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gaylord perry wrote:The beans sound good, TFinSC! Let us know how they turn out, pleasre?

I tried a different recipe for Cincy Chili late this morning:




KCBS) – KCBS Food and Wine Editor Narsai David received this chili recipe from his friend Stan Schwartz.

2 lb Ground Beef


4-5 cups Chopped Onion


4 Cloves Garlic, chopped


2 TBS Chili Powder


2 tsp Cinnamon Powder


1/2 tsp Cayenne or more to taste


2 TBS Unsweetened Cocoa Powder


6 Bay Leaves


6 oz Can Tomato paste


4 cups Water


1 TBS Worcestershire Sauce


2 TBS Vinegar


In a frying pan that has a cover, break up and brown the meat very well over high heat. The meat should be getting crisp to develop the most caramelized flavor. Then add onions and garlic and sauté until starting to brown. Add spices and stir-fry for a couple minutes. Add tomato paste and remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil and then cover and simmer for about one hour, or until everything is tender.



This is traditionally served over spaghetti with your choice of raw onion, cheddar cheese and/or kidney beans on the side.

I like that recipe OK, but it wasn't what I usually think of as "Skyline" Cincy Chili.

It was good on it's own though. If I make it again, I won't be so anal on carmelizing the meat and onion as the author touts. It affected the flavor in a way I think I would have preferred not doing. And the bay leaves also gave flavor I don't think I really wanted against the cocoa and cinnamon.

I ended up tossing it on pasta and enjoyed it well enough for lunch, just the same.

My wife really liked it, but she's never had Skyline Chili.

In my humble & worthless opinion, putting cinnamon or curry or the like in any kind of chili or spaghetti sauce is a crime.

I just experienced my own version of 'Before Sunset'.

Personal Richter Scale gives it about an 8.5.

Whew!

Hillbilly wrote:In my humble & worthless opinion, putting cinnamon or curry or the like in any kind of chili or spaghetti sauce is a crime.

A trace of cinnamon or brown sugar can be awesome on a pizza crust....especially the thin crust with the great sauce and little else that is great for "rolling up." It's one of the best things I like about New York City.


I've always dropped a sprinkle of sugar in my spaghetti sauces that are from scratch except for the canned tomatoes. I hate a sauce that you can still taste hours after you eat it. The sugar seems to offset the lingering garlic or basil on the palate.

If you've never tried Skyline Chili Hillbilly, I think it's a great style. I wouldn't want it as my chili all the time, but I do like it.

rocky raccoon wrote:I just experienced my own version of 'Before Sunset'.

Personal Richter Scale gives it about an 8.5.

Whew!

LOL! I first went to the USGS earthquake map and couldn't figure out what the heck you were referring to.

THEN, I googled "Before Sunset" to get back on track....

Sounds like a good story.

This one fits my mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAb_TBfuC8Q

rocky raccoon wrote:This one fits my mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAb_TBfuC8Q

Super Sinatra movie scene!

I have two black and white framed poster size photos of Sinatra in this room from that era. I picked them up for cheap when a "Chicago style" restaurant in town closed several years ago.


My wife loves the Nat King Cole version of that song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQmxLr5IYLk


Here's a video of a song that made me call PBS with a donation several years ago.

My wife saw the receipt for the taxes and asked, "YOU gave $$ for a freakin' show with Alex freakin' Baldwin??"


She's such a loving and petite and pretty right wing Republican.

After she listened to this performance she approved of my donation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry8CpIg2fvU


You gotta have heart....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wci-tuggO_M

One of my theme songs in the years before my wife of today.


"Desperado"


A really sexy Linda Ronstadt.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU8X4tgIBXw


Oh wait....

I was only joking....

Jane Russell, Sultry Star of 1940s and ’50s, Dies at 89

By ANITA GATES

Published: February 28, 2011

Jane Russell, the voluptuous actress at the center of one of the most highly publicized censorship episodes in movie history, the long-delayed release of the 1940s western “The Outlaw,” died on Monday at her home in Santa Maria, Calif. She was 89.

The cause was a respiratory-related illness, her daughter-in-law, Etta Waterfield, said.

Ms. Russell was 19 and working in a doctor’s office when Howard Hughes, returning to movie production after his aviation successes, cast her as the tempestuous Rio McDonald, Sheriff Pat Garrett’s girlfriend, in “The Outlaw,” which he directed.

A movie poster — which showed a sultry Ms. Russell in a cleavage-revealing blouse falling off one shoulder as she reclined in a haystack and held a gun — quickly became notorious and seemed to fuel movie censors’ determination to prevent the film’s release because of scenes that, by 1940s standards, revealed too much of the star’s breasts. The Roman Catholic Church was one of the movie’s vocal opponents.

Although the film had its premiere and ran for nine weeks in San Francisco in 1943, it did not open in New York until 1947 and was not given a complete national release until 1950. Critics were generally unimpressed by its quality, but it made Ms. Russell a star. The specially engineered bra that Hughes was said to have designed for his 38D leading lady took its place in cinematic history, although Ms. Russell always contended that she never actually wore it.

She went on to make some two dozen feature films, all but a handful of them between 1948 and 1957 and many of them westerns.

In the western comedy “The Paleface” (1948), she played Calamity Jane opposite Bob Hope, with whom she also starred in “Son of Paleface,” the 1952 sequel. In the musical comedy that she called her favorite film, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (1953), she starred with Marilyn Monroe as one of two ambitious showgirls. Her numbers included “Two Little Girls From Little Rock,” one of several duets with Monroe, and the comic lament “Ain’t There Anyone Here for Love?” Two years later she starred with Jeanne Crain in “Gentlemen Marry Brunettes,” a sequel of sorts, set in Paris.

A number of her movies were musicals, and singing became a large part of her career. She first appeared in Las Vegas in 1957 and was performing in musical shows at small venues as recently as 2008. Although she did considerable stage acting over the years, her sole Broadway appearance was in 1971 in the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company,” in which she replaced Elaine Stritch as the tough-talking character who sings “The Ladies Who Lunch.”

Ms. Russell was best known in the 1970s and ’80s as the television spokeswoman in commercials for Playtex bras, which she promoted as ideal for “full-figured gals” like her.

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was born on June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minn., the daughter of Roy and Geraldine Russell. Her mother had been an aspiring actress and a model. “The Girl in the Blue Hat,” a portrait of her by the watercolorist Mary B. Titcomb, once hung in the White House, bought by President Woodrow Wilson.

When Jane was 9 months old, before her four brothers were born, her father moved the family to Southern California to take a job as an office manager. He died when Jane was in her teens.

After high school, Jane took acting classes at Max Reinhardt’s theater workshop and with Maria Ouspenskaya. She did some modeling for a photographer friend but was working in a chiropodist’s office when a photo of her found its way to Hughes’s casting people.

In 1943 she married her high school sweetheart, Bob Waterfield, a U.C.L.A. football player who became the star quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams. They adopted a daughter, Tracy, and two sons, Thomas and Robert. (After a botched abortion before her marriage, Ms. Russell was unable to have children. She later became an outspoken opponent of abortion and an advocate of adoption, founding the World Adoption International Fund in the 1950s.)

She and Mr. Waterfield divorced in 1967 after 24 years of marriage. The following year she married Roger Barrett, an actor, who died of a heart attack three months after the wedding.

In 1974, John Calvin Peoples, a real estate broker and retired Air Force lieutenant, became her third husband, and they were together until his death, in 1999. Ms. Russell had had previous problems with alcohol, but they became worse after she was widowed again; her grown children insisted that she undergo rehabilitation at the age of 79.

She also turned to conservative politics in her later years.

“These days I’m a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist,” she told an Australian newspaper, The Daily Mail, in 2003. Bigotry, she added, “just means you don’t have an open mind.”

By the time she married Mr. Peoples, her acting career was all but over. After appearing in three movies in the mid-1960s, she had a small role in her last film, “Darker Than Amber,” a 1970 action drama starring Rod Taylor. She did relatively little television, but her final screen role was in a 1986 episode of the NBC police drama “Hunter.”

Her children survive her, as do 8 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Ms. Russell was very public about her religious convictions. She organized Bible study groups in Hollywood and wrote about having experienced speaking in tongues. In her memoir, “My Path and My Detours” (1985), she described the strength she drew from Christianity.

A higher power was always there, she wrote, “telling me that if I could just hold tough a little longer, I’d find myself around one more dark corner, see one more spot of light and have one more drop of pure joy in this journey called life.”

Ms Russell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1fhxH8hdfw

Indeed!