Carrot top!!

Cottage pie or Shepard's pie... Whatever you call it, there better be mashed potatoes. I've used the instant stuff before, it's quite tasty... But there is something about turning dirty, lumpy potatoes into velvety mashed potatoes. But this cottage pie recipe has a golden twist! When you boil your potatoes, toss in a .5 lb of carrots, and 5 garlic cloves (skins removed of course.) When you mash everything in your pot, the carrots add their color, the garlic its flavor. Adding butter, salt and pepper is a must, adding warm milk, sour cream or cream cheese would be delicious. You could serve this trio of mash as a side dish, but underneath mine, a layer of savory beef and corn off the cob await. Flavored with sautéed onion, garlic, herbs and Worcheshire sauce, the lean ground beef is the lean partner of its decadent topper. This is comfort food to the max! I often have made this in the morning, let cool, refrigerate, than heat at 400 for 30 minutes. One of my husband's favorites.

TCM's Pinup Girl month!

Best month ever!! Turner Classic Movies will feature pin-up girls all June long!

Jane Russell

Movies starring the most gorgeous of gals... Hours of superb fashion and guys going gaga over a lady's charms. 

Rita Hayworth 

Every Wednesday, TCM will showcase movies with the likes of Hedy Lamarr, Jane Russell and Betty Grable. 

Betty Grable and her famous gams

TCM's Robert Osborne always regales us with behind the scenes trivia before the movies. Last night's nugget for The Road to Singapore, featuring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, was neat! He mentioned Lamour's photo in the July 7,1941 edition of LIFE magazine. Lounging in a tropical sarong, something she often donned her south-seas themed films, Dottie Lamour is the perfect 1940s woman. After some serious Internet digging, I found the picture!

The heading touts Lamour as the most pinned picture by our nation's troops in 1941. I just watched The Hurricane from 1937 featuring the famed actress and pin-up. She had barely any dialogue, but I do remember thinking how her sarong was teeny tiny.

Robert Osborne's article for June's pin-up girl feature is neato-here it is!

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/1090956|0/Pin-Up-Girls-Wednesdays-in-June.html