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Where is my push-push?
When we first got a television, my kid sister was our remote. She would have to go turn the TV up or down, on or off, and change the two channels we had. It was up to her to see which one was less snowy, and that was the channel we watched.
Then–with our new Zenith, we got a channel changer. If it was called a remote, we didn’t know it. I still call the thing a channel changer.
My sister was retired from her unwanted job by a 2 ½ by 5 gray electronic with four buttons: on-off, volume up-down, and arrow up, arrow down channel.
The only thing about my sister was, we hardly ever lost her. The channel changer is another story.
I can hear my dad now: "Where is my push-push?" We were kids and that would get us running to see who found it first.
You can imagine most of the time it was in the cushion of the chair, under the foot stool, or in some out-of-the-way spot where someone would say. "I wonder how it got there?"
After it became standard equipment, and got misplaced numerous times. it never occurred to anyone to walk right up to the TV and "push-push" the buttons. We get very easily modern and lazy.
The other day I misplaced my remote. I guess I said it to the dog, who couldn’t help, "Now where the heck is that channel changer?"
I did think about going up to the TV and pushing buttons. I have done that before, and my son had to reprogram the whole darn thing.
The new remote has 38 buttons with colors, including green, red, purple and gray. Give me a break. I need a page of directions.
I’m sure my search won’t be the last I lose it.. Usually it is in the cushions, or under the chair. Sometimes it is on the counter-top next to the phone, which is black, and about the same size. I have been know to grab the phone and try to change the channel. Doesn’t work. I am hopeful for myself., though. I have not tried to answer the remote. Yet.
When I lose this little gem, it is usually on mute so I can’t watch what is on. I tell myself now is the time to break the Matlock and Murder, She Wrote (some things never change) addiction.
Instead, I go to the other TV, grab the other 38 button wonder, and push-push to my heart’s content.
I can watch from the kitchen. That’s why so often that darn thing is behind something on the counter-top. Eventually found, with the cooking channel on, I try to find a recipe I can try first before I tell you it is easy and good.
I like Paula Deen, but sometimes she gets on my last nerve. It seems the more famous she gets, the more Southern she talks. But she is an excellent cook, her recipes are super, and she loves butter as much as I do.
Orange Brownies
from Cooking With Paula Deen, July/August,2006
you will need for the brownies:
1 ½ cups flour
1 t salt
1 cup (2 sticks) softened real BUTTER
4 large eggs
2 t pure orange extract
1 t grated orange zest
Glaze:
1 cup confectioner’s sugar
2 T orange juice
1 t grated orange zest
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a 13 x 9 pan
stir together all brownie ingredients
Beat until well blended
Pour batter into pan and bake 30 minutes or until light brown
Remove from oven and pierce entire cake with a fork.
Mix glaze ingredients together and pour over warm cake
Cool and cut into squares
Enjoy.