More sports! Top Chef olympics! And...MV is a dick!

I don't watch this show but my mother does. And as I'm temporarily living at home after my move back to WI from Cali, I sometimes end up watching shows I'd rather not. Like this one.

I watched it for 10 minutes tonite. I'm of the firm opinion that contestant - Chef Michael Voltaggio (whose younger brother is also a contestant) is a dick. Yah - how would I know, right? I've never watched the show. But mother says he's a dick - and she's not the only one.

Scott Tobias of AVclub.com writes: "Other developing storyline: The dickishness of Michael Voltaggio. Given Kevin’s likability and the plain truth that he’s been kicking everyone’s ass week after week after week—and among maybe the strongest group of quality chefs the show has had to date—it was out of line for Michael (to) badmouth Kevin’s winning elimination dish because his was more ambitious (and flawed). And deriding his brother for the “greasy” food that didn’t make the plate wasn’t good form, either."

Michael Voltaggio = Dick.

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Chef Cat Cora's a lesbian? I did not know that.

Did you know this? No one told me. But I don't watch a lot of network TV or cooking shows so...I'm a little disapponted. Not because of Cat's lifestyle choice, but - well, look at her. Dang. Off the market - for guys, anyway.

Cat Cora's website.

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It's a first place lemon meringue pie!

Not this one - this is a Von's pie which we had for dessert a couple nights while I was preparing dinner for Bill and Marilyn Walker in Westlake Village (see post below).

In 1939 during his junior year at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, Bill and his schoolmate won 1st-place in a baking contest. They won with a lemon meringue pie.

Bill and Marilyn obviously haven't tasted my molasses cookies.

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Chapter 2 - "Molasses"; Notes from Lost Man's Lane Cabin, by Richard Le Breton.

Aunt Ella's Molasses Cookies. It's a family recipe on the Ircink side. Got a little domestic in the cabin in the woods this past weekend.

I can't share the recipe with you - or I'd have to kill you. (There's already one person who has the recipe that I regret giving it to. Did it as a Christmas gift. Hers suck and I pray she'll eat one someday and choke on it.)

I've turned molasses eschewers into fans. 6 dozen gone in 20 minutes at the office. One couple fought over them during their divorce settlement. A mother was in such a fit of ecstacy upon tasting one that her water broke prematurely (3 days early). The baby was instantly addicted to the cookies. It's said that in Gnawbone one man threatened another man with a Bowie knife for taking the last molasses cookie from a batch I had delivered to a tavern there.

They just may be the answer to "peace on Earth, good will toward Men".

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"Little garlic, dash of parsley and a couple squirts of chocolate. Cooking - Chloe Metz-style!"

Actress Meredith Monroe guest-starred on Showtime's Californication as crazy TV personality/chef, Chloe Metz. Oh, Lord.

The freaking hilarious scene with David Duchovny is here. Now, there's no nudity but there is obscene language so this link is not for the kiddies. If you have Showtime and missed this episode, you have got to see it (I believe they re-run them). It just ran on Sunday - "Vaginatown".

Very cute - but alas, she is wed. (In case you saw this post earlier, there's a couple stories below that were posted after this: BABY AS SHIELD AGAINST TASER and THE FULL TITLE FOR THE BOOK, "KIDNAPPED".

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