Big Brother-Shake Rattle and Roll

Did I tell you that Keesha reminds me of Loni Anderson? Keesha's in charge of the house and everyone will vote the way she says. So there! Jessie is campaigning hard to get himself off the block that he tells Keesha that he can't sleep and is losing weight, ya like 6 pounds! Oh please, if Keesha falls for that then she's really a dumb Hooter Blond. Did we ever think otherwise? humm... ? I thought the veto flower pot challenge was very funny, kind of a combination of Fear Factor meets Chinese water torture. How can a steady drip of water would want to make you scream? Oh yeah, I forgot about the worms and the compost. Ok, so it's stinky, wet and wormy. Now that might make me scream. Maybe that dripping water will make those eyebrows of Angie's grow. What's up with them? They've been plucked to death. I guess when you are laying in all that stuff one can easily lose track of time as everyone except for Keesha went over the hour limit and Keesha wins POV. Which is probably a good thing since everyone is getting a player hater for Libra. Now, I'm not exactly sure what a player hater is, I just heard it on the Gayle King XM radio show. I guess it describes someone who hates the player in the game, or maybe just hates the game but not the player. Wh0 knows it just sounds good. There has been so much hating and chasing, that I have forgotten what if anything Libra did. Jerry is also shooting off his mouth calling Memphis a "womanizer". Wooooo! Memphis gets all up in Jerry's face for that. Jeez, ya think that Jerry had called his mama a you know what. Memphis tells us that he tries to respect women so he don't like it when someone calls him that. I have another word for Memphis and it's not womanizer. The sign to the entrance of the Big Brother house should read, cry babies exit here. Keesha leaves the nomination the same and she tells Jessie that he is not going home. Jessie is so confident that he is not going to be eliminated since Keesha has given him her word that he's acting like a body builder on steroids, ranting and raving. Angie is trying to play sneaky by planting ideas that stir up the house into a swirling hate on between Jerry against Michelle and Memphis and Jessie. Just for that I'm getting a player hater on Angie, she needs to take those skinny eyebrows and leave the house, which she does, but not before experiencing your typical California earthquake. I know what those are like, living thought the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Ever try brewing coffee over a lighted candle. Yes, I know, we were so shallow, all we could think of was where could we get some coffee!

My BFF Terri in Jersey says that her husband says that Angie shouldn't get eliminated until Keesha and Angie lock lips. Typical guy thing! I'm sure guys are rooting for the hooters girl.

Meanwhile, Catholic Dan is chosen as America's player and succumbs to the temptation of the $20,000 offer. I'm scared for poor Catholic boy, will he be able to lie, backstab and sell out? He's going to need to say alot of Hail Marys for redemption. We leave the houseguest battling it out for HOH on a ledge of a fake building while it shakes, rattles, and rolls in pseudo earthquake, Big Brother style. -Single D

What's up with Jesse and all the disrespecting? It wouldn't be so bad if he knew what it meant and did a little respecting of his own. It seems if you look at Jesse the wrong way you have disrespected him. I'm so over that guy. The veto challenge was hilarious. Chinese water torture with worms. Ollie didn't know what compost was and thought worms were evil. Watch it with the worms Ollie, they may be a low life form but try growing a garden without them! Jesse calls out Libra about her being all for Steven getting put up which catches Keesha's attention just as Jesse wanted. Keesha wins POV and the race is on! Angie pleads her case to Keesha. Give that girl an Oscar, what a performance! Then it's Jesse's turn, maybe he should get a Razzy. Mr. boo hoo, I can't sleep, I can't eat, I've lost 6 pounds this week, I'm in jail, wha-wha-wha. Cry me a river! Keesha had a good performance of her own going with a "I hear ya but I'll have to think about it" look on her face.

Later, Jesse bursts into her room, flips out telling Keesha she can go back on her word to Libra. OK Jesse, didn't you just disrespect Keesha for keeping her word? There's that word again. And what is with that boy and taking his shirt off? He wins HOH and rips his shirt off, he gets mad and pulls his shirt off, the earthquake hits and he pulls his shirt off. Does he think he's going to morph into the Hulk? Didn't Bill Bixby used to take his shirt off before he turned into the Hulk?

What is in the water? Everyone seems to be flipping out! First it's Jesse going off on Keesha then Memphis goes off on Jerry for calling him a womanizer. Paleeze! Dude you could be called a lot worse! Then Michelle goes off on, well I forgot who she went off on but she did! Then Keesha goes off on everyone! Then the earth went off on all of them! Meanwhile Angie is stirring the proverbial pot and sitting back with her Cheshire Cat grin. It didn't work as she is sent packing, and yes, those eyebrows need some serious work! With all of the drama going on, Renny and Dan have wisely kept their mouths shut and have dropped from the radar. Poor Dan, he won't be off the radar for long as America's player. Keep those Rosary beads handy! Double D

I Survived a Japanese Game Show - For Better or Worse

Right after the last elimination, Donnell rejoins the other competitors and throws a hissy fit. It doesn't last too long and they all do the man hug thing and make up. So it's on to the studio and the next challenge which is another spin you around until you puke game. The twist on this one is that the teams have to wear wedding clothes with the guys wearing the gowns. Andrew takes it like only a man can while wearing a wedding dress, while Donnell, although not happy, thinks he looks beautiful-licious. Suede from Project Runway would appreciate that saying.

The teams get spun around in chairs then have to cross a balance beam thing to a middle section where they meet on spinning disks (those Japanese love to spin). They pass each other and one retrieves a set of 3 keys while the other retrieves a lock in the shape of a heart, how sweet. They then have to meet back in the middle and while standing on the spinning disks, try to unlock the heart. After unlocking the heart, yes there's more, they have to run back to their chairs to stop the timer.

Andrew & Justin go first. After the spinning chairs, Andrew gets smart and crawls to the middle while Justin takes aim and flat out runs. They get their keys and lock, meet in the middle and just can't seem to get the key in the lock. They finally get it unlocked and get a time of 1:09. Donnell & Meaghan are next. You could actually see Donnell's eyes still spinning after his chair stopped, I didn't know if I should laugh or say EEEWWW so I did both. They both took Andrew's cue and crawled to the middle. They make good time and even manage to unlock the heart on the first try. On the way back to their chairs, Meaghan drops the keys over the side and Donnell didn't see her drop them, he has to have them to stop the timer. Finally Meaghan tells him she dropped the keys, Donnell falls over the side into the powder, finds the keys and makes a mad dash back to his chair. I swear the way that girl sabotages the games, she would make a good "Mole". Even with screwing up, Donnell and Meaghan finally win a game.

Donnell & Meaghan's reward is to stay the night at a luxury hotel with a personal staff and chef while the loser yellow penguins have to stay the night in a capsule hotel. What no clam shucking or rice planting? Seems like they got it pretty easy, not as easy as a luxury hotel but hey!

When it comes time to go the Grand Hyatt hotel, Donnell comes out wearing a tank top, shorts, ball cap and some bling. Meaghan is dressed in a baby doll tube top, micro mini denim skirt and "f" me high heels. She looked more like a street walker than a hotel patron. Couldn't they have dressed a little better? At the hotel, the chef comes out to take their order and Meaghan orders pizza. PIZZA??!! What's wrong with this girl? Bring on the champagne, lobster and caviar! This is a personal chef to cook your heart's desire and she orders pizza! That's like putting ketchup on prime rib! Even Eliza Doolittle eventually walked the walk! Thank goodness Donnell had the good sense to at least get a steak. He also tried frois gras, even though he didn't know what animal it was. After dinner they are escorted to the $12,000 a night presidential suite. Donnell was so happy because there was "a swimming pool in my bedroom!" Those two sows ears fell into one heck of a silk purse!

The yellow penguins arrive at the capsule hotel and are served a cold meal in a box and warm beer. After a disappointing dinner, they are shown to their "rooms" which are cramped narrow spaces that really did look like capsules. What, no ensuite capsules? At least they had shades they could pull down.

At the elimination game, Andrew takes control and says in no uncertain terms that it will be him and Bilenda to compete since Justin has done so well in all of the games. Bilenda wasn't liking that at all but didn't stand up for herself and went with it. The game turns up to be right up her alley. All they have to do is change clothes. That's it, nothing hard. OK so they throw in another competitor, the fastest clothes changer in Tokyo. Turns out the "champ" is a twin with his brother behind the dressing room. Bilenda kicks Andrew's butt in the first two rounds but can't beat the "champ". After the second round, Rome let's them in on the gag and they play the third round without the "champ". Andrew charges into the lead but messed up his buttons and has to go back to the dressing room which lets Bilenda catch up and win the game. Andrew gets carried off into the sunset by the Japanese Junior G Men. Sayonara Andrew! MAJIDE! Double D

Project Runway-Night on the Town

Suede loves Tia (his model), Donna's tired of Suede, Suede's still talking in third person. Heidi says that the designers deserve a night on the town. Don't get excited girls that means work! Tim walks in with ponchos and rain boots (cause it's raining outside) for a ride on a double decker bus where they are told they will be taking pictures of NY at night for inspiration for their next challenge, to design something inspired by NY for a night on the town. Dominatrix Stella, whose a native New Yorker, (is she from the Bronx?) gives the ride a leather thumbs up, she doesn't do tourist. All Blayne wants to do is get dolled up and get a tan. Keith is running around NY like a kid in a candy store, Keith says it so hard being gay in Salt Lake City, ya think? Back at the studio Kenley tells us that her design style is the modern day calendar girl, no wonder she looks like Betty Crocker and Leanne is afraid that she will be too creative. What?! Girl you were in the bottom two for the last two challenges, what does that say? Meanwhile, Dom Stella is in lea-tha heaven hammering grommets into her fabric which has all the other designers wanting to hammer her over the head. Hey doesn't Stella look like she could be Cher's cousin or something? Sorry Cher! That accent is driving me crazy! When Tim gets ready to leave, Blayne's like "Holla at cha boy!" which Tim doesn't understand. Ok, I'm old school, to me that's bronx for lady control your kid!

On the runway, Keith's outfit looked like something made of post it notes. Or as Michael Kors said toilet paper caught in a windstorm, ouch! Shy Jennifer designed sleepwear with piano key sleeves. Kenley's dress reminded me of an Easter basket, which I thought was the worst but ended up winning the challenge. Stella, her idea of dressing up for a night on the town is dressing down in lea-tha. Emily and Blayne were making a fashion line for the Carmen Miranda festival with all that cha cha on their dresses, but it was Emily's whose cha cha was draped unflattering across the bosom that was aufed by a very leopardy looking Heidi Klum. -Single D

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A bus tour at night in the rain. I don't think that's what the group thought when they were told they were going out for a night on the town. I think Blayne was the most disappointed since he was looking forward to getting "all dolled up". They are to take photos for inspiration to make an outfit for an evening out. Everyone starts taking pictures except for Stella who can't figure out how to use her camera. Does it matter? All she is going to do is make some rocked out leather thing. I don't even remember what her inspirational picture was come to think of it. After their "night out" the group gets ready for bed and Jarrel comes out of the bathroom (he's already out of the closet) looking like a mime gone bad with his face mask.

Everyone gets their fabric and gets to work. Keith's dress looks like exactly what it is, little pieces of fabric sewed together. I made something like that for one of my Barbie dolls way back when, but mine was made from Kleenex. Same thing. OK, Suede needs to stop talking about himself in third person. Double D doesn't like it!

When it came time to fit the models, Daniel was having a bit of a problem and he has to tell his model to lift up her boob. I hope he doesn't try to prop it up somehow! Joe's dress was really stylin' but Leanne's dress was by far my fave, too cute! I think she should have been the winner but Kenley wins with her bold print fabric and tulle insert. I didn't like it but who am I? I really thought Jennifer's matronly black dress would earn her a big Auff but it was Emily's little black dress with exploded corsage that gets auf'ed. Double D

Shout Out To Greatest American Dog

Ok, I have been watching the Greatest American Dog, but not blogging on it. Who knew dogs would be more interesting than people? I would like to give a shout out to one of the people dog pairs, Ron and his skateboarding bulldog, Tillman from Oxnard, California. Hey, I went to high school in Oxnard, never ran into Tillman skateboarding. Ron and bulldog Tillman were eliminated on a challenge that involved a photo shoot. Each dog had to depict a certain word and Ron got the word lazy. Shoulda been cake for Tillman. Maybe it was too easy, their picture fell short and the two were sent packing. As Ron and Tillman took their final walk, Tillman's parting shot to the judges was a loud obnoxious fart! Take that! What a good doggie, skate on! -Single D

I Survived a Japanese Game Show - Switch up

I apologize that I am a week behind. I hope to rectify that by tomorrow! So on with the show.......Since the green monkeys only have 2 contestants, the yellow penguins have to decide who will go over. Donnell immediately says it will be his pal Justin and Justin says (to the camera) that he wants to go but Cathy volunteered before he could say anything. I'm thinking he wouldn't have gone anyway. Cathy vows to kick butt and they're off to the challenge.

It's gets hard to describe some of these challenges and this is one of them. Picture this - one team mate is wearing a velcro suit while suspended above the floor. One team member throws rubber balls at the suspended person while the other team member fires tennis balls at same both trying to get the balls to stick to the suit. Here's the kicker, two of the opposing team members have cables attached to the suspended one and try to yank him/her out of the way of the balls. Which ever team gets the most balls on the suit wins. Got it?

The yellow penguins go first with Bilenda in the sticky suit. I love it when Rome tries to say penguins, it always comes out pagens. Donnell and Meaghan get too predictable in their pulling of Bilenda so Andrew and Justin target the balls and Bilenda easily catches them and sticks them to her suit. Meaghan complains that Bilenda is a lot heavier than she is and is hard to pull while Bilenda says her weight has finally come in handy. It looked like Donnell and Meaghan were trying to rock Bilenda to sleep or something. Bilenda catches 24 balls. It could have been more but Andrew kept aiming for Bilenda's head instead of her suit.

It's green monkeys turn with Cathy in the suit. Justin & Andrew yanked her around like a rag doll making Cathy elude almost every ball. Poor thing I thought she would get whiplash! Donnell was throwing balls like crazy and Meaghan, firing the tennis balls, didn't do squat. She spent so much time trying to aim that I thought she was surveying. The green monkeys only get like 6 or 7 balls and the yellow penguins continue their winning streak.

The green monkeys have to make mochi balls for their punishment. They have to use huge mallots to pound the rice then make it into a dough. The dough is so sticky that they all ended up making what looked like mochi cookies. Their instructor gives Donnell a green wasabi mochi ball which he promptly spits out saying it tastes like ground up cow nose hair. I'll take his word for it.

Meaghan is adamant about not going into elimination and starts scheming. If the monkey team can't decide who will be in the elimination, then it falls to the yellow penguins to decide for them. Knowing this, Donnell gets cocky saying he won't be in the elimination game believing his secret alliance buds, Andrew & Justin, will put up the girls before him. Meanwhile, Meaghan gets Andrew to agree to put up Donnell. At the studio, Meaghan pulls the "boo hoo I can't decide" thing so the yellow penguins put up Donnell and Cathy. Donnell is really pissed off because his secret alliance didn't hold up. I guess he should have let Andrew and Justin in on the secret.

The challenge is to swing on a rope into a wall of seven doors and find three solid doors. If the door breaks, there are two people, one in a panda suit and one in a gorilla suit (don't ask me why), waiting on the other side to pummel the contestant with giant powder puffs. Whoever gets the fastest time wins. Cathy goes first and hits all seven doors (and gets powder puffed) before she finds her three solid doors. With a time of 2:07 she thinks she has a chance since Donnell is all pissed off about being there in the first place. Of course being mad just makes Donnell want to win that much more and flies through his doors (also getting puffed), even putting his foot through one of the solid doors! Rome just loved that so much he had to show it again. I swear that man lives for replays. Donnell wins with a time of 1:07.

Just when we think we are going to say sayonara to Cathy, the Japanese good fellas come out and sweep up a very confused Donnell. No worries, the guys in the booth yell out that the "idiots" have the wrong person and they return Donnell, pretty much as they found him, and whisk Cathy away. Maybe they should take off the sunglasses. Until next time, MAJIDE! Double D

The Next Design Star-Finale

Matt and Jen's final challenge is to design a living room, dining room and kitchen for two families that went through the Katrina disaster. Both houses are still in complete disrepair from the flood and it amazed me that people are still dealing with this disaster. I felt kinda of seasick in one of the houses that still had stuff all over the floor. I don't get it, I know they are probably busy, but wouldn't they go through that stuff two years later? Well luckily for both families, design star chose them to do a challenge for. Both designers get help from Trish and Mickey V. Matt got to chose first and generously said that he would give Jen Mikey V.'s help since Jen would need help with her kitchen cabinets. Ok that made me want him to win it. What a generous spirit and kind soul he is! Jen even said that would garner him votes. You betcha. Both designers get 36 hours and $20,000, nice! I don't think a recap is necessary at this point, in the end, I tried to be non partial in my review of each house, and came to the unadulterated conclusion that in my non biased, non judgemental point of view, I loved Jen's house much better, noticed that's just one love! I like her living room with the leather white sofa, which at first I thought, white? Guess you don't have dogs or kids. I can see muddy paw prints all over that thing honey! But it worked along with her fire engine red kitchen cabinets. Can I live a lifetime with those fire engine red cabinets? Maybe, if I don't watch too many slasher movies. I did however, loved, loved Matt's dining room with that crystal light fixture. Can I just wear that thing on my head? Nothing says class like sparkle! And speaking of sparkle, don't you love watching Sparkle's Vlog-video blog, on HGTV? He's so funny, like he said, Sparkle's the new black! Back to Matt, I think his kitchen was too plain on the side that he didn't put cabinets on. I know he's a minimalist, but it's a kitchen, it needs storage, shelves, spice rack, tile, something to give it that wow factor, because Jen's red cabinets definitely gave her kitchen that punch with that red and those black granite counter tops. Matt definitely had the better hosting skills but Jen had the better design. Let's see, can we fuse those two together?-Single D

Big Brother-Keesha in Charge

Who knew, Keesha wins HOH. April wants to put her hair in piggy tales to celebrate! Gee, I can't wait to see what she wants to do when she wins HOH? Keesha is talking the talk. Talking all mr. big stuff. Well, that remains to be seen. Renny has assumed the role of the sorority residence mom, which I'm sure just suits her fine. In Keesha's HOH room, she only has eyes for her lover, Gizmo, her pet Maltese. Keesha immediately knows she wants to put up Angie to get back at her for the whole Brokeback thing. The Portuguese Princess is ranting about how she loves pork and that they do the dancing with the pigs thing in Portugal. Weird! The food competition is a sock hop which was pretty lame and really got on my last nerve, listening to Renny's high pitched squeally shrill voice. Put a sock in it, Renny!! I guess BB thought it was time that the house gets to eat real food this week. Renny was disappointed that she and Dan lost their chance at winning wine. Does she need any more, looks like she's always three sheets to wind anyway. Of course our Portuguese Princess was happy at winning the pig's feet. Guess she'll be the only diner for that one. I was wondering when Jesse was going to make his move on Keesha for the nominations, when he pays a visit and tells her to put up Libra and Dan and Libra is gone. Just that easy he says. Easy? H*ll hath no fury like a woman put up on the block and that would be Libra! In a surprise turn, Keeshe says she is going on gut instincts and nominates, Angie and drum roll please........Jesse!!! Jesse is taken by surprise and says it's on like Donkey Kong-whatever that means!-Single D

Keesha, as HOH, decides to shake things up. Careful girl we know what happens when people get shaken! She has a hate on for Angie so that was a no brainer.

After everyone gets in their sock hop duds, April says how she just loves the 60's with all the poodle skirts. 60's? Not a real exciting challenge as the girls have to match socks with the guys to determine what food they will have for the week. The guys couldn't keep their socks in the laundry basket and Renny sounded like someones accordion that needed a tune up. Every time her and Dan were up, Renny kept going for the drinks. She just knew there was booze up there somewhere.

Later, April and Ollie are discussing books they have read and talk turns to the subject of relationships. Ollie is obviously not ready for one and he says he sees road signs which leads April to tell him maybe he should look for the construction signs like rough road ahead. Leave it to these two to equate love with road construction. We'll have to wait and see if there is a merge in their future.

When Jesse goes in to talk to Keesha about the nominations, he SO checked himself out in the mirror as he walked in. Get over your overly muscled self! Jesse tells Keesha who to put up (Libra and Dan). Oh no he didn't! He might as well have painted a target on his big ol' muscle head! Keesha puts up Angie as expected and throws in Jesse for good measure. Double D

Ghost Hunters International - Ireland & England

The first stop this week is Charleville Castle in Tullamore, Ireland. The main report here is that a little girl named Harriet fell to her death on the stair case after trying to slide down the banister. She has been seen and heard many times in the castle. Barry is so happy to be back in Ireland that he makes the team a traditional Irish stew before getting down to business. That stew looked so good but there would be no ghost hunting for me after that, I would be sound asleep!

Barry & Andy find a hot spot in the original kitchen area. It started out with thumps and bangs then Andy hears a child's voice say I'm hungry (hey, you are in the kitchen after all). Barry asks the spirits to show themselves and he gets a piece of wire thrown at him and their radio equipment, which is set up on a nearby table gets knocked over.

On Harriet's staircase, Brian & Rob both see a white light near the top of the stairs but no one is there. After reviewing the tapes, they hear a child's voice in response to Barry asking the spirit to communicate. Barry had taken some photos with a 3 second interval between shots. Two of the photos show a door closing on it's own.

Rob still hesitates to say the castle is haunted as he wants more evidence. Last season, he said everyplace was haunted and this season he is really holding back.

The next stop is Samlesbury Hall in Samlesbury, England. The hall was built in 1325 and, as Dustin said, looks like a gothic gingerbread house. There is a lot of history here as well as a ton of stories as told by a much too lively tour guide. This guy could make you believe it was 12 midnight when it was 12 noon! He says the hall is the most haunted place in Great Britain. I don't know about that, I'm pretty sure I did a blog from last season on a place that said the same thing.

The team does their investigation and comes up empty handed. Nothing, nada, zilch! For a place that is supposedly the most haunted, it was a dud. I guess the ghosts needed a night off. Dustin did some research which pretty much contradicts the stories told by the tour guide. Rob & Andy present the findings of that research to the tour guide and he was visibly taken aback but managed to rebound by saying that the stories had been handed down for centuries. Considering one of the stories was about a police car that had a collision with one of the ghosts, I don't think all of the stories go back as far as a century! Double D

Next Foodnetwork Star-Finale

I'm jumping up and down on my couch in protest, can you see me? Boo Hoo, hiss, hiss!! No, no, no...what are the judges THINKING!!!!! Can you tell, the one I wanted to win, didn't? HISS!!! Since the judges couldn't decide on who would be the final two and didn't make the right choice for the winner, but more on that later, we meet up with the final three in New York, Lisa and the two A's, Adam and Aaron. The final challenge will be a short 4 minute pilot of their show, with producer Gordon Elliot at the reins. Doesn't Gordon have that smooth voice over announcer thing going on? Lisa, a woman of apparently many talents, brings in a cart loaded with 3 different presentations. Obviously, this woman is very organized and is very creative, move over Martha! I was impressed, I'm like I don't even need to see what the others are going to do..... you're like hired! Next walks in Aaron, with just himself to do his pilot, where he keeps thinking I'm missing something?? Ya, like maybe a good idea for a new show? Gordon says backstage that Aaron looks like a deer caught in the headlights. Adam goes in with his handwritten notes for his show. Typical, that's exactly what I would have expected from him. They come up with a show idea of a person emailing him their cooking problem. Right then, they cut to commercial where there's a clip for a new show, Ask Aida, based on the same premise. Adam doesn't look too comfortable working the show, cooking and talking to someone online. I think Lisa's pilot worked the best and didn't that cod and zabaglione sauce look scrumptious?! Adam cooked beer can chicken, hasn't that one been done already? In the deliberation room, it seemed like Bobby Flay, in his peppermint tie and gingham shirt, was for Lisa, he knows talent. Ok so it must have been Susie and little Maltese, Bob (tushie)man that made the choice. All we heard was they need someone to star in their own show next week, so whose ready to work? Well, I guess it was Aaron. Aaron wins the crown and his own show. I know at first, I was rooting for Aaron, but became a fan of Lisa's, for her recipes, and because she's a mother, wife, and chef and is so creative and talented, even if she does look comical. In the end, the judges still said her performance was wooden. Well, being Gepetto's daughter and sister to Pinocchio, I guess she should of asked the Blue Fairy to turn her into a human! Interesting to listen to Susie's video after the show. Susie looks more relaxed and real, throwing her wavy tresses constantly and moving her hands around like an Italian mafia princess. Well, another good season comes to a close. Hopefully Aaron won't disappear like Amy Findly, last season's winner. Whatever happened to her? She must have went by way of Jimmy Hoffa and the Lindberg baby!-Single D -- Aaron McCargo's winning recipe-Jerk Ribeye with Honey Plantains and Collard Greens! 1 (12-ounce) rib-eye steak Jerk seasoning, recipe follows Plantains, recipe follows Collard Greens, recipe follows Preheat grill or grill pan on high heat. Rub jerk seasoning on steak. Place steak in a plastic bag to marinate for 1 hour in the refrigerator. After marinating for 1 hour, remove steak from refrigerator and let sit for 15 minutes. Grill steak for 12 minutes (6 minutes on each side). Remove from grill with tongs and let rest for 8 to 12 minutes. Serve with plantains and collard greens. Jerk seasoning: 1 tablespoon allspice 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 cup light brown sugar 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons canola oil In a medium bowl, combine all ingredients with 2 tablespoons of canola oil. Plantains: Canola oil 1 ripe plantain 4 ounces butter 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh scallions 1/4 cup honey 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh parsley leaves Preheat a medium frying pan and coat with canola oil. Slice plantains on bias, then saute until brown. Mix in butter and scallions. Then remove from the heat. Stir in honey and parsley with a large spoon. Collard greens: 12 ounces fresh collard greens, coarsely chopped 1 tablespoon butter 1/4 cup finely diced onion Crushed red pepper flakes 1/4 cup chicken stock Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper Wash collard greens thoroughly. In a medium stock pot, place collards in hot water for 3 minutes, remove and drain. In a large saute pan, melt 1 tablespoon of butter, then add onions and crushed red pepper, saute. Then add collards and chicken stock to saute pan. Cook on high heat, stirring occasionally for 5 to 7 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.