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People consume up to 229 grams of fat during the Thanksgiving meal. Get your eating pants before heading to Thanksgiving dinner (much like Joey.) 229 grams of fat is about three to four times the amount of fat one usually eats in a day. And the entire Thanksgiving dinner could total over 3,000 calories.

November 22, 1967 –Embassy Pictures’ film, The Producers, directed by Mel Brooks (in his directorial debut,) and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars, premiered in Pittsburgh, PA, on this date. Roger Ebert recalled how he was in an elevator with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft in New York City after theContinue reading “The Producers”

Before you go – Let it not be said that I am pushing an all meat and dessert diet, far from it. I actually like vegetables. In fact, here are four different vegetable recipes for you to choose from for your Thanksgiving feast Greens Beans – Ginger Baby Carrots – Brussels Sprouts – Fennel –Continue reading “Tastier vegetables”

Today is the feast day of St. Cecilia. According to legend, Cecilia was a young Christian of high rank betrothed to a Roman named Valerian. Through her influence, Valerian was converted, and was promptly martyred along with his brother, Tiburtius. The legend about Cecilia’s death first involved an insufficiently heated scalding bath. When that didn’tContinue reading “Better die and be happy, than live and be miserable.”

November 22, 1963 –We, in this country, in this generation, are – by destiny rather than choice – the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. – from the address that President John F. Kennedy never got to deliver in Dallas on this date. A covert CIA operation privately funded by a plutocratic cabal ofContinue reading “You can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you, Mr. President.”

Now let’s turn our attention to another overlooked vegetable – Fennel. Unless you’ve had the privilege of eating at a traditional Mediterranean family’s home, you’ve probably never had this delicious licorice tasting vegetable (sometime known as winter celery.) It’s something different and you should add it to your repertoire (and just because you’re you –Continue reading “They’re Rooting for You”

Apparently no one likes Brussels Sprouts. A survey in Britain, in 2002, ranked Brussels sprouts the most hated vegetable on that Emerald Isle. Again, I rack this up to a bad childhood experience, perhaps in a parochial school, involving nuns, rulers and detention but I digress. Brussels sprout taste awful overcooked – they release sulfurContinue reading “Maybe Brussels Sprouts don’t like you either”

One of the problems of having popular children is they have friends. (This is mostly a problem if you have younger children – older children have an entire other set of problems that almost no amount of cooking can solve.) And their friends are going to want to come over to your house. And occasionallyContinue reading “Haters gonna hate, I don’t carrot all”

Here is a simple and quick way to prepare most vegetables – substitute your favorite vegetable for green beans in this recipe (although I don’t know if you can fit an entire Hubbard Squash in a 2 Qt. Saucepan.) Ingredients 1/2 lb green beans 1/3 cup of chicken stock (or water) 2 tablespoons of oliveContinue reading “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

November 21, 1981 –The Queen/David Bowie collaboration Under Pressure went to No. #1 on the charts in the UK, on this date. Brian May recalled to Mojo magazine October 2008. “It was hard, because you had four very precocious boys and David, who was precocious enough for all of us. David took over the songContinue reading “Under Pressure”