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  • #750525
    JerseyJoan
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    Oh yes, when in doubt, eat dessert first! I love pierogi’s – serve them with ham for Christmas dinner. Maybe I’ll get ambitious and make ’em myself this year? Nah, probably not! The family has their choice of cheesy potato and spinach.

    Thanks JK!

    #750526
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Mrs T’s Pierogis as Cheesy Potato Spinach are quick and yummy w/o fuss for moi!

    #750527
    JerseyJoan
    Moderator

    Yep, That’s what I go with – yum!

    #750528
    Jeankit
    Participant

    What’s going on today?

    TODAY – OCTOBER 9th – TUESDAY

    283rd day of 2012 with 83 follow.

    Holidays for Today:

    *Moldy Cheese Day

    *Submarine-Hoagie-Hero-Grinder Day

    *Curious Events Day

    *Fire Prevention Day

    *Leif Erikson Day

    *World Post Day

    *National Cookie Month

    #750529
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Holidays for Today:

    *National Angel Food Cake Day

    *Tuxedo Day

    *World Mental Health Day

    *Emergency Nurses Day

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: You are born to taste the ANGEL FOOD CAKE!

    ~Angel Food Cake is a variation of a Sponge Cake.

    ~Made by whipping eggs so that air is trapped in the batter. They have no other leavening, and contain no shortening of any kind. They have a ‘spongy’ appearance and texture due to the trapped air bubbles. Sponge cakes contain both egg whites and egg yolks.

    ~The name originated in the U.S. and according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest appearances in print date to the early 1880s

    ~ Appeared on the said year in Mrs. Owens Cookbook 1881, Good Housekeeping 1886, etc.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: Life is an ongoing project.

    THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!

    Thought for the day. . .

    It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. – Vince Lombardi

    #750530
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Thanksgiving is next month, how about having a trial run on

    cooking a turkey:

    ** 17 Ways To Cook A Turkey **

    1. Go buy a turkey

    2. Take a drink of whisky

    3. Put turkey in the oven

    4. Take another 2 drinks of whisky

    5. Set the degree at 375 ovens

    6. Take 3 more whiskys of drink

    7. Turk the bastey

    8. Whisky another bottle of get

    9. Ponder the meat thermometer

    10.Glass yourself a pour of whisky

    11.Bake the whisky for 4 hours

    12.Take the oven out of the turkey

    13.Floor the turkey up off of the pick

    14.Turk the carvey

    15.Get yourself another scottle of botch

    16.Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey

    17.Bless the dinner and pass out

    #750531
    JerseyJoan
    Moderator

    http://news.yahoo.com/mummy-mouthful-cavities-discovered-111722294.html

    I guess the moral of the story is if you’re going to be a mummy for Halloween, make sure you brush your teeth after eating all that candy!

    #750532
    Jeankit
    Participant

    TODAY – OCTOBER 11th – THURSDAY

    285th day of 2012 with 81 to follow.

    Holidays for Today:

    *It’s My Party Day

    *Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day

    *National Sausage Pizza Day

    *General Pulaski Memorial Day

    *Eat Country Ham Month

    In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action. – Mother Teresa

    #750533
    Jeankit
    Participant

    SOME PURRY FURRY FUN ON 10-11-12:

    ONE-LINERS: Cat Dictionary

    – Aquarium: interactive television for cats.

    – Cataclysm: any great upheaval in a cat’s life.

    – Catatonic: a feline medicinal drink.

    – Caterpillar: a soft scratching post for a cat.

    – Cat Scan: to look for a new cat.

    – Dog: a cat’s device for running practice.

    – Door: something a cat always wants to be on the other side of.

    #750534
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today we are celebrating Gumbo Day, World Egg Day, Old Farmers Day and Moment of Frustration Day which

    all fall in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: Gumbo Day

    ~Gumbo: Derived from various Bantu dialects (Southern & Central Africa) terms for okra.

    ~The word actually is one of very few African language words brought over by slaves which have entered the English language.

    ~Today, gumbo is, generally, a southern U.S. regional term for stew-like dishes with meat or seafood, tomatoes and sweet bell peppers, but more specifically it is a Créole dish whose characteristic ingredients are okra and filé powder

    ~Okra has a mucilaginous quality which thickens and gives body to the gumbo.

    ~Famous phrase: “if it ain’t got okra, it ain’t gumbo!”

    ~Gumbo should never be over spiced, it should have a subtle flavor.

    ~Gumbo is always served with rice.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: Everyone’s weird but thee and me, and sometimes I wonder about THEE!

    THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!

    Thought for the day. . .

    My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions. – Ertha Kitt

    #750535
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Enjoy your weekend with:

    October 13: National Yorkshire Pudding Day

    October 14: National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day

    #750536
    Jeankit
    Participant

    More Yummy Treats for October!

    October 16: World Food Day

    October 16: National Liqueur

    Day

    October 17: National Pasta Day

    October 17: Four Prunes Day

    October 18: National Chocolate

    Cupcake Day

    October 19: National Seafood

    Bisque Day

    October 20: National Brandied

    Fruit Day

    October 21: National Pumpkin

    Cheesecake Day

    October 21: Caramel Apple Day

    October 18 is National Pasta Day, October 4 is National Taco Day. Perhaps merge the two with pasta with fresh salsa, as in the recipe above. Photo courtesy of the National Pasta Association. Find pasta recipes.

    October 22: National Nut Day

    October 23: National Boston Cream Pie Day

    October 23: National Canning Day

    October 24: National Bologna Day

    October 24: Good and Plenty Day

    October 25: National Greasy Foods

    Day

    October 26: Pumpkin Day

    October 26: Pretzel Day

    October 26: Mince Meat Pie

    Day

    October 27: National Potato

    Day

    October 27: American Beer Day

    October 28: National Chocolate

    Day

    October 28: Wild Foods Day

    October 18 is National Chocolate Cupcake Day. These lovelies are from The Cupcake Fairy in San Francisco. Find reviews of our favorite cupcakes plus cupcake recipes.

    October 29: National Oatmeal Day

    October 30: National Candy Corn Day

    October 30: Buy a Doughnut Day

    October 31: National Candy Apple Day

    October 31: Trick or Treat for UNICEF Day

    #750537
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy National Feral Cat Day today as 10/16/12

    http://nationalferalcatday.org/

    http://www.examiner.com/article/national-feral-cat-day-building-a-winter-shelter

    http://catsnco.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/national-feral-cat-day/

    It’s also World Food Day so share with your furry & hoomin’ friends

    Plus National Liquer Day and share a toast for them too!

    #750538
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Pasta Day with Four Prunes Day/*kinda sounds like a band!

    Nothing in Jokes/Trivia Link today, probably because of the prunes, oyy!

    *So in the way of music, here is a start:

    1962, In between their lunchtime and night shows at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, The Beatles travelled to Granada TV Centre in Manchester to make their television debut. They appeared live on the local magazine program People and Places performing two songs ‘Some Other Guy’ and ‘Love Me Do’. Read the full story

    1964, Manfred Mann started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy’, possibly the first No.1 with a nonsense song title. Also a No.1 in the UK, the song was first released by the US group The Exciters. More Nonsense Song Titles

    1970, The Jackson Five started a five-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I’ll Be There’. The group’s fourth No.1 of 1970, it made No.4 in the UK. Motown records claimed the group had sold over 10 million records during this year.

    Happy Hump Day Kits…enjoy, anyway you get your yaya’s out!

    #750539
    Jeankit
    Participant

    National Chocolate Cupcake Day

    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Cupcakes/

    No Beard Day

    Alaska Day

    Persons Day in Canada

    Todays the day those of you who have beards get to shave it right off for a nice smooth clean shave.

    ~What is Shaving? Shaving is the removal of hair, by using razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down to the level of the skin. Shaving is most commonly practiced by men to remove their facial hair and by women to remove their leg, underarm, and pubic hair.

    ~What do you call a man who has no beard? A man is called clean-shaven if he has had his beard part removed.

    ~ Did you know that head shaving has also been used to humiliate, punish and show submission to an authority.

    ~Before the advent of razors, hair was sometimes removed using two shells to pull the hair out. Later, around 3,000 BC, when copper tools were developed, copper razors were developed.

    ~Alexander the Great strongly promoted shaving during his reign in the 4th century BC.

    ~Today, the average man will shave about 20,000 times between the ages of 15 and 75, which equates to five months.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. – Heywood

    THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!

    Thought for the day. . .

    There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

    #750540
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Past mid-point in October kits!

    Count down to Halloween!

    But first:

    Holidays for Today:

    *Evaluate Your Life Day

    *National Seafood Bisque Day

    *National Seafood Month (October)

    *National Sarcastic Month (October)

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    TODAY IN TRIVIA: Antibiotic Trivia

    ~Before the advent of antibiotics, mercury was given as a remedy for syphilis.

    ~Selman Waksman, who discovered streptomycin coined the term “antibiotic”. He intended that word to refer solely to compounds isolated from living organisms.

    ~In 1954, two million pounds of antibiotics were produced in the United States. Today the figure exceeds 50 million pounds.

    ~Many antibiotics come from molds.

    ~It is estimated that greater than 70% of the antibiotics used in U.S. are given to feed animals (e.g. chickens, pigs and cattle) in the absence of disease.

    ~Some antibiotics, such as the penicillins, are ‘bactericidal’, meaning that they work by killing bacteria. They do this by interfering with the formation of the cell walls or cell contents of the bacteria.

    ~Other antibiotics are ‘bacteriostatic’, meaning that they work by stopping bacteria from multiplying.

    ~It is on this day on the year 1943 when Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you. – Louise Hay

    THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!

    Thought for the day. . .

    Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. – Steven Jobs

    #750541
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Hmm, don’t know how these were missed. Enjoy these weekend treas!

    October 19: National Seafood

    Bisque Day

    October 20: National Brandied

    Fruit Day

    October 21: National Pumpkin

    Cheesecake Day

    October 21: Caramel Apple Day

    #750542
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Holidays for Today:

    *National Nut Day

    *International Stuttering Awareness Day

    *Fechner Day (celebrated by Psychophysicists)

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: Fact about NUTS

    ~Eating more than 5 ounces of nuts a week can cut heart-attack deaths in women by 40% and help prevent deadly irregular heart beats in men according to a Harvard University study.

    ~Almonds and walnuts lower blood cholesterol.

    ~Most of the fat in nuts is the good-type monounsaturated and/or omega-3. Unsalted nuts are best.

    ~Coconuts aren’t nuts. They are drupes (from the Greek dryppa, meaning “tree-ripened”). The word “coconut” comes from the Spanish and Portuguese word coco, which means “monkey face”.

    ~The children’s song Here We Go Gathering Nuts in May makes no sense: there are no nuts to gather in May. It is a corruption of the phrase “Here we go gathering knots of May” and refers to the ancient custom of picking bunches (knots) of flowers on May Day to celebrate the end of winter.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. – Karen Sunde

    THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!

    Thought for the day. . .

    Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.” – Celestine Chua

    #750543
    Jeankit
    Participant

    297th day of 2012 with 69 to follow.

    Holidays for Today:

    *National Boston Cream Pie Day

    http://www.boston-discovery-guide.com/boston-cream-pie-recipe.html#axzz2A915TWeS

    *National Canning Day

    *TV Talk Show Host Day

    October 23rd: On this Day in Music:

    1961, Dion started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Runaround Sue’, it reached No.11 in the UK.

    1962, 12 year old Little Stevie Wonder recorded his first single for Motown Records, ‘Thank You For Loving Me All The Way.’ More On Stevie Wonder

    1963, The Beatles completed the final session for their second album ‘With the Beatles’ recording ‘I Wanna Be Your Man.’ The group then drove to London airport for a flight to Stockholm, Sweden to start their first foreign tour. The Fab four were met at Stockholm airport by hundreds of girl fans that had taken the day of school.

    1963, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Mickie Most, The Rolling Stones, Julie Grant and The Flintstones all appeared at Odeon Theatre, Nottingham, England

    #750544
    Jeankit
    Participant

    TODAY – OCTOBER 24th – WEDNESDAY

    297th day of 2011 with 68 to follow.

    Holidays for Today:

    *National Bologna Day

    *United Nations Day

    *Good and Plenty Day

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_%26_Plenty

    *Respiratory Care Week (last full week of October)

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: BOLOGNA

    ~This large highly seasoned sausage is name for Bologna, Italy. The true Italian sausage from Bologna is actually called Mortadella.

    ~There are 1,632 people in the U.S. listed on whitepages.com with the last name ‘Bologna’ and 88 with the last name ‘Baloney’

    ~Americans eat 800 million pounds of bologna annually.

    ~Mortadella is the original bologna – a very large smoked sausage (usually pork) from Bologna, Italy, studded with cubes of pork fat, peppercorns and/or pistachios and/or green olives. American bologna (boloney) is a very poor imitation. It probably dates back to the 15th century, and the original recipes included myrtle, ‘mortella’ in Italian, hence the name.

    ~Americans eat 800 million pounds of bologna annually.

    ~Oscar Mayer is the most popular bologna brand thanks to its 1973 jingle “My bologna has a first name….”

    ~Bologna is a popular breakfast food in Newfoundland, served fried as a substitute to ham slices.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: Many people will walk in and out or your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

    THAT’S (ALMOST) ALL FOLKS!

    Thought for the day. . .

    It’s never too late to be what you might have been. Unfold your own myth.

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