Earlier I ran to the Publix to pick up a few items. Mostly, I went to get some corn meal for my garden soil. So naturally, I totally forgot the damn cornmeal. Fortunately I did remember to pick up TP which was the other pressing issue and some special treat dog food for the mutt. In the checkout line I saw this cover. I swear these tabloids get more and more ridiculous. Are we supposed to think that is Teresa in prison? This is almost as bad as the Bruce Jenner cover on In Touch.
I didn’t have much time to peep at the story but a glancing look showed that they had clearly read Orange is The New Black. When Piper arrived at Danbury lots of ladies made sure to set her up with some essentials to hold her over until her first commissary. She had people lined up to meet her when she arrived and is settling in well. She is getting tons of fan mail and that could actually cause her some drama.
The bottom line is she works all day. Most everyone starts out in the kitchen. It’s one of the lowest jobs there. There are lots of other jobs where you can get off the prison grounds during the day and those are the jobs people really want. Also, in reality, despite the rumors to the contrary, Teresa is not whipping up Skinny Italian recipes for her fellow felons. She scrubbing pots and mopping floors making whatever is on the preset menu. Still, I have a feeling she likes the kitchen job more than most would.
Here’s another version of how things are going for Teresa at Danbury. I wouldn’t put much stock in any of these reports. But they are still fun to read!
Teresa Giudice has settled in to a comfortable routine inside Danbury Federal Prison, staying busy with a packed schedule of working in the clink kitchen and joining a TV watching club with fellow inmates, a source tells [email protected]
“She is watching ‘Empire’ and ‘Scandal’ with two other inmates,” says our insider, who adds that the jailed ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ star has a fairly lenient television watching schedule because she is on her best behavior. “She is also watching ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta.’ ”
Besides watching the tube in the common room with her new gal pals, Giudice has landed a job in the big house’s kitchen, whipping up some of her famous Italian specialties, among other things, with whatever ingredients she can find.
“She’s not in laundry (as had been incorrectly reported), she’s in the kitchen cooking,” says our source.
TT what do use the corn meal for?
I cook with it a lot, cornbread or a quick hoe cake. But I was buying it for my garden to feed the worms I hope are getting ready to mate like crazy…
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I compost with bokashi for two weeks, which kickstarts microbial action then, it can be buried directly in the garden soil. Check it out. I love this system compared to conventional composting.
Ok TT I have to ask what do you with the worms that you are hoping they are mating. I d remember my grandma using cornmeal in her garden but never knew why. Sorry I had to ask
Hi, TT. I’m just about to get into gardening this year. Never did it at all — may you please tell me how worms are good for the plants? I’m so intrigued and thank you.
Fellow gardener here, thanks for that tip. I love green gardening and regularly amend my soil by “feeding” it crushed eggshells (for calcium, rinse first), spent coffee grounds (acidic, for ph) and bunny poop! In short, anything organic rots and that feeds the worms who aerate the soil and make it “good.” Works great! I’ll have to try the cornmeal. Do you grow edibles or ornamentals?
Wow didn’t know that I’ll have to try it with my tomatoes. ..thanks for the tip ♡ ♡ ♡
Fixed it for you, NY Daily News.
There really should be a like feature in the comments.
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I love you women you are toooo funny!!! Thanks for laugh.
How did you create that, Brillke? BTW, your dog has the most adorable eyes. What a little lovey.
I hope it’s true that she’s in the kitchen. They should benefit from the inmates skills. And how much fun would it be to watch Real Housewives with one of them! I’m surprised the TV club isn’t packed to capacity!
It seems like all the stories out about her (fake or not) are happy ones. Which is nice because Gia definitely reads the tabloids.
Again, she is definitely in the kitchen. She is not cooking her own dishes. She is cooking whatever she is told, and more than like just doing prep work for the veteran cooks, peeling carrots and tomatoes, washing pots, etc.
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They cook In massive kettles. I don’t think she’s making canolis!
Duh! Come on, people, like she’s just running the prison meal plan now? I know most of TT’s readers are smarter than that! (Most, but not all, apparently.) God, do you guys think Marta Stewart redecorated when she went in? It’s PRISON. Just because you wrote a dumb cookbook you don’t get to whip up your recipes in the kitchen.
I never said she’s in control of the whole kitchen. She can definitely peel and dice faster than someone who’s never cooked so that would be helpful to them.
You’re right–sorry, I think what I wrote should have been its own comment, not a reply. My bad!
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Please use your energy to reply to the ones praying for her because she is being falsely imprisoned and unfairly taken away from her daughters 😉
You realize Tre really doesn’t cook any of the recipes from her books, right?
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Yes I’m aware
Actually, Kato711, GREAT advice. Those are the real idiots! “Poor Teresa!” NO! Poor people she ripped off!
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Cornmeal for your garden soil. …I’m a curious gardener so please explain. Fun read. I think Teresa looks nice without makeup. Saw this at my grocery checkout yesterday while speeding throngh the express checkout.
I don’t think she looks nice ever. Even if I cover that awful three-head.
Cosign. And that photo, even if it’s a prison pic, is photo shopped to some degree.
It’s not a picture of tre in prison. They wear prison jumpsuits not black tank tops. Most of the face on the cover is not her face.
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Ah, maybe Tre’s future career will be as a food service consultant to our nation’s prison systems!
Oh Jesus God, another motivation to stay out of the federal prison system!
Btw, how does that magazine get away with it’s photo shopped covers? If I was Bruce Jenner I would find away to sue them.
For, real, that was a whole new low. The lady whose body they used was good-natured about it, but that was SO wrong. I guess GLAAD made a statement saying how deplorable that was.
Hope Tre’s doing well in the slammer! I’d love to watch a Real Housewife show with her haha.
I’m trying to picture a worm feeding frenzy. Do they really eat corn meal? Do you sprinkle it on top of the. Soil or work it in? Also how much per sq ft. I’m serious. I bought worms for the garden last year and didn’t know I had to feed them.
You don’t have to feed them. I usually have a good many that show up. But last year my soil had a lot of problems. I’ve been fiddling with my tiny little plot all winter letting manure mellow. The corn meal should attract whatever is around… I googles how much per square foot but I didn’t pay it much attention and I’ve already forgotten. You don’t want to put out much at a time. I scratched it in so it would not blow away. It’s going to be super cold again for a couple days the next warm day I’m off to buy some organic fancy pants potting soil. I’ve just sort of put down a new layer of something every few weeks. I do not want a repeat of last year. After I plant, I’m going to cover with Cyprus shavings to try to keep spores from splashing up when it rains and causing blight.
Yes. I am obsessed with my little patch of dirt. This will end once it’s hot and they plants need watering. lol.
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Last year I put powdered milk in the holes with my tomato plants and it made a huge difference.
Powdered milk? That’s a new one for me…for calcium?
stupid question but so you just sprinkle the cornmeal or mix into dirt. And do you addextra worms or just nature let it do its thing. I am completely lacking in the garden dept short of picking acres of cap every summer for my father in law. I have been wanting to try a small garden this year and have no idea where to start. My father in law harvest (is that what it is called? ) worms for the grandkids to fish in the pond every year with.
I haven’t been able to find worms for sale around me. I would if I could the more the merrier. worms are your friends. Just try a couple tomato plants a pepper plant or two and some parsley, oregano, basil, (you can plant the herbs in pots.) I have hit and miss luck with herbs.
Truth be told it’s much cheaper to go to whole foods and buy the most expensive organic veggies they have than futz around with your garden. But nothing tastes as good as what you grow yourself. Sorry I didn’t mean to overshadow the post with gardening.
Once the planting season gets closer, I might start a gardening post and we can bookmark it and chat all season. 🙂
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I bought my worms at a fishing bait shop. They’re fairly inexpensive. I’ in the middle of soil prep too, mulching leaves into the soil, chicken manure, going to get some more worms… and now, corn meal I guess.
When I moved to Atlanta 4 years ago I had to leave my worms behind
Gaaaa I love gardening but I wanna talk fake Teresa prison talk!
OMG I would love a gardening post!!! We grow everything we eat in 3 gardens. All of them are about 25 ft. x 100 ft. We can everything to last us through the winter and I have come to appreciate fall LOL! By the time harvest comes around I am ready for a rest! Pllllleeeeeeaaassseee *whine whine whine* (and I’m not a whiner) do a garden post when it’s garden season. I’m always in the market for different tips.
I think you should start a gardening post! And then you, Teecee, and Taos could also give us tips on preparing some tasty dishes too! BTW, where is Taos lately?
Rather read about gardening than Teresa Joodice.
Please do!!! I’d be so interested in your ideas! I’m so afraid of lizards I stay away from gardening but I would love to plant my own vegetables! Le sigh…
That’s funny janshell, my daughter has “the fear of lizards” too!
Please do, Tamara. I’d love to hear more tips and info from fellow gardeners. At home we have rosebushes, gardenias, jasmine, Spanish lavender, fig tree, olive tree, pomegranate tree, citrus trees, rosemary, dill and basil. We try tomatoes, green beans and peppers seasonally. I want to grow a lot of edibles this year – you are right Tamara, nothing tastes quite like homegrown food. This year I’d love to grow hydrangeas (they always die) and peonies (I have 2 but they never bloom or get tall.) I am in the South, my zone is 9B. Whoo! Can’t wait, I’m already addicted enough to this blog. OK,no more coffee for me.:)
Its too bad you dont have chickens!! I move my chicken coop over to my greenhouse in the winter because they refuse to step in the snow.. So instead they get to forage through my greenhouse gardens, I toss their food in the soil and they turn it all and poop in it and turn it some more.. And in the spring I have the darkest fluffliest enriched soil to die for and I didnt have to do a thing! 🙂 !
Please start a gardening post, TT. I would love to get tips from the readers. I’m going to google the powdered milk for maters. I had really good luck with them last year. I picked them until November and I am a zone 8A.
For the life of me I cannot figure out why anyone wants to romanticize her or stay in jail. I wish she would be forgotten and maybe even suffer, like any other felon. Yet I have to live through this media phase, as I do seeing Kim Kardashian’s PATHETIC face everyday.
I love you, kk bella. I feel like you just read my mind.
YAY kk bella! You read my mind as well.
I hope she is doing well and also that when she gets out she is right back on RHONJ or has her own reality show. She deserves a break in life now, wishing her the best no matter what has happened it is the past not her future. Stay blessed Teresa. It will all work out. Thanks for the TEA Tamara, it was nice and tasty.
Um, yeah, it’s not her past, she hasn’t made it right with everyone she ripped off. Sorry, low tolerance for idiots tonight.
She deserves a break in life now ??!!? Are you kidding ?? Teresa got one hell of a break by only getting a year (a little more than) considering all those charges. If that had been me I would have probably gotten the max ! Anyone stealing millions of dollars deserves to do more time….not a break.
more likely if it had been you, you would have gotten a slap on the wrist. I think Tre is in prison because she’s a relatively well known reality star. Why aren’t the bank officials who approved the Giudices loans in jail?
Let’s test this theory. Why don’t you commit 41 felonies and report back about your slap on the wrist. I’ll wait.
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But you see that’s a different situation altogether. I don’t think Tre KNEW she was committing felonies, and I think if she was a total unknown, like me, she wouldn’t have gotten such a harsh sentence. Her husband should have had to serve her penalty too IMO, because he duped her. I’m aware this is not the prevailing sentiment here-or anywhere! LOL-but hey, what can I do, I like the lady and I hope she gets out early so she can be with her daughters while Joe’s in the pen. Away I mean.
I’m sorry to break the rules with an abbreviation but all I can say is omg.
So when she walked into several banks and claimed she was a real estate agent and told them she made tons of money and then forged W-2 forms and then committed perjury in bankruptcy court, and on and on she didn’t know that was illegal?
Ok well whatever. It is. She got off VERY easy.
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Really?? The Gov of VA only got 2 years for fraud. He deceived and lied to the people of his state. His lawyer asked for leniency; hopefully, probation. The prosecutor asked for ten (10) years and the Judge only gave him 2 years. And he’ll only serve 85% of it. Now that’s “one hell of a break”…….
Really? You think failure to declare some gifts while in office is the same as 41 counts of fucking fraud? WTF is wrong with you?
You story is way off.
Prosecutors accused former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, of accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from wealthy businessman Jonnie Williams. The then-chief executive of Virginia-based public company Star Scientific was hoping for the governor’s endorsement for and state research on one of his company’s dietary supplements, Anatabloc, to help boost sales.
A federal grand jury indicted the couple, both 60 at the time of the trial, on 14 counts of corruption, accepting bribes and obstructing an investigation in January, 10 days after Bob McDonnell left office.
They took $165K in gifts committed 14 felonies as opposed to FORTY ONE and got twice the time Teresa did. Sit your ass down.
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I’m not with cammierari on the slap on the wrist but I’ve wondered the same thing myself, what about the bank officials that approved the loans? Or are they the same banks that received a bail out from the government? Im no Trehugger but I was rooting for her against the likes of Melissa and Jacqueline. I do remember from the day I started watching season 1 there was speculation as to how she got her money. Everyone suggested min affiliations so I’m glad that was cleared up. They just cashed their mortgage loan checks.
I’m not with cammierari on the slap on the wrist but I’ve wondered the same thing myself, what about the bank officials that approved the loans? Or are they the same banks that received a bail out from the government? Im no Trehugger but I was rooting for her against the likes of Melissa and Jacqueline. I do remember from the day I started watching season 1 there was speculation as to how she got her money. Everyone suggested mob affiliations so I’m glad that was cleared up. They just cashed their mortgage loan checks.
She is in prison, that would be called the present…
Oh please…….teresa needs to crawl in a suitcase w/her husband and get the f..k outa here! Perhaps Italy will take them? Iraq? That is…..after they both serve their time. I NEVER want to see the that bitch on TV again.
Crap, a “Tre-Hugger.” You people make me sick. This woman is a felon for legitimate reasons, and she is absolute trash who doesn’t give a “love love love” for anyone except herself.
Yeah ok
She’s not even cooking meals. She’s microwaving dozens of the cheapest TV dinners that they get. Probably her and 2 or 3 others.
She looks pretty. Like a mom pretty ;-). I pray for her and her family.
Teresa’s running the kitchen… Who does she think she is, Red?
Tre is a thief, scammer, liar and owes money to business’s she ripped off.
Why would you feel sorry for her?
Maybe she’s taking inspiration from her revolutionary ice cream sandwiche ressupee by grabbing various pieces of meat and putting them between two slice of bread?
[email protected] I heard she taught the other prisoners how to pour milk on cereal. There is a trick to it ya know. : )
Psylocke……did you mean ice cream sangwiche ressupe? Lol! She’s so stupit!
The last few comments are funny, cute. I think I needed a laugh It surprised me when I laughed because I had actually been sitting there with my chin on the floor ever since Cammierari said I would get a slap on the wrist for racking up 41 felonies. 🙂
I meant to say Teresa is stupit!
I see some TreHuggers! Could someone please explain TreHuggers and Branditards to me? I don’t get how two women can reveal themselves to be such vile low lives and still have “ride or die” fan bases!
Totally agree Angel(?)! These women must have a low understanding about what a “good mother is”, or what is required for a quality life. They are not worthy of attention or adoration. I wonder about the intelligence or maturity of their “fans”. God, how embarrassing to be a fan of either one!
Hey now Angel(?). Aren’t we forgetting someone? How could you possibly leave out the NeNetards. They are every bit as rabid a fan as either of the other two maybe more so because NeNe’s been around so long lol.
Oh hush! Don’t wake them up!
Tre is nothing like Brandi, but I am a Tre-hugger because I don’t agree she’s a vile low life. I think I have a pretty good understanding of what being a good mother is too having raised two wonderful, successful children. I think Teresa will come out stronger and so will her family because she will learn from her mistakes. I’m a fan of that and of her positive attitude.
Ok – keep up with that positive thinking! I stand by my statement. 41 felonies equals low life. Her actions towards others and lack of remorse equals vile. She took out loans under false pretenses. She signed those papers and I am sure she knows how to read. I am convinced that Joe didn’t hold a gun to her head and said sign or else. Brandi is vile and a low life for other reasons, but she’s not a convicted felon scrubbing potatoes in the kitchen of a prison.
I’m not sure she knows how to read. I am sure she sat down with bankers and made up pretend jobs and pretend income face to face though.
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Well TT you may have point about the reading. Maybe she was offended by that dictionary, not because of her lack of vocabulary and diction skills, but by the fact that her cousin knew she couldn’t read!
I have parallel feelings. I too have a very good understanding of what it is to be a good mother and raise two young sons on my own. Their father lured them with new cars, toys, money, etc., but neither son chose to live with him despite all the lure in front of them. My oldest son is the antithesis of his father; not because I told them he was a ‘bad’ person, but because I lived the life that i taught them to live. I worked full-time, tutored students when I got home, did two carpools in the morning to assure each of my children (6 years apart) would have a ride home each day before I got home.
What “positive attitude?” She has a nasty attitude. Do you forget how she turned up her nose at “living in used houses?” That’s positive? Was it positive when she gleefully provoked and then chased Danielle out of a high-class establishment, like a high school mean girl? Was it positive when she lost her shit and flipped a table using trucker language? Sorry, there is nothing positive about her “attitude.”
Never gonna happen cammi…..once a low life, always a low life! Not to mention SHES A FELON!
Disqus-Tre said repeatedly that she was ashamed of her table flipping and had never done anything like it before. Bravo-and the public-would never let her forget it. She used it to her advantage. She also has said she was wrong to do that to Danielle, and has apologized directly to her. She admits to sounding snobby when she made the “used houses” crack. She’s real. Not perfect.
She’s doing her time. I wish her well.
It truly is mind-bottling (in the words of “Horrible Bosses”. Also sounds like something Tre would say, lol). I just don’t get it.
I have always been of the opinion that tre was never satisfied and manipulated Joe big time. She is just as guilty as Joe maybe even more so. She deserves every minute of time she has to serve.
With all that money they could have donated to the prison system I don’t know why bravo didn’t get in on the real house wives of Danbury. I guess filming restrictions. But I would have loved to see life inside for Teresa and others. Especially if she was not allowed to profit but all proceeds went back to the people she stole from.
That pic of Teresa on the cover is hilarious!!
I don’t care how this woman is faring in prison with the sole exception that I hope she is depressed and humiliated. Maybe that will knock her off her high bedazzled horse.
Applauding in agreeement
Yes! But unfortunately, she is not depressed or humiliated. Not sure if she doesn’t have the smarts or the psychological fortitude to have this understanding. The bedazzled horse will be back!
Wait, did you say she’s part of a “TV club?” That sounded so weird to me, and so pathetically lame.
Did you expect Tre to be catching up on all the books she meant to read when she had time?
Again these articles are silly. Watching Scandal in prison doesn’t make you part of a TV club.
I seriously mostly posted this because of the fake picture on the cover of L&S. I was hoping someone would tell me whose face was used as the basis for the “Teresa with no makeup picture.”
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Milania morph?
Actually, I thought she’d be taking yoga, accidentally stealing a screwdriver and chasing an imaginary chicken in the prison yard.
As for her face, it looks like her features, denuded, smoothed and lifted by photoshop. Or Milania.
McDonnell was voted into office by the constituents of his state. He has a fiduciary duty to all the people in the state. I know the story, TT. I don’t need a history lesson on what transpired, but gee, thanks anyway. He did much more than take $165,000 and 14 counts is a helluva lot for Gov. of any state. He took loans, bribes, private planes, free trips, and on and on.
I don’t deny Teresa was wrong, but they made an example of her and Joe. Many of the counts were duplications and some were past the statute of limitations. How different is Bernie Kerik, the Manzo’s best friends who pleaded down to 8 charges as the former NY City Police commissioner including tax fraud, criminal conspiracy, and lying under oath.
Not everyone wins the intellectual gene pool and to call them stupid is what I find most vile. So, she’s not that smart. So what. Bernie Kerik knew exactly what he was doing and his time in jail was short compared to the number and types of felonies he committed. Guiliani, another lying politician saved Kerik’s ass. The Manzo’s are mob connected and it’s been documented in a documentary film and in writing. Al Manzo and his big fat daddy who was found naked and dead in the trunk of a car are most probably guilty of more offensive criminal behavior than anything Tre and Joe committed.
You’re an idiot. You might want to learn about what the Giudices actually did. Nothing was beyond the statute of limitations. They took a plea deal down to … oh never mind. I am not going to give you a remedial course on something we have been discussing here for years.
Just have a seat.
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TT, you lose any leverage you think you have when you argue with people by calling them names rather than disputing the facts you deem false. I don’t need a remedial lesson. I’m a very educated person with the ability to understand the contents of any and alI of the legal documents concerning the charges against the Giudices and I have.
You are also a very educated, highly-intelligent person or you wouldn’t be able to produce this very detailed, accurate blog on your posts. If you didn’t, I wouldn’t come here to read your blog posts. I usually don’t comment because when I do, and you disagree with my comments, which you most often do, I am barraged with insults of being a fucktard or cuntsicle or some of your other choice insults. It sounds like a grade school kid hurling insults at other kids in the class. ie. “you’re a poop” or “your mother is so fat” jokes made by little kids.
I get it. I don’t think Teresa should have been found innocent. She wasn’t/isn’t. My point is that if she goes to jail, then so should the bankers who processed and assisted the Guidice family to fraud the papers to obtain a first, second, refinanced mortgage, home equity lines, etc. It was a well-known documented fact that banks often provided w-2 forms to those applying for mortgages. They also awarded mortgages to people who didn’t have a rat’s ass chance of repaying the loan or even making timely mortgage payments. They were in collusion. The bank mortgage lenders then bundles up those junk mortgages and sold them to a third party.
You’re such a windbag twatwaffle.
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BTW, my comment above under matzah60 is name I used to establish an account with wordpress, but previously, I logged in as sheree. Sometimes my name is noted as Sheree, sheree, or matzah60. I don’t know why it’s always different.And, yes, I do know you can log out of wordpress and change your name, but even when I do so, I never know under what name my comment will post. Not trying to post as two different screen names.
sheree or matzo60 I’m just glad to have you here. And I agree about the banks too. Lots of crooks in 3 piece suits getting rich, no matter how the economy is faring.
The banking industry has always been fucked up. You two seem to thing that means that everyone should just be allowed to commit 41 felonies without setting foot in a cupcake prison for a wakeup call. It’s ridiculous.
Something tells me your parents fell for the whole, “he started it!” defense every time.
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Really? That’s what you got out of my post just because I’m not rooting for Tre to suffer daily? I just think it’s complete crap that the banks were happy to take the Giudices bogus collateral and paperwork because they benefit if it works out and the shit falls down on only the Giudices if it doesn’t. They’re accepting their punishment, but I guess that’s not enough for some people. It is for me.
I get it. You disagree with me about Tre. Oh well. No need to bring my parents into it lol.
Thanks, cammierari. Much appreciated.
Oh Jesus…