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Last but not least in the Cool Whip gift basket contest (sorry, the margarita pie didn’t make the cut) is Penny’s Crunchy Caramel Apple Pie. The name alone was enough to get my stomach growling. I had never actually made an apple pie before; the closest being a run of apple cake/tart tatins last fall …
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The third pie in the Cool Whip gift basket contest seemed to be the most promising of the bunch. It’s the recipe that my friends and I gravitated to most: LynnB’s Chocolate Amaretto Crunch Pie. Made with chocolate, Amaretto, Amaretti cookies, and almonds, it looked to be the decadent and sophisticated pie that I knew …
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The second pie I made for the Cool Whip gift basket contest was a recipe that the readers en mass implored me to make: the chocolate meringue pie. Of all the pies, this was certainly one of the most intriguing, what with its spicy, savory elements adding a bit of surprise to the proceedings. The …
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Usually we only get one episode per season of Kim Zolciak trying to sing, but thankfully, we got a bonus dose of her “instrument” this week on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Kim reunited with her vocal coach from season one, Jan, and attempted to take on her newest single, “The Ring Didn’t Mean A …
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The contest for the Cool Whip gift basket continues to move forward. Last week, I narrowed the field down to five semi-finalists, and of those five, I selected four finalists (I know, not a major whittling down of contenders). I then spent Thursday and Friday baking pie, culminating in an eight-person tasting Friday night. The …
Quitters never win, and winners never quit. But I suppose trite sayings like that don’t matter much when you’re stuck on a beach in Central America for twenty-eight days with no food or shelter and you weight about twenty-five pounds. That’s the lesson I’ve learned watching the latest episode of Survivor: Nicaragua, which featured two …
The good people of Newsweek must be a little bored. They compiled a Year-In-Review using custom dolls and a variety of diorama-like backdrops. It’s all sort of bizarre and twisted, but entertaining nonetheless. I particularly like the subtle commentary in Michelle and Barack Obama’s statures. Check out the craziness here: Newsweek: 2010: The Year in …
Love was in the air on this week’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. In an attempt to cheer up the perpetually crestfallen Kim Richards, Lisa decided to play matchmaker and pair the former child star with a tall British chap with a giant head and squinty eyes. We weren’t sure if this coupling would result …
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Thom Pilgrim: Press Conference – watch more funny videos Okay, I know I know I know I haven’t posted new content in many a moon, but hopefully this video will be a minor consolation. It’s my friend Scott doing his “Thom Pilgrim” character. Just pretend it was a week ago and thus very timely. New …
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About two weeks ago, I introduced a contest wherein readers could suggest pie recipes for me to make. Whoever submitted that piqued my interest the most would win an impressive gift basket from Cool Whip that features everything from Williams-Sonoma cookware to marshmallow fluff. Needless to say, the entries flooded in. There were more submissions …
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