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Posts Tagged ‘food’
What am I celebrating?
August 4, 2013On August 4, 1693, Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk, invented champagne; or so the story goes. Whether or not you believe this version, it makes a good story. So, on August 4, we raise a glass of something bubbly to celebrate champagne.
Come quickly! I am tasting stars!
Dom Pierre Perignon
What is tattoo Tuesday about?
July 30, 2013
Today is Cornflake Day.
The invention of cornflakes was the result of a failed attempt by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, back in 1894, to create a healthful snack for patients at his sanitarium out of some stale grain. Dr. Kellogg had some strange ideas about health and well-being. You can read more about them here (bizarre alert.)
The flakes that resulted from his experimentation were a success. Dr. Kellogg and his brother tried the process with other grains including corn, and a cereal empire was born.
In addition to being a part of Kellogg’s astounding number of breakfast cereals, cornflakes can also be used in recipes, such as these from Pepper: Cornflake Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies: Genius with a Touch of B*tch.
A cornflake tattoo? I could not find one. This is the closest I came:
By the way, did you know that Butterfinger candy bars are made with corn flakes that have been sweetened, mixed with peanut butter, and covered in chocolate? I didn’t either.
What do we remember today on tattoo Tuesday?
July 23, 2013It’s summertime in the northern hemisphere – warm temperatures go hand in hand with frosty treats. Although history is somewhat fuzzy on this point, I choose to celebrate July 23 as the day ice cream cones were invented. Here, from Wiki:
In St. Louis, Missouri during the 1904 Saint Louis Exposition, the Banner Creamery’s owner George Bang was selling ice cream. Allegedly, he ran out of bowls and was given rolled-up waffles to serve it in instead. Others credit Ernest A. Hamwi, a waffle maker at the World Fair, as the first inventor.
Given that today is tattoo Tuesday, here are some ice cream cone tattoos.
To round out this post, I offer this handwritten recipe for ice cream. This is from the collection of Thomas Jefferson and is in his hand writing. The original is in the Library of Congress. Isn’t that amazing?
I am not going to mention Gucci Mane in this post.
Who am I thanking?
July 16, 2013
Thank you to 21st Century Renaissance Girl for nominating me for a WordPress Family Award. Her site is one of my favorites – and here are a few more of my favorites that I am nominating for this award:
What am I pondering?
July 8, 2013It’s Monday.
Does anyone besides me eat cold pizza (for breakfast?) Cold Chinese left-overs? Cold sushi? . . . Oh, never mind.
Am I the only adult who wants to have twinkle toe sneakers or flats? Why don’t they make them in my size? Which happens to be 7.5 B in case you have a pair to sell.
Why is coconut crime pie so hard to find where I live? Any kind of pie, really, which does not make sense to me because I live near Cleveland. We are sort of mid-west (really we are on the Great Lakes and that is different), but still we should be all about all American pie. Go to any nice restaurant in town and you will find creme brulee and chocolate lava cake on the menu (so last year if you ask me), but no PIE.
I don’t understand the concept of or inspiration for fish tacos.
I don’t understand why any restaurant would put roast turkey with dressing on the menu and then say that they have no cranberry sauce.
I don’t understand why the server asks me if I would like sour cream or apple sauce with my potato pancakes, when the answer is obvious – both.
Why can’t auto makers devise a defroster for the windshield that works like the defroster on the rear window. Would those wires really impede visibility? Can’t they make the defrosting wires smaller, or transparent? Is there really no way to create auto glass that won’t let the inside of the car heat up to the temperature of the surface of the sun?
What did we celebrate yesterday?
June 17, 2013I know, I know . . . yesterday was Fathers Day and I mentioned that, but it was also . . .
Here is a story that ran on NPR about the holiday.
I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, making fudge was a frequent activity for my friends and me. I remember making fudge one rainy afternoon with my best friend. We reached the point in the recipe where we were supposed to beat the fudge by hand until it was thick and smooth. We decided that it would be much easier to bring some external power to the process and wound up burning out the motor to her mother’s mixer. Oops.
I have not made fudge for years, but the last time I did, I turned to this tried and true and easy recipe from Eagle Brand:
Foolproof Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients
- 3 cups (18 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk
- Dash salt
- 1/2 to 1 cups chopped nuts (optional)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- LINE 8- or 9-inch square pan with foil, extending foil over edges of pan.
- MELT chocolate chips with sweetened condensed milk and salt in heavy saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat. Stir in nuts and vanilla. Spread evenly into prepared pan.
- CHILL 2 hours or until firm. Remove from pan by lifting edges of foil. Cut into squares.
- MICROWAVE METHOD
- COMBINE chocolate chips with sweetened condensed milk and salt in 1-quart glass measure. Cook on HIGH (100% power) 3 minutes or until chips are melted, stirring after 1 1/2 minutes. Stir in remaining ingredients. Proceed as above.
- VARIATIONS
- CREAMY DARK CHOCOLATE FUDGE: MELT 2 cups miniature marshmallows with chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk. Proceed as above.
- MILK CHOCOLATE FUDGE: OMIT 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips. Add 1 cup milk chocolate chips. Proceed as above.
- CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CHIP GLAZED FUDGE: FOLLOW above recipe using 3/4 cup peanut butter chips instead of nuts. For glaze, melt 1/2 cup peanut butter chips with 1/2 cup heavy cream. Stir until thick and smooth. Spread over chilled fudge.
Who do we celebrate today?
June 16, 2013
From Hovercraftdoggy this charming post about a father, a graphic designer, who has decorated his children’s sandwich bags every day since 2008. Cool.
Happy Fathers Day
What am I celebrating?
June 5, 2013
Happy National Doughnut Day!
In case anyone missed it on the news, Duncan Donuts came up with a wonderful idea that happens to coincide with this holiday. Read here from the Boston Herald:
The . . . coffee and doughnut chain is introducing a new breakfast item that sandwiches cherrywood-smoked bacon slices and pepper fried egg between a sliced glazed doughnut.
I heard on NPR that this delicacy actually has fewer calories than the chain’s sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich. I’ll take two!
Gunsmoke and Knitting 