Topic: POACHED EGGS (Read 42501 times)

JMK · « **Reply #150 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:30:43 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 12, 2008, 02:29:11 PM

The new film of THE WOMEN? Oy? It looks scarier than Meg Ryan's new face.

LOL--Meg's new face has been the subject of much horror between DS Betsy and myself.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #151 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:31:21 PM »

The Channel 2 movie reviewer, from her comments on THE WOMEN, has most likely never seen the original film. Sad.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #152 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:31:30 PM »

bk - They also sell those egg poachers at K-Mart, Target, Macy's, Williams-Sonoma, Sur La Table... There are even auto-electronic ones - Just add water!

However, I've always thought of those "egg poachers" more as "egg double-boilers/steamers". You can basically get the same "effect" by using oven-proof custard cups in a pan of water.

*And another tip for egg poaching - If you're doing one at a time, give the water a good stir to form a "vortex", then drop the egg in the "eye".

**My favorite poaching liquid for eggs: red wine.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #153 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:34:47 PM »

This latest "Stepford Wives" Optimum Triple Play commercial with the blonde singer with the face of a barracuda. Is she a celebrity? She scares me with her moues.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #154 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:36:05 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 12, 2008, 02:27:44 PM

DR Jose,want to go out for dinner? I want some grilled fish and I do not cook fish. I'm in the mood for salmon, tuna, or cod.

I just mailed my estimated taxes and it's been raining. Is this part of the Ike fallout?

Oohhh... Dinner sounds good, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to stay put for now. I don't have a lot of cleaning left to do before my brother and nephew get here tonight, but...

Oh, my brother just texted me... He's taking a later train... Hmm...

I can meet you around 6:30 if that works for you.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #155 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:37:33 PM »

Hmm... Apparently, the changes over at Facebook are causing such an "uproar" that there will be news stories devoted them over the next couple of days. OY! It's just Facebook, not voting machines.

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #156 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:38:02 PM »

Eggs may not be endangered, but if one poaches them, the game warden can appear. Just like if one poaches an elk. So I've heard.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #157 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:39:10 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on September 12, 2008, 12:30:08 PM

And look! Uncle Jo-Jo bought you your very own dusting cloths.

der Brucer

Actually... John likes cleaning.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #158 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:40:17 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on September 12, 2008, 02:29:11 PM

The new film of THE WOMEN? Oy? It looks scarier than Meg Ryan's new face.

You should appreciate:

LA TIMES

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'The Women' overworked
...
While the original film, written by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin from a play by Clare Boothe Luce, saw itself as a catty entertainment about New York society women coping with the infidelity of the husband of one of their friends, English has something grander and more complex in mind.

Graced with a big-name cast, including Meg Ryan as wife Mary, Annette Bening, Debra Messing and Jada Pinkett Smith as her best friends, and Eva Mendes as the home wrecker, this version sees itself as both a farce and a manifesto, a glorification of female friendship and a celebration of women's need for self-realization.

And when it comes to issues, "The Women" plays like a year's worth of stories from a glossy magazine.

In no particular order, the film deals with childbirth, face-lifts, sexual techniques, career women who neglect their children, teenage girls with self-image problems, men who don't believe in women, men who have trouble with successful women (not the same thing), the betrayal of female friendships, the perils of careers in a man's world and, quite possibly, more.

All that would be a handful to pull off for the most experienced filmmaker, but English has never directed before, and it shows. The visual choices she makes in "The Women" are invariably static, and except for whatever energy the performers can manage, the storytelling has a dispiriting flatness to it.

"The Women's" story starts roughly the same way the 1939 film does, with the discovery that Mary's never-seen husband, Steven, is having an affair with Crystal Allen (an intentionally provocative Mendes), the woman behind the perfume counter -- "the spritzer girl" to be exact -- at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Mary's best friends, including magazine editor Sylvie Fowler (Bening), gay writer Alex Fisher (Pinkett Smith) and supermom Edie Cohen (Messing), first try to decide whether to tell Mary and then what to advise her after she finds out the truth.

After this initial setup, however, "The Women" becomes unfocused as it stumbles over all the points it wants to make. Given English's writing skills, the dialogue doesn't help as much as it should, tending too much toward one-liners that aim for raunchy whenever possible.
...

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #159 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:43:05 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on September 12, 2008, 02:31:30 PM

... There are even auto-electronic ones - Just add water!

No eggs?

der Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #160 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:44:05 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on September 12, 2008, 02:39:10 PM

Actually... John likes cleaning.

Then it would be a kindness to save some dust for him.

der Brucer

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #161 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:47:00 PM »

And there are no turtles here. Just rocks.

bk · « **Reply #162 on:** September 12, 2008, 02:55:00 PM »

I certainly am no fan of the Facebook changes - it was fine before.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #163 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:00:57 PM »

I just made DR MBarnum jealous with my current blood glucose levels, and now i get to have dinner with DR Jose! This is quite exciting.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #164 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:03:57 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on September 12, 2008, 02:47:00 PM

And there are no turtles here. Just rocks.

Slowly moving rocks!

der Brucer

bk · « **Reply #165 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:09:04 PM »

I was playing some Robert Ward music - we championed him at Bay Cities because he was a profound influence on me musically as a youngster, when I discovered his great opera of The Crucible (which I believe is being done in NY right now) - which I wrote about in Kritzer Time. He was seventy-two when we began issuing his stuff on Bay Cities, and we met and become very friendly. Well, I'm happy to report he's still with us and apparently going strong - at 91 years of age!

bk · « **Reply #166 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:16:01 PM »

Well, the sun has decided it might like to make an appearance. Note to sun: Too damn late in the day for you, pal.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #167 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:21:35 PM »

Quote from: bk on September 12, 2008, 03:09:04 PM

I was playing some Robert Ward music - we championed him at Bay Cities because he was a profound influence on me musically as a youngster, when I discovered his great opera of The Crucible (which I believe is being done in NY right now) - which I wrote about in Kritzer Time. He was seventy-two when we began issuing his stuff on Bay Cities, and we met and become very friendly. Well, I'm happy to report he's still with us and apparently going strong - at 91 years of age!

Let's hear it for Robert Ward!

George · « **Reply #168 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:22:51 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on September 12, 2008, 08:52:59 AM

So.......

Is anybody else watching "The View" right now?

And I quote:

"Us white folk will take care of you."
-Barbara Walters

WOW!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

*And the look on Whoopi's face after that comment... WHOA!

I started recording just as John McCain walked on to be interviewed, but didn't watch any of it. I'll watch it tonight!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #169 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:37:34 PM »

HI! MY NAME's STUPID, WHAT"S YOURS?

AP

Sept. 12: With Hurricane Ike churning off shore, people take in the sight of the high surf from a patio bar in Galveston, Texas

der Brucer

vixmom · « **Reply #170 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:52:25 PM »

I have use if the computer as Vixdad is working late and the Vixter is out on a date with her boyfriend!

_{I don't know how I feel about this}

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #171 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:53:44 PM »

Boyfriend? Ack!!!!!! Our Vixter is too young!

vixmom · « **Reply #172 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:57:26 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on September 12, 2008, 03:53:44 PM

Boyfriend? Ack!!!!!! Our Vixter is too young!

Definitely one of the feelings surfacing!!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #173 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:59:05 PM »

Quote from: DearReaderLaura on September 12, 2008, 03:53:44 PM

Boyfriend? Ack!!!!!! Our Vixter is too young!

Young ladies usually start the dating process at about 14 - it's up to the parents to control how it is conducted (group dates, chaperoned parties, etc).

der Burcer

Jane · « **Reply #174 on:** September 12, 2008, 04:01:52 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on September 12, 2008, 03:52:25 PM

I have use if the computer as Vixdad is working late and the Vixter is out on a date with her boyfriend!

_{I don't know how I feel about this}

Boyfriend!!!

singdaw · « **Reply #175 on:** September 12, 2008, 04:06:07 PM »

vixmom · « **Reply #176 on:** September 12, 2008, 04:07:14 PM »

Quote from: Jane on September 12, 2008, 04:01:52 PM

Boyfriend!!!

Yup-- he officially asked her to be his girlfriend today... to celebrate her affirmative answer they are off to the movies

vixmom · « **Reply #177 on:** September 12, 2008, 04:07:56 PM »

He seems a nice polite boy ....so far

vixmom · « **Reply #178 on:** September 12, 2008, 04:09:12 PM »

I poach eggs on Saturday mornings. Vixdad likes them on toast or sometimes I will make eggs benedict...

I like mine on a bed of steamed spinach

DearReaderLaura · « **Reply #179 on:** September 12, 2008, 04:11:01 PM »

I do not like poached eggs. I do not like runny egg yolks.

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