Free Paris Hilton Radio Promotion

Erma dear, it has been a lovely Memorial Day weekend here. We were able to grill out between showers, even if the deck was wet. We had our first new peas which are always a treat.

I suppose you watched the Indy 500, only this one will have to go down as the Indy 450? We saw your Ashley Judd from Kentucky standing out in the rain. I didn’t know her husband was a racecar driver. Is she still the biggest Kentucky Basketball fan?

Talk around town is still the Paris Hilton thing. At least half my friends are certain that she won’t spend a day in jail. I don’t either, but it certainly has focused attention on the girl, and isn’t that what Hollywood is all about?

One of our sponsors, www.farmtoysandmore.com happened to have a Paris Hilton clock up on the Internet when the latest bru-ha-ha hit. They said the interest suddenly jumped. Then radio station WCVQ in Clarksville, Tennessee contacted them to be a part of their “Free Paris Hilton” promotion this week. Five of our Paris Hilton Celebrity Clocks will be given away in their promotion. Check it out at www.q108.com. Someway I think that those down home Tennessians will be voting for a looooong jail term for Miss Hilton.

The last time I was down visiting friends in Nashville, they served a luscious Tennessee Fudge Cake topped with a Hot Chocolate Sauce and ripe strawberries. Let me tell you, those Tennessee ladies know how to make you forget you are on a diet. Paris herself might be tempted to indulge in this chocolate dream.

Tennessee Fudge Cake:

2 cups of sugar
2 cups flour
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup Crisco
4 tablespoons of cocoa
1 cup water
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon baking soda
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon vanilla

Mix the flour, sugar, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl. In a large sauce pan, bring the butter, Crisco, cocoa and water to a rapid boil. Cook for one minute. Mix the buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla with a whisk. Pour the hot liquid over the flour and still well; then stir in the egg mixture until all is smooth. Batter will be thin. Pour into a 9 x 15 baking pan, and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

While the cake bakes, make the Hot Chocolate Sauce:

1 and 3/4 cups of sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
2/3 cup of milk
2 tablespoons of butter
1 teaspoon Jack Daniels (that’s the Tennessee touch, vanilla also works)

In medium sauce pan mix the sugar, cocoa, milk and butter. Bring to a boil and cook for one minute. Stir in the Jack Daniels (vanilla). Serve the Hot Chocolate Sauce hot over the cake.

Note when this sauce cools, the sugar becomes grainy. Don’t worry, when it is reheated (a minute in the microwave usually does it), it returns to a smooth sauce. My husband has been known to stir a teaspoon of this into a cup of hot coffee for a rich chocolately drink.

The Tennessee ladies dipped ripe strawberries in the Hot Chocolate Sauce about half way up the berry and then chilled them in the fridge.

When they served this, the cake was room temperature, the Sauce was hot, and the strawberry was on the side with a few sliced strawberries scattered over the sauce. Talk about rich!!!