Recipe of the Week

Friday, March 28th, 2008 @ 11:05AM

Beef Teriyaki (thanks to Cook's Country)

I made this for dinner last night and it was great and very easy to do.  I ate the leftovers for lunch right before I did this entry.  It was good again.  Highly recommended.  By the way, this photo is just one I found on line and doesn’t really look that much like what I prepared at home

1/2 C soy sauce
1/2 C sugar
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 T fresh grated ginger
2 t corn starch
2 T cider vinegar
3 strip steaks
2 t vegetable oil
scallions sliced thin
toasted sesame seeds (optional)

1.  In a bowl, mix together soy, sugar, garlic, ginger, corn starch and vinegar.

2.  Heat oil in nonstick pan over medium high heat.  Brown the steaks about 5 minutes each side.  Make sure they are well browned but you want them to be medium rare.  Put the steaks aside and cover with foil. 

3.  Wipe out the nonstick pan and add the soy sauce mixture.  Heat for about 2 minutes. 

4.  Cut the steaks into thin strips and drizzle with the soy mixture.  I like to serve this over rice...sprinkle with scallions and toasted sesame seeds.

Thanks for listening
Bill

Horton Hears A Who

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 @ 12:52PM

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A movie your kids will like and you won't hate.

I liked this movie more than I thought I could or would.  Jim Carrey as Horton was probably the least interesting voice actor in the production.  Steve Carell as the mayor of Whoville was great as were Carol Burnett as the Kangaroo and Seth Rogan as Morton.  Also great...Will Arnett as Vlad the vulture.  But I really loved the little hedgehog character, Katie. 

The character was voiced by a young actress named Joey King.  What was the deal with Katie?  A floating hedgehog.  Trippy is the word that comes to mind.  Thoughts?

Thanks for listening,
Bill Allred

Let’s Lunch At Work

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 @ 12:15PM

Eat in style with a bento box. (traditional)

I want a bento box to bring my lunch to work.  I rarely eat lunch out.  I’d rather be chained to my desk with a homemade lunch or leftovers from home.  But I want to do it in style.  I struggle with the best way to bring my lunch.  Ziplock bags are wasteful.  And I want to be stylish and efficient.  That has led me to the bento box.  I’m kind of leaning to the modern, westernized version of the traditional japan lunch box.  Like this here

But what about it?  Does anyone out there use a bento box for lunch.  I need advice and is there somewhere I can get one locally.  I’m all about instant gratification.

Thanks for listening,
Bill

I’m On the TV Again.

Friday, March 14th, 2008 @ 11:10AM

This is Lisa Randall and she's way smarter than you and me and all of our friends put together.

You can see me and this smart woman on KUED channel 7 tonight at 8:30pm on Utah Now.  Lisa Randall is a physicist and she can think circles around me.  She wrote a book that I tried to read called Warped Passages:  Unravelling the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions.  Doug Fabrizio talks to Ms. Randall at length on the show and then I come on and shoot my mouth off about Randall’s theories.  Here’s a link to the Utah Now website http://www.kued.org/productions/utahnow//

I hope you watch the show and make comments here and at Utah Now.

Thanks for listening.

Bill Allred

Bill’s Top Ten Movies

Thursday, March 13th, 2008 @ 10:52AM

These aren't in any particular order. Also, I don't think these are the best movies ever made, but all of them had a big influence on me and opened my eyes in an unusual way.

Raising Arizona (1987)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Magnolia (1999)
Wizard of Oz (1939)
Breathless “A bout de souffle” (1960)
Women In Love (1969)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
The Ruling Class (1972)
Journey To the Center of the Earth (1959)

I know most of these are older movies and there is only one comedy (Raising Arizona) but these are the films that shook me...moved me when I saw them at an early age.  The Wizard of Oz opened my eyes to the magic of movies.  Citizen Kane is fascinating for its brilliant film technique, its story, and the sheer megalomania of Orsen Wells.  Breathless was my first real experience with modern French cinema.  Don’t Look Now is creepy and has an erotic love scene between Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland that got me all hot and bothered at the time.  Journey To the Center of the Earth is great for lots of reasons but it’s the first time I became aware of composer Bernard Herman’s film scores.  I love The Ruling Class for Peter O’Toole’s bravura performance.  Women In Love has Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson and Magnolia is a sprawling mess of emotion and it has frogs raining from the sky. 

There they are.  Thanks for listening,

Bill Allred

Why Is It So Cold In Nana’s Basement?

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 @ 10:56AM

This is an artist's rendition of what it's like at Nana's.

I'm grateful that we have Nana's to go to when we can't stay at home. And why can't we stay at home? Because our house looks something like this.. .

Twice in a week now we’ve had to sleep over at Nana’s because of remodeling at my house.  If I seem grumpy or mean (more than usual) on the radio it’s because of that, I think.  We are accepting casseroles and covered dishes of all kind at the Allred home because I’m too tired to cook.

Thanks for listening,

Bill

The Vanocur Group

Friday, March 7th, 2008 @ 11:30AM

I'm on the TV Sunday morning.

Please watch this on Sunday morning, Channel 4 at 9:30am.  I really like doing this show but it’s pretty hard.  Chris is great...a precise host who runs the show with grace, humor and insight.

Bruce Baird is really good.  He always has a quote at the ready and has had a wealth of experience in Democratic politics. 

When Dave Owen is on, he’s pretty much the same on the Republican side; smart, witty, and he has a wealth of experience. 

On this week’s panel, a new guy...Alan Dayton.  Dayton is the former Deputy Mayor of Salt Lake County and a noted local conservative Republican.

There’s “the always reliable for a quip” Tom Barberi.

And then me.

Do I fit in with this group? What do you think I bring to the party?  Please feel free to rate my performance and then leave your comments here.

Also, isn’t that Chris Vanocur a good looking guy?

Thanks for listening,
Bill Allred

Guns!  Guns!  Guns!

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 @ 12:06PM

Do you love them? Do you hate them?

I don’t know much about guns and I don’t own one.  I think fewer people, not more people should have them.  I don’t want the bad guys to have them and I don’t want the good guys to have them that much either.  That’s because the good guys lose their guns in burglaries to the bad guys.  And the good guys sometimes don’t take care of their guns and the kids get a hold of them and accidents happen.  Or occasionally the good guys go a little wacky with anger or jealousy and use their guns on family members much to everyone’s regret. 

But, I must confess that I have a little fascination with guns too, just like every red blooded American.  Many of them are kind of handsome, pretty, nice to look at and nice to hold.  And if I had a gun, nobody would mess with me and I wouldn’t be afraid of anyone.  A gun would give me nerves of steel and impeccable judgment.  And the more guns I had, the bigger and stronger I would be.....

You see why I don’t own a gun?  I can’t be trusted.

Thanks for listening,

Bill

BTW:  If you want to know more about guns, contact our friend Clark Aposhian at FairWarning Training.  http://www.fairwarning.biz