Slow Cooker Beefy French Onion Soup

I love a good slow cooker recipe!

Fantastic French onion soup is made even heartier with beef stew meat.

7 small onions, cut in half and thinly sliced (about 7 cups)

1 tablespoon butter or margarine, melted

2 tablespoons sugar

2 dried bay leaves

1 1/2 pounds beef stew meat

3 cans (10 1/2 ounces each) condensed beef consommé

1/4 cup dry sherry or apple juice

1 cup apple juice

1/4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves

8 slices ( 1/2 inch thick) French bread, toasted

2 cups shredded Swiss cheese (8 ounces)

1. Toss onions, butter and sugar in 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Top with bay leaves and beef.
2. Cover and cook on low heat setting 9 to 10 hours or until onions are deep brown.
3. Stir in beef consommé, sherry, apple juice and thyme. Increase heat setting to high. Cover and cook 10 minutes or until hot. Remove bay leaves.
4. To serve, spoon into ovenproof soup bowls and top each serving with slice of toast and 1/4 cup cheese. If desired, broil with tops 6 inches from heat 3 to 5 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and begins to brown.

source- Bettycrocker.com

Disney’s Lady and the Tramp Diamond Collection February 7, 2012

Lady and the Tramp will is being released from the Disney vault and available on Disney’s prestigious Diamond Collection February 7, 2012.

Lady and the Tramp is Disney’s 15th animated masterpiece — a song-filled adventure about Lady, the treasured family cocker spaniel pampered by her owners, an upper middle class family, and Tramp, a roguish mutt from across the tracks. When Aunt Sarah moves in with her mischievous cats Si and Am to baby-sit, the very protective Lady soon finds herself muzzled! When Lady escapes she meets and is later rescued by Tramp. Lady and Tramp share an evening of adventures as Tramp shows Lady what it means to be footloose and leash-free, including the memorable spaghetti dinner. After Lady is re-united with her family, Tramp later saves the day and gains the love and respect from Lady and her family. This is the first time this classic film, one of the greatest love stories of all time, will be available on Blu-ray. This movie is a definite must have in your Disney library!

Blu-ray Features:

  • Disney Second Screen: Inside Walt’s Story Meetings*
  • Audio Commentary: Inside Walt’s Story Meetings
  • Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad
  • Three Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
  • Never Recorded Song: “I’m Free as the Breeze”

In celebration of the upcoming launch of Lady and The Tramp Diamond Edition on Blu-ray for the first time on February 7, 2012, Disney has opened the archives with these rarely seen behind the scenes photos from the film featuring Peggy Lee, Walt Disney and the production team for everyone to enjoy.

“Siamese Cat Song”

“He’s a Tramp”

Voice Talent:  Barbara Luddy (Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians) as Lady
Larry Roberts (Theatre background with Circle Theatre in Los Angeles) as Tramp
Peggy Lee (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, American Beauty) as Darling, Si, Am Peg
Bill Thompson (Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland) as Jock, Joe, Bulldog, Dachsie, the Policeman
Bill Baucom (TV’s “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” Judge Roy Bean) as Trusty
Stan Freberg (Stuart Little, Looney Tunes: Back In Action) as Beaver
Lee Millar (TV’s “I Love Lucy,” The George and Gracie Allen Show) as Jim Dear, the Dogcatcher
Producer: Walt Disney
Directors:  Clyde Geronimi (Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty) 
Wilfred Jackson (Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo) 
Hamilton Luske (Alice In Wonderland, Cinderella, Pinocchio) 

Fun with Little Angels, Coming to DVD & Digital 2/14

ENJOY BIG ADVENTURES WITH…

Presented by Executive Producer Roma Downey
A Fun New Educational Series Filled with BIG Adventure
Arrives on DVD February 14

Discover the joy of learning and friendship with this season’s most heavenly new collection! From executive producer Roma Downey (“Touched by an Angel”) comes the first three volumes of a fresh, fun and inspiring educational series that children and their parents (and grandparents too) can enjoy together in LITTLE ANGELS ABC’s, LITTLE ANGELS ANIMALS, and LITTLE ANGELS 1,2,3’s, soaring onto DVD with Digital Copy February 14 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Roma Downey stated, “For many years I had the privilege of playing an angel on television, bringing a message of God’s love to millions of Americans. As a mother, I have longed to be part of a project that would help to bring that same message to children by not only teaching them the foundations of education – but also providing strong examples of good behavior. Little Angels does just that. It offers critical learning skills through the lens of timeless and age appropriate Bible stories. I only wish this series had been available when my kids were younger!”

Fun with Little Angels

Little Angels App
The Little Angels App is currently available on iTunes and features the Daily Prayer – read by Roma Downey with illustrations and interactive scenes from the Little Angels videos. The App also includes games like Uri’s Painting Game where little ones can paint and color images from the Little Angels videos and The Matching Game which will challenge your kids’ memory as they search for the angels hiding behind the clouds.

Little Angels Books
Based on the characters in the Little Angels DVDs, the books feature bright and colorful artwork, entertaining stories, and meaningful lessons. In ANGELS WATCHING OVER US, twins Alex and Zoe are squabbling over whether to swing or play ball. Soon the Angels appear to teach the children the concept of cooperation, and the twins learn that they can have more fun if they work and play together. In THANKFUL FOR GOD’S BLESSINGS, Alex is having a bad day! But when the Angels lead him in a gratitude game, Alex and Zoe learn that they have much to be thankful for and that all of their blessings come from God.

Free “Little Angels” activity sheets!
Simply click the two images below to print your own adorable activity sheets to enjoy with your little angels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Information and assets provided by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Five Dollar Shake is a proud Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ambassador. Watch for a fun Little Angels Giveaway coming soon.

For more about LITTLE ANGELS go to www.facebook.com/romaslittleangels or www.littleangels.com.

New Dramas Coming to Network Television

FOX has ordered four pilots so far.

ASSET, THE:
A drama set in the new york office of the CIA, which centers on a female agent.

GUILTY:
A drama about a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling and to ultimately exact revenge on the men who set him up.

UNTITLED KARYN USHER PROJECT:
A drama about the orphaned 17-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who is recruited to become an operative herself.

UNTITLED KEVIN WILLIAMSON PROJECT:
A drama about a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers, and the FBI agent who finds himself in the middle of it.

ABC has ordered six so far.

ANTICHRIST:
A drama about a young astrophysics student who learns his destiny lies not in science but somewhere between heaven and hell.

GILDED LILLYS, THE:
A drama set in 1895 and revolves around the family who owns new york’s first true luxury hotel, the staff who work there and the people who pass through.

LAST RESORT:
A thriller set in the near future when the country is very fractured and revolves around the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who become hunted after ignoring an order to shoot nuclear missiles.

EX-COMM:
A drama about a newly-elected president and his top secret “executive committee,” the government’s covert team of america’s most elite minds who investigate and protect our nation from the strangest occurrences and conspiracy theory truths out there.

666 PARK:
A drama about an innocent couple from the midwest that moves to New York and gets hired to be resident managers of a building on the Upper East Side where unbeknownst to the couple, the residents have all unwittingly made deals with the Devil to have their deepest needs, ambitions and desires fulfilled.

BEAUTY &THE BEAST:
A fantastical re-imagining of the classic fairy tale set in a mythical, dangerous world wherein a beautiful and tough Princess discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast.

CBS has ordered four so far.

BABY BIG SHOT:
A drama about a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a Manhattan law firm.

ELEMENTARY:
A modern take on the cases of the pipe-smoking private eye created by Arthur conan doyle.

UNTITLED ARON ELI COLEITE PROJECT:
A drama about a common-sense mother who becomes a new york state trooper.

Golden Boy:
Tracks one cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to Police Commissioner.

The CW has ordered five so far.

ARROW:
A new take on the dc comics hero, an archer who dresses like robin hood and invents trick arrows with various special functions.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST:
A revival of the cult 1987-1990 series that aims to not only modernize and CW-up the love story but also add a procedural twist.

CARRIE DIARIES, THE:
“sex and the city” prequel series based on Candice Bushnell’s recent book about the high school years of Carrie Bradshaw.

CULT:
“silence of the lambs”/”seven”-esque drama that tracks the investigation of a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances surrounding the show-within-a-show entitled “cult”.


FIRST CUT
:
Centers on a brand new doctor who, glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.

NBC has ordered seven so far.

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE:
An imaginative and thematically rich ensemble “what if” drama set 10 minutes in the future where families of mechanical human beings exist to service the human population — that is until some of the mechanicals begin to “awaken.”

DO NO HARM:
A medical drama about a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life.

FRONTIER, THE:
1840s-set drama about a diverse group of people who set out from missouri on an incredible adventure across an american landscape that is still largely uncharted, following dreams of riches and reinvention in the west.

MIDNIGHT SUN:
A drama which revolves around a police investigation into disappearance of a remote cult that slowly uncovers the darkest secrets of the region and its inhabitants, as well as a grander political conspiracy and environmental disaster from which the cult members are attempting to escape.

MUNSTERS, THE:
An imaginative reinvention of “The Munsters” as a visually spectacular one-hour drama from Universal Television.

Chicago Fire:
An action-driven drama exploring the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department.

County:
Takes us into the lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators, in a frenetic underfunded and morally compromising LA County Hospital.

Source: FutonCritic

Trailer Park Tuesday, Finding Nemo 3D

“Fish are friends, not food”.

Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken to a dentist’s office aquarium. It’s up to Marlin (Albert Brooks), his worrisome father, and Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a friendly but forgetful Regal Blue Tang, to make the epic journey to bring Nemo home. Their adventure brings them face-to-face with vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more. Marlin discovers a bravery he never knew, but will he be able to find his son?

Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich

Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Alexander Gould

FINDING NEMO returns to theaters for the first time in Disney 3D September 14th, 2012!

Being one of my all time favorite Disney movies, there is no doubt I’ll be seeing it on the big screen in 3D. In-fact my whole family is really looking forward to it.

How about you? Do think Finding Nemo 3D will bring you to the theater?

REAL STEEL, On DVD, Blu-ray & Digital Today! 1/24/12

Celebrate the release of REAL STEEL on Blu-ray & DVD, with the following sneak peek at Disney’s Second Screen application and the new ‘Meet the Bots’ video! Second Screen allows fans to dive deeper into the action with concept art, behind-the-scenes images, supplemental videos, and more! Viewers can interact with their Blu-ray Disc simultaneously and without interruption on their laptop or iPad. And be sure to check out the bots in action in the brand new video below!

Behind-the-Scenes & Concept Images

Making of the Bots Concept Art

Meet the Bots

 

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