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  Chocolate Mascarpone Tort This... this tort was absolutely amazing.  I brought it to a church function and everyone was amazed by it.   I like making mascarpone with cream cheese and cream, and adding some chocolate to it was great. Why did I make this?  I made it because someone had given me a can of Danish butter cookies.  I'm sorry, but those things are nasty.  They're made to last until the next coming of Christ. But, surprisingly, they make really good crust.  Did I have enough cookies?  Of course not.  What to do, what to do.  Well, saltines go very well with chocolate and some day, I'll make a post about that as well.  A good friend showed me, and it's amazing, too. So, crust made from Danish butter cookies and saltines, with cream cheese, cocoa and cream.  What could go wrong?  Nothing. Absolutely nothing.   You can get the recipe for this at The Good Plate .  Enjoy!

 I’m doing something new here. I want to tell you about the newest recipes from The Good Plate . A new recipe comes out every Friday, and I’ll always link directly to it. What I want to use this space for is everything that doesn’t belong on a recipe page: why I made it, what I was thinking about, what went wrong, what surprised me, and the occasional blooper. So let’s start with this week’s recipe: Air Fryer Chicken Crisps 👉  Air Fryer Chicken Crisps This one came out of not wanting to waste something that usually gets thrown away, and wondering whether the air fryer could turn it into something genuinely good instead of just “acceptable.” It turns out it can. The full method, timing, and why it works are on The Good Plate . This space is where I’ll talk about the rest of it.

Just did the upload for my new client  http://qpmessenger.com , Quick Pick Messenger Service.  They are an interesting account, because there is another messenger service, with a similar name, that is getting higher ranking than they are. I call the other messenger Evil Messenger - I don't mean that lightly, either.  The other messenger service is using the same name at Manta, and not their real name. That's just unethical.  When asked to change it, they refused.  I'm not going to post their URL because I don't want them to get any traffic from this post.  My intent is to bury them, and I'm going to succeed. But, hey, if you're in the Los Angeles area, and need a good, reliable messenger service that does process service, bio-medical service in special refrigerated packaging, escrow, title or mortgage, for a really good rate, then visit them at  http://qpmessenger.com

Well, now, I think I have found and SEO tool that I like.  It's called Traffic Travis, available at  http://trafffictravis.com . I hesitated downloading the other day because the little man icon looked silly.  It reminded me of the horrible icons that Microsoft had for MS Office, anyone remember that dreadful paper clip, Clippy, or the little dog?  Cutesy is usually not my thing. Yesterday, I uninstalled Serp Attack, and this morning, I was still looking for a good SEO tool, and came across Traffic Travis again.  I decided to download it, despite the cutesy Travis guy. I like the interface, speed and tools.  I'm probably going to upgrade to the pro version soon. On another note, I found a good color accessibility tool that checks foreground and background colors.  It's free, and very simple to use.  It alerted me that the colors I had chosen for the navigation on a site I'm working on would fail.  It was a simple matter of changing th...

Well, I'm trying a new SEO tool I found for free at  http://serpattacks.com .  I'll report back when I've seen what it can do.  It's free, so we'll see how it goes. Well, it does a few things, for a free tool, but not enough.  I think I can do much better myself.

Comment Spam I just love some of the comment spam I get over at The Good Plate . Here's a good one: Today, I went to the beachfront with my children. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely off topic but I had to tell someone! Now, this some poster has come by before and posted this same crap a few times. Either it's some sicko or someone who needs to have their child taken away by Department of Child and Family Services. Yeah, I know its probably a bot, but I'll bet that sometime, somewhere, some poor kid got really scared, if not hurt. Tell you what, I'll report this to local law enforcement.

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