Good 55º cloudy morning. I did try and get a picture of the big old moon last night but by the time I got my camera the clouds had covered it up~
I forgot to mention, my friends Trish and John Bowler's
grandson, Matthew, took the gold in his first Taekwondo competition on Saturday.
WOW, good job Matthew!!!
It stayed cool all day yesterday. Warmed to 64º and by noon it
was raining. Rained nearly all day and we got about 1/4". Well, natch! I had my car washed!!
Yippppeeeeeeee. I am NOT a summer person and love the cool
weather the best. Oregon is weird though... AC on Sunday, heater on Monday!
By 3pm the radar was all overhead..
I decided since it was cold and gloomy and rainy (my favorite kind of
day~!) I would make some soup. I had a package of Harry and David's "hearty
chicken noodle soup" mix. ( http://www.harryanddavid.com/ ) I love
shopping there. It's close, in Medford. Anyway, I don't follow recipes, as you
know...
I used half and half water and chicken stock, only called for
water. Reconstituted some of the Harmony House veggies...
I used 1/4 cup of green beans, leeks, peas, and celery.
I was cooking chicken thighs for Dude and stole two of them and cut them
up.
In the pot with the soup mix vegetables, my reconstituted vegetables, then
the chicken, a can of sliced mushrooms (not drained), and last the noodles. Kept
warm on a very low simmer. Then I mixed in the soup flavor pouch ... Before
serving it I added a couple handfuls of baby spinach. YUMMMMMM!
Historically this date...
1835 – P. T.
Barnum and his circus start their first tour of
the United States.
1886 – The U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White
House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive
mansion.
1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial
limits of the United States.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories
& Head of the Commonwealth, the
first major international event to be televised.
1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Buildingin Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He
was executed four years later.
2004 – Ken
Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on
the syndicated game
show Jeopardy!
2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators
during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
And births this date
include...
1731 – Martha Washington,
American wife of George Washington,
1st First Lady of the United States (d.
1802)
1904 – Johnny Weissmuller,
Romanian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
1937 – Sally Kellerman, American
actress and singer
(Yikes~!)
1938 – Ron
Ely, American actor
1941 – Stacy
Keach, American actor and
producer
1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American
composer and conductor (d. 2012)
1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
and director
(Met him once at the Pomona Gun Show. Adam
Henry! So in love with himself!)
Caitlyn Jenner!!!!! Just in case you hadn't seen this on the
news!
I received this from Ike Saben (LASD ret)... OMG, whodda
thought!
Beware of wire grill
brush leaving behind bristles
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Nuff said. Happy Tuesday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
June 2nd
National Rocky Road Day, a flavor created in 1929 in
Oakland, California.
Rocky road ice cream is chocolate ice cream mixed with nuts
and marshmallows, the “rocks” in the road. The original nuts, walnuts, were
later replaced with toasted almonds.
In the prior year, William Dreyer and Joseph Edy had founded
Edy’s Grand Ice Cream.
William Dreyer’s professional relationship with ice cream
began in 1906 when, as a galley boy aboard a German passenger ship, he was
tasked with making a frozen dessert to celebrate the ship’s arrival in
America.
By the 1920s, he had established an ice cream manufacturing
facility in Visalia, California. In 1926 he was recruited by National Ice Cream
to run a large plant in Oakland. In Oakland he met Joe Edy, a prominent
confectioner.
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The original rocky road ice cream. Photo
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In 1928, Edy and Dreyer teamed up to manufacture premium ice
cream under the name Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, focusing on creative flavors. At the
time, ice cream was only sold in basic flavors such as chocolate, strawberry and
vanilla.
Dreyer was inspired by Edy’s use of marshmallows and nuts in
a candy creation. In those days there were no miniature marshmallows. So in
March of 1929, Dreyer cut up marshmallows with his wife’s sewing scissors, and
added them along with walnuts to a base of chocolate ice cream.
The flavor was named Rocky Road for the texture. You’ll also
find references that it was named for the troubled economic times of the Great
Depression. However, the flavor was created in March 1929 and the stock market
crash that engendered the Depression didn’t happen until October of that
year.
EASY ROCKY ROAD ICE CREAM
RECIPE
If you don’t want to make chocolate ice cream from
scratch:
1. LEAVE a quart of store-bought chocolate ice cream on the
counter to soften. You want it just soft enough to mix in the
“rocks.”
2. STIR in 1 cup of miniature marshmallows and 1/2 cup
roughly-chopped almonds or pecans.
3. RETURN the quart to the freezer to
harden.
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