I was really hoping that my first day back to work post-Christmas was going to be fabulous, but unfortunately some bad news clouded over my sunny day! Hrmph!!!!!!
After not hearing anything from CTV News about my interview (which was almost a month ago), I decided to email CTV again to see what was going on.
Today, I was told that the story would likely not be aired. It was a holiday story and well, the holidays are now over.
I wish I could say that I picked myself up off the floor and carried on with my day, but I have been extremely bummed since I heard this news. I was also given no explanation why it did not air and I’m not even sure I would have been emailed had I not contacted CTV numerous times and bugged them about it.
The worst part of it is that I never even got to see my own interview. It is not online and I doubt I will ever get to see it! What the heck?!
In the grand scheme of things, this is a mere blip on the radar and I know it is not the end of the world. I have so many blessings in my life- my health, husband, family, friends, all of you- I will try not to waste another tear on this experience!!!!!
I ended up doing accounting all day, which didn’t make things any more cheery…
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My Glo Bakery accounting information is due mid-January, so I have been working on that. I’d like to have all the loose ends tied up by the weekend.
I track all of my business related expenses, revenues, mileage, bank transactions, etc in one Excel spreadsheet. It is amazingly easy and efficient, much better than our QuickBooks experience.
Around 6:30pm, I started to think about dinner and I was craving comfort food like an 8 month pregnant lady craves dill pickles and peanut butter.
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Baked Acorn Squash with Quinoa, Cranberry, and Apricot Stuffing
INGREDIENTS
2 cups quinoa
4 tablespoons unsalted butter (I used 2 T olive oil and 1/3 cup applesauce)
1 1/2 cups diced onion
sea salt
1/2 cup diced carrots
1/2 cup diced celery
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/3 cup dried apricots, chopped the size of raisins
1/4 cup dried currants (I didn’t have any)
1/3 cup toasted pumpkin seeds
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
freshly ground black pepper
4 medium Acorn squash, halved lengthwise, seeds and membranes removed
extra-virgin olive oil, for brushing
Then the squash started to sing a familiar tune to me:
Here’s a little song i wrote,
you might want to sing it note for note,
don’t worry, be happy
in every life we have some trouble,
when you worry you make it double
don’t worry, be happy
Directions:
1. Adjust a rack to the middle shelf of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
2. Simmer the quinoa in 4 cups of water until fluffy, 15 to 20 minutes.
3. While the quinoa cooks, melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the onions and 1/2 teaspoon of salt and cook until softened, stirring frequently, about 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in the carrots, celery, ginger, and sage.
4. Cover the pan and simmer until the vegetables are tender, 5 to 7 minutes (add a tablespoon of water, if necessary, to prevent scorching.)
5. In a large bowl, toss together the quinoa and vegetables. Stir in the dried fruit, pumpkin seeds, nutmeg, and cinnamon, season with salt and pepper.
6. Brush the skin of the squash lightly with oil. Place the squash, cut side down, in a baking pan large enough to hold them in a snug single layer.
7. Pour 1/2-inch of boiling water into the pan and bake for 20 minutes (you want the squash to have softened slightly, but not completely). Transfer the squash to a plate and let rest until cool enough to handle. [I put the squash in the oven as soon as I put the Quinoa on to save time]
8. Stuff the squash halves with the quinoa mixture, return them, stuffing-up, to the pan, and bake until the flesh can be easily pierced with the tip of a paring knife, 20 to 30 minutes more.
It was deelish.
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Big hugs, honey! That’s a sucky disappointment.
When my consumer news piece aired, I’d been edited into looking like an idiot and one of my sisters-in-law actually laughed at it! So there’s that…
We saw the pics – you looked beautiful, and we know you were fab, but, yeah, the publicity would have been nice. Onto bigger and better things in the New Year!
Sorry to hear they waited to late and didn’t contact you. Be Happy…your blog is amazing and I know you will be on another channel. I see this in your future…all SMILES!
Thanks everyone! Always know how to make me smile :)
Sorry about the interview!! Something even better will come along!
Yuck, what a bummer about the interview but I am VERY confident that you have bigger and better things ahead of you!! It’s their loss :)
Let yourself mope around tonight, you deserve it, and I’m sure tomorrow you will wake up and feel like new!
That was so wrong of CTV to do! What a bummer. This just means bigger and better things are headed your way!
Hi Angela! I’m a new reader of OSG and I love your blog!
I’m a TV News producer in the states and I wanted to chime in on your interview. I know it sucks to hear this, but television stations drop stories all the time. It happens every day. (especially with feature stories like the one they were planning to run about your bakery.)
Have you tried contacting a PR agency and having them pitch your story to other news outlets? That might get you some more press. Hope this helps!
Arrrgggghhhh!! That is so frustrating!!
I’m sorry about that – you must feel terrible. You put so much into everything.
But! Time to move forward, right??
My Mom gets something very similar to your squash at a restaurant in Atlanta. She’ll be excited when I tell her About your recipe :)
the TV station doesn’t know what it’s missing out on. I know there are other amazing opprotunites right around the corner!
thank you so much for sharing this video! It was the perfect way to end my day! :)
I’m sorry that your squash sang to you. You were having a bad enough day without going crazy, right?
Such a bummer! That tv station is going to regret it. I got an order of Oh She Glows Bars for Christmas and I’ve got to say they are great Angela! I will definitely be ordering more in the future… :)
Sorry to hear about the interview, Ange. It amazes me that a news station that has been around for years could lack such little regard for the time, effort and feelings of the person going out of their way to be on their program! It infuriates me that “big guys” often forget that the “little guys” are the ones that helped to make them what they are today. I for one, will not forget this. I am sorry that you put so much of your time and energy into this just to be disapointed and treated this way. Better and bigger things will come your way….Move over CTV, come on Oprah! :)
That acorn squash looks delish. Healthiest comfort food I’ve ever seen.
I’m not sure the size of CTV, but can you contact them and ask them for either the story or at least some edited footage to have on your site? It’s still advertising them as well as getting your story out there.
Might be worth a shot?
I think that sometimes all of us, even the happiest and most blessed, need to realize that it’s totally okay to just get pissed and sad for a little while. CTV screwed you over and ignored something really important to you? Get mad! Punch a pillow, cry, complain about the unfairness of it all- 1et it out!
Haha, I’m well aware of the merits of positive thinking, and employ the techniques often myself, but don’t ever bottle your emotions up to the point that it weighs on you.
Love the blog, and keep writing in your beautifully honest way.
Bummer! I was looking forward to seeing it. :(
Ah well. Things could be worse.. It reminds me of a joke:
A lion would never cheat on his wife.. a Tiger wood.
BA DA TCHHHH.
Yes. I’m putting my concentration face on and wishing for a bigger, better interview sometime in the future. It’ll be most epic, and CTV will regret not airing your interview.
Hmmm, I kind of want to e-mail CTV and tell them they are dumb… I totally wanted to see your interview, and I think they are making a lot of blog readers unhappy!! I’m sorry, Ang, but regardless we love you, the blog, and Glo bars, so indeed, don’t worry be happy!
I say it’s their loss – people would have loved you (like we all already do)! Way to not let it get you down.
Sorry to hear about your interview. Can you get them to send you any footage? The little clip you showed on your site looked like it went great!
Stuffed acorn squash is one of my favorite comfort foods too. Love it!