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Thanksgiving Tips,🦃 Tricks and Fixes... Monday November 25th 8am hour /  by George Geary

Recipes from Todays Show and Tips with Timelines for the week! Enjoy!

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It’s kinda funny. I get asked… Are you cooking for Thanksgiving? Honestly, I think it has been 25 years since I cooked for the exact day of Thanksgiving. I teach pie baking for weeks prior, so many will enjoy the art of perfect pies. I jump on TV on morning shows from Thanksgiving Sides to How to fix your turkey. For 8 years, every Thanksgiving I was on a ship. A few years ago I got a call from Holland America on Wednesday before Thanksgiving with a panic. “ Are you in SoCal? Any chance you can jump on a ship tomorrow for 6 days out to the South Pacific .. We will fly you anywhere you need to go? So drove early Thanksgiving morning to the docks of San Diego and passed about 6 WalMarts with lines out the parking lot for those $100 TV Sets.. I sailed into in Tahiti almost a week later after teaching classes and lectures.  Flew home from the island.. A few times I was in London for the holiday… Mom asked, where are you going to have Thanksgiving? Well Mom.. they don’t celebrate it.. Something about us leaving the Mother Ship…  

 

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Here are some of the recipes for tomorrow mornings show… Also, a timeline as to how to prepare for your week..  

 

Menu:

Roasted Tomato Pepper Soup

Herb Roasted Turkey

Cornbread and Sausage Stuffing

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Orange Grand Marnier Cranberries

Maple Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Pie Crust

Pecan Pie

Pumpkin Pie

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Items every kitchen must have for holiday emergency

1.    Vodka

2.    Turkey Stock 

3.    Kahlua

4.    Whipped Cream

 

Timeline:

ASAP: Set Table and Get all bowls/utensils out

            Thaw Turkey (in COLD water), replace every 30 mins

Tuesday/Wednesday: 

Make:

Soup

Potatoes

Cranberries

Pies

Stuffing

Thursday AM: 

Make:

Turkey

Thursday Late Afternoon: 

After Turkey is setting (30 mins). Place: Potatoes and Stuffing wrapped in foil into oven

at 375°F for 35 minutes.  

 

 

 

Heather and I last years Turkey Makeover!

Heather and I last years Turkey Makeover!

CBS8 San Diego.. Pumpkins are Happening! 🎃 October 25th /  by George Geary

San Diego Morning News.. Here are the recipes from todays show. Fast and easy!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I was on the morning news an hour earlier at the 7am hour. Just in time for you to see the traffic before you head to work! Next week is Halloween! Here are a few savory and sweet dishes for you to try. Let me know how they work out.

Try making your own Pumpkin Puree!

Recipes:

Pumpkin Puree

Toasted Pecan Pumpkin Soup

Garlic Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin Cupcakes

Pumpkin Chocolate Cookies (Pictured above)

Have a Great weekend!

LaborDay No Labor Show CBS8 San Diego! August 28th, 8am /  by George Geary

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It is that time of year.. Summer is coming to an end when Labor Day hits.. Our last 3 day weekend of the summer months. (Can you believe we haven't had a 3 day weekend since Memorial Day?) 4th of July was in the middle of the week.. So it does not count. 

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SDLiving Fair Foods! /  by George Geary

Fair Foods! My next book will be out in a few months!

Tomorrow Thursday March 30th, 2017 I will finished up my food segments on CW6 San Diego Living. Watch LIVE tomorrow on the net or if you are in San Diego on the CW at 9am sharp. I will try to broadcast live with Facebook Live from the studio. It will be a busy last day on the air for the show. (Really Friday is the last day but its a half day without a food segment).

Here are the recipes:

Herb Corn on the Cob

Coconut Shrimp

Buffalo Wings

It has been a wonderful great group of news anchors, reporters, floor managers, producers, weather gals and everyone else. You tend to work with people again in TV.. so until then!

SDLiving Tomorrow... Fair Foods /  by George Geary

Fair Foods! My next book will be out in a few months!

Tomorrow Thursday March 30th, 2017 I will finished up my food segments on CW6 San Diego Living. Watch LIVE tomorrow on the net or if you are in San Diego on the CW at 9am sharp. I will try to broadcast live withFacebook Live from the studio. It will be a busy last day on the air for the show. (Really Friday is the last day but its a half day without a food segment).

Here are the recipes:

Herb Corn on the Cob

Coconut Shrimp

Buffalo Wings

It has been a wonderful great group of news anchors, reporters, floor managers, producers, weather gals and everyone else. You tend to work with people again in TV.. so until then!

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SDLiving Tomorrow! St. Paddy's Day /  by George Geary

The Countdown begins... I have not posted too much about the end of the SDLiving Show on the CW6 in San Diego.. This is my last St. Paddy's Day Show. I started morning shows in 1993. The year I left Disney. It was also the year the launched The Food Network. I was a regular on ABCs Mike and Maty in the 90s.. That was a 3 year run.. I have been doing this show for about 7 years.. I will have to look at the first thing I made..  I created a segment called WTF Day.. (What The Food) Day.. every day has some sorts of food attached to it.. If we didn't have an idea as to a segment we would look into what food day it was... I was so happy to always do National Cheesecake Day.. So I could highlight my book and cheesecakes! 

Here are the recipes for tomorrow.. Until next week! (The SDLiving Show signs off on the last day of the month). If any of you are a friend on Facebook.. I will be doing LIVE tomorrow while I set up my show around 8:15 am PDT.

Recipes:

Shamrock Shake for Adults

Drunken Pistachio Cake

Pistachio Cheesecake

Guinness Cupcakes with Cream Icing

Tiki Day on SDLiving! /  by George Geary

August 13th.. on SDLiving... We go to the islands! Live at 9am on CW6. If you are not in San Diego you can check it out on thier site after the broadcast at: 

I created a super moist flavorful pound cake for www.canolainfo.org last year. (Check out the site for more of my recipes.. Just search under my name)

Here it is:

Mojito Rum Tea Cake with Glaze

Also you need an appetizer..

Fast and Easy Island Shrimp. 

SDLiving...Apples for Fall? /  by George Geary

Today in San Diego it was going to be close to 100F. I returned from Norway and The Netherlands on Monday and jumped back to my food segments in San Diego...

Here are the recipes from this mornings segments. It was National Chocolate Shake Day to I made the same shake as last year packed for Mark the news anchor. He loves the octane!  

Also, make fresh applesauce! It your slow cooker! and these applesauce cupcakes with icing! 

Recipes

 

Also, I have a few spots for France 2015! email me at ggeary@aol.com for information! 

 

 

SD Living: Nat'l Chocolate Pudding Day! /  by George Geary

Who knew such a day? Nat'l Chocolate Pudding Day??

Well we will be making

Chocolate Pudding Martinis

Rich Chocolate Pudding Cake

All Live tomorrow on SD Living WB6! June 26th, 9am! I will have the show on this blog tomorrow night after the broadcast for those who do not live in San Diego! Remember.. we are LIVE and anything can happen! (Now I wonder if I have a 5 second delay??) 

Next week a newsletter going out with info on a new tour.. New Orleans and France 15B

SD Living... April 23rd, 2014.. /  by George Geary

I just returned from Africa and Europe... Today's show will focus on sweets to make ahead for a "Girl's Night Out/In". 

Here are the recipes and I will post the complete show when it is aired. 

Blood Orange Sangria

Sinful Kahlua Brownies

Banana Creme Cupcakes 

Next week I am heading to the South of France for my 19th season of tours! Ihave already started the prebooking for 2015. It will be a week in May.. If interested email me here: ggeary@aol.com. I am already 1/3 sold out! 

SD Living Thanksgiving 2013 Show /  by George Geary

Today I was on SD Living... LIVE.. Yesterday I was on 140 markets of the country.. "taped" from Tampa, FL.. Funny Two coasts, Two shows in Two days.. How does he do it?  

Here are the recipes from todays show..  

Pumpkin Kahlua Pecan Pie with a Flaky Crust, Pumpkin Praline Cheesecake, Apple, Ginger Rum Punch.

Pumpkin Recipe 

Cheesecake Recipe

Apple Ginger Rum Punch Recipe 

Here is the show if you would like to view it: SHOW

I hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving! Cheers! George

 

Thank you for being a friend... National Cheesecake Day on SDLiving! /  by George Geary


The Golden Girls...

Many of you know my story on the Golden Girls...  Back in 1982, I was working at Safeway Supermarket in Hollywood close to Paramount Studios as the bakery manager.  Daily we would get the strangest requests for food. That's how I started doing prop work for the studios. The (pilot) first episode of GG was taped at the Sunset Gower Stages, I created a carrot cake and also a wedding cake. Blanche (Rue) was left at the alter.. The show moved across town to the Ren-Mar Stages (846 N. Cahuenga Blvd). Side note: Ren-Mar was at one time Desilu-Cahuenga where seasons 3-6 of I Love Lucy were filmed, now it is called Red Studios.  After the GG moved they incorporated cheesecake into their evening talks around the dinner table. Over 100 of the shows had a cheesecake incorporated into the storyline. The show was taped on Friday nights and I would make 7 for the show. If one opened the fridge it was a working real fridge (unlike the stove). You would find 7 identical cheesecakes and coke, diet coke and sprite.

I then created crazy foods that were edible kinda for shows such as Dynasty, Falcon Crest, The Colby's, It's a Living, Brothers and many more..   Worked with the great Norman Lear for a time too. He would want a cake a week delivered out to his Brentwood house.. 

Here is the Golden Girl Cheesecake! Sit around the kitchen table with your besties and enjoy! Recipe