Written by: Elizabeth Spilotro Website: www.thislittlemama.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/thislittlemama Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/This-Little-Mama/245392435770

It’s me again! Thank you so much to everyone who read the first RHOBH recap, and especially everyone who posted such enthusiastic comments here on the site. In honor of PastryChef23, the column’s very first commenter, I felt it would be appropriate to start this week’s column with a short recap of the Lisa Vanderpump episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts that ran last week. If you don’t care about the wonders of pastry chefing, just skip along ahead.

Our celebration of all things dessert starts with a Quickfire being judged by Top Chef Masters favorite Hugh Acheson, famous for his expressive unibrow, ways with puns, and (apparently) inspired cuisine. (I wouldn’t know.) Hugh energetically wiggles his Bertbrow while explaining to the Cheftestants that their challenge is to create a teeny-tiny dessert that will inspire a new flavor of Extra Gum Dessert Delights, and fit into a teeny-tiny serving piece. This, wiggles Hugh, is a “sticky situation”. Oh HO! … Continue reading →

Written by: Elizabeth Spilotro Website: www.thislittlemama.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/thislittlemama Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/This-Little-Mama/245392435770

Hello, I’m Elizabeth and I’m a real live housewife! A crock-pot cooking, minivan-driving, original factory-installed boobs mom of three here to talk about some other Real Housewives, those of Beverly Hills, and how little we have in common. Although when I was about 9 I was a passenger in a Rolls-Royce previously owned by Muhammed Ali. We spun out at the intersection of Hill & Hibbard because it was raining. No one got hurt, but I was late to the birthday party.

Before we get started we really must speak of a delicate subject, that being Househusband Russell Armstrong’s sad and premature demise just a few weeks ago. In addition to devastating his family and loved ones, his passing threw the entire second season of RHOBH into turmoil and launched many discussions of whether reality TV had gone “too far”. As the New York Times asked, was Russell Armstrong’s suicide reality TV’s Jenny Jones moment?

Obviously the New … Continue reading →