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Crazycook - a PREVIOUS LIFE 
 
Mar. 28, 2012 8:43 pm 
Updated: Mar. 30, 2012 3:03 am
Crazycook has had an epiphany...  I simply MUST have had a life before this one!  While I've become an extremely avid cook during the past few years, I once again was astounded by a movie on tv this evening!

While I was puttering in the crazykitchen, prepping for our dinner meal, I happened to notice that an "old" movie was coming on after what I'd been listening to/watching...  Rosiland Russell, Carl Malden, and Natalie Wood...  Many of you may not even know these performers, but I was surprised during the show, which I'd not seen in years, just how many of the "songs" I remembered.... from a total lifetime ago!   Many, made famous by Ethel Merman, presumably before the movie "GYPSY" was filmed.  Is it possible that in my previous life I was an actor, rather than a crazycook? 

While my red potatoes roasted...  "Let me, entertain you... let me make you smile..."  Once the meatloaf was in the oven, "Every thing's coming up roses..." 

The movie, "Gypsy" was based on the memoirs of a burlesque dancer, written in 1957,  the year I was born...  NO, certainly crazycook can't be the reincarnation of Gypsy Rose Lee...?

Well, I've wandered from the "topic" of this post...  My original thought was, that I certainly must be older than my years, as I've such an affinity to "old movies" and especially "old musicals!" 

My next desire, is to see if I can get a copy of a cookbook (yes, ANOTHER,) Mrs. Bridges cooking, from the British series Upstairs, Downstairs.

I wonder if Gypsy will be shown again this evening?  I'll have to check, as I'd certainly watch it again!

so, all, be happy, be healthy, be crazy!
 
Comments
Linda 
Mar. 29, 2012 12:54 am
Well, I may be older, also, as I remember flashes of songs no one else seems to remember... I swear I did a version of "I'm A Little Teapot,...short and stout,Here is my handle ,and here is my spout,"..on NYC radio when I was maybe 4yo. When did "Puppy in the Window" come out over the radio??
 
judy 
Mar. 29, 2012 6:49 am
hey Stevie I'm with you...luv old movies and i remember those songs too...they don't make them like that any more,guess that was the good ole days after all...later friend
 
Mar. 29, 2012 11:36 am
OK, well I'm at least as old as Linda....maybe older. Stevie, those songs are classics! My mother used to play show tunes while she cleaned, I remember songs from High Society, Gigi, Flower Drum Song, and a slew of others that I don't know I remember until I hear them. Want a laugh? I read recently there is a remake of Gypsy proposed with Barbara Streisand in the Rosalind Russell role. Isn't she just a little too old? I love old movies too and it makes me sad when they get remade into poor imitations.....Hmmm, Crazycook as a matinee idol, wouldn't that have been something?
 
Mar. 29, 2012 2:16 pm
Ha, you aren't that much older than I am but I watched lots of old movies on Saturday long ago. Ah, the memories!
 
Mar. 29, 2012 4:15 pm
Linda... did ya HAVE TO remind me of "those" ones? Geez! Glad you stopped by, regardless! Be well!
 
Mar. 29, 2012 4:17 pm
Judy, my dear one! I struck up a friendship some yrs ago with a younger "one," and in talking old movies, I was thinking Bette Davis, Joan Crawford etc. The response was, Oh, I just LOVE Doris Day movies! I grew up watching those! Be well, friend!
 
Mar. 29, 2012 4:22 pm
BigShotsMom... "classics" they are. I HATE remakes... at least if I've seen the original! Don't the Hollywood folk have any "new" story lines to go...? The "new" Around the World in 80 Days" is ok, but there's no beating the original - which I bought a copy of! Barbara probably has a better plastic surgeon than Rossiland did... do you think? Sorry, I'm BAD sometimes! Be well, friend!
 
Mar. 29, 2012 4:24 pm
Cat... "THANKS, FOR THE MEMORIES..." Don't recall now where I know that one from... Carol Burnett, or Lucy, maybe? Ah well, the mind is failing! Guess it comes with the territory! Be well!
 
judy 
Mar. 30, 2012 3:03 am
Stevie i hope you stop by, i just wanted to say....HAPPY BIRTHDAY..friend...i hope you do something relaxing today for your self...or maybe go out to dinner...or what ever makes you happy...later friend...Judy
 
 
 
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Stevie crazycook

Home Town
Lansing, Michigan, USA
Living In
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Member Since
Feb. 2008

Cooking Level
Expert

Hobbies
Quilting, Gardening, Music

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About Me
Started cooking many years ago, and learned as I went. First meal may have been "steak & chips" at age 15, in Birmingham England, where I lived for several years. Mostly grew up in MI, transplanted to the desert 30yrs ago, or so. Favorite cookbook is "Better Homes", also enjoy "Great British Cooking, a well kept secret." Hesitate to call myself "expert," but friends do rave...
My favorite things to cook
Italian has been my "specialty" for some time, and my "signature" meal is Lasagne, salad, garlic bread, which I first made 20yrs ago... from SCRATCH, very first time I made it. (Never again, folks...) Now start with a big jar of sauce!
My favorite family cooking traditions
Thanks to my heritage, I have enjoyed trying foods from different cultures. We still have beer battered fish, and chips of course; ground meat dishes often, chicken occasionally, pork too. I would love to submit a bean dip recipe, however, my ex who gave me the original has passed, and I have no way to verify that it didn't come from another source! I also enjoy British cooking (with a few yankee twists) and once made Plum puddings, also known as Christmas puddings, as far as I know... what an ordeal that was, but well worth the effort. Today, there is mail order!
My cooking triumphs
Greatest triumph was not too long ago, when I held a sit down dinner for 12, Lasagne being the entree. It was a fund raiser I chose to sponsor, and am proud to say that "we" raised over $1000 from that meal alone, minimum donation being $25. All proceeds collected were donated; my partner and I provided the meal and beverages.
My cooking tragedies
MEATLOAF of all things! Went through a stage of "winging" it each time, and I pulled one after another out of the oven that were almost unedible. As yet, not too big on baking... no sweet tooth here! Have dabbled, but find doughs/pastries especially difficult, perhaps as it's 90 degrees in my kitchen much of the year.
 
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