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TUSCAN FARMHOUSE COOKING: Prepare and cook a menu reminiscent of an Italian country dinner. 6:30-9 p.m. next Thu. $39. Registration required. Black Hawk Middle School, 1540 Deerwood Dr., Eagan. 651-423-7920. www.district196.org/ce. BAKING YEASTED BREADS: A hands-on class led by Jeff Sherman includes recipes for hot cross buns, poppyseed and jam hamentashen, Italian Easter cheese bread and more. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. March 1. $55. Registration required. Let's Cook, 330 E. Hennepin Av., Mpls. 612-623-9700. www.letscook.cc. EASY ENTERTAINING - SPRING CELEBRATION BRUNCH: Learn how to make food ahead of time for your brunch, including blueberry muffins, Mediterranean strata, ham and leek quiche, asparagus with orange vinaigrette and more. 1-4 p.m. March 1. $65. Cooks of Crocus Hill, W. 50th St., Edina.
Stein Line's All-Star Reserves
This is exactly how the coaches do it. As instructed on ballots that went out Friday, coaches in each conference have been asked to vote for seven reserves -- excluding their own players, of course -- for the All-Star Game in New Orleans on Feb. 17. The list of seven players is to be comprised of two forwards, two guards, one center and two wild cards, with each coach ranking his choices from one to seven to give each vote a point value ... but also with the invitation to ignore the positions at which players are listed on the official All-Star ballot if they wish. The exact wording from the league office: "If the head coach feels a player can play more than one position, he should vote for that player at the position that he thinks is most advantageous for the All-Star team, not necessarily the one he plays most often during the season." The coaches' secret ballots are due back to the league office by Tuesday, with the reserves to be announced Thursday night.
Portfolio: Steve Nagy
Steve Nagy has been a photographer with the News-Democrat since 1999. He is a 1995 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with an undergraduate degree in journalism. He has won multiple National Press Photographers awards and Associated Press awards including AP Picture of the Year for Kentucky in 1998. Prior to shooting for the News-Democrat, he worked in Paducah, Ky., Dubuque, Iowa and Columbus, Ohio. His hobbies include cooking and music. .
State police investigate shooting by city officer
I'm just hoping that it wasn't an inexperienced or young officer that overreacted," Morofsky said, "and the neighbors that I talked to over at L&L and Rite Aid last night are wondering the same thing." Morofsky added that he's upset that this incident comes on the heels of another shooting that happened on Lansing's south side last year. "It raises questions, 'cause, gee-whiz, here we go again," Morofsky said. On Dec. 4, Lansing police officer Scott Ellis shot a 26-year-old man in a southside Super 8 Motel bathroom after the man fired a gunshot that barely missed several officers, according to investigators. Joseph Carter of Lansing, a parolee, died several days later. Ellis, an 11-year veteran, was cleared in the shooting. Some Lenore Avenue residents say the man police shot Monday suffered from bipolar disorder and sometimes didn't take his medication but was a peaceful man.
Review: Apple TV does movie rentals
You could buy movies on the computer, then transfer them to Apple TV, a slow process and hardly worth it. The movies were expensive and of poor visual quality. A few months later, Apple Inc. gave the box direct access to YouTube videos, instantly making it more entertaining. The latest software update, which arrived last week, takes Apple TV to a whole new level: It can now download rented movies directly from iTunes, with no need to involve the home computer. Some of the movies are even in high definition, finally providing a picture that's a match for our flat-panel sets. Apple is not alone in offering this kind of device, but it does quite well in the category, even if its box isn't perfect. At $229 for the basic model with a 40 gigabyte hard drive, it's probably the cheapest way to get video from the Internet to the TV.
Potlucks without the 'yuck'
You'll plan your next family potluck with ease. Strategies n Before you start cookin' and recipe lookin', make sure you know what everyone is bringing to the potluck. There needs to be enough main dishes, sides and desserts. n A casserole should feed eight to 10 guests. The host should make up the difference. Vary the menu so you have some newfangled dishes and some old favorites. n Make sure you're going to have enough room in the oven and the microwave to get everyone's dish hot by dinner time. Borrow a microwave or two. Fire up the toaster-oven for the breads and rolls. n If the recipe goes into a crock pot, remind your friends to bring one along and make sure you've got an electrical power strip on the counter so they're plugged in, with ladles nearby, ready to go.
Rethinking breakfast to feed your brain and body
Gail Frank's voice, soft and southern, made its way through a sea of scientific data. I met her for breakfast at a cozy coffee shop in Seal Beach and while we consumed our eggs (hers an egg-white spinach omelet, mine two eggs over medium) we discussed what Frank considers a crisis of utmost importance. Breakfast. Frank, a professor of nutrition at California State University Long Beach and a registered dietitian, says that breakfast is an issue for adults and children alike. "Breakfast fuels us for the day. It is energy for the brain and gets you started," she said using her fork to cut her huge omelet in half before she'd taken one bite, scooping it into a take-out container to eat later in the day. "We need 130 grams of carbohydrates a day for normal function.
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