Month: October 2021

Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes
Food & Nutrition

Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes

These no-boil slow cooker mashed potatoes are a great way to make homemade creamy mashed potatoes during Thanksgiving and Christmas while saving precious stovetop and oven space for the main dishes. This recipe really shines during Thanksgiving and Christmas when the stovetop and oven are full of turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole and sauces. The slow cooker makes it so you can still enjoy homemade mashed potatoes when space is at a premium during these stressful cooking days. Because it’s a no-boil method, you don’t need to boil the potatoes in water in advance or add any broth to the slow cooker. Just toss in your peeled and cut raw potatoes to the slow cooker, pour in some melted butter and slow cook for 4 hours. Adding sour cream makes it cre...
Read Paul McCartney’s Tribute to Dave Grohl at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction – Variety
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Read Paul McCartney’s Tribute to Dave Grohl at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction – Variety

When you think of Foo Fighters, do you think of… Wings? Paul McCartney does. He gave an induction speech Saturday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in Cleveland comparing his career after the Beatles’ breakup to Dave Grohl emerging like a phoenix out of the ashes of Nirvana’s untimely end with a new approach to music. McCartney also invoked rock ‘n’ roll’s “magical” powers as a talismanic lure both to Grohl — “an ordinary, kind of goofy kid” like himself. Foo Fighters performed “My Hero,” with a nod to the hero who was inducting them, But for a finale involving both parties, it would have to be a song that really is an everlong-standing classic — a team-up on “Get Back,” soon to be the title song of a major streaming three-part motion picture. McCartney made so...
Robert Englund on What Should Happen to Elm Street House for Sale – TMZ
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Robert Englund on What Should Happen to Elm Street House for Sale – TMZ

Play video content TMZ.com Whoever buys the "Nightmare on Elm Street" house is gonna have a helluva headache on their hands -- so says Freddy Krueger himself! We got Robert Englund at LAX, and sure enough ... the iconic horror actor weighed in on the fact that the L.A.-area home they used to shoot scenes in the OG flick is hitting the market for a pretty penny -- around $3.2 million. Check out how RE feels about it ... first, he tells us the crib actually served a great purpose off camera -- financially speaking -- so the new owner(s) will have that cool little nugget of history to hang their hat, on top of the already-swee...
Alec Baldwin breaks silence over film set death: She was my friend – The Independent
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Alec Baldwin breaks silence over film set death: She was my friend – The Independent

Alec Baldwin has made his first comments in public since the fatal shooting on the set of Rust. His voice hoarse and his face strained with grief, Baldwin told a reporter from BackGrid he had been gagged from speaking about the accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins by the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department. “She was my friend,” Baldwin said of Ms Hutchins, a 42-year-old married mother of one, who was killed at the Bonanza Creek Ranch on 14 October. “There are incidental accidents on film sets from time to time, but nothing like this,” he said. “This is a one in a trillion episode, a one in a trillion event.” Baldwin agreed to speak briefly to a reporter on the side of the road in Vermont, as his wife Hilaria stood filming the impromptu encounter on her cellphone nearby. Baldwin said he ...
Delta Surge of Covid-19 Recedes, Leaving Winter Challenge Ahead – The Wall Street Journal
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Delta Surge of Covid-19 Recedes, Leaving Winter Challenge Ahead – The Wall Street Journal

The Delta wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is past its peak, with new cases, hospitalizations and deaths declining in most states. The approaching holidays and winter months will test whether the U.S. can sustain that momentum. New Covid-19 case numbers in the U.S. are close to levels recorded near this time last year, with a seven-day average at about 72,000 a day, Johns Hopkins University data show. But the trajectory is opposite. Last fall, cases were rising while hospitalizations and deaths, trailing indicators, were starting to follow.
Jon Bon Jovi tests positive for COVID, cancels concert in Miami Beach – New York Post
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Jon Bon Jovi tests positive for COVID, cancels concert in Miami Beach – New York Post

Jon Bon Jovi was halfway there — then came the COVID test. The fully vaccinated star backed out of a Miami Beach concert minutes before he was supposed to take the stage because of a surprise positive COVID-19 test. The Jersey-born rocker had been scheduled to play at the Loews South Beach for an acoustic Halloween performance, when the “Living on a Prayer” singer’s brother took the stage with the bad news just as the show was about to kick off. Matt Bongiovi announced that Jon had tested positive for the virus after the band had all taken a rapid test, according to the Asbury Park Press. Bongiovi reportedly told disappointed fans that Jon “feels great” but would be going “to bed” instead of performing, according to WSVN.  A rep for Bon Jovi confirme...
Chris Evans Lightyear Casting No Disney Diss to Tim Allens Political Beliefs – TMZ
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Chris Evans Lightyear Casting No Disney Diss to Tim Allens Political Beliefs – TMZ

Tim Allen's political beliefs didn't play a factor in the re-casting of his signature Buzz Lightyear character -- Disney honchos simply believed the character needed a fresh voice for a new storyline ... TMZ has learned. Many folks were confused this week when the Mouse House announced its beloved "Toy Story" character would have a new voice a la Chris Evans. Fans speculated Tim Allen's political beliefs, namely his support for former President Donald Trump, might've had something to do with the new casting. ...
Philadelphia Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez reveals battle with cancer – WPVI-TV
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Philadelphia Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez reveals battle with cancer – WPVI-TV

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez announced on Saturday that she has been battling breast cancer. She made the announcement in a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed to raise awareness of the importance of regular screenings. Quiñones- Sánchez, who is 52, said she put off having a mammogram for 7 years. "I am waging my own fight against breast cancer, one that began this summer after I had my first mammogram in seven years," wrote the councilwoman. She says after her diagnosis, she had a mastectomy. She is now cancer-free after undergoing aggressive treatment. Quiñones-Sánchez is still undergoing chemotherapy and is set for another round of preventative care radiation. She hopes her story will convince other women to schedule a mammogram. ...
Whats Behind The Strange Drop in American Body Temperatures Over The Past 200 Years? – ScienceAlert
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Whats Behind The Strange Drop in American Body Temperatures Over The Past 200 Years? – ScienceAlert

The human body is often said to rest at a healthy internal temperature of 37 degrees Celsius, or 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This average was established two centuries ago in France, and yet in the meantime, it seems our 'normal' physiology has changed ever so slightly.   Early last year, researchers in the United States combed Civil War veteran records and national health surveys and found temperatures among men born at the turn of this century were 0.59 degrees Celsius cooler than those men born around two hundred years earlier. Women, on the other hand, had seen a 0.32 degrees Celsius decline since the 1890s.  At the time, the authors suggested it might have something to do with inflammation due to disease, which is closely tied to body temperature. With the rise of modern medicine, ...