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Couritr-Soumal Wednesday, June 9, 1999 Ann Landers C6 Comics C6.C7 Show Clock C4 fomDorsey C2 TV listings C2 ine section cover, men tne iv page, then our other stories, then the comics. If there are classified ads, they'll go in the back. Editor: Greg Johnson, gjohnson louisv02.gannett.com Phone: 582-4667 Fax: 582-4665 www.courier-journal.com WHERE TO FIND THE COMICS The comics and puzzles are on Pages C6 and C7 today. From now on, the comics will follow right after the rest of Features' content: atures Til mWEZ i -A NEWS NONSENSE BY WARREN PAYNE Location shooting What if they made a movie partly set in Louisville, but nobody showed up showed up in Louisville to film it, that is? Such could be the case with "Beautiful Joe," a LTD m. wi flick that starts shooting late this month in Vancouver, Canada, with Sharon Stone and Scottish actor-comedian Billy Connolly.

The movie tells the saga of an ordinary Joe (Connolly) who suffers a series of tough breaks, sets out for adventure and, lo and behold, lands in Jump-start dinner with prepared produce fast QUICK MEALS FOR BUSY COOKS SARAH FRITSCHNER Louisville, Ky. Here he meets a single momex-exotic dancergamblin' gal named Hush (Stone), and then the plot does what Hollywood plots do. However, no primary shooting is scheduled for Kentucky, a production crew member said this week. Any outdoor shots might simply be stock footage. And the rest of the world can be left to wonder what the Rockies are doing looming over the Ohio River Bob Deitel, The Courier-Journal U7 Fast lane list: soy sauce, vinegar, crushed red pepper, chicken breast, garlic, broccoli slaw, sesame oil, rice.

Confetti stir-fry 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 teaspoon minced garlic Lull (from a jar) 1 pound broccoli slaw or similar mixture 1 tablespoon sesame oil (optional) Combine soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and red pepper flakes in a medium-sized bowl. Cut the chicken breast across the short side in the thinnest possible slivers. Put the chicken in the bowl and stir to coat all the chicken with the soy sauce mixture. Heat a wok or large cast-iron skillet over high heat for 30 seconds. Add 1 tablespoon vegetable oil and heat another 30 seconds.

With a slotted spoon, remove the chicken from the soy sauce mixture and add it to Washing and chopping, washing and chopping they're the bane of any cook trying to get healthful, quick meals to the dinner table. But buying prepared food in the produce section can help you avoid these time-consuming chores. Pouring already washed baby spinach from a bag into a skillet is almost as good as having a housekeeper prepare the meal for you. Fry it with a little chopped garlic (from a jar), wilt it and toss it with cooKed ravioli (from the freezer case), and you have very good eating that's very good for you. The variety of prepared fresh produce from bags of organic baby spinach to shredded cabbage on the salad bar offers great potential benefit to our health and our quality of life.

If you live in a small family, you can buy just what you need off the salad bar. If you're rushed, you can buy washed greens. If you've forgotten to plan, you can turn carrots for snacking into a side dish. Don't think the salad bar is just for salad. Think of it as a starting point for pasta dishes, casseroles, frittatas and soups.

Buy just the cauliflower to make a side dish without leftovers. Elsewhere in the produce section, you'll find sliced mushrooms, which you can turn into a quick sauce for steak, saute for tomato sauce or cook into soups. Broccoli slaw or other "confetti" mixes of long, thin, vegetable slivers offer fabulous nutrition and can be heated for an easy side dish. Already minced garlic heated in olive 011 starts it off. Cook the slaw on high until it barely softens.

Here are some other ideas for jump-starting dinner with "pre-prepared" fresh produce. Fast lane list: spaghetti, garlic, broccoli florets, feta cheese, walnuts, tomatoes or cantaloupe. Broccoli and noodles Packaged broccoli florets usually come in 1-pound bags, a quantity that works in this recipe. You also can buy broccoli florets at the salad bar or "make your own" from a head of broccoli. 2 teaspoons salt 12 ounces spaghetti 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon minced garlic (from a jar) or 2 large cloves garlic, minced 1 pound broccoli florets 4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled Vi cup walnuts Lots of freshly ground pepper Put 3 quarts of water in a large pot and add salt.

Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Add spaghetti and cook until barely tender, about 7 minutes (it will cook in less MORE RECIPES Page C6 the wok, leaving as much liquid as you can behind. Stir the chicken constantly over highest heat until it is all Howling at the moon Bob Dylan and Paul Simon had a groovy thing goin' as their 30-city summer tour got under way in Colorado Springs, over the weekend. Among the tunes turned out by the dynamic duo was "Blue Moon of Kentucky." Reports have the arena about 1,000 short of being sold out, but the 7,000 fans there loved it. The artists performed some of their greatest hits separately but teamed up to "Moon" the audience and render "The Sounds of Silence," "I Walk the Line" and "Forever Young." Rockin' bones! Few actual rockabilly pioneers are still functional, much less touring and recording, but Ronnie Dawson is one fabulous freak of nature.

The Blonde Bomber, 59, still puts on a rave-up show that shames men 40 years younger just close your eyes and it's 1957. Dawson will perform tonight at the Mercury Paw, 117 W. Main and will be rocking songs from a strong new album, "More Bad Habits. None other than Bodeco opens (10 p.m., $7). Baby, this show is action-packed.

Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal Serves 4 as a main dish. Serve with sliced tomatoes or sliced cantaloupe. Broccoli side dish: Serve the broccoli as a side dish by eliminating pasta and cutting walnuts and feta in half. Easy additions to season the broccoli: Vz cup diced ham. 2 or 3 slices fried, crisp bacon, crumbled.

2 or 3 anchovies, smashed. 'A cup minced (imported type) black olives or green olives. 'A teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes. Fast lane list: baby carrots, vinegar, mustard, chicken, potatoes. Roasted baby carrots 1 tablespoon olive oil or vegetable oil 1 pound baby carrots 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons water 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 tablespoon European-style mustard Vi teaspoon salt vi teaspoon (freshly ground) pepper Heat the oven to 400 degrees.

Grease the bottom of a wide, shallow roasting dish with oil. Add carrots and bake 10 minutes. Combine remaining ingredients and shake or stir to dissolve sugar. Pour over carrots after they have baked and bake 20 minutes more. Serves 4.

Serve as a side dish to baked or grilled chicken, along with rice or a baked potato. (If you're baking the potato, put that in the oven first, before you start the carrots.) opaque. Scrape into a serving dish. Add the other tablespoon of oil to the wok and heat 30 seconds. Add garlic and stir 10 seconds, then add the bag of broccoli slaw and the residual soy sauce marinade.

Stir until the slaw begins to soften, about 3 minutes. Add chicken back into the wok and stir another 2 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through and the slaw mixture is crisp-tender. Serve with hot cooked rice. Drizzle sesame oil over the top before serving, if desired. Serves 4.

"The Fast Lane" features menus for busy cooks. Recipes use a minimum of ingredients and allow express checkout at the supermarket. Flour, sugar, salt, pepper and oil or butter are presumed to be on hand. Split second Paula Jones' husband, Stephen, has filed for divorce. "Irreconcilable differences" were mm cited and among them apparently was how to go about suing tne president ot the united btates tor sexual narassment.

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Add mm. tr- a i Preston, 2. The boys live with their mom in Cabot, vi cup of the pasta water to the skillet along with the broccoli. Cover and cook 5 minutes, stirring twice during cooking. Remove the cover from the skillet and cook broccoli another Ark.

Paula and The Check Hey, big spender minute or 2. until iust tender. Drain pasta and toss with broc coli mixture. Divide among 4 plates 7 BY PAM SPAULDING. STYLED and sprinkle with crumbled feta cheese I and walnuts (crush the walnut pieces through your fingers as you add them to break them up a little).

Season with pep- per. BY ALICE COLOMBO, THE C-J You don't have to noodle around with this dish 'cause somebody else already fixed the broccoli. First Elvis, now Marilyn. A ton of Monroe possessions including the sheath that passed for a dress at President Kennedy's 1962 birthday party Birthday, Mr. will be auctioned by Christie's in New York in October.

Other artifacts: her Joe DiMaggio wedding ring; jewelry; shooting scripts; drawings; books, including Ralph Ellison and ''A 'j Gooey center makes chocolate cake a treat Jack Kerouae first editions; her Bibles and children's books. The seller is Anna Strasberg, second wife of Lee Strasberg, whom Monroe left virtually everything to. Get it together James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, has donated $4,000 so his hometown of Augusta, can buy 1,000 gun locks to hand out to gun owners. By SARAH FRITSCHNER Courier-Journal Food Editor From fried eggs to Hostess Twinkies, soft centers fascinate diners. So it was a fortuitous mistake when New York chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten created a rich, brownie-like cake with a soft, oozy center of even richer chocolate.

In the 1980s, when the chef ran the kitchen at the now-defunct fayette restaurant, this became one of his signature desserts. "It was new; it was devastatingly sexy. Soon chefs all over the country were copying it," writes David Rosengarten in "Taste" (Random House, 1998). And it is one that is easily repeated in a home kitchen. Mark Bittman, author of "Jean-Georges," a Vongerichten cookbook (Broadway, 1998), gives this preparation tip: "The cakes can be prepared ahead, refrigerated and then brought back to room with the whisk attachment, beat the eggs, yolks and sugar at medium-high speed until the mixture is pale and thick, about 10 minutes.

Reduce the speed and gradually mix in the flour. Add the chocolate mixture to the flour mixture, and continue to beat until thick and glossy, about 5 minutes. Divide half the mixture among the prepared custard cups. Divide the remaining 2 ounces of coarsely chopped chocolate among them, placing the chunks in the very center of the chocolate mixture (there should be about 1 tablespoon of chopped chocolate per custard cup). Then top with the rest of the chocolate batter.

Bake until the cake is set around the edges but the center jiggles slightly when the cup is moved, about 12 minutes. Cool slightly (no more than 6 minutes). Run a sharp knife around the edges of the cups. Turn the cakes out onto plates and serve. Serves 6.

Rosengarten suggests serving the dessert plain, in a pool of creme anglaise or with a garnish dusting of cocoa or powdered sugar. Bittman suggests vanilla or caramel ice cream. Molten chocolate cake from 'Taste' Ti ounces imported bittersweet chocolate (El Rey or Valrhona), coarsely chopped 1 1 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut In large pieces 3 large eggs 3 large egg yolks Va cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour, sifted Heat the oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour 6 6-ounce custard cups. Place 5 Mi ounces of the chocolate and the butter in a metal bowl and set it over a pan of simmering water.

Stir until melted and smooth. Cool slightly. Using a standing electric mixer Birthdays Musicians, singers, Les Paul, 84; Jon Lord, 58; Wayman Tisdale, 35; Dean Felber, 32. Actors, directors, comedians, George Axelrod, 77; Mona Freeman, 73; Jackie Mason, 65; Joe Santos, 63; Michael J. Fox, 38; Johnny Depp, 36; Gloria Reuben, 34.

TV icons: Marvin Kalb, 69. Authors: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 60. BY PAM SPAULDING, STYLED BY ALICE COLOMBO. THE COURIER-JOURNAL A strawberry and whipped cream top the molten chocolate cake..