<ol>
<li>Bacon</li>
<li>chocolate</li>
<li><p>Eric Ripert and a fishing pole
Jonathan Scott from “property brothers”</p></li>
<li><p>butter</p></li>
<li><p>salt</p></li>
<li><p>garlic</p></li>
<li><p>olive oil</p></li>
<li><p>good vinegar
…</p></li>
<li><p>saffron</p></li>
<li><p>peppercorns</p></li>
<li><p>chiles</p></li>
<li><p>brown sugar/honey</p></li>
<li><p>lemons/limes/ponzu</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Hey, by midnight I’m fast asleep. And I don’t have enough calories left over to spare, to waste it on the crummy stuff. One day I’ll be a workout machine like you and indulge as I please!</p>
<p>“I’m still trying to figure out a way George Clooney can be helpful”</p>
<p>This island sounds like it is shaping up to be a fun time. Clooney is charming…he can keep everyone engaged in conversation…if there has to be a reason :)</p>
<p>Happy to see bacon, once added, floated right to the top. Until recently and via food tv, I thought bacon was my own shameful vice.<br>
Assuming this isle has fire to cook it over.</p>
<p>Oh wow…after taking a bit of a break from CC ( during an AMAZING cruise), I want to follow this thread, but am conflicted about what it is about. I love food, watch food network, but cooking channel more. I am also the mother of black kids with a variety of cultural morays. </p>
<p>“I do know that just about every American English speaker has used the “n” word either flippantly or seriously, at least once, if only singing along to a rap lyric in the car.”</p>
<p>I don’t think that that is true. </p>
<p>This whole “N” word thing is a most complicated lesson. Still, my kids know not to say it in my house. And if their friends don’t know by now, at least my kids know not to bring them here. And don’t friend me on facebook. </p>
<p>Strangely enough, I am the one in my (African/Caribbean American) family who listens to the most hip hop. My son and daughter listen to none of the “mainstream” stuff. The misogyny seems way worse, but worse than that, is the true plight of most of these young mens’, or maybe young people’s reality.</p>
<p>If Deen had hired better lawyers and kept her mouth shut, she would have avoided all of this. Since the suit was dropped because the plaintiff had no standing, rather than on the merits, she just needed to wait it out.</p>
<p>I must have been under a rock or something because I had no idea this was going on. Yesterday I decided I was going to make lasagna today and decided I wanted to buy a deep Lasagna pan replace my shallow glass dish. I have a Paula Deen loaf pan I bought in Wally world that I really like (cleans up so easy) and had been thinking I would get the lasagna dish. Dragged my husband in there last night on our way out to eat and was surprised to find no Paula Deen bakeware. Then my husband, who usually is more clueless than me about these things, realized who I was talking about and told me the story. A shopping assistant told us Walmart was still selling whatever they still had in their warehouses but that would be it. Lots of pots and pans, no bakeware at our store.</p>