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#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips returns with the next book in her Chicago Stars series where a successful sports agent and the sister of his biggest client engage in a take-no-prisoners battle of the sexes.

The party teemed with beautiful women years younger than her, each one decked in skimpy outfits and stilettos with hair all silky and swishy trying to snag the attention of the bevy of professional football players in attendance. Rory, thirty-four years old with runaway curls and a vintage cocktail dress that now lay in a black tulle puddle on the hotel room floor, had been the outlier, and yet Vader had singled her out.

This slightly updated recipe produces a better-than-ever blueberry pie. Reader reviews reporting a soupy, runny filling inspired me to rework the baking instructions on my original 2016 recipe and make a slight change to the filling ingredients. My team and I tested a LOT of blueberry pies in the last few weeks. We searched for the magic trick to a perfectly flavorful, non-runny blueberry pie.

It turns out that you need to (1) really work the filling ingredients together, (2) bake the pie for longer than I thought, (3) embrace a bubbling juicy messy pie filling, and (4) let it cool completely in order for the filling to fully set up. Just like peach pie, blueberry pie takes several hours and is undoubtedly a delayed-gratification dessert. But I promise you, they are both worth it. Get ready for the most incredible, juicy-yet-sliceable blueberry pie experience:

After a few additional years of testing, this is now the best blueberry pie. As the pie bakes, expect a messy, bubbly, and juicy filling. As the pie cools, the filling sets into a jammy, yet sliceable consistency. For a truly out-of-this-world summer dessert experience, serve each flavorful slice with vanilla ice cream.

I have never been able to get a nice blueberry pie without it being soggy. This one is spectacular. Not soggy no soupy just a wonderful blueberry. I would like to thank you very much for all your hard work putting these recipes together and explaining all the reasons that are need to have a successful product. I have learned a lot from your website. Thank You very much.

The flavours in this pie are tasty, but sadly it never did set. I baked it as directed & the blueberry filling bubbled up the sides & appeared to be thickened (no thermometer available) but when we cut it 41/2 hours later, the centre was thin and not set at all. A bit disappointing, but everyone still said they liked it.

"The Best" is a song by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her seventh studio album, Hide Your Heart (1988). It was written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight. Produced by Desmond Child, Tyler's version became a top-10 hit in Norway but was a minor hit elsewhere.

In 1989, American singer Tina Turner released a cover version of "The Best" for her seventh studio album, Foreign Affair. It became a worldwide hit, receiving a double platinum certification in the UK. In 1992, Turner re-recorded the track as a duet with Australian singer Jimmy Barnes.

"The Best" was co-written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight, and first offered to Paul Young, who declined.[1] Bonnie Tyler was the first artist to record it. "The Best" was released as the lead single from her seventh studio album, Hide Your Heart, in January 1988. It peaked at no. 10 in Norway, and no. 25 in Finland, but only spent one week in the UK Singles Chart at no. 95. In Italy, "The Best" peaked at no. 8 on Rai Radio 2's airplay chart.[2]

Tina Turner's subsequent success with "The Best" restored Tyler's confidence in choosing recording material, after both Hide Your Heart and its singles failed to match the commercial success of her previous work.[3] She added that Turner "did it much better than I did".[4]

In 1989, American singer and songwriter Tina Turner recorded a cover version of "The Best" for her seventh solo studio album, Foreign Affair (1989), with a saxophone solo played by Edgar Winter. Prior to recording the song, Tina Turner approached the songwriter Holly Knight and requested some changes: the addition of a bridge, which Turner felt was missing, and a key change.[15]

Released as the lead single from Foreign Affair on August 21, 1989, the song was an international success, becoming a top-five hit in numerous countries. It is one of Turner's most recognizable tunes, often considered synonymous with the singer's name.[16] The song was used in a Pepsi commercial featuring Turner, which also served as a promo for her Foreign Affair: The Farewell Tour sponsored by Pepsi. Additionally, the song was adopted by other brands for their advertising including Applebee's[17] and T-Mobile.[18]

The song title is often mistitled as "Simply the Best", reflecting a phrase in the chorus. This became so commonplace that the bracketed word 'Simply' was included in the titles for releases of some subsequent versions, and in the track listing for some Tina Turner compilation albums.[citation needed]

In 1990, the song was used for the New South Wales Rugby League premiership (NSWRL) promotional campaign. After appearing in NSWRL's ad a year earlier (with "What You Get Is What You See"), Tina Turner was invited to Sydney, Australia, to shoot the 1990 campaign ads, in which she appears alongside rugby league players, and perform the song at that year's Grand Final.[19][20] The campaign featuring Tina Turner and the song is considered one of the greatest campaigns in sports marketing, which helped change the perception of rugby league as a sport turning what was essentially a suburban game popular with working-class men into entertainment for the whole family.[relevant?][21] Such is the enduring popularity of the song as the rugby league anthem that it was featured again in the 2020 promotional campaign of NRL, more than 30 years after its release.[22][23][24][25]

Tina Turner dedicated the song to Formula One driver Ayrton Senna after Senna's surprise onstage appearance during her performance in the 1993 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide as part of her What's Love? Tour.[26][27]

The song was also used in a 1998 ad for the Toyota Sienna after it became the best performing vehicle ever tested by the IIHS crash test agency at that time.[28] Chris Eubank, a British former two-weight world champion boxer, regularly walked out to the song for his match entrances.[29] It is also used by Scottish Football Club Rangers when the players walk out to play the match and is played before every home game with the Rangers fans singing along to it

Bill Coleman from Billboard described the song as an "easy-paced pop offering which finds Turner's voice taking front and center stage."[30] The Daily Vault's Mark Millan called it a "sing-along anthem".[31] Pan-European magazine Music & Media stated that the singer's "dramatic range is fully utilised on this impressive and polished production (courtesy Dan Hartman and Turner)."[32] A reviewer from People Magazine said it "features such pizza-box lyrics as 'You're simply the best/ Better than all the rest/ Better than anyone/ Anyone I've ever met'." The reviewer also noted that Edgar Winter adds a saxophone solo "with bite".[33] Pop Rescue called the song "flawless", adding that it was probably the fact that it's such a simple song that "helped it to become so widely popular."[34]

In 1992, Turner recorded "(Simply) The Best", a duet version of the song with Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes, to promote that year's New South Wales Rugby League season in Australia. The single subsequently appeared on a limited edition bonus disc as part of the Australian release of her compilation album Simply the Best (1991).

This is a brewer that is as easy to use out of the box as a brewer can be. It comes fully assembled. Pull it out of the box. Plug it in. Add water and it is ready to go. For my first batch I picked up some beans from Steady State Roasting and used distilled water with minerals added back in with a Third Water packet.

Our industry-leading 1,560-watt heater has many thousands of hours of cycle/durability testing and years of in-use track record on many makes and models of high-quality in-home coffee makers worldwide. It was selected for these reasons. It is made primarily of food-grade aluminum and is a cast part, with some steel and copper tubing, and an efficient conventional element.

The automatic blooming feature is unique, especially at this price point, but the functionality of the bloom feature is limited to smaller batches. When brewing a large batch, the water dispersed from the showerhead doesn't fully immerse all the grounds, making for an inconsistent brew. I avoid it when brewing anything over about 25g of coffee. I don't notice a huge difference.

Most concerns relate to user error! See that lever that indicates if the filter hole is open in the photo below? Make sure it is set to open if you're walking away or not intentionally adding some immersion to your brew. If you don't, well, you can see what happens.

I take making recommendations fairly seriously. When I received this brewer in May of 2023 (note this review came out in December 2023), I felt it was important to give it a thorough once over before telling anyone else to give it a try.

The SimplyGoodCoffee brewer meets or exceeds the Specialty Coffee Association specifications, which are generally accepted to produce a quality cup of coffee. The SimplyGoodCoffee brewer was designed and is independently lab tested to meet water temperature, water to ground coffee ratio, brew time, and our own design parameters that ensure great coffee flavor.