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Volume 16 Number 3
US Library of Congress ISSN: 1530-3292
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Cheeseburger Casserole
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 onion, chopped
1 pound ground lean turkey
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups 2% milk
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 1/2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar
1 (10 oz.) package frozen broccoli florets, thawed and drained
Salt and pepper
1 (16 oz.) package frozen French fries, thawed
Preheat oven to 400F. Melt 1 Tbsp. butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add onion; sauté until softened, 5 minutes. Add turkey, Worcestershire and thyme, and sauté until turkey is cooked through, 10 minutes.
In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt 2 Tbsp. butter. Stir in flour. Add milk and cook, stirring, until sauce bubbles and thickens, 8 minutes. Remove from heat. Add mustard and 1/2 cup cheese; stir until melted. Add turkey mixture and broccoli. Season with salt and pepper.
Mist a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray, spread mixture in dish and sprinkle with remaining 1 cup cheese. Top evenly with fries. Bake until cheese is bubbling and fries are crisp and golden, 25 to 30 minutes. Serves 4
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
Calories: 617
Fat: 29g
Saturated fat: 15g
Protein: 48g
Carbohydrate: 45g
Fiber: 5g
Cholesterol: 119mg
Sodium: 499mg
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TAKE TWO
By Walt Mills
It Happened One Night
We are now in our third month of presenting Movie Night at the local community center. It has become a family project – deciding on the films, doing write-ups, making posters to hang up around town, then organizing the food and drink for the concession stand that helps us raise money for charity. It ends up being a lot of work, but it’s satisfying when it comes together and people show up and have a good time.
Saturday night we showed the animated film “Up,” about an elderly man who attaches 20,000 helium balloons to his house and floats off to South America. There were young kids and teenagers lying on blankets watching the film while popcorn popped and the screen lit up in the darkness. It was our biggest crowd so far, and everyone seemed to like the movie and liked drinking hot cider and eating homemade brownies that one of our friends had baked to sell in the concession stand.
The second feature was an Academy Award winner from 1934 called “It Happened One Night.” This kind of film is one of the reasons we started Movie Night in the first place. The director, Frank Capra, was one of the most popular filmmakers of the thirties and forties. He is best known for the perennial Christmas favorite, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but he also directed “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” “Arsenic and Old Lace” and “You Can’t Take it With You,” all of which are classics and will show up on some Movie Night in the future.
“It Happened One Night” was not especially loved when it first came out. Its female lead, Claudette Colbert, hated the script and didn’t much like the director. The story goes that the night of the Academy Awards, when she was up for best actress, she didn’t bother to show up because she was sure she would lose. The movie mogul Harry Cohn had to have her dragged back from the train station to the award ceremony, where she won best actress and her costar Clark Gable won best actor. It also won for best picture, director and screenplay, the five top awards. However, the movie was heading for box office failure on its first run, but then it became popular at second run movie houses across the country.
“It Happened One Night” was filmed in four weeks on location, and part of the charm at Saturday’s showing was seeing what the United States looked like in the early years of the Great Depression. It’s one of the first road pictures, with Colbert and Gable traveling in a Greyhound bus north through Florida and the rural South, staying in two dollar a night cottages, hitchhiking on country roads. The film spurred bus travel and may have saved Greyhound from going under during the Depression.
The other pleasure of the film is the witty, sophisticated dialogue. It’s the beginning of the era of the screwball comedy, of snappy one liners and perfect timing. Women are independent and smart, and they can take care of themselves, most of the time anyway. Gable’s know-it-all newspaperman has his ego punctured a number of times by Colbert’s sharp tongue. In the end it’s a grownup romantic comedy with a surprisingly sexy undercurrent for the times.
But the greatest pleasure of Movie Night is getting together with friends and neighbors, sitting together in the darkness under a spell that film can create, talking about the films afterward, and taking away a shared experience that makes it more memorable than it would have been if we had watched it alone.
Read more of Walt’s writing at his blog:
http://americanimpressionist.wordpress.com/
(The above column is copyright © 2013 by Walter Mills. All rights reserved worldwide. To contact Walt, address your emails to awmills@verizon.net ).
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Link of the Day:
If you’re in the bah-humbug spirit this year, spend some time on this site and calculate how many balloons you will need to actually lift your house and take you away.
Just like in the Pixar classic “Up,” you can lift your house just using balloons, and this site will tell you how many you need. Just enter the size of your house, or any famous building.
http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/balloons/
BONUS LINK — Mock trailer showing what “Up” would look like if made as a Disney film in the 1960s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch v=ml9hAN5km14&feature=player_embedded
from Wendy
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Off The Shelf
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I have two tricks I use when cooking. 1) when browning ground beef (hamburger) I add one cup of strong coffee near the end of browning. I let it cook off and the beef has a nice dark color along with a delicious flavor. 2) when my children were babies we always seemed to have too much baby cereal left over. I hated to throw it away. My mother in law told me this secret for using the baby cereal. Just sprinkle it into any sauce or soup that needs thickening. Works like a charm and the cereal gets used up.
Deb
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I have found the most wonderful peppermint candies, bar none! Atkinson’s (brand) Mint Twists peppermint candy, out of Lufkin, Texas. That’s right, a product that is American-made. These are all natural peppermints with no artificial ingredients. I keep the candy jar on my work desk filled with these, and everyone who tries them says they are the best-tasting peppermints they have ever had, what brand and where did I get them. A 16oz bag costs around $3, and I get them at the local Brookshire’s/Super One grocery stores. If you can’t find them in your area, contact Atkinson’s at www.atkinsoncandy.com for a location near you.
Lisa B
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Do You Remember?
Georgy Girl
The Seekers 1966
title song from film starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, and Charlotte Rampling
Words by Jim Dale and Music by Tom Springfield
Hey there, Georgy girl
Swingin’ down the street so fancy-free
Nobody you meet could ever see the loneliness there inside you
Hey there, Georgy girl
Why do all the boys just pass you by?
Could it be you just don’t try or is it the clothes you wear?
You’re always window shopping but never stopping to buy
So shed those dowdy feathers and fly a little bit
Hey there, Georgy girl
There’s another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there’d be
The world would see a new Georgy girl
<instrumental interlude>
Hey there, Georgy girl
Dreamin’; of the someone you could be
Life is a reality, you can’t always run away
Don’t be so scared of changing and rearranging yourself
It’s time for jumping down from the shelf a little bit
Hey there, Georgy girl
There’s another Georgy deep inside
Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there’d be
The world would see a new Georgy girl
(Hey there, Georgy girl)
Wake up, Georgy girl
(Hey there, Georgy girl)
Come on, Georgy girl
FADE
(Hey there, Georgy girl)
Wake up, Georgy girl
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