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    DEATH BY CHOCOLATE CAKE

    DEATH BY CHOCOLATE CAKE
    Chocolate Espresso Tart
     
     
    4 eggs
    1/2 c. oil
    1 c. sour cream
    1/2 c. water or 1/4 c. water with 1/4 c. Kahlua
    1 boxed cake mix without pudding in the mix
    1 sm. box instant chocolate pudding
    12 oz. pkg. chocolate chips

    With your electric mixer, combine eggs, oil, sour cream, water, cake mix and pudding; mix well. Add in chocolate chips. Pour into well greased Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. When cool, sift powdered sugar over top of cake.

     
     

    Slow-cooker Black Beans

    Southern Living, JUNE 2008

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    Slow-cooker Black Beans

     

    Prep: 15 min.; Soak: 8 hr.; Cook: 5 hr., 20 min.

     

    Ingredients

    1 (16-oz.) package dried black beans
    2 bacon slices
    1 large sweet onion, diced (about 2 cups)
    2 celery ribs, diced (about 1/2 cup)
    3 garlic cloves, chopped
    2 cups diced cooked ham
    1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
    1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
    1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
    1 (32-oz.) container low-sodium fat-free chicken broth

    Preparation

    1. Rinse and sort beans according to package directions. Place beans in a 6-qt. slow cooker. Add water 2 inches above beans; let soak 8 hours. Drain and rinse. Return beans to slow cooker.

    2. Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat 4 to 5 minutes or until crisp; remove bacon, and drain on paper towels, reserving 2 Tbsp. drippings in skillet. Crumble bacon; add to slow cooker.

    3. Sauté onion, celery, and garlic in hot drippings 7 to 8 minutes or until tender. Reduce heat to medium, and stir in ham, cumin, and ground peppers. Sauté 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Stir in 1/2 cup chicken broth, and cook 2 minutes, stirring to loosen particles from bottom of skillet; add mixture to slow cooker. Stir in remaining chicken broth and 1 cup water.

    4. Cover and cook on HIGH 5 hours or LOW 8 hours or until beans are tender.

    Yield

    Makes 8 cups

     

    10 February 1958

     
    10 February 1958

    Your date of conception was on or about 20 May 1957 which was a Monday.

    You were born on a Monday
    under the astrological sign Aquarius.
    Your Life path number is 8.

    Your fortune cookie reads:
    Nature, time and patience are the three best physicians.

    Life Path Compatibility:
    You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
    You should get along well with those with the Life Path number 6.
    You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 1 & 5.
    You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 3, 7 & 9.

    The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2436244.5.
    The golden number for 1958 is 2.
    The epact number for 1958 is 10.
    The year 1958 was not a leap year.

    Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 1/31/1957 and ending 2/17/1958.
    You were born in the Chinese year of the Rooster.

    Your Native American Zodiac sign is Otter; your plant is Fern.

    You were born in the Egyptian month of Parmuthy, the fourth month of the season of Poret (Emergence - Fertile soil).

    Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 21 Shevat 5718.
    Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 22 Shevat 5718.

    The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.17.4.6.0 which is
    12 baktun 17 katun 4 tun 6 uinal 0 kin

    The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Monday, 20 Rajab 1377 (1377-7-20).

    The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 6 April 1958.
    The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 13 April 1958.
    The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 19 February 1958.
    The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 25 May 1958.
    The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 1 June 1958.
    The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Monday, 15 September 1958.
    The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Saturday, 5 April 1958.
    The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 18 February 1958.
     
    As of 7/24/2008 11:58:25 PM EDT
    You are 50 years old.
    You are 605 months old.
    You are 2,632 weeks old.
    You are 18,427 days old.
    You are 442,271 hours old.
    You are 26,536,318 minutes old.
    You are 1,592,179,105 seconds old.

    Celebrities who share your birthday:

    Lance Berkman (1976) Laura Dern (1967) Cliff Burton (1962)
    George Stephanopoulos (1961) Greg Norman (1955) Mark Spitz (1950)
    Roberta Flack (1939) Robert Wagner (1930) Leontyne Price (1927)
    Lon Chaney, Jr. (1906) Bertolt Brecht (1898) Jimmy Durante (1893)
    Boris Pasternak (1890)

    Top songs of 1958
    At the Hop by Danny & the Juniors It's All In the Game by Tommy Edwards
    The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley All I Have to Do Is Dream by Everly Brothers
    Tequila by Champs Don't by Elvis Presley
    Volare by Domenico Modugno Sugartime by McGuire Sisters
    He's Got the Whole World In His Hands by Laurie London The Chipmunk Song by David Seville/The Chipmunks

    Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 7.21213307240705 years old. (You old hound dog, you!)

    Your lucky day is Saturday.
    Your lucky number is 4 & 8.
    Your ruling planet(s) is Saturn & Uranus.
    Your lucky dates are 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th.
    Your opposition sign is Leo.
    Your opposition number(s) is 1.

    Today is not one of your lucky days!

    There are 201 days till your next birthday
    on which your cake will have 51 candles.

    Those 51 candles produce 51 BTUs,
    or 12,852 calories of heat (that's only 12.8520 food Calories!) .
    You can boil 5.83 US ounces of water with that many candles.  

    In 1958 there were approximately 4.0 million births in the US.
    In 1958 the US population was approximately 150,697,361 people, 50.7 persons per square mile.
    In 1958 in the US there were approximately 1,667,231 marriages (11.1%) and 385,144 divorces (2.6%)
    In 1958 in the US there were approximately 1,452,000 deaths (9.6 per 1000)
    In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
    In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

    In 1958 the population of Australia was approximately 9,947,358.
    In 1958 there were approximately 222,504 births in Australia.
    In 1958 in Australia there were approximately 74,001 marriages and 6,920 divorces.
    In 1958 in Australia there were approximately 83,723 deaths.


    Your birthstone is Amethyst

    The Mystical properties of Amethyst

    Amethyst is used to increase spiritually
    Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)
    Bloodstone, Onyx, Moonstone

    Your birth tree is
    Cedar, the Confidence

    Of rare beauty, knows how to adapt, likes luxury, of good health not in the least shy, tends to look down on others, self-confident, determined, impatient, wants to impress others, many talents, industrious, healthy, optimism, waiting for the one true love, able to make quick decisions.


    There are 154 days till Christmas 2008!
    There are 167 days till Orthodox Christmas!

    The moon's phase on the day you were
    born was waning gibbous.