It’s Friday, so that means it’s once again cheater recipe time. So what’s a “Cheater” recipe?  It’s a way to end up with a delicious home cooked meal, side dish or dessert without spending lots of  time to get there. Warning!!!

These Cheater Molten Lava Cakes

could be dangerously addicting.

Proceed with caution.

Cheater Molten Lava Cakes

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 3 whole eggs and 3 egg yolks
• 1 box (1 lb 6.5 oz) Betty Crocker Original Supreme brownie mix (with chocolate syrup pouch) or 1 box (1 lb 6.5 oz) Betty Crocker Ultimate Fudge brownie mix (with chocolate syrup pouch)

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 400. Grease 12 regular-size muffin cups with shortening or cooking spray. In medium microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips and butter uncovered on High 45 to 60 seconds or until melted and mixture can be stirred smooth.
2. In large bowl, beat whole eggs and egg yolks until foamy. Reserve chocolate syrup pouch from brownie mix. Gradually beat sry brownie mix into egg mixture until well blended. Gently stir in melted chocolate chip mixture. Fill muffin cups 3/4 full of brownie mixture.
3. Bake 11 to 14 minutes or until edges are set. DO NOT overbake: centers will be soft. (If you overbake you will lose the ooey gooey chocolatey lava center). Cool cakes in pan 2 minutes.
4. Loosen each cupcake with knife; turn entire pan upside down onto heatproof tray or cookie sheet. To serve, place warm cupcakes in individual dessert plates and drizzle reserved chocolate syrup from brownie mix over tops. Makes 12.

Enjoy!

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Here’s the trailer for…

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Just seeing this makes me have goose bumps.

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Seems that is not the case with the Ukraine version of  “______ Got Talent”. Last season’s winner was a sand animator. What? A sand animator? What’s  sand animator? Her name is Kseniya Simonova and she creates her art in sand scattered on an illuminated table. As she is creating her sand art to music, it  is  projected onto a screen for the audience to see. Sounds weird, I know, and I was skeptical before I watched the video. How interesting could sand animation be, right?

Simonova seemlessly moves from scene to scene sculpting and drizzling sand over a light table. This emotional performance is about World War II and the Germany invasion of the Soviet Union. I am not a native Ukrainian (although one of my great-grandmothers was) and cannot understand all of the symbolism or understand the lyrics to the accompanying music, but this performance moved me, just as it did the folks in the audience.

~Examiner.com

Another great episode!

Off island revelations:

1. Ben is teaching his European History class about Napoleon’s exile to the island Elba. Napoleon’s biggest trial wasn’t being banished but losing his power. Sounds like Ben’s island experience.
2. Ben still seeks power – He planned to take over as Principal of the school where he teaches European History. Locke, the substitute teacher, encourages him to make a change in administration.
3. Ben’s dad is an old man under the care of Ben. They had still gone to the island with the Dharma Initiative but left at some point to live off island. Dad Linus wonders what would have happened if they had stayed; perhaps things would have been better for Ben.
4. Alex Rousseau is one of Dr. Linus’ history students.  Ben is tutoring her and they are discussing the East India Trading Company.
5. Alex is planning to go to Yale but is concerned about getting in and paying for college. Her mom, Danielle, is working two jobs just to pay the rent. I wonder what Danielle is up to, where she’s working, and if it’s relevant. I got the impression that Alex’s father isn’t around.
6. Ben still lies. He told Alex that he would keep the secret about the Principal and School Nurse getting it on in the sick room. He asks Arzt to help him hack into the nurse’s email so he can blackmail the Principal into resigning. Arzt agrees so he can get a good parking space and new lab equipment. Arzt is amused by Ben’s diabolical plan and tells Ben he’s a real killer.
7. The Principal turns the table on Ben and threatens to ruin Alex’s school career if he takes over his job. Ben chooses the right thing for Alex rather than the power he would have at the school as Principal. I was relieved that Ben didn’t jeopardize Alex’s future. Based on what we know of Ben, I didn’t think he had it in him.

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On island :

1. Miles listens to Jacob’s ashes and tells Ilana that it was actually Ben who murdered Jacob.
2. Jacob is the closest thing Ilana ever had to a father so she is PO’d. I wish we had learned more about Ilana. Jacob being like a father to her leads me to believe that she was on the island before; but we’re not really sure if she’s immortal or why she was in the Russian hospital last season.
3. Sun, Lapidus, Miles, Ilana and Ben return to the beach.
4. Ilana tells Sun that the Kwons are candidates but she doesn’t know if it’s Jin or Sun she’s supposed to be protecting. Ilana tells Sun she wants to find Jin as much as Sun does.
5. Ilana reveals that there are only 6 candidates left – candidates to take over for Jacob.
6. Richard leads Hurley and Jack away from the temple and toward the Black Rock instead. Richard tells them that he lied about directing them to the temple because everyone there was dead. Kate, Sayid, and Claire, however, were gone.
7. Lapidus tells Ben that he missed piloting Oceanic 815 because his alarm didn’t go off that morning. Lapidus wonders aloud how different his life would have been had he flown the fateful flight. Ben tells him that the island got him after all; would it have been so different?
8. Ben is digging his own grave for when Ilana gets her revenge for killing Jacob. Ilana shackled Ben’s leg to keep him from running away. Actually Ben has been digging his own grave for many years.
9. Ben tries to blackmail Miles. If Miles sets him free, Ben’s network of contacts off the island can reward Miles with lots of money once they leave.
10. Miles refuses Ben’s offer. He knows that Nikki and Paulo are buried with a bunch of diamonds worth over 8 million dollars.
11. Ben believes that Jacob didn’t care about being killed, but Miles reveals to him that Jacob did care about it. Right up to the last second before Ben stabbed him in the heart Jacob thought he was wrong about Ben. Nope, Ben is so predictable.
12. Richard examines the shackles in the Black Rock implying that he was either a slave or a crew member. I’m still thinking he was a slave.
13. Richard tells Jack that when Jacob touched him it was considered a gift. He prepares some dynamite to kill himself (with Jack’s help). Richard is very distraught that Jacob told him he would reveal his purpose to Richard but now that Jacob is dead his immortal life seems to be just a waste. It’s still so weird to see Richard confused and unsure about his role on the island. He was always such a man of confidence.
14. Hurley freaks out about the dynamite. Last time they held it Arzt blew up.
15. Jack agrees to help Richard. He lights the dynamite and stays with Richard. Jack doesn’t believe they will die because Jacob has been watching him since Jack was a kid. Jack believes Jacob brought him to the island for a reason and it wasn’t to just be blown up. The dynamite fuse fizzles out.
16. Ben continues to dig his grave and he hears Smokey coming. Evil-Locke appears and tells Ben that he doesn’t want Ben to die, but that he is gathering a group at the Hydra Station to leave the island and he wants Ben to be the new leader of the island. Locke does a Jedi trick and once Ben is free from his leg shackle he runs into the jungle and finds the rifle that Locke left for him. Evil-Locke is all about giving people choices. That’s great except I don’t believe he is entirely truthful in explaining what’s going on. Jacob is also allowing choices as well but he doesn’t seem to explain anything and is requiring his followers to rely on faith in things unseen.
17. Ilana chases after him but Ben reaches the gun and turns the tables on Ilana. Ben tells Ilana that he killed Jacob because he was angry that Jacob didn’t care about him even after he sacrificed his own daughter. He told Ilana he just wanted to be allowed to leave. He was going to join Locke because he was the only one who would have him. Ilana tells Ben she’ll have him and he follows her back to the beach.
18. The closing scene on the beach shows Ilana looking very sad, Miles examining a diamond, Lapidus stoking the fire, Ben helping Sun make a shelter, and Jack and Hurley returning to the beach. Sun hasn’t seen them since they were on the airplane and separated into two different decades.
19. Finally, a submarine appears off the shore. When the navigator sees the people on the beach Widmore tells him not to stop but to proceed as planned.

I knew Widmore would have to show up sooner or later. I wonder if he brought Desmond with him?

This was probably the best episode so far this season.

Check out the rest of the recaps from LOST Season 6

We never had helmets or padding. We’d show off our balancing skills riding with our hands in the air. And we loved to see how fast we could go.

We rode to the Country Club or Dairy Queen, downtown or out in the middle of nowhere.

And while we realized (somewhere waaaay in the back of our minds) that a bike wreck was always possible, we had a knack for dismissing the possibility. I suppose if we’d have given wrecks much consideration, we’d have never ridden our bikes.

The worst bike wreck I can remember having occurred somewhere around the age of 13, I’m guessing. Maybe I was younger – what does it matter? What does matter is that I can remember absolutely flying on my baby blue Schwinn 10-speed, hitting some gravel in a turn and totally wiping out. Ouch. The gravel and pavement tore off the skin on what seemed to be the entire left side of my body, leaving small chunks of gravel in the open, bleeding wounds. One of the bike’s wires jabbed into my upper right thigh. It wasn’t pretty.

Once I was back on my feet, I wouldn’t get back on the bike – I walked it home, fighting back tears with every step I took.

I remember that it got my attention. From that day on, I was a bit more cautious. I rode my bike a little less. I no longer trusted my bike or the road beneath me.

Flash forward a few decades. Colton announced that he was going bike riding on his Mongoose – the bike that comes ready for tricks with the front and back pegs in the middle of the tires. Ever since he’s learned to ride, he’s also been subjected to my near-constant harpings of “be careful”. But as most of us know, some lessons can’t be taught – we often learn only by living.

He and his buddies across the street, unbeknown to me, had dragged out the bike/skateboard ramps, with the goal of seeing how high in the air they could get.

I thought it a bit odd when neighbor Noah came up the driveway with Colton’s bike a while later. When I inquired, Noah said something about Colton having a scratch and needing a Band-Aid. I thought little of it, and went back to cleaning the car.

Now before you go screamin’ “bad mommy”, understand that Colton is a Band-Aid freak. He can find any excuse for one.

It wasn’t until another kid in the neighborhood came up to me and asked if Colton was OK that I went into the house to check on him.

In all, he’d scraped the skin off all the knuckles on his right hand and left shoulder (that one was probably the worst – and largest of the injuries) and had a red spot under his left eye.

As he recanted the details of flying off the ramp, getting waaaay up in the air and crashing to the ground below, I tried to block the words – I didn’t want to know the gory details. And I didn’t ever want him to try that little trick again. All I wanted was to make sure he was OK.

And he was. But the ramp wreck had gotten his attention. He realized he’d been lucky – that it could’ve been much worse. The rest of the day found him in a melancholy mood, zapped of all energy.

As we sat down together that evening, the questions started:

“Did you ever have a bike wreck when you were little?”

I told him the story of the baby blue Schwinn 10-speed, how it altered my bike-riding invincibility.

He nodded his head in agreement, now knowing exactly why I always nagged him to be careful.

Sometimes the only way we learn is by living.

-Liz

Several weeks ago I ran a story letting our readers make their own Oscar predictions. Take a peek at how we did.

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Best Picture –

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The Hurt Locker

Coffee Break prediction – Avatar (oops)

Best Director -

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Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart

Coffee Break prediction – Jeff Bridges (We’re on a roll)

Actor in a supporting role –

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Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

Coffee Break prediction – Christoph Waltz (Still rolling)

Actress in a leading role -

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Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side

Coffee Break prediction -Sandra Bullock (Do we know our movies, or what?)

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Mo’Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Coffee Break prediction -Mo Nique (Right again!)

So readers, it seems we do indeed know our movies. Five out of the tip six categories right! I am impressed!

My pick for the best acceptance speech goes to Sandra Bullock.

Want to watch all the Oscar acceptance speechs?

Did you love the Oscars as much as I did? Leave me a comment and tell me what you thought of the show. (Also leaving a comment will automatically enter you in this week’s giveaway, so what have you got to loose?)

~Kate

Enjoy your Coffee Break!

This episode focuses on Sayid.

Off the island, Sayid’s brother borrowed money from someone to open a new store and he wants Sayid to bring out his torturing equipment to stop the man from collecting on the loan. Apparently he’s making the brother pay interest for as long as he owns the business. Sayid says “No Way!” The brother is attacked by the debtor and Sayid thinks about going after them but Nadia, who is married to Sayid’s brother, talks him out of it. At the hospital Dr. Jack passes Sayid in the hall. Sayid tells Nadia that he pushed her toward marrying his brother because he doesn’t deserve her after all the horrible things he’s done. I was very surprised that Sayid did not end up marrying Nadia. Awwww! I was so hoping that Sayid would have a happily-ever-after post-island life or flash sideways life. It seems like he sort of redeemed himself for many things and I’ve been rooting for him for a long time.

Some bad guys come to pick up Sayid and take him to a restaurant kitchen. It’s so funny that mobsters always seem to do their dirty work in a kitchen or back of a restaurant. The main bad guy turns out to be Keamey. To me, Keamey looks a lot better with his marine buzz haircut and camouflage than his purple shirt and blazer. But no matter how he’s dressed he’s still a bad dude. Sayid takes out Keany’s two sidekicks and Keamy decides to forgive the debt to save his own life, but Sayid says “No Way!” and shoots him. Sayid hears some banging in the walk-in refrigerator and opens the door to find non-English speaking Jin tied up. Wow! That was a crazy connection.

Sayid tells Dogen that he doesn’t understand why they want him dead. Sayid believes himself to be a good man and he better not dare try to kill him, but Dogen goes all martial artist on him. A huge manly fight breaks out and just when Dogen tries to stab Sayid in the throat, his baseball falls off the desk and lands on the floor. If you just said, “What?”, that’s exactly what I said. Dogen tells Sayid to leave the temple and never come back. Sayid speaks with Miles on his way out and tells him that the Others told him he is better off dead because they think he’s evil. Miles explains that when Sayid was dead, he was dead, and that the Others did not bring him back to life. In fact, they were just as surprised that he sat up alive and well. I sure was hoping that Miles was going to enlighten us to something he sensed from Sayid’s dead body.

Surrounding the temple is a ring of ash. Claire and Locke are outside the temple and Claire agrees to go into the temple if Locke will give her her son back. Locke can’t go in himself of course because the ash keeps him at bay for some reason. She asks why he doesn’t get Sawyer or Jin to do it? Hmmm…are Jin and Sawyer now on Evil-Locke’s side?

Locke tells Claire that he’s only going to hurt the people who won’t listen to him. Claire walks in to the courtyard of the temple and tells Dogen that “He” wants to see him. Dogan tells Claire if Evil-Locke wants to talk to him then he should come inside. No, he needs to go out to meet him. Dogen is too smart for that. Dogen has Claire put down into a pit inside the temple because she is confused and under the influence of an angry man. Dogen approaches Sayid and tells him that he can’t leave the temple now because Locke showed up things have changed. Dogen arms Sayid with a knife and tells Sayid he needs to go out and kill a man whom he will recognize; someone who has died.

He explains to Sayid that the man waiting outside has been trapped on the island but now that Jacob is gone this man is now free and will kill everyone on the island. He is evil incarnate. Sayid’s instructions are to stab Locke before Locke has time to say anything. I thought Locke would be waiting right outside the gate but he wasn’t. On his way out, Sayid passes Kate. Luckily for Kate, Sayid didn’t mistake her as the one he would recognize and was supposed to kill.

Further out in the jungle, Smokey shows up and transforms into Locke who says, “Hello, Sayid” before he can stab him. Oops! He didn’t get to him before he spoke. The knife did no damage except put a hole in his t-shirt. Locke now tries to recruit Sayid. He tells Sayid to deliver a message. Locke didn’t have Claire do it because the message would mean a lot more coming from Sayid. Locke tells him that he could have anything he wants if he does this favor for him. Locke is very persuasive and we all know how much Sayid wants Nadia, who died in his arms after she was hit by the car.

Sayid goes into the temple and tells the Others that the man out in the jungle wants them to know that Jacob is dead and because of that they are all free. Locke is leaving the island forever and he wants them to join him by sundown or die. Most of the Others decide to leave the temple even though the hippie tries to tell them that Locke is bluffing.

Kate goes to Claire in the pit as soon as she finds out from Miles where she is. Claire is singing the lullaby and becomes furious when Kate tells her that she took Aaron off the island and raised him. Even when Kate tells her that she came back to rescue her, she gives Kate a warning that “he’s” coming and no one can stop him.

Dogen tells Sayid part of his back story. He was a business man in Okinowa (in other words, he had a life before the island) and he got drunk one night. He picked his 12 year old son up from baseball and caused a car accident that killed his son. While at the hospital, Jacob went to Dogen and told him that he could save his son’s life if he followed Jacob to the island. He could have a new job on the island but would never be able to see his son again. Dogen asked Sayid if Locke offered him a similar bargain. Yes, Sayid says, right before he kills Dogen in the pool. When Hippie comes in and finds Dogen floating in the pool, he tells Sayid that Dogen was the only thing keeping “him” out. Sayid says that he knows that and then he kills the hippie. Holy crap! Sayid may have just completed his turning evil cycle. Dogen’s new job must have been to protect the temple. Without Dogen the ash doesn’t work?

Smokey makes his screaming and clicking appearance and starts grabbing and slamming the scattering people into the columns and walls of the temple. Love it!!!! Miles and Kate get separated when Kate returns to the pit to rescue Claire. Miles hides in a room of the temple and holds the door shut but Ilana breaks it down, armed with her rifle and asks where the other Losties are. Miles, who has never met Ilana before, tells her that it’s only him and Kate still there.

Miles asks Sun where her husband is; he took off yesterday and didn’t return. Sun realizes she’s getting closer to finding Jin. Now that the two groups (or what’s left of them) have rejoined in the right decade and year together they team up and Ilana guides them through the secret passageway that Jacob directed Hurley to in the last episode. I am soooo glad Ilana seems to know what’s going on. They get through the wall and close the entrance just before Smokey comes rushing past.

Kate tries to get Claire to come out of the pit but Claire tells her that she’s safer down there. Smokey comes furiously racing around the corner and Kate jumps onto the ladder in the pit just in time to see Smokey flying over her head. After things have calmed down a bit, Kate follows Claire and Sayid out of the temple, but not before picking up a rifle belonging to one of the dead Others. That’s what I love about Kate; she always remembers to pick up a weapon. Locke is waiting outside and gives Sayid and Claire a “good job” look. He’s looks curiously at Kate, but says nothing and turns around into the jungle as the Others follow their new leader.

This week’s episode should be good as it focuses on Ben.

Tina Reynolds

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Digital Camera Starter Kit and Care Kit

Everything you need to take care of your digital camera

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• Camera Brush/Blower Combo
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I suppose it’s one thing to exercise for your health (I should probably walk more), but something quite different indeed to exercise for tone and a svelte, fat-free body – especially when you’re closer to 50 than 40-years-old. Especially when you’ve never really needed to worry about it before, but one day you look in the mirror and think: “EEK! What happened here?!?!”

As I looked for ways to fix the flaws, a nightmarish exercise regime filled my mind: Pain, a five-hour-a-day work-out plan, and muscles so sore I can’t get out of bed, all the while existing on a carrot stick and grain of rice. I wonder if maybe I’d luck out on Sundays, and get to add a grape to the menu. Nah. That would be too easy. My bet is I’d be given half a blueberry.

At which point, it sounded much easier, and at least on the surface more appealing, to just give it up, turn into the frumpy middle-aged woman and call it a day with a box of bonbons nearby.

Surely, I thought, it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing proposal. So I turned off the movie reel in my mind and did some thinking (which tends to get me into trouble at times).

As a big believer in the power of positive thinking, et al, I reminded myself that we can’t necessarily get from A to T immediately. But by reaching for a better thought, we make baby steps to the end result. I know most of you know what I’m talking about. When we feel bad about ourselves, the last thing we want to do is commit to a change that seems overwhelming at best. What we need is a kick-start. Something to help us feel just a little bit better. That little bit then becomes another little bit, and before we know it, we’re feeling much better (and, with a little luck, much more svelte).

So I thought I’d take a look into some ways to improve our appearance quickly – or at least painlessly, without having to go under the knife. Truth is, I may talk about face-lifts and tummy tucks, but I’m a big chicken. Here are a few things I found that seemed worthy to share. Let’s start with this little trick for diminishing broken capillaries and spider veins from ehow.com:

Apply homemade remedies to the affected areas. For broken capillaries apply a homemade mask onto the face. Mix 1/4 cup of rose oil or crush chamomile tea in with the facial moisturizer of your choice. Allow the facial masks to set for the night.

Diminish both with apple cider vinegar (apply it to the skin twice daily) or combine rose, palmarosa or parsley oil into a mix with virgin coconut oil. Apply it to affected areas for three to four weeks twice daily.

Sounds easy enough, I suppose. This looks to work on rosacea, too – a fairly common problem for women in the 30-60-year-old age group.

Maybe you’re more worried about a sagging neck or chin. While this one is a little tougher, with researchers claiming products containing collagen don’t work (the molecules are too big to penetrate the skin), apparently products containing cynergy TK with functional keratin work quite well. But you are gonna have to pay for it.

If you’d rather not dish out the dough, Dermaxime has some exercises to try that target various areas on the face and neck. Of course, that takes us right back to exercise, which defeats our purpose.

Next up, and you know you’ve been waiting for this one, is a home remedy for cellulite: coffee grounds. Clearly a two-for-one deal, this one may just be worth a try (no guarantees).

This topical treatment, courtesy of homeremedyweb could prove to be a cellulite buster, too:

Mix 3 parts apple cider vinegar with one part of your favorite massage oil.

Gently knead this solution onto affected skin areas twice daily.

This massage treatment will help to reduce the appearance of cellulite.

Let’s move on to a little make-up trick. While you may be tempted to cake on the foundation to cover up flaws or even out skin tone, keep in mind that less is more – at least in this situation. Heavy foundations tend to make the skin look older (in total contradiction to what we’re looking for). So go for sheer to medium-weight coverage.

In my humble opinion, if you’re looking for an immediate feeling of I-love-me, get a haircut that flatters your face – and don’t forget the color or highlights.

Who knows… It could be catalyst that sends you in search of the nearest treadmill.

-Liz

On March 10, we celebrate Middle Name Pride Day. I’m for nixing this holiday, too – never really liked my middle name (Dawne – don’t forget the ‘e’ on the end, please). Sorry, Mom and Dad. Luckily, I never use my middle name.

Next up, we have Worship of Tools Day on March 11. While I’m sure our male readers (and perhaps some females out there) may be dragging out the drill bits in giddy anticipation, worshiping tools sounds like a one-way trip to Hades if you ask me.

Needless to say, I wasn’t very impressed with the choices this week  – until I stumbled upon our next holiday.

Do you own champion ear protectors – or even know what champion ear protectors are? Patented March 13, 1877, by Chester Greenwood, the protectors later became known as ear mufflers, and eventually just ear muffs. I’d venture we’ve all had a pair of champion ear protectors at one point or another. (Kind of a catchy little name, isn’t it?)

To commemorate the day of patent, March 13 is Earmuff Day. Although the forecast is calling for temps to hover around the 50-degree mark, it seems only fitting that we all wear our champion ear protectors for good measure.

And if you don’t own any champion ear protectors, this may be a good day to think ahead. With spring just around the corner, I’ll remind you again not to panic. You may be able to pick up a pair at a bargain basement close-out price.

Until next week, get your party on!