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First Aired - 08/12/2010 04:30PM
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This week on Flash Talks Cash finds Flash going over the myriad of ways you can see some tax credits for money spent on your children (or for simply having children in the first place). Parents and guardians should take note, as almost everyone is covered by at least one item in this list of financial breaks offered by Uncle Sam for those trying to raise little ones. This episode was sponsored by White Oak Pastures.
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Flash Talks Cash Introduction: Using Your Kids! (15:20)
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Flash Talks Cash, Heritage Radio Network, Joann Flash Fleming, White Oak Pastures, www.whiteoakpastures.com, using your kids to get money from the government, financial gains to having kids, you can write off a dependant on your tax return, child tax credit, for every child you get $1000 credit, up to the age of 16, what's the difference between a deduction and a credit, a tax credit is just money back straight up, child care credit, 20% of your child care expenses, 20% of tuition is a credit, dependent care benefits, Earned Income Credit, what is working poor?, working poor means two married people with up to 3 kids making 48k dollars or less, 43k for a single parent, someone making $25k with 3 kids can get $5k back from the government, college tuition credits, $4000 credit or $10000 deduction, 529 plans, you put away money in a college fund and you get a writeoff, the law allows you to hire your children, private lessons and sports are non deductible,Email Questions & The Creative Accountant Segment (13:31)
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is Turbotax the way to go for freelancers or should you pay an accountant?, freelances would be well served to get their bookkeeping in order, if you have good numbers to record income and expenses, QuickBooks, simple program to you use, most freelances are too conservative to do their own taxes, keep diligent records!, what should I do with inheritance?, don't pay off a loan, a condo purchase is a good idea, Florida isn't very expensive, be careful for ponzi schemes, DO pay off credit card debt, The Creative Accountant Segment, last week's words, how can content creators make money on the internet?, make teaser videos instead of giving all the stuff away, make them pay for the full items, 21st century internet revolution, we need to figure it out, the better the quality of the content the more likely you are to succeed, make your product more desirable than the rest of the guys, new IRS campaign to collect unpaid FICA tax on tips, how would the IRS find out?, some waiters and waitresses are reporting tips to the government and not their employers, audits are way up, restaurants need to report better tips, three words for next week, person with excellent sense of smell, can't get down from the roof, addicted to television,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/17/2010 12:00PM
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Sam & Jimmy come by to talk beer, scandals and everything between. Also on the show, chef Nate Appleman.
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The Main Course Introduction (11:40)
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Patrick Martins, The Main Course, Katy Keiffer, Salumi, Sam Edwards, Jimmy's 43, www.jimmysno43.com, Hearst Ranch, Brian Kenny, zebra meat, horse meat, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Elliot Spitzer, Leaping Waters Farm, Jefferson Davis Highway, Benedict Arnold,Hot 80 Year Old Women, Human Waste & Steamed Beer (26:40)
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politics, Republicans, Democrats, George W. Bush, Haiti, Jimmy's 43, beer certification class, Samuel Merritt, Civilization of Beer, www.civilizationofbeer.com, walk in refrigerator, burp castle, cookoffs, Julia Child, melted gelatin, Nick Solares, Theo Peck, Betty Fussell, the hottest 80 year olds, night soil, human waste, what can brown do for you?, UPS, yeast, living beer, unfiltered, steam beer, Frederick Louis Maytag III, Fritz Maytag,Whole Animal Cooking, Pizza Trends & Beer Pairings (20:00)
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Salumi, Nate Appleman, butchering, whole animal cooking, boxed meats, beer pairings, strip steak, porterhouse, short ribs, Heritage Foods USA, sustainability, slaughterhouse, slaughtering, whole hog, Brooklyn Brewery Local 1, wood fired ovens, manipulate a fire to do what you want it to do, Neapolitan pizza needs 750-800 degrees, I wanna make a pizza that anyone can enjoy, Sal & Carmines, Ray's Pizza, Joe's Pizza at Bleeker St., South Street Seaport, II Brigante, chuck roll, National Cattleman's Beef Association, off cuts, difficult cuts, braising, frying, sauteing, new cuts, Freeman's, www.freemansrestaurant.com, wood is abundant in California, almond wood, Asian Longhorned Beetle, Newman Farm Pork Products, www.newmanfarm.com, Berkshire pigs, Ancient White Park, ground beef, local farm raised meats, Carlo Petrini, Slow Food, gastronomic quality, local sausage week, Union Square Market, green market, maple smoked kielbasa, lamb sausage, Flying Pigs Farm, www.flyingpigsfarm.com, there are not enough slaughterhouses in the Northeast, regionality, Virginia, North Carolina,Scandals of the Noughts & Changes in Our Food System (26:40)
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scandals, Jimmy's 43, Heather Mills, Mia Farrow, Mary Kay Letourneau, abstinence only education, liberal run media, Elliot Spitzer, Gary Hart, Jim McGreevey, John Edwards, Mark Sanford, Robert Johnson, the rise of craft peer, public awareness of food systems, Patio Dining, Sarah Jenkins, green market, homemade pasta, Michael Pollan, the 100 mile dinner, regional approach, Snail of Approval, Medieval food history, the word Tavern has been hijacked, peco.peco.com, Hiroshima pancake, miso oden, Christian Slater, Martha Stewart, Tom Brady,Show Wrap Up: Cicerone Certification Program & The Civilization Of Beer (30:00)
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Armandino Batali, www.salumicuredmeats.com/, Riverside Drive, what was New York like 100 years ago, transition of this city over 100 years, children factory workers, return to artisinal food production, home wine making, DIY movement, The Good Beer Seal, in 1978 Jimmy Carter passed a law allowing home brewing of beer, Jack McAuliffe, consolidation of the brewing industry, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Cicerone Certification Program, The Great American Beer Festival, www.cicerone.org, online test to become a certified beer server, beverage industry, Slow Food Nation, Carlo Petrini, education, if you know it you have a duty to teach it, gastronomes, Islam is taking over Christianity, birth control, the Vatican, women were the first brewers, monks, Jeerleaders, Dogfish 90 Minute IPA, Brooklyn IPA,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/25/2009 06:30PM
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On this week's Why We Cook, Erica celebrates a handful of outcast veggies and shares preparations to curry your favor towards the beet, cauliflower and lima bean. Don't sleep on these nutritious delights!
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The Cast off Vegetable (7:45)
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overall quality of produce improved, beet, okra, lima beans, cauliflower, if you think you don't like it it probably wasn't cooked right, don't miss out on marginalized veggies, vegetables, uncommon preparations, leave your comfort zone, beet greens, Erica's childhood beet experiences, before sugar cane cultivation all sugar in diets came from beets,The Veggies You Think You Hate (11:05)
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roasted beets, earthy texture, the smaller the beet the better, faster cooking, rub down with olive oil and seasoning, place in shallow pan, place in oven at 400 degrees until very soft, cook at least an hour, wear gloves, once peeled quarter add olive oil and salt and serve warm or chilled, beets can be eaten raw, juice your beets and boil down to a syrup for vinaigrette, okra, came to US with slaves from southern Africa, goo inside okra, goo comes out when stewed, cook okra quickly and goo will stay inside, buy short okra, related to hybiscus, stewed okra, high nutritional value, high fiber, the less you cook okra the better, goo is soluble fiber, stabilizes blood sugar, curbs absorbtion rate of sugar, strips cholesterol from body, lima bean, named for Lima Peru, try lima beans fresh for a religious vegetable conversion, simmer or stew or sautee, succotash, embrace the lima bean!, red and white striped beet, trim beet,Consider the Cauliflower (10:02)
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cauliflower, Mark Twain, don't boil cauliflower!, roast cauliflower, roast at 400 degrees until crispy and caramelized, coax along with oil to raise surface temp, sugars don't caramelize under 400 degrees, must add oil to raise temp!, green cauliflower, orange and purple varieties, less pigments in food less nutrition in food, peel stem and eat inside raw, tempura cauliflower leaves, Dr. Atkins, Erica did recipe development for Atkins, boil or roast cauliflower then puree and mash as a sub for potatoes, steam then toss with vinaigrette, sautee in mustard oil, add whole mustard and cumin seeds, add ginger garlic, add blanched cauliflower florets, add diced cooked potatoes, add salt and cilantro, cabbage cousin, coax the sweetness out slowly, be good to your veggies they'll return the favor,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
