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- NEW MOON REUNION "We had around 200 people - tourists, locals - watching like it was theater," Stewart says of Bella and Edward's Italian reunion. "They'd be quiet for filming, and at the end of every take they'd applaud. I crashed through the fountain and into Rob's arms - we must have done it 15 times - and they'd clap every single time."
- BREAKING DAWN - PART 1'S WEDDING It wasn't easy to keep Stewart's wedding dress a secret. "They put me in f---ing Volturi cloak," she says. But she loves to remember that trip down the aisle. "It's this feeling I had that it was like a real wedding. I have these memories of it that are not in keeping with a movie set. It feels like my memories. You have room in your mind for character, and then there's room for yourself. That memory is definitely more mine."
- TRUCK STOP Stewart fondly recalls one "random" scene from Twilight. "I'm washing my truck, and Rob drops in on me suddenly," she says. "It was so tense shooting Twilight, and here's this little scene that felt like it was out of an 80's teen movie. He does this cool little move, and we're sort of dancing around each other. We still talk about this scene and how fun it was. He remembers what I was wearing. I remember everything about that day."
- ONE LAST DANCE The final scene Stewart ever shot with Lautner is also one of her favorites. "Dancing together at the end of Bella's wedding was incredibly emotional," she says. "We listened to Christina Perri's A Thousand Years,' and it was perfect - for the characters and us, too."
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A beautiful bedroom is non-negotiable. As your personal retreat, the bedroom is the one space in the home where "pretty" is imperative, no matter how otherwise earthy or eclectic your decorating style.
Sleep Easy, Snow-White Style
Creamy white is the dominant color in this 19th-century Boston townhouse's bedroom. It creates serenity and sets the room apart from the darker paneling and earth tones featured elsewhere in the home. The simple white bed curtains drape from brass, accentuating the bed's golden glow to give the room polish. Gold is repeated on the picture frames to unify the design, but with great subtlety. The only pattern is the floral silk taffeta on the bench and the chair's throw pillow.
Tip: Just a dab of pattern keeps the visual interest up but the decibels low.
Interior design: Chris Drake and Lee Bierly
Cocoon Your Bedroom
Cream organdy curtains drape around the bed to cocoon this Beacon Hill bedroom in calm. (The same fabric and drapery treatment decorate the windows as well.) Bedding is white on white. Even the headboard exudes snowy white comfort with its tufted upholstery. A whisper of color emanates from the walls, painted a gentle dove-gray. When the design goal is quiet, classic beauty, white is a best bet palette.
Interior design: Chris Drake and Lee Bierly
Spring-Fresh Bedroom Style
Walls painted the color of palm fronds lend a tropical mood appropriate for the master bedroom in this Florida home. But without overkill. The room is kept pretty, not theme-ish, thanks to a shapely white-painted bed and other white wood furnishings. All artwork is botanical for a breath of spring that nails the design as fresh. The botanicals' white backgrounds and frames contrast with the green walls for a near-perfect pop that stops well short of explosive. Bedding is feminine—note the scalloped-edge white pillows, which are outlined in green welting, and the full bed skirt whose pattern matches the upholstered headboard.
Interior design: Elizabeth "Betsy" Speert
Art Accentuates the Bedroom's "Pretty"
Art is arguably the most personal, and subjective, design decision you'll ever make. Artworks for the bedroom can be more light-hearted and whimsical than those displayed in other rooms, to ensure a proper dose of "pretty." Really, they're for your eyes only, so if the pieces make you happy, mission accomplished. The botanicals displayed in this Florida bedroom imbue the space with a soft decorative flourish.
Tip: Arrange an art collection to wrap around the top of your bed. By defining your bed (especially if it has an unusual shape), the art dramatizes it.
Interior design: Elizabeth "Betsy" Speert
Beloved Collections Belong in the Bedroom
As your ultimate private escape, the bedroom demands decorating that showcases your favorite personal "things." Its success can be gauged by how well it incorporates the collections, art, furnishings, and fabrics that speak to who you are. The master bedroom in this New York City apartment brings some of the owner's most important American folk art paintings and collectibles to her bedside. The signed 1812 John Brewster Jr. portrait above the bed, in fact, is currently on loan to the Museum of American Folk Art. The khaki-colored modern upholstered custom bed is a modern and neutral counterpoint to the antique artworks.
Interior design: Eric Cohler
Expand Your Bedroom's View
The bedroom you just saw in the previous slide includes a brilliant bonus: pocket doors that slide open to command a view of the adjoining library. This means that the owners' favorite "things" aren't limited to the bedroom's conservative square footage. Other beloved collections including American Indian pottery and books are part of the bedroom's view. Note: Even the TV is perfectly positioned on the library's bookshelves for watching in bed.
Interior design: Eric Cohler
Ice-Blue Imparts Cool Bedroom Beauty
Damask drapery panels jumpstarted this bedroom design in the Junior League of Boston Showhouse. The fabric's icy color established the room's blue and gray palette as well as the its soft, luminous feel. Designer Laura Glen created a focal point with a wall-mounted corona from which blue-and-gray checked silk cascades down to cradle a white, Swedish-style headboard, upholstered in a stripe that reinforces the room's pale scheme. The design's cool Nordic beauty extends to the bed's plump layers of pillows encased in white cotton with minimal blue embroidered accents.
Interior design: Laura Glen
Decorate for Luminous Delight
Designer Laura Glen upped the glamour in her bedroom designed for the Junior League of Boston Showhouse with a tall, silver-leafed screen. Placed in the corner of the room to hide a radiator and pipes, the screen bounces light and reinforces the shimmery mood introduced by the damask draperies, starting-point of the design. A secondhand chair covered in the same silk check as the bed's canopy features a flirty, short pleated skirt to complete the feminine theme.
Interior design: Laura Glen
Natural-Beauty Bedroom
Soft sage green walls set the stage for a master bedroom designed to exude natural beauty. The organic theme is expressed underfoot with a natural-fiber area rug from Van Dyke. An unframed painting by the homeowner's mother is centered above a white-upholstered chair for a clean, understated elegance.
Interior design: Leah Richardson
Organic Escape
The natural-style decorating in this Florida home extends to the master bedroom's window treatments. Simple drapery panels in a neutral solid color are underscored by beautifully grained bamboo roller blinds that filter the bright southern sun. In addition to their functional purpose, the blinds contribute to the room's textural mix of organic materials. A four-poster British Colonial-style bed feels at home in the coastal environment.
Interior design: Leah Richardson
Small But Sexy Bedroom
An under-the-eaves bedroom with limited space makes the most of every inch with a design that's sleek, sensual, and packed with surprise. The first is underfoot. The wood floor is painted with an unexpected oversize diamond pattern whose large scale actually expands the perception of space. Touch-me lamb's-wool pillows add a sensual accent atop the bed. Stationing the bed in front of the windows utilizes space wisely, as does placement of a glam French-style mirrored dresser in the dormer niche.
Interior design: Robert Wrubel and Carmina Renedo
Gracefully Glamorous Bedroom
Designed for the Pilgrim Hall Museum Showhouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the compact under-the-eaves bedroom by Robert Wrubel and Carmina Renedo lives large and lovely. A variety of clear blues blends with creams and taupes in a serene and space-enhancing scheme. A Lucite table lets in the light and presents minimal mass. Along with a streamlined chaise, it attends to the need for an area other than the bed for reading and lounging.
Interior design: Robert Wrubel and Carmina Renedo
Blue-on-Blue Bedroom
Touted as the favorite color of the majority of people, blue beautifies this bedroom from top to bottom—literally. Designer Chris Benson, who designed the space for the Junior League of Boston Showhouse, left virtually no surface untouched by blue. She daubed the defining color on the ceiling and carpet; glued it to the walls as a paper patterned in a delicate Chinese landscape; finished off the furnishings with a blue velvet ottoman. She even painted her custom tester bed pale blue.
Interior design: Chris Benson
Blue-on-Blue Bedroom
Baby blue looks all grown up in this Junior League of Boston Showhouse bedroom designed by Chris Benson. The fragile Chinese landscape depicted in the traditional blue wallpaper contrasts with the sharp-edged modern shape of a Parsons-style desk, finished with cream-colored stria. The desk serves as a platform for a contemporary painting in a shade of blue that almost disappears into the wallpaper behind it. An 18th-century French caned desk chair brings the design back to a more traditional bent.
Interior design: Chris Benson
Mirror, Mirror on the Bedroom Wall
A well-designed bedroom bears looking at, again and again. The master bedroom's wall of variously sized convex mirrors in this Traditional Home's Built for Women Showhouse assures a second look—and a third and a fourth. Defining the wall behind the bed as a focal point, the mirrors' reflective sparkle adds a note of glamour while staying safely within the realm of traditional style (not too Hollywood "out there"). Black frames on the mirrors also relate to the black bed and black curtain rod, making this dark shade the accent that binds the design.
Interior design: Barbara Westbrook
Gilty Pleasure by Design
The master bedroom of Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier is a gilt-dipped design fit for a star. Decorated by his wife, Joanna, it continues the formal traditional style of the public rooms with its rich velvets and silks and glowing gilded wood. The bed is the pièce de résistance: gilded classical architectural columns tower towards the ceiling where they are met by a bridge of lavishly carved crown molding for a one-of-a-kind headboard. In the space between the columns, an ornate gilded mirror is flanked by gold-leafed sconces.
Interior design: Joanna Poitier
Refined Rusticity
Venetian plaster walls and warm desert light bathe the master bedroom of this Arizona house in a gentle golden glow. The design pays tribute to its Southwestern locale with a Native American-style kiva fireplace and displays of pottery, but elements like the wing chair, Oriental rug, and nailhead-studded antique leather trunk provide a traditional appeal that's more universal.
Tip: In any region with a strong decorating style of its own, it's fine to honor that style but it's even better to enlarge it, including more universal features to help the style wear well without becoming tiresome or clichéd.
Interior design: Patty Burdick
Elegant Proportions
This St. Louis home's beautiful master bedroom is a celebration of beautiful proportions. The architecture is just right, from the dimensions of the coved ceiling to how the ceiling relates to the scale of the small-pane casement windows. The sweep of the poster bed conquers vertical space with just spot-on precision, and the bench at the foot of the bed adds necessary weight to keep the room balanced. Note how the chandelier's large scale but delicate form is exactly what is needed.
Interior design: Marshall Watson
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Before the age of computers and vinyl printers, sign painters worked by hand to illustrate storefronts, billboards and banners. Local craftsmen often developed a signature style that could distinguish a neighborhood, or even a city.
But technology made creating signs less expensive — and less expressive. Sign Painters, a new book and documentary written and directed by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, focuses on dozens of artists who are keeping the art alive.
Before Macon began working on the film, he said never thought much about sign painting.
"I had never really given any thought to the fact that this is someone's job, and the fact that individuals across America were painting signs regionally that defined the way the United States looked," Macon told NPR's Neal Conan.
Once word got out about the project in the sign-painting community, they were flooded with personal stories. "We were totally inundated in the best way, and we ended up having more content than we could track down," Macon said.
One of the painters featured in the project is Norma Jeanne Maloney. She opened her business, Red Rider Paint and Sign Studios, in 1996 in San Francisco, then relocated to Nashville; she now lives in Austin.
She says she's been captivated by typography since she was a child.
"I wouldn't do anything else regardless of what the pay is," she says. "It's like having canvasses all over town of your art."
She remembers moving to Nashville and trying to make a name for herself. She offered to paint the sign of a Nashville bar for free and got six other job offers that day.
"I handed out my cards, and I basically painted lower Broadway," says Maloney.
Macon says he hopes the project will bring new life to the craft. "Whenever you set out on a project like this, you sort of have an idea that you're going to go out and define sign painters. And as we shot more and more, and met more interesting people, we realized that you can't define a sign painter any better than you can define a radio host."
Before the age of computers and vinyl printers, sign painters worked by hand to illustrate storefronts, billboards and banners. Local craftsmen often developed a signature style that could distinguish a neighborhood, even a city. Technology made signs less expensive and less expressive.
NORMA JEANNE MALONEY: But how many people dropped down the brush and got a machine is astounding to me. I mean, hundreds of sign painters just threw in the towel. Like they've been lettering signs for years and said, well, we got this plotter and it's faster and there's more money in it and might as well - how do you walk away from your craft like that, you know? I just felt I can't wrap my brain on it at all.
CONAN: That's Norma Jeanne Maloney, one of the few who still hand paint signs. She's featured in the documentary and a book about her endangered art. What's the sign in your neighborhood that defines your town? 800-989-8255. Email us:email@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION. Norma Jeanne Maloney joins us now. She's the proprietor of Red Rider Studios and she's with us from her studio in Austin, Texas. Good to have you on TALK OF THE NATION today.
MALONEY: It's good to be here.
CONAN: You describe a moment when you move from San Francisco to Nashville, and nobody there knew your work. Tell us what happened when you made an offer to a bar owner?
MALONEY: Well, basically I wanted to get my foot in the door in Nashville so I told her I would paint a sign for free if she'd let me do it because I knew one sign is on the ladder, I'd probably drum up some business.
CONAN: And did it work out?
MALONEY: It sure did. I got six jobs that day.
CONAN: So people just saw you doing and said wait a minute, that looks good to me.
MALONEY: Absolutely. There weren't any real sign painters in Nashville, and there was a lot of old faded stuff on the street, on lower Broadway and they'd go, ah, I didn't know anyone do this anymore and so I handed out my cards and I basically painted lower Broadway.
CONAN: But those owners of businesses must've known that the computerized vinyl is cheaper and faster.
MALONEY: Absolutely, they did. But, you know, I didn't make a lot of money in Nashville but I did paint a lot of signs.
CONAN: And is that its own reward?
MALONEY: Absolutely. Absolutely I wouldn't do anything else regardless of what the pay is.
CONAN: And I know you say when you go back to San Francisco, some of your signs are still there.
MALONEY: Yes. They are, and that's quite a treat. It's like having canvasses all over town. That's (unintelligible) of your art.
CONAN: How did you get into this business?
MALONEY: Well, I was 18 years old and somebody asked me to repaint some lettering on a window and I said I would be happy to do it. They said, you're good at art. I was using the wrong paint and the wrong brush and this guy came up on a bicycle, he had a long beard and he said, are you a sign painter? And I said, no, and I don't want to be because it was a horrifying experience. He said I'll be right back and then about 20 minutes he came back and he had some one-shot sign paint and a lettering quill and loaded it up for me and said try this, honey and it was - the gates of heaven opened up and it was a whole different experience. And he was just riding away and I was like thanks, stranger.
CONAN: Who was that masked man?
MALONEY: I have no idea. I'd like to thank him now. It changed my life.
CONAN: I'm sure you've had your share of disasters, though.
MALONEY: I absolutely have.
CONAN: Like?
MALONEY: Well, it's always nice when you fall off a ladder. It's really great when you put a pattern up and it takes you two hours and a big San Francisco wind comes and blows it down the street.
MALONEY: Even more amusing is the painting a sign and slipping it over to paint the other and painting it upside down and not realizing it until you've installed it at the client's location.
CONAN: That might require a few extra hours of work.
MALONEY: Absolutely.
CONAN: Now, you've worked as a sign painter. We mentioned in San Francisco, Nashville, and now Austin. What are the differences in those places?
MALONEY: Well, Austin, like San Francisco, has a great aesthetic quality. People here really care what their storefronts look like. So it's similar to San Francisco, but the sign painting is kind of taking off and having resurgence, basically, I think, based on this film and this book and kind of the revitalization that people are feeling about the craft.
CONAN: Well, let's bring in one of the people who's worked on the book. They're both called "Sign Painters." Sam Macon co-wrote and co-directed the documentary with Faythe Levine, and he joins us now from member station WBEZ in Chicago. Nice to have you with us today.
SAM MACON: It's great to be here. Thanks.
CONAN: And this is one of those crafts that I guess I didn't realize truly existed until I saw your book about it.
MACON: Well, and that's actually, sort of, the origin of the project in a lot of ways. Faythe Levine, my co-director, we had collaborated on a number of projects in the past, all like shorter format. And we wanted to work on something longer and she said, what about a documentary covering sign painting? And I said the same thing that people for the past four and a half years have said to me since we started this whole thing. I said, what do you mean sign painting?
CONAN: What do you men, yeah.
MACON: And just by asking that question and myself being a relatively aesthetically minded person, I gravitate towards, you know, good signage or, you know, the interesting looking cafe on the corner as opposed to the, you know, the chain, you know? I was surprised that I never really given any thought to the fact that this was someone's job. And that is, you know, the fact that individuals across America were painting signs, sort of regionally, you know, really developed a lot of my aesthetic preferences and defined the way, you know, the United States looked.
CONAN: There is so much expression - and I've seen some of your work in the book, Norma Jeanne Maloney. There's so much expression in what you do and yet, in a way, you're invisible.
MALONEY: Invisible? I never thought of it like that.
MALONEY: Yeah, I guess so. I guess so.
CONAN: Let's see if we'd get some callers in on the conversation. We're talking about sign painters. What's the sign that defines your town? 800-989-8255. Email us: firstname.lastname@example.com. And Cathy is one the line with us from St. Charles in Missouri.
CATHY: Hello?
CONAN: Hi. You're on the air. Go ahead, please.
CATHY: Oh, thank you. Actually, it's Crystal City, Missouri.
CONAN: Oh, I apologize.
CATHY: No, it's not your fault. Don't worry. First, let me say this is really an honor to be able to talk to you, and I'm devastated about the news about the program.
CONAN: Well, thank you.
CATHY: And - well, my dad was a sign painter all of his life, and he always liked to say he started at age 13. He lettered - or he just drew his sister's name on one of her schoolbooks and then everybody started wanting to have it. So he - that's what he did until just before he died at 76.
CONAN: Is there some of his work that's still around?
CATHY: Oh, absolutely. And I was just - I was so enjoying listening to her talk about, you go back to the city and you can see the work.
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
CATHY: I see my dad's work all over town. And people don't get their - the sides of their trucks and their store signs and all kinds of things re-lettered because they know they're not going to get the quality, and it just kind of goes on forever.
CONAN: Which - of your dad's pieces, that are still around, which is your favorite?
CATHY: Oh, gosh. Well, he painted for Crystal City, we're on the Mississippi River. And for the entrance into town sign, he hand painted this (unintelligible) the steamboat.
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
CATHY: And it was beautiful. And they let that go until almost you couldn't see it anymore. And then they had to take it down. But he did a huge tire in town for a tire company, and you could see it for a long way away, and everybody talked about it. So - and (unintelligible) there's a dump truck company that still has their name painted on the sides of their trucks, that he did, and don't want to paint it.
CONAN: Thanks very much for the phone call, Cathy, and thanks very much for the kind words too.
CATHY: Oh, no problem at all.
CONAN: Sam Macon, there are so many examples of great art like that like Cathy's father did, these wonderful signs that are fading. And she's right, they'll never be replaced.
MACON: Well, we're hoping that they will be. And though they won't be, you know, replicated or replaced exactly the same, you know, in the - we began the film not sure if we would be able to find enough people to, you know, get the content that we needed. And then once we began - the word got out that we had begun, you know, assembling this project, we were totally inundated in the best way, of people giving us calls or emails just like that saying, you know, my dad is a sign painter, my friend is a sign painter, my grandfather was a sign painter.
And we ended up having more content than we could track down, and these were, you know, living people, working sign painters that are still out there. So just because ultimately a sign that her father painted years and years ago may be fading into non-existence, when they need to replace it, they could connect with one of the, you know, sign painters still at it, of which there are many, and get them to replace it as opposed to, you know, whipping something up at the local, you know, Fast Signs.
CONAN: Let's get Stephanie on the line. Stephanie is with us from Waverly in New York.
STEPHANIE: Hi. How are you?
CONAN: I'm well. Thank you.
STEPHANIE: This is so timely 'cause I jumped into my car to go buy more supplies for a project I'm working on right now, and here's the story on air so I had to call.
CONAN: You're a sign painter.
STEPHANIE: I don't do it as my primary employment, but it's something I'm always doing. And, you know, I don't think I could make a living off of it, unfortunately, but there's always people who need hand-painted work, which is, you know, which is my passion and it's so fun to do.
CONAN: And what are you working on today?
STEPHANIE: Today I'm doing a t-shirt design for a dirt bike racer, kind of a custom design. But I mentioned to the screener, my favorite project from recent times was an old scuba tank that my husband welded fins on the bottom and kind of made it look like an old World War II-style bomb. And it's for a photographer friend of ours who does like pinup-style photo shoots. So this prop bomb needed some hand lettering.
And, of course, you can't go to the vinyl cut sign computerized place and have it done, so had me paint cherry bomb on the side of this bomb and he plans to use it in his photo shoot. So, you know, it's very pleased to be able to provide something for another artist in his art form and then my have work be - memorializing whatever photo shoot that ends up being used in.
CONAN: Norma Jeanne Maloney, I know it's not the only thing you're concerned about but it must be difficult to make a living doing this?
MALONEY: Actually, no. I've been making a living at this for 25 years. They've been some years that were, I think, say, in Kentucky gravy on a biscuit and some years that were kind of lame but I always have just, you know, stuck it out. But, yeah, I make a living at it. Absolutely.
CONAN: And do you have a lot of competition?
MALONEY: Actually, there aren't that many sign painters, and the sign painters that are here in Austin are my friends. I don't think we look at each other as competitors. It's more like a family. So if a job comes in now that someone doesn't want to handle, they'll refer it to me and I do likewise. So I enjoy about the trade.
CONAN: And, Sam Macon, looking at your book, it does seem that this is a - well, I was going to say fraternity but obviously a sorority as well.
MACON: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it really does - certainly when it was, you know, a very robust industry, lots of different people were sign painters, and that remains true today. And, you know, whenever you set out on a project like this, you sort of have an idea that you're going to go out and define sign painters. And as we've shot more and more and met more interesting people, we realized that, you know, you can't define a sign painter any better that could define what is a radio host.
CONAN: So, Stephanie, thanks very much for the phone call.
STEPHANIE: Thank you guys. It's a great topic. Keep up the good work out there.
CONAN: Thank you. And we'd like to give our thanks also to Norma Jeanne Maloney, the proprietor of Red Riders Studios at Austin, Texas. Thanks very much for your time.
MALONEY: Thank you very much.
CONAN: And Sam Macon, the co-director and co-author of "Sign Painters," a book and documentary. He collaborated with Faythe Levine. His film is screening in Milwaukee on May 16th, Chicago May 17th, and you can find a link for more information on the movie at our website. He joined us from member station WBEZ in Chicago. Thanks very much.
MACON: Thanks for having me. It's fun.
CONAN: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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As the new success of NASCAR Now's one hour Monday "roundtable" builds, ESPN2 continues to shuffle the panelists each week.
The original format included one former NASCAR driver, one former NASCAR crew chief and one NASCAR journalist. This line-up gave three good perspectives from which host Allen Bestwick could draw.
On this Monday after Talladega, the journalist slot was empty as the network went with an "all NASCAR champion" panel. Joining Bestwick was former driver Dale Jarrett who is now ESPN's lead NASCAR analyst. Jarrett makes any program on which he appears much better, and this edition of NASCAR Now was no exception.
The interesting part of the program was the decision to invite two men who were both former champion crew chiefs and NASCAR team owners. It was ESPN race analyst Andy Petree and brand new ESPN contributor Ray Evernham who made-up the rest of the panel.
This dynamic was interesting to see on-the-air. Bestwick was clearly a little more intense than usual, and the laughter was kept to a minimum because of the subject matter. Talladega had been a dangerous and controversial race weekend in many ways, and it was up to Bestwick to draw honest opinions from the panelists.
One key reason for Jarrett's success on television is his ability to listen. He reinforced that his future in TV will be a long one when he took the role of "senior member" on the panel and usually waited to be the last to comment on the subject at hand.
Bestwick's nervous laughter could not hide the fact that he was dealing with a loaded deck. Any panelist had the ability to answer any question and do it with authority. It was Bestwick's new challenge to divide the time available on each topic equally among the all-star panel.
Discussions about the Roush Fenway tire problems and the emergence of two-car drafting were excellent. Evernham tended to be the technical crew chief in these conversations, and represented himself as much more of a crew chief than an owner.
His owner views came out quickly, however, when the topic of the impound procedures at Talladega was put on the table. Jarrett and Evernham wanted the Talladega process changed, while Petree thought the impound rules were the way to go. One positive element to the entire show was the ability of any panel member to step aside when they were not the best choice to answer a question. It was clear this group had spent some time together earlier in the day and were up-to-speed on the agenda.
There was lots of political correctness in the air when the subject of Kevin Lepage's actions at Talladega was raised. Jarrett took the approach that all drivers make errors sooner or later. Evernham and Petree were polite but firm in their opinions that this entire incident could have been easily avoided. Topics like this really show the need for a journalist who can stir-the-pot a bit and present an "outsider" perspective.
On the Tony Stewart contract situation, Evernham was the authority. He reminded Bestwick that unlike the NFL or the NBA, there are no rules for contact with athletes on other teams. Petree and Jarrett backed-up the point that casual contact with an NASCAR athlete was still easy to get, and most athletes still do not have agents. Even after all these years, things still happen in the motorhome lot.
The look and feel of this show was classy. The production did not get in the way of the content, and the features used were outstanding. ESPN has assembled a Monday powerhouse and is continuing to pour resources and manpower into this direction.
It was nice of Bestwick to salute Ashley Force on her first NHRA Funny Car win, and close the program with a tease of the special one hour Tuesday show that will originate from DEI in Mooresville, NC. Having the three panelists add their personal memories of Dale Sr. was a fitting way to end a very enjoyable NASCAR TV program.
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28 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Its always ridiculous to hear Evernham talk about contracts. He got upset that anyone would talk to Kahne early, yet he encouraged Sadler to bail on Yates while still under contract. And the biggest of all, he fired Mayfield and then didn't pay his contract because he was annoyed that Mayfield spilled the beans on his extra marital affair with Crocker.
Yet another example of the baggage that Evernham brings with him to this show.
- April 28, 2008 at 7:13 PM
- Ritchie said...
Mr. Daly, I agree 100% with your comments about the show. Mr. Bestwick set a pace and tone that was perfect for today's topics.
Even though more could have been said about the Lepage incident, I think everyone feels that it does no good to drag Lepage's name through the mud. I would, however, have liked to see them talk about NASCAR's inability to show consistency with a the merge onto the track rule.
- April 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
Pretty good show. Unlike others, I don't think this show has anything in common with the old Inside Winston/Nextel Cup except for Allen being the host. It is an informative and somewhat pleasant show but it is not a comforting or relaxing show for the viewer. This week or any week.
Andy Petree is the outstanding person on the roundtable to me. He's not hesistant to jump in anywhere, which I think is good.
Still didn't get a decent explanation of what happened at last lap of the race, which is frustrating because now I have to DVR This Week in NASCAR to see if they can tell me. I find it puzzling that we didn't get any added insight considering the #9, one of Ray's cars, got torn up in that last lap and today I read Kasey's very...uh...colorful comments heard on the scanner right after that wreck happened. I know Ray has to have talked to someone on the #9 or Kasey to find out what they thought happened so he should have contributed it on the show.
I thought Ray Evernham was quieter than he should have been in some parts where I would have expected him to speak up and speak up in more detail (impound and especially Stewart/onwership). I don't think he took the lead in that conversation and he should have.
Ray seems much more comfortable talking about the mechanics of the cars (which he does very well) than the ownership topics. I find that a little confusing and am unsure if he can't speak to the ownership issues (reading the earlier Monday showdown topic and hearing previous interviews, somehow I doubt that's the case) - or he doesn't want to. I'm also unsure if Allen should let him get away with it, but they spend so little time on each topic at the end I guess it wasn't that noticeable.
The number of commercial breaks on this show is astounding and distracting, even on DVR. After the first 20 minutes go by with one break in there, it then becomes topic/break, topic/break, topic/break for the next 40 minutes. Very jarring rhythm and I pity anyone who watches it live. To be fair, this is also an issue with SPEED shows.
- April 28, 2008 at 7:59 PM
- Newracefan said...
I would liked to have heard a little more from DJ but after reading JD's thought's it kind of put it more in perspective for me. I like hearing Ray's perspective as a crew chief I actually have more respect for him as that than a car owner. The fact that he and Erin are apparently still together helps me with he personal life issues. Please do not misunderstand I am not condoning the behavior in any respects.
- April 28, 2008 at 7:59 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
I missed the first 5 minutes so if I missed it, forgive me.
I was GREATLY disappointed there was no mention of Dario's wreck. It's very odd to be hit at full speed at a driver 8 seconds behind you. Spencer ranted about this and even Mike Joy said that was an unexcusable wreck (or some strong word)
I thought that wreck should've been addressed and if I missed it, I am sorry. I was on the phone but did not see the car on tv when I had it muted.
Other than that I liked the show but missed the laughs but know it was serious today.
somebody mentioned elsewhere here, that it would be kinda nice to see the same group on this show each week to develop a fun chemistry.
but I would not include Ray.
Still a far, far better show than anything on other stations tonight.
AB always delivers and I enjoyed all the different topics.
- April 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Newracefan said...
Sophia Dario's wreck was covered on the Sunday's show although I can not remember in how much detail
- April 28, 2008 at 8:05 PM
- PammH said...
newracefan-well that's fine, but not all of us want to sit thru a TON of stick & ball crap to see 4 mins of Nascar, so I would guess most of us didn't see it. It should have been addressed tonite, imo.
- April 28, 2008 at 8:11 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
Pammh, I don't feel like the lone ranger now.
Thanks Nrfan,
but I also thought it should be addressed on the mon hour show. I also can't sit thru all that stick and ball crap for a few snippets on NASCAR on ESPN..then they cut away in mid sentence. RUDE.
It's RARE today, THANK GOODNESS with all safety advances, for somebody to break a leg in NASCAR. The lack of response on the approaching driver (Gunselman?) who T boned a car at full throttle, should've been brought up. Not PC I guess but I thought it should've been addressed.
- April 28, 2008 at 8:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
"I was GREATLY disappointed there was no mention of Dario's wreck. It's very odd to be hit at full speed at a driver 8 seconds behind you. Spencer ranted about this and even Mike Joy said that was an unexcusable wreck (or some strong word)"
Sophiaz123: I also wrote something similar to your opinion in my initial message above but deleted it because I felt my comment was way too long. I really thought it was a glaring mistake that the panel didn't mention Dario's ankle, show the highlight, or question Gunselman's actions, it should have been discussed with the NW race and LePage. They only mentioned Dario later, in the context that David Stremme drove for him, when they mentioned the drivers outside the top 35. I didn't like it either and questioned why they would make that choice. If it had been a more prominent or longtime Sprint Cup regular in that wreck, I have to think it would have been handled differently tonight. - Anonymous 7:59
- April 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
Anon 7.59
A friend of mine emailed and wondered if it was because of the T boning being a new OW driver that was injured. At first I flinched at the question but you are correct.
If the bad hit on drivers door +broken ankle had been Jr.. Jimmie, J Gordon, or Stewart, it would've had it's own segment.
Thanks for validating my feelings on this glaring omission. The more I think about it the more shocked I am that AB didn't bring it up. Or was he told not to because rookie Franchitti isn't worthy of the attention??
- April 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM
- Richard in N.C. said...
I have not had a chance to watch the show yet, but I can imagine that DJ and Andy were reluctant to come down too hard on LePage since he admitted after viewing the tape that he was clearly at fault and apologized.
- April 28, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- Newracefan said...
I was talking about NN show Sunday morning, they had a 1 hour show at 10am. That's where they talked about Dario.
- April 28, 2008 at 9:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
Good show once again but did anyone notice how they show the same piece of footage over and over again. This seems to be a habitual flaw at ESPN.
- April 28, 2008 at 9:55 PM
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- April 28, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
Did not check the espn link (I get lost on that busy site) but I heard Joe Gibbs mention his grandson months ago...could've been on RACE DAY or someplace but it was a sweet story about his grandson being an inspiration.
Thanks for the explanation on the Dario story and where you saw it.
HOpe the little guy has a full recovery.
- April 28, 2008 at 10:21 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
p.s. I meant the young Gibbs boy has a full recovery..but it got put in the wrong spot on last post...
- April 28, 2008 at 10:28 PM
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- April 28, 2008 at 11:42 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 10:05PM,
I don't know if this is your first time here, but your comment did not relate to the subject that we are discussing in the NASCAR Now column.
Secondly, please drop me a line before posting a link on my site. Use the email link on the main page.
Finally, ESPN is doing quite well without my help and both Jayski and ESPN.com provide NASCAR videos every day.
I understand your intentions, but please also understand I have worked very hard to avoid videos and links to videos on this site for a reason.
Once we open the door to that, it will never end. If you would like to point a reader to ESPN.com for a specific item, please do so in text form.
- April 29, 2008 at 12:10 AM
- Ken-Michigan said...
VERY GOOD Monday ESPN NASCAR NOW show.
The best panel that ESPN has assembled in the studio. Sure makes a difference when you get all that championship caliber professionalism.
I don't know it for a fact, but I really have a feeling that Bestwick has ALOT to say in the ESPN production meetings concerning the Monday show. We haven't heard about Bestwick's "producing" expertise, but just the way the show flows leads me to believe that he has a heavy hand in most, if not all of the Monday content. I'll almost guarentee that nobody has to "feed" questions to Allen ( unlike Burr & Manske).
AND THATS A GOOD THING !!! He's a real pro !! Way to go Allen !!
The "memory" segment about Earnhardt,Sr was a small but priceless segment, given the professional and personal relationships with all 4 of them on the show, their stories would be great to hear.
I still think that its just plain weird though to have guys in suits & ties sitting in a "garage" setting. I shake my head every week & wonder when or if it will change.
- April 29, 2008 at 12:21 AM
- Matt said...
Just finished watching the show, and loved it again.
AB, Jarrett, and Andy are great together.. maybe some foreshadowing..? Haha I wish.
- April 29, 2008 at 10:19 AM
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- April 29, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- Anonymous said...
Personally,I enjoyed the show. All four gave you honest,informed perspectives on recent Nascar developments. There was none of the blowhard,hee haw antics of some other Nascar tv shows.
- April 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- Speedcouch said...
Anonymous said...
Good show once again but did anyone notice how they show the same piece of footage over and over again. This seems to be a habitual flaw at ESPN.
Amen, brother! This repetitiveness of video on ESPN really drives me crazy! I must've counted 3 times in one minute they showed the video of the Busch/McMurray near miss!
- April 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM
- SophiaZ123 said...
Ken Mich said
"I still think that its just plain weird though to have guys in suits & ties sitting in a "garage" setting. I shake my head every week & wonder when or if it will change."
Yep. Putting grown men in high chairs adds to the oddness imo.
The only thing missing is bibs around their necks and some cereal for them to be eating!!
If they would put them in a more formal studio and FEET ON FLOOR chairs, it would help.
I just like the boys to look comfortable. When INC went to the tall stools it was painful viewing, too.
If ESPN could at least tweak the chairs and get rid of the garage setting...that would help. Or a screen behind them to buffer the garage setting while they wear suits that look more suitable to fine dining!
I love men in suits but the ambience does not make sense.
Still the BEST thing on Monday night. Heck, ALL week if you ask me.
Now if we can just get ESPN based in Charlotte, AB could have JB and Schrader on some night with Andy and that might be fun.
Sorry to digress, JD.
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So last Sunday I had a birthday dinner with a few friends and finally did a look! My co-worker Irina also got me the BEST CAKE ever....an ice cream cake with RPattz (aka Edward Cullen) on it that read "Happy Birthday Mrs. Cullen", I squealed and was the happiest person on earth, LOL. Everyone at the table is in on my obsession and they too loved the cake, however I told them to NOT eat his gorgeous face!
It was even on Twicrackaddict.blogspot.com!
Got birthday nails!
What I used:
- MAC Skin Primer
- MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer in NC30
- Buff'd Mineral Foundation in "Chamois" and "Almond"
- Purely Cosmetics Diamond Finish Powder
- Korres Bronzer to contour
- MAC "Fashion Frenzy" blush
- Smashbox Photo Finish Lid Primer
- MUFE eyeshadow #26 (pink) on the inner lids
- MUFE eyeshadow #9 (purple) on the middle of the lid
- MAC e/s in "top hat" (starflash, LE) and "nocturnelle" e/s on outer-V and contour
- MAC e/s in "Rondelle" and "Shroom" as highlight
- MAC Fluidline in "Blacktrack"
- L'Oreal Mascara
- Urban Decay "Electric" liner on lower lashline
- MAC l/s in "Snob"
My awesome cake:
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Irina going Twilight crazy...she got the board game too! LOL!
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
BDAY FOTD & Dinner Craziness
So last Sunday I had a birthday dinner with a few friends and finally did a look! My co-worker Irina also got me the BEST CAKE ever....an ice cream cake with RPattz (aka Edward Cullen) on it that read "Happy Birthday Mrs. Cullen", I squealed and was the happiest person on earth, LOL. Everyone at the table is in on my obsession and they too loved the cake, however I told them to NOT eat his gorgeous face!
36 comments
- Meagan said...
Super Cute! Hope you had a great night!
- June 12, 2009 at 12:12 AM
- Ai said...
look at that cake!! you are indeed lucky, Nessa! once again, happy birthday. it's great to hear that you had fun in the world :D
- June 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM
- Natalie said...
Very cute look!
- June 12, 2009 at 12:27 AM
- Connie De Alwis said...
you look beautiful!
And I wanna hug your cake... badly *cries*
Happy Belated birthday!
- June 12, 2009 at 12:27 AM
- SayAnythingBrooke said...
Thats my favorite makeup youve ever done, LOVE it!
- June 12, 2009 at 12:34 AM
- Miss Yaya said...
lmao at all the twilight craziness
i love the eyes - surprised u didnt use MUFE 92 - that's usually almost a given hehe
happy belated!
- June 12, 2009 at 1:18 AM
- FuN and MakeUp said...
matte shadows look so good! i dont have any matte shadows.. u always kno how to work these colors nessa! aww that sucks u wont be at pow wow.. ill be there so i wont be able to meet u for the first time =[
and damn that cake looks good.. i LOVEEEEEEEEEEE ice cream cake!
- June 12, 2009 at 2:44 AM
- Wuschel said...
great look! super cute cake!
and happy belated birthday :]
- June 12, 2009 at 3:00 AM
- FabDiva20 said...
WOW! The look is so pretty!! I love the birthday cake!
- June 12, 2009 at 5:29 AM
- InnovativeEssence said...
oOoOoO.. love that cake.... he looks so YUM!!!
- June 12, 2009 at 6:17 AM
- Robyn @ Purely Cosmetics said...
LOVE the cake! It beats the one I had for my 30th (this was many moons ago). Whenever one of us would say something stupid, we'd call each other (affectionately, of course) a dicknose. My cake was a photo of me with my nose, ummm... altered. I can just imagine the face of the cake decorator when he ordered it!
- June 12, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- Michelle B said...
Ooooh, I <3 the nails!
- June 12, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- Jo said...
mrs cullen indeed :) very pretty and vibrant make up!
happy 27th bday vanessa!
- June 12, 2009 at 6:38 AM
- Shopn'Chomp said...
haha...love the cake! happy b-day :)
- June 12, 2009 at 7:21 AM
- prettybeautiful.net said...
u look so so so adorable! lovely dolly makeup :) and the cake!!!!!
p/s: I LOVE YOUR NAILSS!!!
- June 12, 2009 at 7:46 AM
- Askmewhats said...
awww Happy birthday belated and you got wonderful bday look , bday nails and bday CAKE!!! LOL
- June 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- SPECiAL x GiRL said...
Happy Birthday, beautiful! : )
- June 12, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- ♥Leigh♥ said...
Your fotd was amazing! I love the color combinations you used! OMG! That cake was awesome!!! Lucky Mrs. Cullen.hehehe. He looks yummmeehhh!xoxo
- June 12, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- KRYSTAL said...
wow i love the bday fotd!! and that twilight cake! omgg
- June 12, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Gaby said...
- June 12, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Sofee said...
u look so lovely in purple/pink looks!!! I bet u almost went to heaven when u saw that cake..Mrs Cullen :D
- June 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM
- Whit said...
looove this look hun!!
- June 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM
- InnocentDeath said...
you have really great friends to get you a twilight cake! =)
- June 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM
- kathy said...
happy birthday! your nails are so cute and girly. love 'em.
- June 12, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- Banana said...
Your eye makeup looks so pretty..and I love your nails..pretty. That cake looks so cool!!! yumyum. :K:
- June 12, 2009 at 8:05 PM
- Banana said...
why can't i comment?
- June 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM
- kitanablade3 said...
Hey sweetie happy belated birthday!!! LOL The cake rocks just because! I wonder how many cake shops have had to make cakes like this lately?! Can't wait for New Moon!
BTW, what lashes do you have on, they're nice and subtle!
- June 13, 2009 at 12:41 AM
- Chiara said...
Hey, I've been reading your blog for a long time, I love it, this is my first comment!
I love this look, so bright and gorgeous.
- June 13, 2009 at 5:19 AM
- Katrina is a Princess said...
You are too cute Mrs. Cullen! You looked absolutely stunning! Your makeup is soooo so so pretty! I am trying my hardest to get on your level! I hope you had the best birthday ever beautiful!!!
- June 14, 2009 at 11:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
happy belated birthday gorgeous!!x
- June 14, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- mixxxandmatch said...
I love the combination of the colors on your eyeshadow!! definetely one of my favorites!:)
- June 14, 2009 at 7:10 PM
- LOVEVAS said...
LOVE LOVE LOOOOVED THE LOOK, specially the vibrant eyeliner on the lower lash line!! and OMG! THE CAKE. UNBELIEVEABLE! almost like the real thing!!! hahha.... (: happy birthday mrs. CULLEN
- June 15, 2009 at 2:23 AM
- ♡ Nic Nic ♡ said...
omg at Edward cullen cake hahahaha.
love your makeup and nails!! glad you had a wonderful day!
- June 15, 2009 at 7:38 AM
- Janine said...
You look awesome!! But didn't someone tell you I AM MRS CULLEN!?!? LOL
Love love love your look, Happy Belated Bday!!!
- June 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- sssdawna said...
awesome look and AWESOME cake! i would just lick that cake all over LOL! sorry. ok. but yeah, i'm glad you have fun, nice people u hang with = ]
- June 21, 2009 at 2:45 AM
- David said...
Belated happy birthday..
Your looking so beautiful, your cake is really awesome.
- August 24, 2009 at 5:32 AM


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Un-Chicken 'n' Dumplins
Since she was super-old and kinda losing it, she always left the chicken bones in the pot. Others had to go behind her back and pick them out before serving. Gross, huh? Well, my Un-Chicken 'n' Dumplins is totally bone-free:
This is another cookbook recipe that I'll likely put up on the tester site next week. I developed it last winter, but it needed some work, so I made it again on Tuesday night. It's basically chicken-flavored seitan cooked in a chicken-ish broth with whole wheat dumplins' (we never pronounce the "g" down here), potatoes, carrots, and peas. Perfect hearty dish for cold winter nights, which unfortunately we're having again after the spring tease of last week. Bah!
30 comments:
- VeggieGirl said...
Can't wait for your cookbook!!
- February 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- Katy said...
Can you believe I've never had chicken and dumplings (I'm from the north and we say our G's, lol) before? Although, I'm glad I never had to risk chomping down on a bone. Yuck!
- February 20, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- Jen aka Jewbacca said...
the usage of "g" in dumplings would depend on what part of indiana you visited. i live in southern IN and the folk don't use a g at all. i'm originally from MI and we overemphasize everything.
silly yankees. anyway, i'm stoked about some dumplinGs.
xo jewy
- February 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Yum. This looks awesome. I love "chicken" and dumplin's. No "g" in the Texas vocabulary. We had a cold spell last night too. It got down to 33 but now it is warming up to 73. Gotta love winters in the South.
- February 20, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- miss v said...
looks really yum and comforting!
- February 20, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Veganissexy said...
Oh I love this one! My mom used to make this for me everytime I would come home from college. I can't wait to see the recipe. I love love love the idea of veganizing this one :)
- February 20, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- Anna Graham Shonle said...
This looks like something we would love in our house. Yum!
- February 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- pixiepine said...
Mmm that looks yummy!
- February 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Amanda said...
This reminds me of the time when I got off the schoolbus at my grandmother's, and she ladled me a big plate of dumplins. I found a small, suspicious bone and when I asked her about them, I found out that they weren't chicken and dumplins at all, but rather SQUIRREL and dumplins.
I was country, but not THAT country.
- February 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I can't wait for the cookbook Bianca! Seriously.
- February 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- Jenn said...
I can't wait to try this.
I Delaware we make slippery dumplings. The annual chicken and dumpling is a popular fundraiser.
- February 20, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- Cyn said...
Oooh, I can't wait! I've never had chicken and dumplings, but I love dumplings. Yum, that looks super good.
- February 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- jessy said...
this looks so awesome, Bianca! and we say dumplins' too! hooray! i can't wait to test them out!
- February 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- The Vegan SlaughterHouse said...
get-it-girl! awesome!
- February 20, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- Kelly said...
I seriously think that "dumplin(g)" is one of the strangest food-related words. That said, this looks so filling and comfort food-y!
- February 20, 2009 at 4:36 PM
- Vegan On Stage said...
yumm!!!! do you make your own seitan or do you buy it
- February 20, 2009 at 4:36 PM
I used to beg my mum to make this, mostly to eat the veggies & dumpling biscuits - I'd pick out the chicken because I wanted more of the veggies! This is a great addition to your book!
- February 20, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- Mike K said...
This reminds me of the chicken dumpling soup that my brother-in-law's mom made back home - as a kid those dumplings were one of my absolute favorite foods. Vegan dumplings are totally awesome too, and I've never missed the eggs. Need to make this soon!
- February 20, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Tara said...
Need. Dumplings. Now. This looks like such a nice, comforting dish!
- February 20, 2009 at 9:31 PM
- aTxVegn said...
This looks wonderful - perfect comfort food and perfect for your cookbook!
- February 21, 2009 at 7:41 AM
- Lisa (Show Me Vegan) said...
this sounds really creamy and comforting!
- February 21, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- Shenandoah Vegan said...
How much longer till we can get this book?????
- February 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Macie said...
Wow, that looks delicious!
- February 21, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Bianca, I'm glad you remember the Michigan City days and my precious grandmother!! (and yes she did leave a few bones in. ha) I'm sure your recipe is good also....
- February 21, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- Gina said...
I always used to get chicken and dumplings at Cracker Barrel, so this is totally my kind of thing!! Yummy yum.
- February 22, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- River said...
YAY for bone free un-chicken 'n' dumplins!
It does look extremely comforting for this stupid cold weather that has come back!
- February 22, 2009 at 8:50 PM
- Megan said...
omg, i can not WAIT for your cookbook!!
are those slick dumplins or the fat, doughy kind? the fat ones are my fav, but both tend to make me very very happy :)
- February 23, 2009 at 12:10 AM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
I sure wish I was one of your testers because that meal looks wonderful! Mouthwatering good!!!
- February 23, 2009 at 1:55 AM
- T said...
I love all things dumpling-like, so this looks awesome! Can't wait for your cookbook. :)
- February 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- Theresa said...
I love dumplins sososososo much. I can't wait for your cookbook!
- February 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM