg. My office lined in red as you see. Over to the left at the other entrance was the offices of Music City News. In it’s day the best paper on the topic in the whole of the USA. Faron’s offices were on the top floor. I liked Faron a lot. As a DJ of course I knew who he was and happily played his records cos the guy was damn good. I think my favorite was, “It’s 4 In The Morning”. Oh well. This is about Women. Now then ... This absolutely GOR-JUS creature is a dancer I’m informed, but also a Country Singer. No, I had never heard of her. No, I haven’t heard her sing either. I’m happy to just look at her. Aren’t you?
JULIANNE HOUGH:
(Born July 20, 1988) is an American professional ballroom dancer and country music singer. She is most-widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.[1] She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography. ABC’s 20/20 called her one of the “very best dancers on the planet."[2] Hough’s brother, Derek, is also on Dancing with the Stars and is a winner himself. Hough was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in December 2007. Her self-titled debut album was released May 20, 2008, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and #3 on the Billboard 200. It sold 67,000 copies its first week, and has sold over 320,000 total copies. On October 12, 2008, she released a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection, which as of January 5, 2009, had sold 157,000 copies.
MAN WHAT A WELCOME AND FAR CRY FROM THE CARTER FAMILY. Not that I was ever a fan. Yuk. If it wasn’t for the late Johnny Cash they’d have been consigned to the dustbin of music history. I never understood their appeal. APPEAL ... talk about looks. Tanya Tucker’s sister. LaCosta. W O W! What memories.
Tanya wan’t bad either and neither was Lorie Morgan.
OK, enuff of that. NEXT.
Because my taste is so well defined (lol) which means you can’t argue with me here. This woman was not only one hell of an actress.
In the history of beautiful women this lady was, in her youth, the MOST fantastically gorgeous - desirable - beautiful - awesomely beautiful female that nature ever created. And so say I and I must be right since my taste is better then yours. (oh boy. I’m in trouble. Huh?)
An English beauty rose for certain. You may recall her as the evil mom in, The Manchurian Candidate. And of course the awful (I think) Murder She Wrote TV series.
AWESOME ANGELA
ANGELA LANSBURY
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Permalink • Saturday - October 03, 2009
GLORIOUS AND GLAMOROUS WEEKEND WOMEN.
Since beauty is generally in the eye of the beholder ... these are some of my choices of beautiful women. But I do have favorites of course.
One of my all around all time favorites of any time is
ANN MARGARET I think I’ve had a school boy crush on her ever since forever.
Naturally being male my favorite list can extend to the hundreds. But there are exceptions who stand out and go far beyond mere ‘Eye Candy.’
Some of you youngsters may not know this, but Lucille Ball in her prime, in her 20s, was one of the most awesomely, naturally beautiful and fantastic women on the planet. Some only know her from I Love Lucy. I’ve seen photos of her that weren’t posed and where she wasn’t wearing make up. Trust me.
She was heart stopping.
So here’s another coz I loved her dearly but it’s odd having said that, that I wasn’t a fan of the TV show. Go figure.
Now this dame will live forever I think. There’s generations aware of MAY WEST (Mary Jane West) who may not be aware of more recent sexy ladies of filmland. She’s another one I have been smitten with from boyhood. Her quips and wit and I won’t deny it. I loved her looks.
And one more just coz I still love lookin’ at her.
OK so, I’m almost obligated to include SOPHIA LOREN. How can we post pretty women and leave her out? She was never one of my heart throbs though, truth to tell. I liked her looks of course. What’s not to like? But she’s was never an Ann Margaret or Lucille Ball or May West. Oh boy. Here come the flames. OUCH!
Alright here. This has to make up for my last remark and I offer it as bribe to avoid flames from her fans.
Finally, there’s this bit of sexy something and I am certain they had the wrong name attached. It was labeled Jayne Mansfield but it surely is NOT.
Here ya go. Take a look.
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Permalink • Saturday - September 26, 2009
WEEKEND GLAMOUR, WEEKEND WOMEN
Yeah I know. It’s a painting of the fabulous Lillian Gish, a silent screen star who also launched a studio. She lived to be 100.
She’s still Eye Candy to me.
Clara Bow was the original ‘IT’ Girl and even if you can’t tell here, she really did have it on screen. Silent tho it was.
Here’s another shot of a very early American movie sex symbol. Actually, her sexiness wasn’t at all blatant so much as it was suggested. In fact, it was as much due to a certain amount of innocence. 
Clara Bow
One final Clara coz she was so pretty.
This isn’t exactly eye candy as we think of the term. I mean, nothin’ sexy about it but something pleasing in the way JEAN HARLOW is posed for this. I think this shot would work well in black and white.
Gosh, she was only 26 when she died.
Notice the beauty mark is gone in this black and white shot of Harlow. I have seen photos of her with that mark in different places on her face.
FINALLY. In more modern time the very sultry Brigitte Bardot.
And looking just as good in B & W. Wish I could post em side by side but never got the hang of it. But Brigitte in any order is EYE CANDY.
Some of you will not believe me but I swear it is true. I have seen a few nudes of Bardot, and pretty as she is, she looks way better with cloths on.
imho.
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Permalink • Saturday - September 19, 2009
WEEKEND WOMEN - WEEKEND GLAMOUR
ZIEGFELD GIRLS .... 1908 - 1920
My idea and ideal of glamour and sex appeal. Oh to have seen these beauties in their day, on stage in one of his follies. I don’t think I like the modern term, “Eye Candy” for these women. I see them all as somehow above that. I think I need to have a new category. Maybe, Glamorous Women? There are so few.
Anyone have any other category suggestions?
In those days with this style, the ladies could NOT take deep breaths and they fainted a lot.
I shamelessly borrowed these at StumbleUpon where I discovered I had an account. ? Who knew? Seems I’ve had it since ‘08. I think.
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Permalink • Friday - September 04, 2009
some weekend eye candy, of sorts, just for the fun of it. There are problem though.
I happened to be at Theo Sparks place tonight and saw this.
I thought I should bring to everyone attention how little attention to detail has been paid here.
I couldn’t help but notice the picture frame, which looks not too straight on the wall and then that lamp shade. It isn’t straight either.
Anyone else notice that lamp shade? No? ok.
So go over to http://www.theospark.net/ and click the enlargement so you can see that stuff too. I know you’re anxious to do that so I’ll say g’night.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 03, 2009
linky love
Follow the links from CBullitt’s blog to a great AGW beat down . And the links from there are super too.
All because ... Obama needs to give a climate speech ASAP!.
There’s really only one way I could improve these posts ...
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Permalink • Sunday - August 30, 2009
JUST SOME WEEKEND EYE CANDY
Her name is Jenny, she’s an ‘A’ student in maths and is 18.
Now then, I realize my taste isn’t yours necessarily but let me tell you why she’s my choice as the ultimate in eye candy viewing.
Her figure is not perfect by today’s somewhat warped standards. By which I mean, she doesn’t look drugged or gaunt. In fact, she may be a tad overweight. But to my eyes, she perfect.
Her hair. Isn’t blow dried or whatever the heck the term is. Oh good grief. She might have a strand outta place even.
Makeup. There doesn’t look to be any. And she’s still beautiful, even fully clothed.
Cloths. OK, She could have done better but hey. Overall, in my eyes the young lady is a ten.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 13, 2009
Rare Sightings
Difficult to find, rare pictures of somewhat famous models not looking like junkies, beating victims, or freakazoids from planet Zarbov. What is it with the fashion industry anyway? Why is it that only Sports Illustrated can let pretty women look like pretty women, and then only in the smallest bits of swimwear?
Hey, don’t get me wrong. I’m all for smallest bits of swimwear. And the lady above could model moldy sawdust and make it look glamorous. So why would anyone want to mess that up?
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 04, 2009
Maybe it’s the mascara
Even though this actress has a small role in a long running weekly series, as far as I’m concerned, every time she comes onscreen she steals the scene. Too bad my opinions count for so little, else she’d be a much bigger star. But, oh, those eyes!
You’re probably wondering why those pictures are stacked like that ...
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Permalink • Friday - July 10, 2009
ONE MAN’S ART ……. MODEL CRAFTED ENTIRELY FROM PAPER
Anything nice to look at is and pleasing to the eye is Eye Candy.
An origami artist from Japan, Wataru Ito, has spent four years crafting an incredible model city from paper - but now plans to burn it down.
Published: 10:47AM BST 10 Jul 2009
The TelegraphMr Ito, 25, started building his ‘Castle on the Ocean’ when he became bored during his university entrance exams.
Using just a knife and glue, the art student built up an entire cityscape over four years by cutting and folding hundreds of pages of craft paper.
The finished piece is now being displayed for the first time at an exhibition on the artificial island of Umihotaru, near Tokyo.
But incredibly, Wataru, a second year student at Tokyo University of the Arts, plans to set his work on fire when the show is over.
He said: “I’m very happy to display my work at a place where people who don’t have an interest in arts can come and see it.
“Looking back now I sometimes ask myself ‘did I really manage to create this?’
“I am devoted while I am working on my projects but I quickly lose interest when I complete them.
“When the exhibition is over I will burn the castle. I thought I could see it rising up from the ashes if I took a video and played it backwards.”
Wataru, who lives in Tokyo but is originally from Saitama, Japan, started working on the castle while he was studying to become an art student.
After failing a university entrance exam three times he focused on this project, which became so large he had to sleep under a table in his tiny flat.
The city’s centrepiece is a castle which is loosely based upon El Temple de la Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, Spain, .
The central tower is surrounded by a cathedral, school, theme park, factory and airport and comes complete with electrical lights and a moving train.
Incredibly, the entire piece - which measures 2.4m by 1.8m and is 1m high - has been crafted using only paper, which Wataru stuck together using craft glue, an art knife and holepuncher.
I guess we will have to look forward to the video burning. Shame really. Seems these folks really excel at this sort of thing. Japanese,Chinese etc.
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Permalink • Thursday - July 09, 2009
Sarah the Covergirl
Semi-former Governor gets interview and cover of latest issue of Runner’s World.
Read all about it here. I like the part where she laughs at McStain, who’s favorite athletic activity is wading.
A little quote from the interview there. Is this a freudian slip of some kind that we can read loads into?
Q Have you run with other famous people or politicians?
A I have not because I usually sneak out to go running, or if someone offers I usually shoot straight with them and say, ”I gotta go run by myself, I’m sorry.”
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