Ha!  Oprah and comedian Steve Harvey!  Steve says he has made finding the right man easy!!!  He’s got a five straight forward questions to help separate the pretenders / jokers from the real McCoy…

How this 91 year old got her groove back…  This 31 year old Prefers Older Women and Takes His 91-Year-Old Girlfriend Home To Meet His Mother!

Kyle Jones says he’s really into elderly women. The 31 year old from Georgia is only attracted to pensioners and prefers his women 65 or older.

Chef John:  “Because of the sugar content, it only takes a minute for a barbecue sauce to go from brick-red to solid black. This video recipe shows my fairly simple solution to the problem. I just “mark” the chicken’s vulnerable skin side, then cook it all the way through in a closed grill, brushing on the glaze as it cooks.  In addition to seeing how not to burn chicken, you’ll also see a slash and marinade pre-grill prep that adds to this recipe’s overall deliciousness. This will work with any prepared barbecue sauce

INGREDIENTS:

2 chicken halves
1/4 cup rice vinegar
2 tbsp San Francisco-style barbecue sauce, plus more for brushing
2 cloves crushed garlic

For the rub:
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp cayenne”

The Guardian: “The man behind the Cronut has just published the official recipe … and it’s not for the faint of heart.  Pastry chef Dominique Ansel invented the Cronut last year at his New York bakery. With its flaky croissant and custard interior and fried, sugar-dipped exterior, it was bound to be popular – but no one could have predicted the ensuing, pastry-flecked frenzy.

Just days after Ansel started selling the croissant-donut hybrid in May 2013, things got crazy. Lines formed at the doors at 6am, news crews camped outside the bakery, and a thriving Cronut black market sprang up on Craigslist. The canny Ansel trademarked his Cronut, but that hasn’t stopped doissants and fauxnuts springing up across the globe.

His new cookbook, Dominique Ansel: The Secret Recipes, features many elegant and inventive confections, though of course there’s one getting all the attention. The not-so-secret Cronut recipe is now plastered all over the internet. But would-be imitators will need their piping bags and patience at the ready – this one is best left well alone if the most complicated thing you’ve ever baked is a lemon drizzle.

The official Cronut takes three days to make, thanks in part to the laminated dough. This is rolled together with a block of chilled butter to form layers, and needs a lengthy rest in the fridge. Ansel takes things to the next level, however. Two days before you’re allowed near the fryer, you must make a dough square. For unexplained reasons, you also have to make the ganache 48 hours ahead of time.

On day two, you get the dough out of the fridge and roll it with a perfect square of butter made using parchment and a ruler. Then back in the fridge it goes until day three – a frenzy of frying, glazing, flavoured sugar and piping work. The equipment list specifies a stand mixer with dough hook (cost £250-£400), the ruler, piping bags and a deep-frying thermometer.

It may be lengthy, and require a decent level of kitchen experience, but the most surprising thing about Ansel’s “secret” recipe is that it contains no great secrets. “The only thing that surprises me is that it isn’t a bit more different,” says former Bake Off winner Edd Kimber, who has just published his own patisserie cookbook and created a fauxnut recipe last year.

“Ansel has said in the past that it’s different to a croissant dough, but looking at the recipe, the technique is very similar. There’s the addition of a little egg white and cream, so it’s almost like a croissant dough with a bit of Danish recipe thrown in.”

The secret of the Cronut has been solved. It takes three days and a lot of sugar, butter and graft. One question remains, however: will anyone have the patience to make their own?”

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SORTED food: “Cronuts are a mix between a croissant and a doughnut/donut, and are the most gorgeous sweet treats that have been taking over Manhattan and London over the last few years! Dominique Ansel may have started them, but this recipe is courtesy of Edd Kimber.“

FROM THE baby’s FATHER: “Unfortunately our baby girl DIED during my wife’s labor. She was SO Beautiful and Dainty! I honestly have no questions for God on the subject. I UNDERSTAND and She Understood Her purpose in life. Even though it was the Doctors who chose not to try and save the 22.5 week baby, it was baby KAIRA who decided to lay her life down for a GREATER cause. Im HAPPY my wife is healthy and NO LONGER in PAIN and she is handling it so well. The HARDEST part was telling my 4 year old son that his baby sister DIED and cant go home with us. His reaction was SOOO PRICELESS I had to Capture it on Camera. It was the 1st time I Cried in a LOOOONNNGG time.
TRANSCRIPTION of VIdeo thanks to @creativeplanetjanet
Mom: Come here Baby.
Dad: Come here, Son.
Mom: The baby had to go back home, to be with God. The baby came out and stopped breathing. Do you still want the doctor to show you the baby?
Son: Uh, yes.
Mom: Are you sure you want to see the baby?
Son: Yeh-ehss! (through his tears)
Mom: But you can’t take the baby home with you, OK? Do you understand?
Son: I didn’t get to see the baby come out of your tummy. (through tears)
Mom: It did come out my tummy. But the baby isn’t breathing.
Son: I wanna seeee it.
Mom: You wanna see it? OK, I’ll let you see it, but you can’t take the baby home, OK? It’s in Mommy’s hand. It’s in Mommy’s hand.
(Son turns head toward baby covered with blanket after his mom repeats herself)
Mom: We just can’t take her home ’cause she’s not breathing. She’s soooo liiiiittle.
Son: I wanna see the baby (through tears)
Dad: Alright, relax Son. Mommy’s gonna show you the baby. (She pulls down the blanket so baby can be seen)
Mom: Look at the baybeeee. Do you see? See how little she is? Do you see? She look like you! She look like J-funk! (Maybe they will see this and fill us in on how their son got that nickname 😉 Do you know what her name is gonna be?
Son: No.
Mom: It’s gonna be Kaira.
Mom: Look at her little hands. Look at her little hands. Did you see how little her hand was? Ohhhhh Kaiiiraaa. Oohh Baybeeee.
Dad: Here’s your big brother!
Mom: Oh-oooooh! Tell her you are sad that she didn’t stay with you – with us. Tell her we’re gonna miss her.
Son: Bye, Kaira.
Mom: AhOooh. Tell her that you love her.
Son: I love you Kaira. I’ll miss you so so so much.
Mom: Tell her she gotta come back, huh?
Son: I’ll miss you.
Mom: Uh huhhh, maybe next time.
Dad: Look at her little feet, James. Look at her feet.
Mom: Look at her! She has Dad’s big feet. Look at those big feet!
Dad: You know how I play with your feet?
Mom: Look at them! Wow!
Dad: That’s your baby sister’s feet.
Mom: They’re big like Daddy’s! Look at them! (Laughing) Oh goodness…yep. She didn’t stay in Mommy’s tummy long enough, so God had to take her back to be with Him. (Son touching his sister) Be careful. Awe-ahh. Do you see her face? (soft chuckle)
Dad: Are you happy you got to see your sister?
Mom: (softly chuckling) Say, Kaira, we’re gonna miss you.
Son: Kaira, we’re gonna miss you.
Mom: We’re gonna miss you Kaira.
Son: We’re gonna miss you Kaira.
Dad: Do you see her ears? Does she have ears like you? Huh?
Mom: (softly chuckling/sing/song mmmmmm)
Dad: Look at her shoulders, they’re like Mommy’s shoulders.
Mom: (soft chuckle) She got legs like you.
Dad: Look at her nose. Her nose.
Mom: She got Daddy’s nose! (Happy laugh)
Dad: It like mine?! It like yours?! (Happy soft laughing along with Mom)
Mom: Ahh, Baybeee, Hmmmmm. She didn’t stay long enough. If she had listened and stayed a longer time, then she would have been OK. (I love how she shakes her finger at the baby – good lesson little man – Do what your mom and dad tell you.)
Dad: Then she would have came out bigger.
Mom: Yep. But see how little she is? She’s supposed to be muhhhhch bigger. Big brown baby. But she’s sooo little, we can’t take her home and God called her back home with Him. OK? But next time you might get a brother and a sister!
Other voice: Ohhhh!
Mom: orrr – a brother –
Another voice in room: Ah ha!
Mom (laughing) OK?
Dad: Or a sister.
Mom: Or a sister again.
Dad: Little laugh.
Son: Yeh, No, I wanna have a brother and a sister.
Other voice: You keep askin’ for a brother and a sister, you might get it. (Laughs) And that’s what the Lord was tryin’ to send.
Mom: You just might get it next time. Double blessing!”

“Curvaceous Mikel Ruffinelli has the world’s biggest hips.  They measure a staggering 8 feet round her largest hips at the widest point. The 40-year old’s waist is 40 inches but her 100 inch hips are as so wide she can’t fit through doorways and has to buy two seats on planes and trains. Mikel has no plans to lose weight and her adoring husband…  He loves it!”