Recipe of the Day - Cherry-Cranberry Crunch Pie

pastry for single-crust, 9-inch pie
1 can cherry pie filling
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup chopped nuts (pecans are my fave)
1 package instant oatmeal, maple and brown sugar flavor
2 tablespoons margarine

Roll pastry on floured surface into a 12-inch circle. Transfer pastry to an ungreased cookie sheet.
Combine cherry pie filling and cranberries in a medium bowl. Put filling in the center of the piecrust. Bring edges of pastry to the center, overlapping as needed.
In a small bowl, combine nuts and instant oatmeal. Cut in margarine to make a crumb topping. Place on top of the pie filling mixture.
Bake pie in preheated 425 degree oven until pastry is golden brown--35 to 40 minutes.
Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

My friend's comment

My friend made this comment this morning. I agreed wholeheartedly. SO I decided to post it.

He said:
The Dailey show touched on exactly what I was thinking last week. All the Enron, Worldcom, Social Security, Trade Defecit BULLS**T going on and they put STEROID USED IN BASEBALL on the fast track?!?!?!?! Who gives a f*ck if these millionaire brats want their balls to shrink to the relative size of how much I give a d*mn?

Glass Wizard

http://www.local6.com/money/4163178/detail.html

I found a good product!!! Glass wizard really works. I like the infomercial products. A lot of times they have good ideas and I like to try to see if they will make my life easier. I win some and I lose some. Good thing there is the good return policy...

I did one of those e-mail questionnaire things

1. First Name: Amaryllis
2. Were you named after anyone? not anyone, a flower (it was better than the alternative....moms told my she almost named me Courtney No offense to any Courtneys out there)
3. Do you wish on stars? No...what's the point
4. When did you last cry? Can't remember
5. Do you like your handwriting? i suppose...i like it enough not to try to work to make it better
6. What is your favorite lunch meat? honey ham
7. What is your birth date? Jan 27 1979 (ACKKKKKK I am like an adult already)
8. What is your most embarrassing CD? None...I sold those to Manifest long-g-g-g ago
9. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you? I'd love me
10. Are you a daredevil? It depends on the possible consequences are worth it
11. Have you ever told a secret you swore not to tell? Nope...i dont swear until i know that the secret is worth keeping....that s*** can get you in trouble
12. Do looks matter? OH YEAH...i don't want to wake up to someone who looks like they got hit with the back of the bus (feel free to use that one)
13. How do you release anger? say bad words....vent in my journal/blog www.ladulcecita.blogspot.com (shameless promo)...and some other ways that i won't mention here so as not to self-incriminate
14. Where is your second home? Nana's (which tells me I need a new second home considering she lives like 20 ft from me)
15. Do you trust others easily? nope...been burn tooooo many times
16. What was your favorite toy as a child? books, do they count? a fave toy? didn't have one....i guess i was a nerd...
17. What class in high school do you think was totally useless? SC history...i mean, come on, what interesting happened here????NOTHING
18. Do you have a journal? yep...and don't read any of them until I am DEAD
19. What is your dream vacation? any free vacation and i am not talking about those 3 day/2 night deals where i have to listen to timeshare idiots
20. Favorite movie(s): dancer in the dark (the ONLY movie that made me not just tear up but actually sob)
21. What are your nicknames? lil bit, dulcecita, mary, chocolatiada (thanks jorge)
22. Would you bungee jump? ummmmmm....no
23. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? nope. i lace my shoes to where they slip on and off....hey i do the same thing
24. Do you think that you are strong? i got some kickin legs -no pun intended
25. What's your favorite ice cream flavor? strawberry
27. What are your favorite colors? blue
28. What is your least favorite thing about yourself? am i conceited since i can't think of anything...i am happy with me right now (that could change next week, but for now...happy happy)
29. Who do you miss most? my mom (i know i went from funny to somber just like that)
30. Do you want everyone you send this to send it back? if you feel like it
31. What color pants are you wearing? cream
32. What are you listening to right now? crustation
33. What was the last thing you ate? ultimate BLT from Arbys .... yum yum
34. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? BLUE
35. What is the weather like right now? kind of chilly, its dark outside
36. Last person you talked to on the phone? my best buddy in the whole world
37. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? eyes (i'm a sucker for dreamy eyes, but if he's dumb he better not open his mouth...the dreamy eye thing only gets him so far)
38. Do you like the person who sent this to you? yep, shes cool.
39. How Are You Today? Tired...ready to go home...class has 15 minutes....i wish these kids would go on and leave early (its not proper to for the prof to leave before the students, if only they weren't workin so hard)
40. Favorite Drink? ameretto sour, mike's hard lemonade, rum and coke, lime margarita (am I a lush)
41. Favorite Sport? golf (4! cause you know i gonna hit somebody sooner or later)
42. Hair Color? black
43. Eye Color? brown
44. Do you wear contacts? if i want to see
45. Favorite Food? LAMB chops..OMG!!!
46. Last Movie You Watched? i cant remember...this question thing is too long.
47. Favorite Day(s): this question thing is too long.
48. Scary Movies Or Happy Endings? happy endings
49. Summer Or Winter? summer...i freakin HATE the cold
50. Hugs OR Kisses? hugs from family, kisses from **wink wink**.....
51. What Is Your Favorite Dessert? this question thing is too long.
52. Who Is Most Likely To Respond? dunno
53. Who Is Least Likely To Respond? dunno
54. Living arrangements? solita
55. What Books Are You Reading? nothing to enrich the mind
56. What's On Your Mouse Pad? piedmont tec
57. What Did You Watch Last night on TV?daily show
58. Favorite Smells? this question thing is too long.
59. Rolling Stones or Beatles? Beatles
60. What's the furthest you've been from home? Paris France

This really aggrevates me!

I don't like when people talk to hear themselves speak about things they are probably never going to do anyway. If you have something to say...FINE. But do not talk because you like the sound of voice. For example, I was talking to Person B about going on vacation. I don't have a definite date, but I have plans of where I want to go and and how I need to get my finances in order to do it. Its cool. I did not invite person B. I merely mentioned what I had going on because HE asked me what was new. He engaged me in conversation. Could he leave it at that. Nooooooo. He has to add more to the conversation.

"Yea, I am thinking about taking a trip myself this year," he says.

"Oh okay." I don't want the conversation to be all about me so I inquire.

"Yea. I'm thinking Miami, maybe a cruise, maybe European tour, or something."

"Oh." and I think to myself, "Wow, what a variety of places. Cool." Since my curiosity is peaked, I want to know more. He has me hooked. "Are you using Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia or local travel agency," I ask.

And now for the big let down...his blank face as if to say "Huh? What?"

I want to poke him in the eye because I wasted 5 minutes of my life of this conversation and he was obviously talking out of his A**! How can you talk about taking a trip with such certainty and you don't even know how you going to get to where you are going?!?!? At least KNOW what a travel agency is. Dummy.

And that is the sort of time wasting idiot behavior that annoys me the most. Because now you are wasting my time too. Leave me alone and go talk to your BS-ing friends. They are not annoyed because they don't have the common sense to ask follow-up questions.

Poor Tasmanian Devils

Is anyone feeling as sorry for the Tasmanian devil as I am? IF you listen to NPR, you know what I am talking about. Granted these little ornery bad-tempered marsupials are not the most sociable cuties in the mammal world (even though I think Looney Tunes did a lot for its image). But what is the deal with the face tumors that they are getting. It is an epidemic that threatens to drives them into extinction. The tumors grow so big that the throat closes and the little devil starves to death.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4513438

BTK killer

I read http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/06/btk.case.ap/index.html
They say that the BTK killer is depressed. Awwwww. WHO CARES? Why should we have any sympathy for this prick who obviously did not care about his victims? I mean he named himself BTK (bind, torture, kill). He is some kind of sicko who eluded the authorities for the last 30 years. But now that he is caught, he is feeling sorry for himself. All I know is that death is too good for him. This kind of pschyopath sicko needs to be in general population. He needs to be tossing some salad (all you who listen to Chris Rock know what I am taking about). And that is all I to say about that.

Recipe of the Day: Apple Cranberry Pie

Ingredients
3 pounds your choice baking apples (cored, peeled, and cut into wedges)
1 cup dried cranberries
2 pie crusts (you can make your own if you are feeling so inclined)
1/2 c white sugar
1/4 c dark brown sugar
3 tbsp all purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 salt
pinch of nutmeg
Juice of one lemon
Directions: Heat oven to 425 degrees. Toss apples and craberries in lemon juice. Mix sugars, flour, salt, and spices. Mix with apples and let that chill out for a few (about 10-15 minutes). Pour all that apple cranberry goodness into one of the pie crusts. Use the other pie crust to top. Cut slits into the top pie crust and sprinkle sugar (I use raw sugar for an extra sugary crunch). Bake for 45-60 minutes. Let cool and enjoy.

Martha Stewart

News Bulletin: Martha Stewart is still out of prison. Can I say "Hooray"? I have never rooted for someone who was getting out of prison before now. First of all, I think that whole incident was a raw deal for Martha (yes I am on a first name basis with her- even though she does not know it). I mean, she already lost because she sold her stock before it went through the roof. So they added to her misfortune by sticking her with jail time. I think there were certain people who celebrated her incarceration because they thought Martha was "Miss Perfect" and jail would bring her down a notch. Instead of hating her for her perfectionist attitude, they should embrace it. I do. I love reading her articles, watching her television shows, and buying her cookbooks. I have received a lot of very helpful suggestions from her. I cannot wait to see what she has to come in the future. But I guess I do have a skewed viewpoint, considering that I am a bit of a perfectionist myself.