What can we say about Depression Cooking With Clara other than her cooking videos give you more than a blueprint for meals on the cheap. She’s lovable and she could talk for hours and keep us wanting more. I know that we typically cover the wackier side of things here, but we just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring this to our reader’s attention.

If you didn’t get a chance to see Depression Cooking With Clara featured on Good Morning America, you’re getting a second chance below. With the current economic environment, it’s nice to be able to slow down and listen to someone with real insights and that can remind you to appreciate what you’ve got and that things will get better… They just always seem to.

Be sure to leave your comments below with your thoughts.

One of the more interesting things we saw this week was a new foreclosure stalling technique called, ‘Produce The Note‘.

This is an interesting glitch in the foreclosure process in some states where the homeowner being foreclosed on simply shows up at the court foreclosure proceeding and requests that the lender actually produce the note that they are claiming to have control over and under the authority in which they are actually foreclosing on the property.

You would think the mortgage note would just be one of the many documents they would show up to court with, but with most home loans being sold numerous times since the actual signing, the chances of the lender having the original note handy or even available in any capacity is slim to say the least.

There is a website setup to highlight this practice and to share the success stories of those that have used it, it’s Produce The Note. They even have forms to help some of these soon to be homeless people make an official request.

Although this doesn’t seem to be a solution to the problem, it does look like a pretty easy to use tool to create a little more breathing room and possibly find a permanent solution.

Uh oh…. The Octomom Website is not coming up! In fact, when you try to visit it, you get an ‘Access Forbidden’ error page. We are wondering if the hosting company was receiving any flack for hosting the octomom website, or if they just decided to take it down once the stories about tax issues came up.

This looks ripe for a spoof site to be born. Hmmmm, maybe we’ll set one up and see what happens.

UPDATE: The official octomom website is up for a while and then unreachable at times, but we had another chance take a look and here is our review of it.

First, the design. It’s actually pretty nice. Cute enough, etc.

Second, the comments. I’m not surprised that they don’t actually show the comments that are submitted. There is a form, but nothing fancy and probably just going to an email address where they can look for promising offers.

Third, the donations. Yes, it’s true. The only constructive thing you can do on the Octomom Website is to leave a donation and we’re sure, unlike the comments, that the emails from PayPal that she has received a new donation are monitored by the minute.

If you’ve made a Oc-donation, let us know in the comments below.

Thanks!