Good 46º a little bit of blue sky peaking through the clouds morning.
Boy, yesterday was borrrring. I played catch up with the emails on the
computer and getting all my favorite places (should have written them down
before uninstalling AOL) back on the toolbar. Chore.
I did make an order to Amazon for Betty White's book, If You Ask Me
(suggested by my pal Tammy ... Mr. Big Stuff's mom... black lab, remember PJ
found on freeway off ramp and adopted by Tammy!)
, some Temptations treats for Bruise,
potassium pills, and a case of artichoke hearts. All of this stuff wayyyyyy
cheaper than the local grocery or whatever. Free shipping. Keeps UPS and FedEx
busy!
Stayed cool (45º) and gloomy all day. My mountain completely hidden by low
clouds.
You know, there is so much more important news than Charlie Sheen and his
drug/prostitution/phonographic addicted/HIV ! PULLLEESE! What an ass. How about
some news about people out there doing good things!!!
Since it's "that time of year".. how about making Pumpkin Parmesan
Pasta!
1# long strand linguine
1 small onion
1 clove garlic
1 T. butter
1/4 t. salt
1/4 t. Italian seasoning
1 T. flour
1 cup pumpkin puree
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese + additional
In a large stockpot filled with water, bring to boil, add pasta and boil
until al dente. (or if you like it softer, cook it longer!)
Dice onion and garlic. Melt butter and sauté onion and garlic for about 5
minutes, until translucent and starting to brown. Add salt, Italian seasoning,
and flour. Carefully stir to incorporate. Next add the pumpkin puree, stirring
it together. Then add the milk and Parmesan cheese. Give it a stir and heat
through then pour over the drained pasta. Sprinkle additional Parmesan over each
serving.
Today is a special birthday, Dave Clark (LASD ret from Lakewood 1990/USN) is celebrating. He and his bride Pam have been celebrating down
in Puerta Villarta. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dave!! Glad you two are back home in the freezing NW safe and sound.
Historically this date..
1307 – William
Tell shoots an
apple off his son's head.
1865 – Mark
Twain's short story The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New
York Saturday Press.
1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie,
the first fully synchronized soundcartoon,
directed by Walt
Disney and Ub
Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon
characters Mickey
Mouse and Minnie
Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be
Mickey's birthday.
1961 – United States
President John F.
Kennedy sends 18,000
military advisors to South
Vietnam.
...as
a side note, Jerry's Marine unit was sent, tanks, but instead of being in Viet
Nam, they were at Fuji McNair in Japan... back up if/when
needed.
1963 – The first push-button
telephone goes into
service.
1970 – U.S. President Richard
Nixon asks
the U.S.
Congress for $155
million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim
Jones led his Peoples
Temple cult to a
mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them
in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman
Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple
hours earlier.
1999 – In College
Station, Texas, 12
are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M
Universitywhen the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie
Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game
against the University of
Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
And births
this date include.....
1908 – Imogene
Coca, American actress and comedian (d.
2001)
Such a funny
lady ... with Sid Caesar.
1923
– Alan
Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
1939
– Brenda
Vaccaro, American actress
She
and Michael Douglas dated....
1942 – Linda
Evans, American actress
Such a shame
when beautiful people use plastic surgery!
She has some
interesting photos on her website... click on Gallery.
1968
– Owen
Wilson, American actor and film-writer
Then... there
is this guy with the crooked nose and NEEDS plastic surgery! He certainly can
afford Hollywood's finest surgeons!
Speaking of plastic surgery among Hollyweird's elite...
Goldie Hawn...
Joan Rivers....
Lisa Rinna...
Meg Ryan....
Last night not hungry, cottage cheese and hard boiled egg for dinner,
chair, wine, TV ... saw the end of Hallmark A Boyfriend for Christmas and
Chicago Fire.
All I know. Nuff said. Happy Hump Day. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
November 18th
National Vichyssoise Day
The History Of Vichyssoise
Let’s start with the origin and
definition of vichyssoise and the correct pronunciation, which is
vee-shee-SWAHZ. While it sounds like an old, classic French dish, this cold,
creamy leek and potato
soup was invented in America in 1917 and named after the French town of
Vichy—long before Vichy would become the seat of France’s Nazi collaborationist
government.
While the soup may have had its origin
at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York City, to give France its culinary due, a
French chef born in a town near Vichy is credited as the creator.
Louis Diat was the chef at the hotel for
most of the first half of the 20th century. In 1950, he recounted to The New Yorker magazine the potato and leek soup of
his childhood, and how he would cool it off during the summer by pouring in cold
milk, which resulted in a delicious summer soup. He decided to make something
similar for the patrons of the Ritz.*
The soup was first called Crème Vichyssoise Glacée. Culinary historians point out that the
French chef Jules Gouffé published a similar recipe with potatoes, leeks, chickenstock and cream,
in Royal Cookery, in 1869, but did not serve it cold. There is
also a form of the hot recipe called Potage Parmentier after Antoine Auguste
Parmentier, who returned from a German prison-of-war camp after the Seven Year
War (1756 to 1763) to find his countrymen starving, and set up potato soup
kitchens throughout Paris to assist the poor.
*Hellman, Geoffrey T, “Talk of the
Town,” The New Yorker (Decem
ber 2002).
Thank goodness that Diat chose to cool
things down, because vichyssoise makes perfect summer eating. (Of course, you
can serve the recipe hot!)
I LOVE Leek
and Potato Soup. It's traditionally served very cold, but I like mine hot! This
is the recipe Jerry and I used forever...
It's in the
"joy OF COOKING". My book was
given to me in 1964 and has many many pages in it that have that particular
recipe ingredients all over them!
In my
opinion, the BEST cookbook there is!
Mince the
white part of 3 medium leeks and 1 medium onion.
Stir and
sauté them for 3 minutes in 2 T. butter.
Peel and
slice very fine and add 4 medium potatoes (I like Yukon Gold) and 4 cups chicken
stock. Simmer covered for 15 minutes, or until tender. Put them through a
blender in small batches. Add 1-2 cups of heavy cream or half & half (use
fat free if that works for you), salt and white pepper (or black) and stir in
some snipped fresh chives (or scallions). I heat mine though or put in
refrigerator to chill. A good addition is chopped crispy fried
bacon.
