Quick Tip #1 - Minced Garlic in a Pinch

If you do not have fresh garlic or the minced kind that comes in a jar, use the dehydrated garlic- rehydrated. Put in a small container, even a washed out baby food jar, cover with cold water, tighten lid and put into your refrigerator. I keep a jar that had the minced garlic in it to start with. It is wonderful thing to have in case of an emergency. About 1/2 of a teaspoon can equal 1 clove of fresh garlic. Plus it can be economical if you get a big container of the dehydrated garlic. And I find no difference in the taste of my food.

Slowly but surely working on a new post. So I may put some other things up before I post what I am working on. Thank you for bearing with me.

Misha

HAPPY EASTER

Have a Happy and Blessed Easter

Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing is as strong as gentleness

Nothing is as gentle as true strength

SAINT FRANCIS de SALES

AUGUST 21, 1557- DECEMBER 28,1622

BISHOP OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND   

PATRON SAINT OF WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS.

Also he is the PATRON SAINT OF THE DEATH. 

 Why is it that every time I sit at my computer my cats decide to become "clingons". I come into my computer room and lo an behold 4 of my cats decide they have to be with me. Don't get me wrong I love them dearly, but really must they? Now this is not the only time they'll do this while I'm in my living room or trying to cook. It just seems that since the weather has turned warmer they want to be with me more. That and I have been busier than normal of late. Oh my darling babies.

Houses of the Holy

I have so many favorite Led Zeppelin songs that it is hard for me to pick just one so I think I'll start with Houses Of the Holy, which I can find no live performance of (What A Shame), and go from there..

 

 

 

HOUSES OF THE HOLY

Let me take you to the movies

Can I take you to the show

 Let me your ever truly

 Can I make your garden grow

 From the Houses of the Holy

We can watch the white doves go

 From the door comes satan's daughter

And it only goes to show

You know.

 There's an angel on my shoulder

 In my hand a sword of gold.

 let me wander in your garden

 And the seeds of love I'll sow.

 You know-whoa-oh

 So the world is spinning faster

 Are you dizzy when you're stoned

 Let the music be your master

 Will you heed the master's call

 Oh-whoa-oh, satan an' man

Said there ain't no use in cryin'

 Cause it will only, only drive you mad 

 Does it hurt to hear them lyin'

 Was this the only world you had

 Oh-oh

 So let me take you, take you to the movie

Can I take you, baby, to the show

Why don't you let me be your ever truly 

 Can I make you garden grow

 You know-whoa, that's right.

Charlie Chaplin

Today is what would have been Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin's, KBE, better known as Charlie Chaplin, 122 birthday. In 1903 Chaplin got a role as Billy a page boy in William Gillette's "Sherlock Holmes" starring H.A. Saintsbury, who took Chaplin under his wing and manage his talents. In 1905 Gillette came to England to debut his new play "Clarice" but it was a flop. So as a joke on the British press he instead did a one-act curtain-raiser "The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes" with Charlie Chaplin as Billy the pageboy. When "Sherlock Holmes" replaced "Clarice" Chaplin was kept until the end. During this time , Gillette coached  Chaplin in his restrained style. Chaplin made a tour of America from 1910-1912 ( just think 100 years ago at this time, he was in this country for the first time) courtesy of the Fred Carno troupe. When he got back to England Chaplin only stayed 5 months and the came back to the U.S.for a second tour. it was during this time that his act was seen by Mack Sennett, Fatty Arbuckle Minta Durfee and Mable Normand. Bennette, who owned Keystone Film Company, hired Chaplin. The first film " Making a Living" was considered by many not to be good. This is mainly due to Chaplin's initial difficulty adjusting to film acting, but Normand was able to confidence Bennette to give Chaplin another chance. mack Sennette didn't warm up to Chaplin at first and Chaplin believed he was going to be canned because Sennette and Normand had a fight. Instead Chaplin went onto become one of Keystone's biggest stars. Making his debut as "The Tramp" in 1914 in the movie "Kid Auto Races At Venice"
  So this is how Charlie Chaplin started in this country in the film industry. But even though he is what I consider to be the King of the Silent Films my favorite movie he did is actually a talkie, 1940 "The Great Dictator"

  This is because it points out what, at the time, American movie system not want to see... Hitler's hatred of the Jews. At the time America had a neutral relationship with Germany and didn't want to think or believe or maybe even care that anything like this was happening. But the movie became a hit with American audiences and it became Chaplin's highest grossing film. In 1997 it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and in 2000 it was listed at #37 on AFI's 100Years...100 Laughs list.