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I ran across this totally by chance. I remember in 1969 making Helen Corbitt's recipe for chili in a popcorn popper in the Memphis State dorm. Momma had told me who she was and I still have her cookbook w/ recipes from the N-M spa called "Helen Corbitt Cooks for Looks" anyway--doesn't this sound interesting: Rizzoli’s Lost Desserts doesn’t come out until November, but publicist Pam Sommers was nice enough to send us a recipe from Dallas’ Helen Corbitt , the famous chef at Neiman Marcus’ The Zodiac Room , and whom Stanley Marcus once touted as “the Balenciaga of food.” Hit the jump for the recipe. THE ZODIAC ROOM’S Caramel Soufflé With Custard Sauce Helen Corbitt’s legendary Caramel Soufflé is the type of dessert meant to be served from a trolley cart. It is a big, marvelous caramel meringue and paired here with a vanilla custard sauce (crème anglaise). Corbitt must have been influenced by the Portuguese molotov pudding, another caramel meringue and essentially the ...

I saw this huge ice cream cone light online and thought it was GREAT ! Then I found this website of Great Big Stuff...and they have lots of interesting things in JUMBO sizes. Big Fun ;o)

A new (to me) file share site called Drop.io If you have a big file, like a video or folder full of pix or whatever, you can upload to drop.io and then let others (that you choose) retrieve the file for free. There have been other file drop sites around but most dont seem to be able to support themselves so they go away. But they are really handy for stuff too big to email, so I am glad to find this one.

Thanks to everyone who wished me well when I had thumb surgery. Both hands, ...I felt like a silly person w/ monkey hands for a couple days. But now they are becoming healed. I got Dave to take the stitches out last Wed since the skin was growing over them and grossing me out and he skin was trying to grow over a knot and the attached cut ends of thread so the skin was all irritated and hurting like a splinter in your hand. So he took them out for me. At my app't on Fri. the doctor was somewhat astounded that we did that, but hey...it was about 10 days post-op and the stitches needed to come OUT. I still cant bend my thumbs back all the way that I used to be able to...seems that I had extra wide range-of-motion before, acc'd to him, but they were in splints so much for 6 months that those muscles and tendons and such are probably never gonna stretch out like they were before. They are 100% usable now and that is all that matters. I asked him questions about several other areas ...

I read this on a machine embroidery website, of all things, but if you read it slowly and think about each line, it makes sense.. "To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down." Woodie Allen Now it just so happens that I have a W.A. movie that came from Netflix this week. I never saw it in its entirety. I think that once I watched it half way thru and thought 'this is dribble' and turned it off...but here it is a million years later and I still read references to it constantly...so I decided to watch it in totality. I feel 'in the dark' every time someone references it. Seems like I remember it being in black ...

villa-lagoon-tile-trellis-shell-antique , originally uploaded by lundini1 . New photos arrived today from the factory..yipee...I am posting this via the Flickr auto post thing... Cement Tile

villa-lagoon-tile-savona-beach , originally uploaded by lundini1 . I am testing the flickr auto blog this thing.

Heather and I are making some this week. The first free father's day card is here. We will be adding some more plus additional instructions tomorrow.

Where do they come from ? A farm in the U.K.

Tomorrow is my thumb surgery--both of them. Less expensive that way, a bit more inconvenience but shouldn't be too bad. I am pretty good w/ my other 4 digits per hand. The surgery is called Release of the A1 pulley. Trigger Thumb--Online it says: A mismatch between the flexor tendon and the proximal pulley mechanism occurs in most cases. Several studies have demonstrated a correlation between this condition and activities that require exertion of pressure in the palm while a powerful grip is employed or that involve repetitive, forceful digital flexion (eg, arc welding, use of heavy shears). I say: OR BICYCLING w/ gear levers in weird positions that you are not used to ! Bruce Minkin, who grew up next door tome, is now a hand specialist in Ashville. I contacted Bruce who had Dr. Robt Cameron of P'cola call me. This doctor does this surgery several times a week. He says it will only take about 15 min and my recovery is less that an week. He says it has a very good outcome. He to...

Yesterday afternoon, my nephew, Steve Hutton got married to Kelly Nelson down in front of The Beach Club on Ft. Morgan Rd. It is about 6 miles down from me. Perfect weather for an outdoor wedding. Steve has 3 little girls, and Kelly has two boys. Her parents came down and my sister, Lisa and her husband, Henry were here too. It was a short, sweet ceremony and we had a fun dinner at The Beach Club on the veranda afterwards. I think everyone, including the children, had a good time. The Hutton side of the family will be down here for a week total. So nice for me to get to spend time w/ them. Here is a bunch of wedding photos that I took, click on them to see it bigger. During dinner, Marie, Steve's youngest asked me when the wedding was gonna start. I told her that it had already happened out on the beach. She said, Oh no, it has to have LOTS of people standing in rows and the bride and groom have to walk down between them. I told her that this was a short , sweet different kind of w...

Check out http://www.spotcrime.com / to see how bad the crime is in your area. You can see by this map why I don't want to live in Memphis anymore. Each symbol stands for a different type of crime. A gun is armed robbery, a red dot is a shooting. This mash-up doent even show all of it cause I checked smaller towns and could see plenty of crime not on the map. But , just look at what DID make it to this system. You can click this map to see a bigger image.