Where is that Friday Fish Fry?

Where can I find a Friday Fish Fry? With the help of WKYC's website, there's a map of Northeast Ohio to help you find a fish fry near you!

http://www.wkyc.com/life/community/events/fish_fry/

Good Bad Writing

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school essays.
These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across
the country. Here are last year's winners:

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently
compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy
who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those
boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high
schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those
boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was
room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just
before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly
surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling
ball wouldn't.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled
with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie,
surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy
comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry
them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the
grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left
Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19
p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East
River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one
that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are known to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this
plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating
for awhile.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a
real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or
something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg
behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with
powertools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if
she were a garbage truck backing up."

Beauty Rituals

Polling America: allure.com asks, "Which beauty ritual does your boyfriend or husband like to watch you do?"
--Paint my nails. 1.4 percent
--Blow-dry my hair: 1.7 percent
--Put on fragrance. 3.6 percent
--Paint my toenails. 3.7 percent
--Shave. 4.6 percent
--Put on makeup: 12.3 percent
--None that I know of. 35.7 percent -
-Apply body lotion: 37.1 percent

Debate Tickets

A very limited number of tickets are available for the February 26 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University. Applications will be accepted through Thursday, February 21 at 3:00pm.
http://www.csuohio.edu/debate08/tickets.html

Husband Training

An article in Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/id/109614?g=1 is about a woman who wrote a book about how she modified her husband's behavior using animal-training techniques. Amy Sutherland says "the key to marital bliss is to ignore negative habits and reward positive ones, the same approach animal trainers use to get killer whales to leap from their tanks and elephants to stand on their heads." For example, to get her husband to stop throwing temper tantrums when he couldn't find his keys, she ignored his outbursts and refused to help with the search. That's what animal behaviorists call the Least Reinforcing Scenario. And to keep him from hovering over the stove when she cooked, she set a bowl of chips and salsa at the other end of the kitchen. That's called Engineering Incompatible Behaviors. Result: Happier marriage.

What NOT To Say At Work

CNN and CareerBuilder.com list several verbal no-no's at work:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/01/28/worst.say.at.work/index.html

Roasted Garlic Parmesan Crostini

Paganini's Pantry with Stefanie Paganini


Roasted Garlic Parmesan Crostini

Ingredients:

Roasted Garlic:
1 Head of Garlic
2 Tablespoons Olive oil

Spread:
1 Head of roasted garlic
¾ Cup grated Parmigianino Reggiano Cheese
½ Cup Fresh Basil
2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
2 Tablespoons White Wine
2 Teaspoons Salt
1 Teaspoon pepper

Crostini:
1 loaf French baguette
¼ cup olive oil
Garnish of Italian Parsley

Instructions:

To Make Roasted Garlic:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Chop top off of garlic. Place garlic in center of a sheet of aluminum foil. Drizzle garlic with olive oil and wrap up garlic in aluminum foil.

Place in oven for approximately 45 minutes until garlic is golden brown.

To Make Spread:
Squeeze out roasted garlic from skins and discard skins. Place roasted garlic in food processor.

Place remaining spread ingredients into processor. Blend until completely incorporated.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.

To Make Crostini:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Slice baguette on the diagonal into thin slices approximately ½ inch thick. Brush with olive oil and place on a baking sheet.

Place baking sheet in oven and toast bread until golden brown approximately 10 minutes. Beware they can burn easily, check often. Remove from oven and allow bread to cool.

When ready to serve, take a spoonful of spread and spread on one side of bread. Top with a small piece of Italian parsley and serve.

Post-it Note Love

WDOK Relationship expert Mildred Pardington "Party" Fitzsimmons offered some St. Valentine's Day advice to a listener who is in the doghouse with his wife. She recommends anyone who needs to repair a relationship use post-it notes to do it. Lots of post-it notes.
Put them everywhere. What to write? Here's a sample list:

In the oven..."thinking of you makes me hot"
In the freezer..."only you can thaw my frozen heart"
On the mirror..."reflecting on it, you are the most important person in my life"
On the cereal box..." from your serial lover"
In their shoes..."you are the only person I want to walk through life with"
In the shower..."thinking of you steams me up
In the car..."you drive me crazy"
On the phone..."speaking of love, you are my one and only"
In the toilet tank..."you float my boat"
On the sugar bowl..."no one is sweeter than you"
On the milk bottle..."I will pour all my love on you"
On a jacket..."you suit me just fine"
In a jewelry box..."your love is worth solid gold"
In the baby's diaper..."you've got me coming and going"

Conversation Hearts for Married People

We've all received those candy hearts on St. Valentine's Day. The ones with loving little phrases like, "kiss me," "dare ya," and "soul mate." WDOK's Jeopardy Brenda, a very married woman,
suggests a different set of phrases should grace candy hearts for married couples:

-Fix This
-PMS Again?
-Pre Nup
-Nag
-My remote
-Same old
-Jerk
-Not tonight
-Bossy
-Your turn
-Lazy
-Head ache

Kiss List

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, MSN has put together the 10 best places to kiss:
--A park bench in Jackson Square, New Orleans (the city's first neighborhood)
--Buckingham Fountain, Chicago (in Grant Park, where skateboarders, inline skaters and cyclists are banned)
--Beds at the B-E-D restaurant and nightclub, NYC (hint: they're not for sleeping)
--Reed's Jazz and Supper Club, Austin, TX
--Poolside cabana at the Cameo Bar, Santa Monica, CA (hint: draw the drapes)
--The Public Garden, Boston (an idyllic oasis in overbuilt downtown)
--Kerry Park, Seattle (great views of the city and Mount Rainier)
--Ritz-Carlton, Orange County, CA (breathtaking oceanfront views)
--Gondola ride in Stone Mountain Park, Atlanta (great views)
--A hidden balcony at the Farallon underwater seafood restaurant, San Francisco (the aquatic motif includes blown-glass jellyfish chandeliers)

Give us your favorite kiss locale!

Valentine's Day bonus: Redbook magazine's sex columnist ANKA RADAKOVICH explains why men don't get Valentine's Day. "Most guys consider February 14 a 'chick holiday.' And it stresses them out: They don't know what's expected, what they should buy. And how much (or how little) they should express their feelings. They're not incapable of romance; they just hate being romantic on cue. Just tell him, 'V-Day is Tuesday. Let's go out for dinner.' If you remind him when it is and let him off the hook for some standard requirements, he's more likely to deliver some creative romance of his own."

Savory Biscotti with Sesame Seeds

Paganini's Pantry with Stefanie Paganini


Savory Biscotti with Sesame Seeds
Makes 48

Ingredients:

1 tsp. baking powder
4 large eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon basil
1/2 cup Parmigiano Reggiano Cheese
1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes chopped
1/4 cup black olives chopped
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. freshly grated black pepper
¼ cup roasted sesame seeds

Instructions:

1. Soak tomatoes in water. Sift flour with salt and baking powder. Preheat oven to 400°F.

2. In the mixer, work the eggs until creamy. Add the olives and basil. Add the drained sundry tomatoes.

3. Add the flour mixture and work only until it makes a dough. Cut the dough in three pieces and roll each one into a sausage shape. Sprinkle sesame seeds over each log.

4. Place on the prepared cookie sheet. Lower the oven to 375°F and bake for 20 minutes or until golden in color. Cool and with a serrated knife, slice diagonally.

5. Lower oven to 350°F. Place slices on a cookie sheet and bake for an additional 5-10 minutes.

6. Serve.

Superbowl Commercials

USA Today's Ad Meter rates the Budweiser ad featuring the Clydesdale and the dalmation as the best of the commercials that ran during the superbowl. David Moore, of Cleveland's Ligget Stashower Advertising Agency likes the dueling parade balloons hawking Coke the best.
Decide for yourself, by viewing all the spots:
www.myspace.com/superbowlads