Mary in the Kitchen

Catholic Family Fun: A Cookbook for Healthy and Holy Family Fun

April 16, 2012 By Jeff Young 2 Comments

When it comes to family fun (fun that celebrates and nurtures your Catholic faith), do you consider yourself as adventurous or overwhelmed? Do you think of yourself as creative or clueless?

Usually, I have my feet planted squarely in the Overwhelmed and Clueless camps. But, with her new book, Sarah Reinhard has introduced me to a couple of new and exciting realms of possibility: the Adventurous and the Creative.

As The Catholic Foodie, I think it’s obvious that I love to cook. As a matter of fact, one of my great joys in life is looking through cookbooks. I love cookbooks because they inspire me with delectable ideas, and they equip me with encouragement and an arsenal of practical tips. Sometimes I even imagine the bible as the cookbook of life.

I have often wished for a “cookbook” for kids. No, not the kind that shows kids how to cook… Rather, the kind that shows me how to have fun with my family in ways that bind us closer together with each other and with the Lord.

Kids grow up way too quickly. As my kids move from one phase to another, I frequently find myself wishing for a cookbook for family fun. Thanks to Sarah Reinhard, I now have one!

Catholic Family Fun: A Guide for the Adventurous, Overwhelmed, Creative, or Clueless

Catholic Family Fun is filled with fun, practical tips and more inspiration than you can shake a stick at.

I’m serious.

There are silly activities, storytelling, craft projects, meals to cook and share, outdoor adventures, places to go, saints to celebrate, ways to serve, and ways to pray. And all of these activities are broken down by prep time, duration, and cost… just like a “real” cookbook!

I had the privilege of reading the draft of this book before publication. Pauline Books & Media asked me to read it and, if I liked it, to write a promotional blurb for the book. [As if I wouldn’t like it!]

Here’s what I wrote for them:

“Families are so busy today. We are always on the go. Even with the best of intentions, family fun time can easily get swallowed up by all the ‘must-do’s’ of life. It seems like there is no time for having fun together. Yet, having fun together is exactly what we need in order to grow in love and to keep our family close. My own family needs a healthy dose of fun on a daily basis. But if you’re like me, sometimes I’m at a loss for new ideas. We end up doing the same old things together, which can drastically reduce the fun-factor for all of us.

We need something different, something new. What we need is inspiration and a bunch of great ideas. And that’s exactly what we find in Sarah A. Reinhard’s Catholic Family Fun: A Guide for the Adventurous, Overwhelmed, Creative, or Clueless.

Sarah A. Reinhard has a knack for getting to the heart of things. In simple and plain language, Sarah shares with us a multitude of good, fun, and practical ideas for families to grow in love together. And she shares these ideas with us with a dose of ‘Yes, you can do this’ encouragement. Catholic Family Fun gives me the extra boost I need to make room in my busy life to have holy and wholesome fun with the people who are most important to me, my family.”

Readers and listeners of The Catholic Foodie should know Sarah Reinhard well. She regularly appears on The Catholic Foodie podcast with her Mary in the Kitchen segment. She also writes about marriage, motherhood, the Catholic faith, books, and life on a farm at her blog: snoringscholar.com. She is also a frequent contributor to other blogs, podcasts and websites (in addition to The Catholic Foodie) such as: Catholic Mom, Faith & Family Live, and Catholic Writers Guild. Sarah lives in central Ohio with her husband and their three children.

Personally, I am blessed to call Sarah my friend. One day about two years ago she emailed me with an idea for a segment for The Catholic Foodie… something about Mary and a kitchen. I love Our Lady dearly, and I love kitchens, so I said Yes! From that one email a new friendship was born. We have met in person only a few times. But we have spent lots of time talking, emailing, and collaborating on different projects. Today I am blessed to call Sarah my friend. And we are all blessed by her reflections in her Mary in the Kitchen segment on The Catholic Foodie podcast.

You can listen to Sarah and me discuss the book on the last episode of The Catholic Foodie (Holy Week, The Eucharist, and The Sacramental Principle).

As you can tell from the endorsement I wrote for this book, I do highly recommend it for all Catholic families. In addition to the book, Sarah is also regularly posting new activities for family fun, and reflections too, at the book’s website. She also has additional information about the book on her blog at SnoringScholar.com. Finally, you can join in the discussion about the book, and even pick Sarah’s brain on the Catholic Family Fun Facebook Page.

If you’re family needs a healthy dose of Catholic Family Fun, there’s no better resource that Sarah’s book. Check it out today!

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The Heart of My Home

February 8, 2012 By Sarah Reinhard 2 Comments

Mary in the Kitchen – CF129: King Cake and Mardi Gras in New Orleans

THE HUNKER-DOWN DAYS OF WINTER

Outside my kitchen window, the trees are bent as the wind howls across the fields. The ground was dusted with snow and the temperature finally dropped to winter levels.

We’re hunkered down today, as I record this, and I’m trying not to drink too much coffee. I’ve been brewing tea and thinking about how cold and wonderful it will be to venture out later.

One of the things I love to do on hunker-down days is burn candles in my kitchen. There’s something about the flame and the resulting fragrance that warms me.

I’ve said it before, but it seems more true on the hunker-down days of winter: my kitchen is the heart of my home. In my current house, the kitchen is adjacent to our family room, so the places where we spend most of our time are all connected.

THE KITCHEN: THE HEART OF MY HOME

As my children grow and as I grow in my vocation, I see, more and more, the importance of my kitchen. Recently, I felt like I needed to master the art of chocolate chip cookies.

Now, before you roll your eyes at how pathetic I am, let me just say that, thanks to the Catholic Foodie podcast and some very patient friends and family members, I have FINALLY started to appreciate that cooking and baking is as much about process as it is about ingredients.

I never thought I’d be a cookie-baking mom. But the look on my seven-year-old’s face when she came in and smelled the freshly-baked cookies was addictive. Maybe cookies aren’t the most nutritious after-school snack, but of all people, she appreciated that I went to some effort to do it just for her. And they were good! Between the smile and the taste, they might be my favorite snack of all!

When you look at life as a long series of humdrum days, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and feel burdened. When meals are just another thing on your to-do list, it’s easy to feel discouraged and disheartened.

That must be why my kitchen has so many Marys in it. She’s by my sink, on the shelf, and on the wall. She’s my personal reminder that the role of my kitchen is IMPORTANT.

It’s not just about what we eat, but that’s important. It is, in part, about making the heart a happy, thriving place, a haven for those who need one and a refuge for those who seek it. It’s about integrating my faith and my love for my faith into everything, even my humdrum activities.

Here’s hoping that the hunker-down days of winter give you a moment or two to reflect on the importance of the heart of your home.

Sarah Reinhard is a published author and blogger who makes her online home at SnoringScholar.com.

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Surviving Advent

December 23, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard 1 Comment

Mary in the Kitchen – CF126: John Besh and “My Family Table”

Ah, Advent.

Can I be honest here? I’m glad it’s almost over, though, truthfully, I’ve only just started liking it.

By the time you hear this (or read it, as the case may be), I’ll have survived two family Christmases.

I don’t even know why I say survive.

Other people host them. I just have to show up, sometimes bearing food and other times with only the gifts I bring.

What is it that makes me dread this time of year so much?

Well, I have thought about it long and hard and now, at the point when Advent is almost finished, I can tell you what I’ve concluded: that I need to choose–and change–my attitude.

Whatever else, I do love the Christmas season…the one that begins on December 25. This year, my mother-in-law is going to teach me how to make what she calls coffeecake and which is really some sort of homemade cinnamon bread. It’s delicious! This bread is a staple in our Christmas morning diet, and our New Year morning diet too. We try to wrangle it out of her at other times through the year, but I’ve decided it’s time to learn to make it myself.

This year, for the first time, we have fresh eggs in our refrigerator, so I think that at least some of our Christmas eating will include them. Maybe we’ll have them for breakfast, along with that coffeecake bread my mother-in-law will give us on Christmas Eve.

It’s hard to keep a chip on my shoulder when my children are so sincerely happy about the music and the decorations and everything else. I find I can still manage a bad attitude, though.

That’s why I’m turning to Mary in a special way. She knows my challenges. She sees how I let myself get overwhelmed by silly obligations and how I neglect to notice the blessings beneath my nose.

When I’m in my kitchen, grasping my rosary in the early morning quiet, I’m going to pray for the peace the birth of the Baby Jesus promises to each of us. I’m going to ask for the grace to accept it. And I wish that for each of you at this special time of year too!

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Mary In The Kitchen: Thanksgiving 2011

November 24, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard Leave a Comment

Non-foodies everywhere are quaking in their boots, and while the audience in the kitchen today might be made up primarily of those who savor the challenge ahead with a string of major holidays, let me be the one to call for some sanity.

In my world, hosting a major family gathering usually guarantees that my heart rate and stress level will soar while my family’s appreciation of those things will plummet.

Is it worth it?

Well, really, yes. I guess it is. And one of the things that reminds me not to take myself so seriously is Mary herself.

She is surely the patron for the disheveled hostess. Picture her in Bethlehem, only a few hours post-partum when a crew of scraggly shepherds and probably half the town show up.

It wasn’t a family dinner, but I wouldn’t be surprised if somehow she found a way to offer what she had with not only generosity, but a cheerful smile as well.

There’s a lot for me to learn from that.

This Thanksgiving and throughout this holiday entertaining season, I’m going to picture Mary at the Nativity whenever I’m feeling overwhelmed or overburdened.

When all I hear are complaints and demands, I’m going to think about the chorus of angels and the shepherds’ response to them–they ran to see Jesus, of course! And so should I!

May your gratitude grow as you cling to Mary this week and always, and you follow her to her Son.

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The Rosary on My Windowsill

November 18, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard Leave a Comment

Mary in the Kitchen – CF124: Alton Brown, This Bisque’s For You

There’s a rosary on my kitchen windowsill. When I stumble into the kitchen, my eyes barely awake, and stand there looking out at the blackness of early morning as I wait for my coffee, I see it there.

That’s usually my cue to pick it up and start my prayers.

Sometimes, especially on the weekends when I allow myself the luxury of not waking up before the rest of the household, my rosary stands sentinel on the windowsill all day. Though I may get my rosary prayed through the day, it’s not with the same focus or with the weight of that rosary in my hands.

My kitchen has always been my primary place of prayer, and not just because I’m usually desperate for dinner to be something edible or for an idea to feed the crew. I tend to migrate toward my kitchen table, toward the place of coffee and comfort, toward the centrality it holds in my home.

My kitchen and my rosary have a lot in common, really. Just as my kitchen functions as the heart of my home, since it’s where all my work as a wife and mom seems to begin and end, so the rosary has become the heart of my faith. I don’t mean that it trumps the sacraments, but that it leads me back to them.

Find myself feeling lonely, like I’m missing part of my soul? There, in the rosary, I’ll find Mary leading me to her Son and to the only comfort I really need.

Having a bad day and thinking the world’s on my shoulders? There, with the rosary on my heart, is Mary with her arm around me, hugging me from the foot of the Cross.

Basking in the beauty of creation and the blessings of my life? Ah, what a day to pray the Glorious Mysteries and see Mary’s face light up as she hugs her Risen Son.

Just humdrumming along, fighting the temptation to feel bored or look for trouble? The rosary seems to be just waiting, a path Mary walks with me, reminding me of the plan God has that I can’t possibly know yet.

Throughout my time in my kitchen each day, I’ll catch a glimpse of my windowsill rosary. It looks like it’s been placed there almost accidentally, but I know why it’s there.

In those beads, I have a chain of love, an ongoing link from God, through his mom. I try to remember that when I don’t know what I’m looking for, when I find myself hungry for something more than food.

They always lead me, through Mary, to Jesus. Every single time.

***Image courtesy of Lawrence OP on Flickr.com.***

Filed Under: Blog, Guest Bloggers, Mary in the Kitchen Tagged With: Mary in the Kitchen, MIK, Our Lady, prayer, rosary, Sarah Reinhard

Bring Mary into the Kitchen

November 15, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard 3 Comments

My kitchen is, quite possibly, my favorite room in my house. This has nothing to do with a love of cooking, mind you, but has much to do with the presence of a table with character, coffee, and a view of great sunsets.

It’s natural, then, for me to want to include Mary in my kitchen. I start most days with a rosary, devotions, and coffee, sitting in my kitchen. We eat our meals in the kitchen; I fold laundry there; often, I write accompanied by the tock of the kitchen clock.

The kitchen is the heart of my home, and I’ll bet it’s an important part of yours too. Here are a few of my tips for bringing Mary into your kitchen:

Put a statue by your sink. I’m fond of the Kitchen Madonna, myself, but what you’ll find looking over my sink is an olive wood bust a dear friend gave me. Seeing Mary here reminds me of my important role in the kitchen…and in God’s kingdom.
Place a rosary by your coffeepot. And yes, I suggest this so that you’ll use it in your kitchen! Bless your efforts – however humble – and bless the space where you spend so much of your time.
Make the Hail Mary part of your kitchen routine. Find yourself folding laundry at the table or rinsing dishes after dinner? Offer a Hail Mary – that’s 14 seconds of your time – for your work, your family, your….

How do you make Mary a part of your kitchen experience? I’d love to hear your responses! Email me at sarah@snoringscholar.com and maybe you’ll see your suggestion in next month’s newsletter!

Sarah Reinhard writes about Mary, motherhood, and miscellaneous things that amuse her at SnoringScholar.com. You’ll also hear her Mary in the Kitchen segment weekly on the Catholic Foodie podcast.

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Filed Under: Blog, Guest Bloggers, Mary in the Kitchen Tagged With: coffee, cook, devotions, hail mary, human behavior, kitchen, kitchen clocks, kitchen madonna, Mary, rosaries, rosary, Sarah Reinhard, the kitchen

Tomatoes and the Stuff of Miracles

September 23, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard

Mary in the Kitchen – CF123: Goodbye Good Eats

It’s tomato season here in central Ohio. We pick the ripe red fruit only to find, a few days later, that there’s another basket waiting for us. My mother-in-law has been responsible for teaching me her canning and preserving wisdom over the last few years.

While we’re slicing the tomatoes and putting them in the pans to cook in round one, she throws out bits and pieces of the wisdom she’s gleaned over the years. It’s not limited to tomato wisdom; she has shared all manner of goodies with me while we are at her kitchen sink.

When I stood at the sink in an endless streak of processing, filtering the seeds and skins using a contraption that makes my older kids beg to help, she bustled back and forth, narrowly escaping burns even as she seemed to be everywhere at once.

Then, after the strained sauce had cooked down, she walked me through the specific process she uses, washing jars and sterilizing them, then putting them in the canner in groups of seven.

Truth be told, this is my favorite time of the year. The smell of the tomatoes, the work of my hands, the teasing change of seasons…it’s the stuff of miracles.

Though I live in the country, I’m as guilty as anyone of being removed from the physical lifestyle that, only 50 years ago, was a standard. So when I read about some of the long-ago apparitions of Mary, I have to realign myself mentally. I have to think about the message for those people, do some transposing to get the message to make sense to me, in my life now.

In the Guadalupan apparition, we have Mary appearing to an apparently insignificant person, a poor Indian convert. Juan Diego was as “nobody” as it got.

Boy, do I know that feeling!

So much of what Our Lady of Guadalupe has to say is relevant to me now. She meets me where I am.

It seems so fitting that I finished a book on Mary waiting for the tomato sauce to thicken. With the red smell of cooking tomatoes in my nose, I closed the back cover. Finishing a book and tasting the fruits of my labor are rewarding in a way so few things seem to be. Clearing out Google Reader just doesn’t have the same satisfaction. Emptying my inbox just doesn’t taste as good. Answering all my messages doesn’t meet my inner need for creativity.

We have many more tomatoes to can. The plants are bogged down with the promises of at least two more sessions in the next few weeks. While I stand there, at the sink, I’ll think of Our Lady of Guadalupe and of Mary, the girl from Nazareth. I’ll consider the work the Indians of Juan Diego’s time did and the humble clothing they wore. The story will be mingling with cooking tomatoes in my mind, to the tune of my mother-in-law’s stories and advice.

I think that’s just the sort of beauty Mary intends for each of us, don’t you?

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Our Lady on Labor Day

September 5, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard Leave a Comment

Labor Day seems like the perfect backdrop for a reflection of the Blessed Mother, and we have that most years because her birthday is celebrated on September 8th, right around the time that we pause for Labor Day here in the United States. It’s a chance to stop and honor the work and toil we do in our everyday lives, women and men.

We can look to Mary’s example in the house at Nazareth and see a loving model for a fresh approach to what was dull and routine before. We can think of the miracle of her birth — not to mention the birth of her Son — and open our eyes to the miracles that are around us in the bustle of traffic, the piles of laundry, and the demands of children.

Saint Anne’s heart was broken because of her infertility. Saint Joachim was ridiculed at the Temple and even spent forty days fasting in the desert as penance for his childlessness.

All they wanted was a child.

They had lived a good, holy, blameless life. Back then, children were seen not just as a blessing, but as a sign of how much God loved you; if you didn’t have children, you had obviously done something wrong.

Even though I know this, I can’t separate myself from the women I’ve known who have struggled with infertility. I think of Anne, alone in her house, and I see so many other faces. I see the red-rimmed eyes and the desire, feel the emptiness, wonder with her…when? Why? Why?

Anne and Joachim did not give up. It would have been so easy to throw up their hands, to snub the whispering neighbors, to withdraw into their own misery.

Instead, they offered their pain to God in prayer. They remained open, even when everything looked hopeless.

And in old age, at a time when their friends were grandparents (or perhaps even great grandparents), Anne and Joachim were rewarded.

Having a child is no small thing. It changes you.

But to have a child who is to be the Mother of God…

Anne and Joachim knew their child would be special. Mary’s birth was preceded by angelic visits to each of her parents, and they had promised to dedicate her to God.

But did they know?

We might not feel like God has given us quite the important task He gave Anne and Joachim or other saints. Who am I? I often wonder to myself. Just another woman, just another mom, just another worker.

Except that’s not true. God made each of us for a purpose, and we are the only ones who can fulfill that mission in life. He’s asking something great of each of us, and we can look to Mary for help in following God’s will toward that purpose.

I often have to remind myself that the really important things God has in store for me don’t need fireworks or flashing lights. I might not even realize the impact I’m having.

Mary wasn’t born in a palace, and neither was Jesus. Their lives didn’t follow the pattern we might have chosen, if we were planning out the path for “Mother of God” and “God made Man.”

God had a better plan. We’re all better for it.

At an early age, Mary was dedicated to God. Her mother made sure that Mary took her first steps at the Temple. At age three, we’re told, she was taken to live at the Temple with other consecrated virgins. She had to leave at age twelve, the age of womanhood, because she would be ritually unclean.

She married Joseph, so that she was protected, safe, taken care of, though “the deal” was that she would remain a virgin. Then the plan took an unexpected turn. Gabriel showed up and announced something so far beyond what anyone could have imagined that I think Mary must have just gasped.

Her “yes” continues to inspire us today. I look to it when I’m feeling like the world is too much or that maybe God had someone else in mind for my life.

If a teenage girl can say “yes” to being the Mother of God, then maybe I can say “yes” to the clean-up of a Labor Day work weekend. If she can keep saying “yes” even as she saw where it would take her Son, then maybe I can “yes” my way through splashtime in the bathtub. If she can hold her Son after standing at the foot of the Cross and still say “yes,” I shouldn’t even hesitate to put down my gripes and pick up my own cross with a smile on my face.

Filed Under: Blog, Guest Bloggers, Mary in the Kitchen Tagged With: Annunciation, Labor Day

Noodles and Love

July 18, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard Leave a Comment

Mary in the Kitchen – CF117: Super Simple Summer Salads

Hey everyone! It’s been a while…and my kitchen has changed.

By “changed,” I mean that it is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

You see, in the last–how long has it been now?–I have moved. As in, across the street and 500 feet or so south, into a house that feels palatial and way nicer than I deserve. How we ended up with this house is a long tale of God’s providence, and we don’t have time for that now.

I will, however, tell you about the view from my kitchen.

Our new house–and it’s at least 100 years newer than the old house–is still surrounded by fields and in the same neighborhood, if our rural route with neighbors acres and acres away can be called a neighborhood. It’s all one floor, which makes putting laundry away less challenging.

The kitchen is the kind of showplace that has made more than one visitor pause. There are enough cabinets for everything I could ever want to include in them.

One of our first nights here, my husband looked at me and said, “You know, he must have really loved his wife.”

He was talking about the man who built this house.

He clarified to me later, “You don’t build a kitchen like THAT unless you really love your wife.”

I’m not a cook, but I sure feel loved, just being in this kitchen. My first thought, when I saw the counter space, was “Wow, that’s perfect for noodles.”

I know, I know. My reputation–and it’s well-earned–is as a NON-cook. But I feel loved, and I want to share it.

I feel loved because my husband has gone to quite some effort to make living here possible. I feel loved because my heavenly Father arranged for me to have this kitchen and the rest of the house.

My husband, not long before we knew this glorious new house was going to be our future, mentioned that homemade chicken and noodles is one of his favorite meals. I decided SOMEONE needed to glean this information from my mother-in-law, so she spent a day teaching me the technique.

Making those noodles–that first time and both times I’ve made them since–is an act of love, one that tastes delicious.

It’s the kind of act of love I’m pretty sure Mary knows all about. Her Son, after all, reminds us every week, with a meal, just how much he loves us.

Image courtesy of Max Choong on Flickr.com.

Filed Under: Blog, Mary in the Kitchen Tagged With: comfort food, noodles

Don’t Stress About Easter Cooking

May 1, 2011 By Sarah Reinhard Leave a Comment

Mary in the Kitchen – CF114: Mercy Sakes Alive!

There’s nothing like a big holiday and the promise of dinner preparations to make me run screaming from my kitchen.

Seriously.

I wonder at the irony of my reflections here as part of the Catholic Foodie, because my time in my kitchen is time I’d rather be…well, doing almost anything else. I don’t MIND doing dishes or folding laundry, mind you. They’re FAR better than some of the other household chores that I avoid.

But cooking?

Let’s just say that I’m coming to terms with an appreciation for homemade food versus processed food and the fact that this means I have to do some, ahem, COOKING. But a big meal?

Please, could someone toss me a line here?

Oh wait. I have a line. It’s a line straight to heaven, actually, AND it’s a lifeline. It pulls me back to reality again and again. As we hover on the edge of a holiday that’s pretty major with all the food preparations to go with it, I am grabbing this line in a big way.

You can grab on too, if you need to or hey, even if you just want to.

It’s my rosary.

Grab on and let’s head into the Easter season filled with the joy of the risen Christ!

Image courtesy of popofatticus on Flickr.com.

Filed Under: Blog, Mary in the Kitchen Tagged With: cooking, Easter, prayer, rosary, stress

Catholic Family Fun: A Cookbook for Healthy and Holy Family Fun

Catholic Family Fun: A Guide for the Adventurous, Overwhelmed, Creative, or Clueless

The Heart of My Home

Mary in the Kitchen – CF129: King Cake and Mardi Gras in New Orleans

THE HUNKER-DOWN DAYS OF WINTER

THE KITCHEN: THE HEART OF MY HOME

Surviving Advent

Mary in the Kitchen – CF126: John Besh and “My Family Table”

Mary In The Kitchen: Thanksgiving 2011

The Rosary on My Windowsill

Mary in the Kitchen – CF124: Alton Brown, This Bisque’s For You

Bring Mary into the Kitchen

Tomatoes and the Stuff of Miracles

Mary in the Kitchen – CF123: Goodbye Good Eats

Our Lady on Labor Day

Noodles and Love

Mary in the Kitchen – CF117: Super Simple Summer Salads

Don’t Stress About Easter Cooking

Mary in the Kitchen – CF114: Mercy Sakes Alive!

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THE HUNKER-DOWN DAYS OF WINTER

THE KITCHEN: THE HEART OF MY HOME

Mary in the Kitchen – CF126: John Besh and “My Family Table”

Mary in the Kitchen – CF124: Alton Brown, This Bisque’s For You

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