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Eco Expo!

Submitted by Kym Clark on Friday, January 6th, 12:50 pm

The hugely successful Eco Expo is back with even more exhibitors showing us how to treat our earth more gently with green products, materials, services, and organizations.

Exhibitors will be offering ideas and information, and some will be selling their products and services.

The Expo is Sunday February 5th, 2012 from 11am until 3pm at Temple Israel--1376 East Massey Road...Memphis, TN.

For kids and adults of all ages, there’s something for everyone!

Learn, eat, explore, or just visit with some really nice people.

Remember the proverb, “Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children.”

We are working together with our fellow community leaders and congregations of all faiths to help save the planet.

E-mail TIMemphisEcoExpo@msn.com or call Linda Kaplan 482-6473 for more information.

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Food and Wine for the Holidays

Submitted by Samantha Davidson on Monday, December 5th, 4:19 pm

It is a popular holiday present and beverage...wine.

Now one Oxford restaurant wants to help you get the best wines for the season.

Ravine is holding its final Wine Paring Dinner of 2011 this Wednesday, December 7th.

Ravine's Chef Joel Miller and wine expert Shanna Flaschka will help you find wines that are both affordable and work well with your holiday meal.

For the dinner, five courses will cost just $25 per person.

The dinner begins at 6PM.

You can make your reservations by calling 662-234-4555.

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Yellow cake with French silk chocolate frosting

Submitted by Krista Pennie Myers, News Producer

Sunday, September 11th, 2011, 10:49pm

Yellow cake with French silk chocolate frosting

Here's a great cake recipe that's sure to be a hit with your friends and family!

Make your favorite yellow cake recipe or box cake. Make cake in two, eight inch round pans. After cake is cooled, slice each layer in half horizontally so you now have four layers.

Frosting:

1/4 lb. butter or margarine (1 stick)

3/4 cup sugar (white granulated)

2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add melted chocolate and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, beating for 5 minutes after each. Chill before spreading on cake. Frost between layers and top of cake. Refrigerate.

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Holy mole go away!

Submitted by Janice Broach, Reporter

Thursday, September 8th, 2011, 11:23am

Are they digging to China?

Have you ever spent time walking around your lawn stomping down mole tunnels?

It can be frustrating and doesn't get rid of the moles who are dining on your grubs and worms. Most of the things you've heard of - poison gas cannisters, poison bait, mothballs, vibrating devices like small wind decorations - do not work.

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Quick tips on watering your lawn

Submitted by Janice Broach, Reporter

Friday, August 5th, 2011, 9:30pm

With the dog days of summer bearing down, our lawns are longing for a drink of water. But how much water does a lawn need and when should it happen. It's clear a great lawn needs watering.

Here's what the experts say: water in the morning. Doing it at night is discouraged because the water can cause disease and fungus. Deep watering is preferred for a great lawn. Thirty to forty minutes is recommended.

Photo courtesy Flickr user Robert S. Donovan.

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To keep or kill, your landline phone

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011, 1:52pm

The landline phone just made the same list as the Trout Cod, the Maccoa Duck and the Altai Weasel.

The endangered species list.

In the age of unlimited long distance, texting and messaging cell plans, the landline's on life support.

Yet Josh Elledge, Chief Executive "Angel" of SavingsAngel.com, said there's an argument for keeping your landline. Actually, four:

* GREATER RELIABILITY. "Particularly if your cell phone doesn’t get great coverage at home," said Elledge. "The argument can be made for either side regarding reliability in a power outage. Personally, my home phones are cordless - so a power outage would leave me unable to use them unless plugged into to a generator - or battery backup. Still, many people believe that non-powered landline phones are the most reliable method of phone communication."

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Andy Wise's Swiss Cheese-Stuffed Hamburgers

Submitted by Andy Wise, Chief Consumer Investigator/Andy's Restaurant Scorecard

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011, 1:23pm

Andy Wise's Swiss Cheese-Stuffed Hamburgers

2 pounds Ground Chuck (80/20, enough fat to burn on grill and flavor the meat)

1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce

1 tsp Tabasco sauce

1 tsp fresh thyme

1 tsp minced garlic

1 tsp fresh ground pepper, preferably from a mill

1 tsp Kosher salt or Penzey's 4/S Season Salt

Package of Laughing Cow Swiss cheese wedges

Put ground beef in a mixing bowl. Add Worcestershire, Tabasco, thyme, garlic, ground pepper and salt. Knead ingredients into the beef. Make patties 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch thick.

With your finger, poke a hole or indention in the middle of each patty. Add 1/2 or whole wedge of Swiss cheese to hole/indention. Form patty around cheese wedge like a ball, then re-shape into 1/4-1/2 inch patty, spreading cheese through patty.

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