Ellipsis Weekend Cooking... Gordon Ramsay's Focaccia Pizza

 

Sheet Pan Focaccia Pizza With Crush San Marzanos And Mozzarella

 - Gordon Ramsay - Recipe

I am a little under the weather today, but this sounds too good to pass up! I pretty much watch all of Gordon Ramsay's cooking shows, even Kitchen Nightmares. I have learned a lot from him about cooking from him. 

Clean, simple, delicious. 

Follow the links and enjoy!

Honeycomb Cake - Gordon Ramsay - Recipe

It's Lake Ontario

 

"I get to go places overseas... like Canada."

~Britney Spears

I think most Americans understand, and cherish, Canada as much as they should. Hell, ever Sarah Palin showed some fondness for Canada, when she shared her admiration for their health care, which she benefitted from when she was a child. 

"Believe it or not... this was in the 60's... we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse and I think, isn't that kind of ironic now. Zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."

~Sarah Palin

2010 Speech in Calgary, Canada

We get so much from Canada, not the least of which has been their unwavering support and friendship as a trading partner. The fought alongside us after 9/11 and have partnered in NATO. In fact, Canada supplies America some of the electricity Americans depend on. But I am sure Donald Trump realized none of that, when he took office. He has continuously threatened to take over Canada militarily, and make Canada the 51st state! Canada, by contrast, has been patient with the crazy, but it's was clear when the latest tariff fuss came to a fiery end, that Canada feels Trump's behavior can no longer tolerated. Thank God! 

Stand tall, Canada! Do what you have to do to fight Trump's attempts at fascism! But don't forget, Americans love you, Trump is alone in all this nonsense! Mostly. Remember, there will be better days. 

And now, a word from someone who gets it!

Stomach Flu Randomness

 

"Soylent Green is made of people!"

~Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston)

Soylent Green

So, I am in a random mood, therefore this is a random post! I am not feeling my best, getting better, but still a little out of it. Funny how random a stomach virus can be. A fever one minute, and then perfectly fine the next. And so goes the same with the other symptoms... use your imagination, or go on whatever experience you might have had. LOL. So, the following is a series of random videos, because, well, why not?

 Designing Women

Season 1 Episode 2

The Beauty Contest

October 6th, 1986

Contact Cold Medicine

(Vintage Commercial)

Fleetwood Mac

"Gypsy"

Nick's Kitchen

Classic New York Cheesecake (Extra Creamy)

The Ed Sullivan Shoe

Nancy Sinatra

"These Boots"

Wendy's

"Where's The Beef"

Three's Company

Season 6 Episode 25

"Up In The Air"

Alka Seltzer Commercial

Starring Jack Somack

And that's enough randomness for now. When you go random, what's good for you? Music, TV, retro fun? If you care to tell me, leave me a comment!

Not To Harp On It, But...

 

"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you , I would be your slave."

~Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Seriously. Natalie Harp needs help. How do I know? Because she displays the exact same obsession I witnessed one day, by a girl, who also had a lot of problems. Her name was Talia. She came for a visit and was staying at my mother-in-laws house. She wasn't visiting our family, she was an acquaintance of the minister of our church, yes, the man I briefly dated. At least he called those dates. It's debatable. Anyway, Talia became obsessed with the minister, and suddenly she announced that they were engaged, a fact he denied. Slowly she began to display odd behavior. Like that ne day, I think I have shared this story,  when my brother-in-law called me on the phone, and very sweetly demanded that we pick Talia up together, from the local "mental health clinic" where she had just been taken by ambulance. Something had set her off, we never found out what exactly what the problem had been, but there it was. 

Neither dear brother, nor or I, had any idea what to say to her on the car ride home. She sat in the backseat very quietly, with very dark eyes, staring off into space. Daryl and I were on the brink of nervous giggles, which was so bad under the circumstances, but what could we do, who knows if she was going to randomly freak-out? Fortunately, she didn't seem to notice our nerves! After we arrived home she went to her room, where she spent about an hour. When she emerged she was holding a large poster board with the words... "God became man as man became Gumby's." Yeah, I didn't get it either. Still don't. But I don't think about it that much either. Talia made her way back to Oregon in late August of that year, and after that, who needed to dwell. But that's not the same as forgetting all together!

Fast forward to Natalie Harp. Natalie is not Talia. She's worse. Both in her own behavior, and in her blind devotion to a serial abuser, misogynist, cheater, a man convicted by a jury of his peers of sexual misconduct and at the end of the day, he is a suspected pedophile. And that doesn't begin to cover the other characteristics of his personality, personal beliefs and decision making skills that have proven dangerous to this country! Does America need one more reason to be worried? Natalie is about one heartbeat away from turning into, Alex Deforest, from Fatal Attraction! Does America need to be wondering when Natalie will end up boiling Barron's bunny? She works in highest post of the United States government, she's more important than the president, she's Trump's Binky. And in that she's already moved culture, and probably military policy with her inane posts, such as the one depicting Trump as Jesus, she's already made some deeply negative impressions.

None of this was ever on my bingo card... and I don't know why?

Ellipsis Movie Of The Week... The Italian Job

 

"I tool John Bridger's advice.

 I found somebody I want to spend the rest of my life with,

 and I'm going to hold on to her forever."

~Charlie Croker ( Mark Wahlberg ) 

The Italian Job 2003

I love The Italian Job, for so man reasons, not the least of which is it's use of my beloved Mini Cooper! In fact both this version of the film, and the original, paid tribute to the coolest car ever! But both movies are rather excellent suspense movies! The have different feels, but the same general story, both are the heists of a lifetime, with some romance along the way! I give it 5 popcorn buckets. Now... go watch it! In fact go watch them both if you can find them! The two make a great double feature!

The Italian Job

 1969

Featured in The Italian Job (2003)

California Soul

By Marlena Shaw

Bracelets

 

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

~Jim Rohn

So, this weekend was fun! Well, no, not really, but it was interesting. Late last week I started not feeling well, my stomach was crampy, and it was exceptionally painful. I wasn't able to do basic bodily functions, use your imagination, so I bought some over the counter remedy... which didn't work. Ugh. But Friday night things got kicked up a notch when I started vomiting clear liquid with bile in it, and ooh, lookie there, I had a fever! Not too high of a fever, just enough to be interesting. My blood pressure also spiked, and my is that bile in my vomit I see? So... okay... it was time to call the advice nurse. So I did. I gave her all my symptoms, she consulted with an on-call doctor, who said I needed to go the nearest emergency room. Pronto. So I did.

We got there a little before midnight, and all around me was the usual sights and sounds. People, like me, vomiting, and talking about the fact that they had been exposed to Covid. YIKES! Because regardless of what was wrong with me in the moment, it didn't help things to know that I had now, definitely, been exposed to Covid-19. GOD! There were folks who looked almost like they weren't ill at all, and then there were folks who were kicking drugs. And others still who didn't look like they would make it through the night, let alone survive sitting up in a packed emergency room for hours on end!

 Sigh.

 It was a Friday night in an emergency room. 

I got two bracelets for my troubles at check in. One that displayed my ID, and the other flagged for all my allergies... and there are a few! Mostly sulfa class antibiotics, and other assorted food allergies. So, as I said I was all set, and waiting for the doctor. Good. Help was on the way. The pain would be gone soon. So we waited. And waited. And waited. Pretty soon 4 and 1/2 hours went by without being called, but somewhere nearby they were giving out blankets, because it was freezing where they put us. Why did they move us? Because a man near me was kicking drugs so bad that he was apparently seeing demons.

We finally left. I am home feeling like shit. Running a fever and wondering... was it food poisoning from the scary Chipotle meal that was delivered through Uber Eats? More on that later. Was or is it the Norovirus? Covid-19? Cyclospora that hasn't been reported? I just don't know. I really don't. And now I hear that Trump is planning to invade the market with "mystery meat." Folks, learn to live without beef for a while, you have a right to know what goes into your body. I have something really wrong going on and I don't know why. I am fairly sure I will be fine in a few days, at least I hope so. But it's so discouraging to do everything your told to do when handling food. You pressure yourself on food safety, and I still ended up with Covid-19 twice, and whatever this is!

Folks there is something coming, and Trump will never admit when it's here.

 But can we all avoid what's coming? I just don't know. 

Ellipsis At 23

 

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"Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and director who you can ask for help, any time from up above."

~ Happy Positivity

Can it be? 23 years has passed so quickly! I kinda have to pinch myself. I was able to keep this blog going, despite making several social media exoduses and through any number of high stress situations both in the new, and in real life! I don't mind admitting, I am proud of what I have accomplished. I am keeping my commitment to keep myself sane. I am keeping my commitment to writing Ellipsis, because it is the story of me. It is 23 years out of my life. I haven't shared every inch and dusty corner, but I have shared what has been the most profound moments. Moves from hell, assorted cats, Trump drama, beautiful gardens, my wonderful birds. My first, second and third Mini Coopers. Movies. Twitter friends come and gone, my autumn leaf collections. You know... life. My life! This year, I am especially proud of this blog, because for the first time, in a long time, I didn't take spring and most of summer off! I feel good about that!

Onward!