Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ CHP K-9 ~ Spaghetti Pie ~ Phil Santisteven ~ Lydia Plunk ~ National Spaghetti Day

  

Good 40º super dark cloudy raining morning. 

 

Yesterday the rain started first thing in the morning and rained all day and all night of dark and gloomy....

 We started with 40º and topped at 46º.

 

 

 

Picture of the Day....funny business name 

 

 

 

Interesting about a CHP K-9.....

 

 

 

California Highway Patrol K9 Pakito has trained behind the scenes at Disneyland and provided security for the Blue Angels and even Vice President Mike Pence.

 

Pakito’s handler, Modesto CHP Officer Matthew Fowles, said those were his top three experiences as a K9 officer. But Pakito is happiest on regular duty, playing with his toy after a big drug bust or getting head scratches from kids after doing a demonstration at a local school.

 

After seven and a half years on the force, assisting in 245 apprehensions, more than 50 drug arrests and sniffing out hundreds of pounds of narcotics, the 84-pound Belgian Malinois is retiring. Pakito, 9, is retiring Friday as the most senior CHP dog in the state both in terms of years of service and age.

 

It’s not that Pakito isn’t up for the job anymore; a few weeks ago, he found 17 pounds of fentanyl powder and 10 pounds of methamphetamine during a traffic stop. Fowles said the CHP wants to make sure its dogs get a chance at a happy retirement, too.

 

Fowles said he knows Pakito will miss the action but he also has no doubt he’ll enjoy being a dog of leisure. As a police dog, Pakito must remain mostly in his kennel when off duty, both for training and liability reasons.

 

Soon he will “be able to come in the house and relax and sit on the couch or by the fire on the rainy days,” Fowles said. Pakito also will be able to join Fowles on family vacations to the beach or camping at lakes, where he can participate in one of his favorite pastimes: swimming Even in retirement, Fowles suspects Pakito will pick up on scents as they waft through the air.

 

He has a keen sense of smell that has found narcotics in hollowed-out engine parts, seats, oil cans, roofs and other places. Fowles said Pakito is a good all-around dog. While other dogs might have higher stats in apprehensions or narcotics detection, Pakito excels in both.

 

Pakito's stats:

Over 50 narcotics arrests with seizures of:

Cocaine - 236 pounds Crystal meth - 482 pounds Liquid meth - 8.5 gallons Marijuana - 740 pounds Pure fentanyl powder - 23.5 pounds Fentanyl pills - 128,196 pills

 

Heroin - 24 pounds

 

Apprehensions/surrenders of suspects - 245

 

 

 

 

 

From Mr. Food .... on "National Spaghetti Day".... 

With a spaghetti crust and a creamy ricotta filling, our saucy Spaghetti Pie is the kind of pasta recipe that's perfect for a busy, weeknight, family meal. The whole gang will love this baked spaghetti pie recipe, so you know there won't be any fussing at the dinner table!

• 1/2 pound cooked spaghetti
• 2 tablespoons olive oil or melted butter
• 2 large eggs, well beaten
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, divided
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 1 cup spaghetti sauce
• 1/2 cup (2 ounces) shredded mozzarella cheese

 

 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 10-inch pie plate with cooking spray.
    
2. In a large bowl, toss spaghetti with olive oil. In a small bowl, combine eggs and 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese. Stir into spaghetti then pour into prepared pie plate, and form into a "crust."  Spread ricotta evenly over crust, but not quite to edge.Top with spaghetti sauce..
    
3. Bake uncovered 25 minutes, then top with mozzarella; bake 5 more minutes, or until cheese melts.
    
4. Remove from oven and sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese. Cool 10 minutes before slicing into wedges.

 

Two special birthdays today....

Phil Santisteven (LASD ret) is celebrating. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHIL!

^with his bride, Suzanne (also LASD ret)

 

 

 

and....

My friend Lydia Plunk is celebrating. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYDIA!

 

 

Historically this date......

1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

....Oh man, shootin' a Colt .45 is awesome!

 

1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York, New York.

 

1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.

 

1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

 

And births this date include....

1905 – Sterling Holloway, American Character Actor (d. 1992)

 

1927 – Barbara Rush, American actress

 

1937 – Dyan Cannon, American actress

 Boy, with Grant she looks 12.

 

 

1941 – Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)

 

 

1965 – Julia Ormond, English actress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

National Spaghetti Day on January 4th offers an opportunity to pick your sauce and add it to that long, thin cylindrical pasta of Italian and Sicilian origin.  Usually made from semolina flour, this pasta has been a worldwide favorite for ages and loved by millions.

There are a variety of different pasta dishes based on spaghetti, and the sauce determines most of them. Some examples include spaghetti ala Carbonara, garlic and oil, tomato sauce, meat sauce, bolognese, Alfredo sauce, clam sauce or other sauces. We traditionally serve spaghetti dishes topped with grated hard cheeses such as Pecorino Romano, Parmesan and Grana Padano.

The word spaghetti is plural for the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning “thin  string” or “twine.”

American restaurants offered Spaghetti around the end of the 19th century as Spaghetti Italienne (which is believed to have consisted of noodles cooked past al dente and a mild tomato sauce flavored with easily found spices and vegetables such as cloves, bay leaves, and garlic). Decades later, cooks added oregano and basil to many recipes.

Spaghetti Origins

There is a significant debate on the origin of spaghetti. However, we do know that pasta has been consumed for many, many years.  There are records in the Jerusalem Talmud of itrium, a kind of boiled dough, commonly available in Palestine from the 3rd to 5th centuries AD.  A 9th-century Arab dictionary describes itriyyaas as string-like shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking. In an 1154 writing for the Norman King of Sicily, itriyya is mentioned being manufactured and exported from Norman Sicily.  Dried pasta became popular in the 14th and 15th centuries due to its easy storage. People were able to store the dried pasta in ships when exploring the New World.  A century later, pasta was present around the globe during the voyages of discovery. (Wikipedia)

On Top of Spaghetti

In March of 2009, the world record for the largest bowl of spaghetti was set and then reset in March of 2010 when a Garden Grove California Buca di Beppo restaurant successfully filled a swimming pool with more than 13,780 pounds of pasta.

Sung to the tune of “On Top of Old Smoky,” the fun children’s song, “On Top of Spaghetti,” was written and originally sung by folk singer Tom Glazer with the Do-Re-Mi Children’s Chorus in 1963.

“On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
When somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table,
And on to the floor,
And then my poor meatball,
Rolled out of the door.”

HOW TO OBSERVE

Make your favorite spaghetti dish and be sure to make enough to share. You can always invite friends to join you at your favorite Italian restaurant and split a plate. If you do, be sure to tag the restaurant.