May 28

Elisabeth  DelPadre Filarski's Birthday
 

After graduating from an all-girls Catholic high school, Elisabeth Filarski attended Boston College and married her college boyfriend, former professional football quarterback Tim Hasselbeck. Her television career was launched  in 2001 on the second season of CBS’s 
Survivor: The Australian Outback, as a member of the Kucha tribe.  She was the last remaining member of that tribe in the game before being voted off on Day 39. Unlike the rest of Survivor’s castaways, Elisabeth’s star continued to sparkle. After Survivor she hosted the Miss Teen America pageant and then served as the host of The Look for Less

Elisabeth is best known as the ultra-conservative co-host on ABC’s The View. Many of Elisabeth’s opinions and more outspoken moments on The View have put her at odds with her more left-leaning co-hosts.  Since she began in 2006, Elisabeth has spoken out against the FDA’s plan to sell Plan B (the morning -after pill) as an over-the-counter drug   She argued heatedly with then co-host Rosie O’Donnell over support of the war in Iraq.  She occasionally gets Whoopi's goat when the topics of abortion and race relations are raised. She clashed with Joy Behar when she criticized White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for jokingly writing crib notes on his hand like Sarah Palin had during a speech at a recent Tea Party meeting, stating "If the Press Secretary is up there being a mouthpiece for the White House during a time of crisis like we've been in for so long, don't make a joke and write on your hand," Joy glared at her and responded, "During the Bush administration, when boys were getting killed, people were making jokes in the White House, so don't give me this crap, Elisabeth."

Elizabeth has celiac disease, a disorder of the small intestine, and has raised national awareness of this disease . The only effective treatment for celiac disease is a life-long gluten-free diet.which prompted her to write a gluten-free cookbook called The G-Free Diet

Elisabeth insists that she is politically moderate.  However, her multiple appearances at Republican rallies in 2008 introducing then-Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin seem to contradict her alleged political leanings. The morning after Barack Obama won the election, Elisabeth appeared on The View in funereal attire.

So, what do you prepare for a Kucha tribe Republican cheerleader with gluten challenges on her birthday?  An appropriate recipe might be Right Wing Chicken while you watch her in Madea Goes to Jail  (2009) which is where most of the other members of the Kucha tribe belong.
 

Right-Wing Chicken

 

Ingredients
 
10 pounds frozen chicken wings
1 cup apricot preserves
 
1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix
1 (16 ounce) bottle French dressing
Instructions
 
1. Preheat oven to 400º F
2. Separate the right wings from the left wings. Save the right wings for Nancy Pelosi and just use 5 lb of left wings for this recipe.
3. Cut the chicken wings into individual pieces and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet (you may need two cookie sheets).
4  Spread apricot preserves over wings. Sprinkle dry onion soup mix over wings, then pour dressing all over.
    Bake in the preheated  oven for 1 hour.
 

Serves 6-8

© 2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes