Baked pineapple pie is a common Mexican dessert that’s not that easy to find in the States. Active: 45 mins Total: 2 hrs 45 min Original recipe submitted by Micah A Leal and published at Southern Living Recipes. Ingredients Dough: One box of Pillsbury prepared pie crusts (2 9-inch crusts per box) because I’m lazy right now, otherwise…
Read More Pineapple PieBy John Stoehr March 09, 2021 The United States Senate passed Saturday a covid relief package worth about $2 trillion.2 It is a giant piece of legislation, in size and scope, akin to the Social Security Act of 1935 in terms of impact on the farthest corners of our society. It is the sixth of six spending…
Read More The American Rescue ActThe Supreme Court issued a ruling on March 9, 1841, freeing the remaining thirty-five survivors of the Amistad mutiny. Although seven of the nine justices on the court hailed from Southern states, only one dissented from Justice Joseph Story’s majority opinion. Private donations ensured the Africans’ safe return to Sierra Leone in January 1842. BTW, Connecticut Congregationalists formed the Amistad Committee, which organized a legal…
Read More Today in History: Survivors of Amistad Mutiny ReleasedThere is no such thing as cancel culture. I don’t know how this dog-whistle changed meanings, but everything I have heard and can see suggests that complaints about “cancel culture” are used whenever someone says something anti, like anti-semitic or anti-LGBQTI, or racist, sexist, homophobic, or anything that is designed to shame or injure someone…
Read More Cancel Culture? WHAT?(I can’t abide the man -WCW) By Bridget Read Piers Morgan, a bloviated “crusty tea and crumpet ass” bigot with a history of terrible opinions and a penchant for never shutting up about them, finally shut up early this morning, England time, and it is one of the more satisfying things you will ever witness. Instead of beginning the day with your…
Read More Someone Finally Got Piers Morgan to Shut UpBy Corey Williams Sharp knives Non-stick pots and pans Cast iron pots and pans Wooden anything (cutting boards, spoons, etc.) Read more HERE
Read More 10 Things You Should Never Put in the DishwasherThe classes are held at least once a month on Mondays at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 90 minutes. In each session, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants (in small groups) to meet each other, discuss the content, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions…
Read More Online Classes: Teach the Black Freedom StruggleFrom the Daily Skimm 2/24/21 This past year has exacerbated calls for an end to police brutality and for the key changes that are necessary to make that happen. But two cases are showing police failing to appropriately respond to mental health calls – and the urgent need for reforms: Angelo Quinto and Daniel Prude. In December, Angelo Quinto,…
Read More Police response to mental health callsSince I’m still a bit unsteady, I talked my Honey through making rice pudding for breakfast. It really is very easy, although you need to pay attention to it. short-grained white rice salt milk Rice Dream sweetener vanilla cinnamon For every cup of rice, you need 4-5 cups of milk and Rice Dream. I use…
Read More Today’s recipe: Rice PuddingHave you ever wondered if something could be frozen and still taste good after? I have, particularly when going out of town and having things in my fridge that would spoil before I got back. So here is the list of freezables: Milk Lemons and limes Cheese (like cheddar, not soft cheese) Avocados Spinach, other…
Read More Can You Freeze Milk?Sunny Sea Gold and Ariel Wodarcyk Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 Nurses spend their work lives caring for the sick—you’d better believe they know how to keep from getting sick themselves! Here are some common health mistakes nurses try NOT to make. Skipping vaccinations: Staying up to date on vaccines is important for adults, not just kids,…
Read More 26 Things You’re Probably Doing That Nurses Wouldn’tBy Fahima Haque February 13, 2021 Sterling K. Brown, an actor who has starred on the hit NBC drama “This Is Us” since 2016, has won multiple Emmys, Screen Actors Guild awards, a Golden Globe, and an NAACP Image Award for his acting. But over the course of his successful career, Mr. Brown has asked…
Read More Why Sterling K. Brown Wanted to Narrate CNN’s Lincoln DocumentaryBy Jonathan A. Knee February 13, 2021 The source of Amazon’s stupefying success is only one of many mysteries — and controversies — surrounding the company that started out selling books online in 1995 and ended 2020 with nearly $400 billion in revenue, 1.3 million employees and a market value of more than $1.5 trillion. …
Read More How Amazon does itBy Ryan Reed Feb. 12, 2021 Nytimes.com Chick Corea, the pioneering keyboardist, and bandleader who died on Tuesday at 79, will be forever regarded as a crucial architect of jazz-rock fusion. For more than five decades, Corea modified his sound to follow that simple maxim — chasing whims from bebop to free jazz to fusion to contemporary classical.…
Read More Chick Corea RIP (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021)Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a living connection to this history and a prominent name in television and radio news, worked on the MacNeil/Lehrer Report on PBS starting in 1978, later worked in South Africa for National Public Radio and then CNN. Her work won two Emmys and two Peabody Awards. She’d made history of her own just…
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