Good 34ยบ foggy morning. Drizzled on and off yesterday, but hardly enough to
measure.
Snow on the summit this morning...
So..... I was watching this "sandwich" show on one of the Food/Travel networks (here it's Ch 277 on DirecTV) and
they went to Pirmanti Brothers in Pittsburgh PA. Here is their menu....
This place is on my bucket list....
French fries and coleslaw on their Italian bread sandwiches! OMG.
The show also went to an old dear favorite, Philippe's in Los Angeles. My Dad worked at the Terminal Annex Post Office across the street and we ate at Plilippes many times! Awesome French Dipped sandwiches, where the "french dip" started. Mr. Philippe Mathieu opened there in 1908. " One day in 1918, while making a sandwich, Mathieu inadvertently dropped the
sliced french roll into the roasting pan filled with juice still hot from the
oven. The patron, a policeman, said he would take the sandwich anyway and
returned the next day with some friends asking for more dipped sandwiches. And
so was born the "French Dipped Sandwich," so called either because of Mathieu's
French heritage, the French roll the sandwich is made on or because the
officer's name was French. The answer is lost to history."
Something I strongly believe in:
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.” -Audrey Hepburn
As I said yesterday, if you want to read the historically stuff and famous
birthdays for today then go to the left of the blog, Archives, click on the 2011
arrow, click on the November arrow, click on November 9th.
Yesterday I went to the beauty shop (misnomer name!"beauty" is not
something that goes in and out of there, in regards to us customers! LOL) and
got my hair cut.... very short! Yeah! Had a good "therapy" session with Leah, my
hairdresser. We laughed and had a good talk. Leah, Lisa, and Ruchelle are fun.
Good time! (for you locals, it's The Image Connection, in Rogue River!)
After the 'beautification' I went to the post office and market...
Looking across the parking lot from the market....
I came home and puttered around for a bit. Tim, aka Timinator, came over
and blew the leaves off my roofs and cleaned the rain gutters out and repaired
the gutter on the car port....
Then it was off to Grants Pass to the Mediterranean to meet up with Dee and
Dale. We toasted to Dale's military service, an Army officer and an "honory
Marine". He's now doing some studying with the Coast Guard! Anyway, we had
martinis and Dee had Margaritas. Dinner was good. They split a ribeye dinner and
I had my favorite Moussaka and Chardonnay! I took their picture but they didn't
want me to... so it's not here!
Shift changed and the new waitress/bartender, Erin, came in. Turns out
she's a good friend of Emily, who works with Brian at his State Farm office!
Small world. Super nice and cute girl!
Came home, made a fire in the wood stove, and snuggled in my chair with
Harley on my lap. Today may be a Costco run. Depends on my mood and energy
level.
All I know. Nuff said. TGIF. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
November 9th
National Scrapple Day
Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name pon
haus, is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with
cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed
into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then panfried
before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold
elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known as a
rural American food of the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania). Scrapple and pon haus are commonly considered an
ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Mennonites and Amish.
Scrapple is found in supermarkets throughout the region in both fresh and frozen
refrigerated cases.
