Weather/Fog ~ Picture of the Day ~ Scrabble History ~ Tex-Mex Hand Pies ~ Bob and Gay St Claire ~ Bob St Claire/Jerry Maxwell/Don Johnston/Dennis Howell/Ed Bennett ~ National Scrapple Day

 

 

Good 45º raining and foggy morning.

 

Yesterday we started with this fog....

 

Here is I-5 in Medford....

Later the fog lifted but the clouds were dark and heavy and no sun. We topped at 43º.

 

Picture of the Day... funny sign

 

 

Interesting about Scrabble Game....

 

Alfred Mosher Butts, (b. 13 April 1899 in Poughkeepsie, New York; d. 4 April 1993 in Rhinebeck, New York), was an architect and inventor of the board game "Scrabble".

He received his degree in architecture in 1924 from the University of Pennsylvania. When he was unemployed from 1931 to 1935 during the Great Depression, Butts invented what he hoped would be a marketable adult game based on skill, strategy, and chance.

Using 100 anagram letter tiles, four wooden mah-jongg racks, and a cribbage board to keep score, he tinkered with combining anagram and crossword puzzle concepts, naming it at various times, “Lexico,” “It,” and “Criss-Cross Words.” By analyzing the number of times that letters of the alphabet appeared on the front page of the New York Times, Butts determined the proportion of individual letters for the game: one Z but twelve E’s, and so forth. He weighed the worth of each letter according to its frequency: vowels received one point, Q’s and X’s, ten.

One-third of USA households own a Scrabble game and roughly 100 million Scrabble sets have been sold worldwide, in many languages including Russian, Arabic, French, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, and also in magnetic, Braille, and computerized versions. Deluxe editions in 1998 incorporated a bag for letters, a turntable, and a timer.

If you want to read a lot more about Scrabble, go here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble

 

 

 

From Mr. Food

 

Make room burritos, 'cause there's a new contender in town, and they're going by the name of Tex-Mex Hand Pies! These creamy hand pies are stuffed full of Tex-Mex favorites like salsa, chicken and lots of creamy cheese. You're going to wish you had more hands.

 

• 1/2 cup cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin
• 1/2 cup salsa
• 1/2 cup corn
• 1 (13.8-ounce) can refrigerated pizza crust
• 1 1/2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast
• 1/2 cup shredded Mexican cheese blend

 

1. Preheat oven to 425º. Coat 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.
2. In a small bowl, combine cream cheese, chili powder, and cumin; mix well and set aside. In another small bowl, combine salsa and corn.
3. Unroll dough onto lightly floured cutting board and cut into 6 equal squares.
4. Evenly spread cream cheese mixture onto each square, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Top 1/2 of each piece of dough evenly with chicken, salsa mixture, and cheese, then fold each into a triangle. Using a fork, press edges to seal. Place on baking sheets.
5. Bake 12 to 14 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve warm.

 

 

 

 

Special 47th anniversary today, Bob and Gay St Claire are celebrating. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KIDS!!

 

Bob is a former Marine & LASD ret, worked with Jerry at Temple Station. Gay went to Arroyo High, the same school as my Kristen and Brian.

 

Temple Gang:

 

Back in 1987 the Temple Guys.... L-R Bob St.Claire, Jerry, Don Johnston, Dennis Howell, and Ed Bennett. If I remember, this was at the Northwoods Inn.

 

 

 

 

Historically this date....

1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

1960 – Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.

 

 

And births this date include....

1801 – Gail Borden, American publisher and inventor, invented condensed milk (d. 1874)

 

At least it wasn't Lizzie Borden!

 

1914 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)

...wow, 6 husbands, 6 divorces.

1936 – Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) (d. 2009)

 

Poor thing, she had leukemia.

1941 – Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival and Ruby) (d. 1990)

 

 

 

 

All I know. Nuff said. Have a good Tuesday. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

 

National Scrapple Day on November 9th recognizes the first pork food invented in America. For those who are not familiar with scrapple, which is also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name “pon haus,“ it is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal, wheat flour, and spices. (The spices may include but are not limited to sage, thyme, savory and black pepper.)  The mush is then formed into a semi-solid loaf, sliced and pan-fried.

The immediate ancestor of scrapple was the Low German dish called panhas. It was adapted to make use of locally available ingredients. In parts of Pennsylvania, it is still called Pannhaas, panhoss, ponhoss or pannhas.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, German colonists who settled near Philadelphia and Chester County, Pennsylvania developed the first recipes for scrapple. Since the origin of its discovery, it is strongly associated with rural areas surrounding Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, eastern Virginia, and the Delmarva Peninsula.

• Supermarkets offer scrapple throughout the regions in both refrigerated and frozen cases.
• Home recipes for beef, chicken and turkey scrapple are available.
• Scrapple is sometimes deep-fried or broiled instead of pan-frying.
• Scrapple is typically eaten as a breakfast side dish.
• Condiments are sometimes served with scrapple, some of which include apple butter, ketchup, jelly, maple syrup, honey, horseradish or mustard.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Have some scrapple. Following are a few scrapple recipes for you to try:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/scrapple/http://www.cooks.com/recipe/pt6o151m/scrapple.htmlhttp://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/359/ChickenScrapple61687.shtml