We only have one black spatula. I’m sure it’s worth no more than 99 cents. I will not mind chucking it and buying a non-black one for 99 cents.

It's amazing how many of our holiday traditions are reflected in the foods we prepare.... @Steve-Miller - I was thinking about putting the hard sauce on after I heated the pudding. Not sure if pouring some alcohol on and flaming it would be too much.

@wtg said in School shooting in Madison, WI: A second grader at Abundant Life Christian School called 911 to report the shooting Monday, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told reporters. “Let that soak in for a minute,” he said at the news conference. “A second grade student called 911 at 10:57 a.m to report a shooting at school.” Chief corrected himself in today's press conference. It was a second grade teacher, not student, who made the call.

Fetterman's looking promising there. He seems unafraid to say the emperor is naked. The irony is not lost given his sartorial splendor.

@ShiroKuro so true. A couple weeks ago we went to a holiday champagne tasting at my favorite wine merchant. A nice event, date-worthy. There was a couple at the next table. The woman looked very alone. The guy with her was looking at this phone the whole time. i don't think he said three words to her in three hours. I damn near asked her to join us, but I figured that would start a fight and ruin our outing.

Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes? It's not my fault the NYPD released conflicting evidence. Steve, we've posted at these fora for the better part of two decades. I don't know what to tell you if me speaking my mind makes you discontent.

Welcome to the world of Ohio politics. Hopelessly corrupt with a side of incompetence.

It is indeed! As an aside, finding good socks seems to be increasingly challenging.

Cuisinart. Toaster, oven, convection oven, and air fryer

@wtg That’s the series I’ve been watching. Thinking I may try one recipe per week.

Saw it in 3D from the wheelchair row with mom-in-law over Thanksgiving weekend. Loved it! I haven’t seen the musical, so it was all new to me. But I did catch the wink cameos of Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. Only because I used to watch Glee. I loved the singing, Cynthia Erivo especially.

Yeah, ours too!

One small detail - I don't see much smoke coming from those stacks. One looks to be primarily condensing steam in the cold air and the other looks like a flare stack with a giant plume of flame. I'm as much a friend of the EPA as anyone, but it's important to know what you're dealing with. All that being said, I like the star they put up. We also have a star with lights that I made for my wife many years ago that we display in a field below the fence row adjacent to our house each Christmas. It's visible to the main road in our area from that location. Big Al

Ooohhh that’s adorable!!!

@Bernard - Your recipe for the date torte is almost identical in concept to the no-bake torte that my Mom used make, the one that got me back to her notebook to look for the recipe. My Mom's torte (Šaldytas tortas - Frozen torte) uses arrowroot biscuits for the cake "layers", like your Mom's recipe uses graham crackers. The filling consists of a sort-of butter cream frosting that has chopped dried apricots, prunes, and finely chopped almonds. After it's assembled, the torte goes in the freezer for a day or two, and the arrowroot biscuits soften up and kind of meld with the frosting. They've stopped making Nabisco arrowroot biscuits, but I think the Gerber version will work fine even though they're a bit thicker than the Nabiscos were. We have a number of stores that carry Eastern European products (Polish, Lithuanian, etc) and there may be a cookie available at one of those that might also work. I'll post the recipe after I translate it from Lithuanian and find some suitable biscuits. And I'll definitely be trying out your recipe, as I'm a huge fan of dates!

@Bernard good question, Bernard. I could imagine that the bar arranged for it to be there some years ago, then the bar changed ownership or a manager quit, and the new person in charge didn’t care or just let it slip down the priority list…

https://www.ebay.com/itm/386623249283?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=wdky4ouqts6&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=MORE Everything that is old is new again... for a price. Wow! I like the disclaimer-- the battery is probably dead, the phone probably doesn't work.

If one has a solid account at Little Greene and a good budget it could shine.