Pam 101

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Grandma Moreland would be proud!

When Pam101 was just a little 101 her babysitter, Grandma Moreland, would help her make biscuits out of the Jiffy box. Well she would be proud as Pam101 makes them today SANS box!

All good biscuits need lard!

Flour, lard and buttermilk. Sounds delicious.

Using my Grandma's rolling pin

Thanks Aunt Bev for the cutter

Ta Da! Egg and biscuits!

Jennifer Garner would be a cool friend

Olympic Torch Crosses into U.S.

From the Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet
After the massive protests that plagued the worldwide tour of the Olympic torch before China’s games, officials decided that the torch would only travel within the host country starting this year. But the rules were slightly bent on Tuesday when Philip Mahre, the American who won the 1984 gold medal in the alpine slalom, took hold of the Olympic torch at the Canadian border and carried it, for about a hundred steps, into Washington state’s Peace Arch State Park. It was the easiest border crossing the area will see for awhile, as the U.S. has beefed up border security before the Games. On Friday, Arnold Schwarzenegger will run with the torch in Vancouver.

Making biscuits on a Snowy Wednesday

Tyler Florence shares his recipe with you Pam101 fans

Ingredients

* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 tablespoon sugar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 cup vegetable shortening, chilled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
* 3/4 cup buttermilk

Directions

In a mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients together with a fork. Cut in the shortening using a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Make a well in the center and add buttermilk. Quickly fold dry ingredients into buttermilk with your hands until a sticky dough forms.

Turn dough out onto floured surface. Gently fold the dough over itself 3 or 4 times to create layers. Roll dough out to 3/4-inch thick. Cut with a 3-inch biscuit cutter. Transfer dough rounds to a sheet pan. Gather scraps and repeat. Make a dimple in the center to help the top rise evenly. Brush with butter. Bake for 15 minutes in a preheated 400 degree oven until golden brown.

Ellen makes her Idol debut!

I think Ellen is going to be a great addition to the show!

Topher's Back!

Topher is adorable!
"I took it from her and this is where I should've known something was weird because she said, 'do you want half, it's really strong?'" he said. "I said, like a rock star because I didn't know what was happening, I said, 'Babe, I think I can handle an entire breath strip.' I just popped it in."

Song of the Day

I really want the Heat Miser right now.

AM Edition of the Hotness

I feel like I am living in today's AM Hotness. It's a ....snow globe! All I see when I look out my windows is snow. It seriously is like being in a snow globe!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

A little Rob P on this snowy Tuesday night

Wonder if I can get LaBomb and Lils to see this while in Ireland?!?!

This made me laugh so hard I cried!

I love Ellen!!

PM Edition of the Hotness

Shovels. They are the PM Hotness! Everyone needs one to dig themselves out of this mess.

The stars come out for the big Valentine's Day Premiere

Valentine's Day Arrives Early With Star-Studded LA Premiere

Afternoon Funnies!

The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Sarah Palin Uses a Hand-O-Prompter

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Political Humor

Economy

Another reason to love Anne Hathway

Anne Hathaway's family left the Catholic Church because of its intolerance of homosexuality. Anne grew up wanting to become a nun but shunned Catholicism when she learned her older brother, Michael, was gay.

"The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out," she told British GQ. "Why should I support an organization that has a limited view of my beloved brother?"

But Episcopalianism didn't really take either.

"So I'm ... nothing," she said. "Fuck it, I'm forming. I'm a work in progress."

Huffington Post

Great, More Snow!

DC Snow Time Lapse VIDEO: Amazing!

The D.C. area is bracing for another major winter storm Tuesday that could dump more than a foot of fresh powder on a region struggling to recover from the crippling blast of snow that barreled through three days ago.

The National Weather Service has the entire D.C. metro area, from Prince William County north, under a winter storm warning for 10 to 20 inches of snow.

The snow is expected to start mid to late afternoon Tuesday and continue into Wednesday morning, with the heaviest falling overnight. Temperatures are expected to drop from near freezing at the onset into the 20s, and light southeasterly winds will turn to the northwest and gust up to 25 mph. The combination of snow and strong winds, the weather service warned, will make travel very hazardous.

Washington Examiner

Sneezing and Achy

Pam101 thinks she has a cold or the flu. Achy and sneezy. Sigh. And she is SICK of snow!

A broken heart

Dorothy Lee and her husband of 40 years were driving home from a Bible study group one wintry night when their car suddenly hit the curb. Mrs. Lee looked at her husband, who was driving, and saw his head bob a couple of times and fall on his chest.

In the ensuing minutes, Mrs. Lee recalls, she managed to avoid a crash while stopping the car, called 911 on her cellphone and tried to revive her husband before an ambulance arrived. But at the hospital, soon after learning her husband had died of a heart attack, Mrs. Lee's heart appeared to give out as well. She experienced sudden sharp pains in her chest, felt faint and went unconscious.

New research shows that dying of a broken heart isn't just a metaphor. WSJ's Ron Winslow talks with Simon Constable about studies that show real, and sometimes fatal, changes can occur in the heart after a traumatic breakup or death of a loved one.

When doctors performed an X-ray angiogram expecting to find and treat a blood clot that had caused Mrs. Lee's symptoms, they were surprised: There wasn't any evidence of a heart attack. Her coronary arteries were completely clear.

Doctors eventually determined that Mrs. Lee had suffered from broken-heart syndrome, a name given by doctors who observed that it seemed to especially affect patients who had recently lost a spouse or other family member. The mysterious malady mimics heart attacks, but appears to have little connection with coronary artery disease. Instead, it is typically triggered by acute emotion or physical trauma that releases a surge of adrenaline that overwhelms the heart. The effect is to freeze much of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, disrupting its ability to contract and effectively pump blood.

Wall Street Journal