Jackie D. and I were talking about the Real Housewives in my comments yesterday, and then Katherine reminded me that I have never linked to the BEST Housewives recap site EVER.
David Gilmore runs a site called Pretty on the Outside, and not ONLY does he do some awesome recaps of the show in writing – he also does some incredible art to illustrate the show.
I mean seriously, go look at this picture and tell me it’s not dead-on!
I don’t remember how I found it, but I’ve been reading it since at least last year. It’s one of my favorite things to do, read his recaps and guffaw at his pictures. He is so talented – AND he sells his artwork on Etsy, in case you ever needed your very own picture of Vicki to entertain you!
So go check out Pretty on the Outside – you might have to scroll down to get to the Housewives stuff (Housewives are not the ONLY thing he does – he’s multi-faceted and multi-talented!), but you won’t be sorry. And for sure, check out the comments, too – some of them are almost as good as Gilmore’s posts themselves!
Several years ago, my sister and I gave our Dad a Ronco Rotisserie for Father’s Day or his birthday or possibly Christmas (I don’t remember exactly, obviously), and when I visited later that year, we had a rotisserie chicken for dinner, and it was goooooood.
Ever since, I’ve kept in the back of my mind that I wanted to get our own rotisserie oven, and so when I logged onto Woot one day last week and saw that they were offering them for $19.99 plus shipping, I jumped on it.
For some reason, I thought it would be the full-sized oven, but when it came, I realized it was the Junior version. Which was actually fine with me – there are only two of us, how many chickens do we need to cook at one time, right?
Sunday, I sent Fred out to the garage freezer to find me a chicken to cook in the rotisserie (it needed to be a chicken with the skin still on, which is how he processes the younger chickens. The older chickens always need to be stewed or cooked in the crockpot because they can’t really be roasted – the legs are so tough they’re pretty much inedible when you roast them.), and then for dinner that night, I cooked it.
And it was AWESOME. I highly, highly recommend the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie. It’s simple to use, the cleanup is pretty easy, the results are very, very tasty, and if the day ever comes when we get the pantry into the house and in position, it won’t take up much space in the pantry.
It was a real Crooked Acres meal, in fact – chicken, born and raised here, green beans born and raised and canned here, and a pint of Pioneer Woman’s Best Baked Beans Ever, made by me and canned at some point in the Fall. Two thumbs up!
While I’m talking about awesome stuff we’ve bought recently, I think I mentioned at some point that our Blu Ray player is set up to work with Netflix. We just needed a way to connect it to the internet so it could access my Netflix stuff.
Fred looked around and told me we needed one of these. So I ordered it, it arrived, and then Fred set it up.
And then we completely ignored it for a few days, as is our way.
Last weekend, we needed something to watch, we were out of movies and out of recorded stuff, and finally Fred went and looked around on Netflix, and we decided to give Quarantine a try. We were a little concerned that the picture would be crappy, but the picture was just fine. It wasn’t Blu Ray quality, but there was nothing wrong with the picture, it was perfectly watchable.
The movie itself wasn’t bad, if a tad creepy. If you like creepy movies that make you jump, this might be the movie for you.
(Also, Jennifer Carpenter is not nearly as annoying in this movie as she was in the first season of Dexter.)
Um. What? YOU don’t have a trash can laying in your back yard for the cats to hang out in? What do your cats do when it’s raining out?
“What?”
Previously
2009: (Nance calls it “Fredding.” HA.)
2008: “The chickens are here!” he said.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
2004: OR MAYBE I JUST NEED A NEW COMPUTER.
2003: So, there. That’s my day so far.
2002: I’m a total calendar-having fool.
2001: No entry.
2000: No entry.
Just wait until you try pork chops in the Ronco (did you get a basket with it?)
We have also done a small roast in ours.
We bought a Blu Ray player for Christmas, and it came with the ability to stream Netflix and our lives have changed it tell you! Changed! Before with Netflix, the disc would get lost, or we’d get one and it would be cracked and we would have to send it back and wait. Ugh. But now, with the Netflix instant queue thing, we can watch when we want, most of the movies are little old, but ones we’ve never seen, and the quality has been excellent with only one exception. LOVE!
I’ve never had a problem with Netflix KNOCK ON WOOD because “The Hangover” is coming today!!
I LOVE recap sites! That is a fun one and I added it to my Reader … got any others you’d like to share??
That site is a blast Robyn. Your list of blogs is the best I’ve ever seen, I have gone there many, many times. I love the paintings of Vicki mu most hated Housewife ever. Ramona is nuts too but I can feel sympathy for her somehow-not Vicki, never. When they told her how it is at that lunch I was loving it. It didn’t work ofcourse but it was still fun to watch.
Has anyone seen Zombieland yet? I’m dying to see that. The preview looks good.
That site is wonderful! Thanks for telling us about it.
I forgot about the Woot wesite. I need to check that out again too.
Ok, I can’t find your blog roll! Am I blind? Stupid? Stupidly blind? Blindly stupid? All of the above?
Annnnnnnd I see it now. Geeeeeeeez.
Love the picture of Suggie!
Are those daffodils coming up by the tree?
Robyn, I am sooo excited you linked to those recaps. I’m saving them for weekend lunch reading (I know I shouldn’t eat at the computer, but food + fun web reading = guilty pleasure).
Part one of the reunion last night was pretty good. How come no one has, at any point, said, “Hey, Lynn! Here’s the footage where your daughter opened up and cried her eyes out to Gretchen. Does that jibe with the scenario she described to you?” I know Lynn seems sweet and stupid and harmless, but parents who claim to be great while neglecting their kids get no slack from me. PARENT YOUR CHILDREN! PS Your cuffs are effing ugly.
Tamra badly needs a haircut. Wouldn’t she look amazing with a Posh Spice-style bob (she reminds me of Victoria Beckham quite a bit in the face)? As for Gretchen, I’ve rarely encountered someone who one minute looks very pretty, and the next minute is straight-up…not.
As foul as I find Jim, and as stupid as I think Alexis is, I have to say, she looks fantastic (apart from her clothes, as always with these hussies).
Thank you. Jennifer Carpenter IS annoying. Or maybe it’s just that every time I look at her I see her all contorted like she was in The Exorcism of Emily Rose. CREEPY!