We welcome contributions from I Can Still do That Advisors about key issues and events in their professional and personal lives.
You may keep up with The Tip Sheet on our website – icanstilldothat.org – where all the past newsletters are posted.
This Week:
- A Message from Dan Schneider
- I Can Still do That presents a benefit for the MacDella Cooper Foundation
SIP & SIGN 2009
A Holiday Book Signing
Saturday, November
14th, 1-4PM, with
25 Authors at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery
Did you ever wonder what it feels like to be in the presence
of 25 renowned Hudson Valley authors? Well, come to Sip & Sign on Saturday, November 14th from
1-4PM, at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, and find out! The event is free and open to the public.
Authors include
HUDSON TALBOTT
(RIVER OF DREAMS, FORGING FREEDOM, YOUR PET DINOSAUR) &
MICHAEL LANG (THE
ROAD TO WOODSTOCK)
This is an extraordinarily rare gathering—an event
booklovers and oenophiles in the Hudson Valley should not miss. There will be tasty treats from Bread Alone, The
Pampered Cow, The Amazing Real Live Food Company, La Puerta Azul, Fishkill Farms and Monkey Joe Coffee Roasters, along with Millbrook’s wonderful wines…the perfect place to find that unique holiday gift—and enjoy the afternoon.
An autographed book is a lasting treasure:
visitors will be delighted to find books to please just about everyone on their shopping list. All are welcome!
Please join us in helping the cause,
“Light the Night Walk”
the Jane Elissa/Charlotte Meyers
Endowment Fund
for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society
An Intimate Evening with Sean McDermott
“You Are Not Alone”
Thursday, October 22, 2009
at the Triad in NYC (158 West 72nd Street)
Doors Open at 8:30 PM, show at 9
2 Drinks minimum (cash only)
Sean McDermott is recognized as one of
Broadway’s leading performers. He has starred in Miss Saigon, Grease,
Chicago and West Side Story, to name a few. Sean has just returned from
a European tour with the legendary Barbra Streisand.
For more information on the Endowment Fund, please visit: janeelissa.com
To register for the event, please visit:
Benefit Flyer
and please don’t forget
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We would like to thank Advisors Christina Bark, Esq. and Marcy Gordon, Esq. for representing us at the recent “Reinvention Convention” held this past Monday at the Chelsea Piers and produced by More Magazine
(see: www.more.com).
We will be posting all advisor names and bios on our website next week, so please let me know by Tuesday if you do not want your name and bio posted (contact info will remain confidential unless you post yourself on the First Mondays Free Directory).
The next First Mondays will be held November 2nd at B. Smith’s in NYC (320 W.46th St.) Please save the date and invite friends. We would like to have a full house as a percentage of the bar proceeds will go to the foundation.
And if that isn’t enough, there will be celebrity bartenders! Hope to see you all there.
In this Tip Sheet we have news from the following advisors:
Jane Elissa, October 22nd cabaret benefit for leukemia/lymphoma society
Dr. Jan McDonald, October 24th “Casino Night” Benefit for the MacDella Cooper Foundation (for Liberia) at her home (Virginia Beach)
Joanne Michaels, November 14th “Sip and Sign” book and wine event at Millbrook Vineyards (Dutchess County)
We are developing a virtual “Women Mentoring Women” project for Liberia, so please let us know if you are interested in participating. We are also looking for stories of Older Workers who have successfully become interns in order to learn a new business (this is for a Daily News article).
We are still collecting recipes, jokes, images and photos for the upcoming “First Mondays Cookbook/Jokebook.” Please send us any good ones you may have, along with any proposed names for the book (someone has suggested “Chips and Giggles” and “Senior Sandpiper”). All ethnicities and nationalities welcome. We’d
like to publish the book by February. All proceeds will go to charity.
We are also organizing an “I Can Still do That” Talent Show for Spring 2010. Interested volunteers (or contestants) please contact me or Tony
Wilkes (lewis.a.wilkes@verizon.net).
Here’s a sample Brownie recipe from Advisor Prof. Sondra Farganis, who taught at CUNY and Vassar and ran the Vera List and Wolfson Centers at the New School:
In one of her many cookbooks, Maida Heatter reported that she always made sure that she had brownies in the freezer so that
she could always pop half to a full dozen into her purse should she need to cheer up a friend, visit a pal for lunch, say thank you to a neighbor or
co-worker. What about adding to the reasons-for-having-forbidden-
brownies-in-the-freezer list: leaving some for the mail person who put your mail UNDER the awning during a rainstorm; or handing some to the staff in the gym who actually clean up after the self-centered users who, unreflecting, believe themselves to be “entitled”, think only of themselves and leave the shared space
a mess; or the dry cleaning lady who brings her daughter’s brood to work with her so the daughter can earn a living wage in a nursing home.
Herewith the Basic Brownie a la Foundation, launched in honor of the
“I Can Still Do That Foundation” and “First Mondays.”
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line a 9×13 pan with aluminum foil. Spray canola oil on pan and set pan aside.
Over low heat, in a medium or large saucepan, melt 2 sticks of butter (1/2 lb) with 12 oz bag of bittersweet (or semisweet) morsels. Remove from heat and cool 15 minutes.
While waiting, either call a friend who needs a pick-me-up, email a relative who lives alone, or write out that check to a foundation you know needs it more than you do. Your brownie batter was looked after by the GOOD in your absence, so continue with your baking.
To the cooled brownie mixture, stir in 2 cups of sugar (color choice of sugar is yours). Then, one at a time, stir in 4 large eggs, adding each only after the previous one is fully incorporated. Stir in either 2 tsp of vanilla extract or 1/2 tsp of coffee extract. Mix in 1 cup of flour (white unbleached if possible), 1/4 tsp. salt, perhaps 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon.
To the batter, add 1 cup chopped nuts, ideally walnuts. I know we all have friends who cannot eat nuts, but I fear that brownies only work in size and texture if they include nuts.
Pour completed mixture into pan, making sure the batter is evenly distributed. Put into the oven and bake for 25 minutes. Cool at room temperature on a cake rack for three hours, and then refrigerate until cold–that way they slice evenly. one can also freeze them for an hour instead of refrigerating for three. While waiting to remove from pan from refrigerator or freezer, continue to “do good things” (to quote a dear friend.) Then,
cut into 2 inch squares, wrap in
foil, freeze until needed!
Namaste,
Dan
(dan@icanstilldothat.org)
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