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B orn in Spruce Pine, N.C., Fox Business Network anchor Gerri Willis (���The Willis Report���) ��� who also appears on ���Cashin��� In,��� part of the ���Cost of Freedom��� Saturday morning business block on Fox News Channel ��� doesn���t believe that TV correspondents should subsist on lettuce leaves and mineral water. ���I break that rule all the time,��� she says. ���I wouldn���t say I���m a chef, but I love to cook, because I love to eat. It���s all the same thing, right?��� As to what her specialties are, Willis says, ���If you���re a girl from the South, you do baked goods ��� coconut cupcakes, angel food, all that kind of stuff. Now I don���t do that much. I love making dinners for friends. I make all kinds of weird stuff. BY KATE O���HARE FBN���s GERRI WILLIS loves to cook with a Southern flair ���I made a Brazilian feijoada ��� black beans and meat, with lots of spices. Yummy. I do a lot of soups for home. When I was a kid, we went to Washington, D.C., for the first time, and I had something called Senate bean soup, which is just cannellini beans ��� or navy beans, as we call them ��� and a ham hock, right? ���So, I make a cannellini bean soup now ��� all those flavors from the South, but done a little differently.��� Many health experts are now concerned about the amount of fat present in traditional Southern cooking, but Willis doesn���t always worry about that. ���When I made the feijoada,��� she says, ���I used a ham hock. To tell you the truth, if you really want to know, we were so far down the road with fat on that dish ��� whatever. ���But I���ll do a lot of bacon. I���m trying to do a lot less bread now, so meat, just a leaner cut maybe. I don���t mind doing meat at all. We also do a lot of fish, meat, even pork chops. I love a leg of lamb studded with rosemary, garlic ��� yum ��� maybe some fennel you���ve roasted alongside, like that.��� As for what she���s cooked recently, Willis recalls a dinner party menu: ���I made a salmon, which I roasted. Then I took butter and mashed in garlic and mustard and tarragon and lemon juice, chilled that. When the salmon was done roasting, I put a dollop of that on top of the salmon, because you can���t get enough yummy fat.��� So, what���s Senate bean soup? According to the U.S. Senate website, it starts with two pounds of dried navy beans, rinsed with hot water and simmered with a pound and a half of smoked ham hocks in hot water for three hours in a covered pot, stirring occasionally. Then the hocks are removed, the meat diced and returned to the pot. An onion is lightly browned in a couple tablespoons of butter and added to the soup, which is brought to a boil and seasoned with salt and pepper. PHIL SPECTOR SONGS Darlene Love Phil Spector Ike & Tina Turner 8 BY JAY BOBBIN ���To Know Him Is to Love Him��� (1958) Musical ���Wall of Sound��� master Spector had his first chart-topping hit as the writer of this slow, soft recording by the Teddy Bears ... a group of which he also was a member. ���I Love How You Love Me��� (1961) Spector yielded another swoon-worthy romantic classic with this tune by the Paris Sisters. ���Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)��� (1963) The Crystals were the first act to have a hit with this Spector co-written classic, covered in later years by Bette Midler, Shaun Cassidy and the Donnas, among others. ���Then He Kissed Me��� (1963) Co-written by Spector for the Crystals again, this song is evocative enough of its era to have been a perfect part of the ���GoodFellas��� movie soundtrack. ���Be My Baby��� (1963) This smash for the Ronettes, and one of the prime ���Wall of Sound��� examples, was declared by Beach Boys staple Brian Wilson the greatest pop song ever. ���Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)��� (1963) Truly a gift that keeps on giving, this holiday landmark still is performed annually by original artist Darlene Love on CBS��� ���Late Show With David Letterman.��� ���You���ve Lost That Lovin��� Feelin��� ��� (1964) The Righteous Brothers��� success was cemented by this classic that reportedly was played more on radio and television than any other song in the 20th century. Hall & Oates��� remake and the movie ���Top Gun��� didn���t hurt. ���Unchained Melody��� (1965) The ���Righteous��� Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield benefited again from Spector���s producing skills on this update of a decade-earlier tune, made a hit all over again later by the movie ���Ghost.��� ���River Deep ��� Mountain High��� (1966) Ike & Tina Turner made their mark for producer/co-writer Spector with this much-covered classic that initially fared better in Europe than in America. ���The Long and Winding Road��� (1970) Spector played a pivotal role at the end of the Beatles��� run by producing their valedictory, autobiographical single. ���Imagine��� (1971) Spector stayed connected to another Beatle by co-producing John Lennon���s enduring ode to peace. The Goshen News ��� Viewer���s Choice ��� March 25-31, 2012

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