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Friday, June 2, 2023

Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ Potato Chips ~ Sue's Marinated Mushrooms ~ National Leave The Office Early Day ~ National Rotisserie Chicken Day

  


Good 40º clear morning. 
 
 
Yesterday we stayed blue sky and a few white puffy clouds and topped at 81º.
 
 
Picture of the Day ...  Back in 2000 I took this picture of my Brian feeding a Blue Jay out of his hand. So cool!
 

 
Interesting about potato chips..............
 

A potato chip (North American English and Australian English; often just chip) or crisp (British and Irish English) is a thin slice of potato that has been deep friedbaked, or air fried until crunchy. They are commonly served as a snackside dish, or appetizer. The basic chips are cooked and salted; additional varieties are manufactured using various flavorings and ingredients including herbsspicescheeses, other natural flavors, artificial flavors, and additives.

 

Potato chips form a large part of the snack food and convenience food market in Western countries. The global potato chip market generated total revenue of US$16.49 billion in 2005. This accounted for 35.5% of the total savory snacks market in that year ($46.1 billion).

 

History

The earliest known recipe for something similar to today's potato chips is in William Kitchiner's book The Cook's Oracle published in 1817, which was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and the United States. The 1822 edition's recipe for "Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings" reads "peel large potatoes... cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping". An 1825 British book about French cookery calls them "Pommes de Terre frites" (second recipe) and calls for thin slices of potato fried in "clarified butter or goose dripping", drained and sprinkled with salt. Early recipes for potato chips in the US are found in Mary Randolph's Virginia House-Wife (1824) and in N.K.M. Lee's Cook's Own Book (1832), both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.

 

A legend associates the creation of potato chips with Saratoga Springs, New York, decades later than the first recorded recipe. By the late nineteenth century, a popular version of the story attributed the dish to George Crum, a cook at Moon's Lake House who was trying to appease an unhappy customer on August 24, 1853. The customer kept sending back his French-fried potatoes, complaining that they were too thick, too "soggy", or not salted enough. Frustrated, Crum sliced several potatoes extremely thin, fried them to a crisp, and seasoned them with extra salt. To his surprise, the customer loved them. They soon came to be called "Saratoga Chips", a name that persisted into the mid-twentieth century. A version of this story was popularized in a 1973 national advertising campaign by St. Regis Paper Company which manufactured packaging for chips, claiming that Crum's customer was Cornelius Vanderbilt. Crum was already renowned as a chef at the time, and he owned a lakeside restaurant by 1860 which he called Crum's House.[10] The "Saratoga Chips" brand name still exists today.

 

Production

In the 20th century, potato chips spread beyond chef-cooked restaurant fare and began to be mass-produced for home consumption. The Dayton, Ohio-based Mikesell's Potato Chip Company, founded in 1910, identifies as the "oldest potato chip company in the United States". New Hampshire-based Granite State Potato Chip Factory, founded in 1905 and in operation until 2007, was one of America's first potato chip manufacturers.

 

If you want to read a lot more, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_chip

 

 
Sue's Marinated Mushrooms
 

 
Ingredients:
2 parts oil (salad oil, or 1/2 salad oil and 1/2 olive oil)
1 part lemon juice
1 clove garlic, crushed
Worcestershire sauce
salt
ground pepper
dried basil
dried oregano
dried chopped parsley or fresh flat leaf parsley
mushrooms (white)
 
Wash or rub mushrooms to remove any dirt and then dry thoroughly.
Mix oil, lemon juice, garlic , salt and pepper. Add add about 1t. of Worcestershire sauce. Add several pinches of basil, oregano, and parsley. Pour over mushrooms in a container where they can all swim in the marinade. I put them in a quart jar and every half hour or so, turn it upside down.
 

Let marinate at least 2 hours in the fridge or 1 hour out. Stir while marinating.  These make a great accompaniment to any meal.
 
 
 
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 KingdomCanadaAustraliaNew Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

 
1997 – In Denver, ColoradoTimothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 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...
 
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1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Romanian-American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
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1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer (d.2022)
 

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1938 – Ron Ely, American actor
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1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor and producer
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1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
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1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor and director
(I met him once at the Pomona Gun Show. Adam Henry! So in love with himself!)
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1955 – Dana Carvey, American comedian, actor, and singer
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All I know. Nuff said. Have a good Friday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo

Everyone is sure to enjoy marking National Leave the Office Early Day on their calendar. Observed each year on June 2nd (unless June 2nd falls on a weekend, at which time it would be acknowledged on the closest working day) the observance is an incentive to many who often work more than 40 hours each week.
About a third of Americans work more than 40 hours per week. Some work even more than that. Those who are self-employed or who work two jobs, likely work 60-80 hours per week. Those types of hours don’t leave much for family, self-care, or home maintenance. Stress piles up and so do the phone calls from mom, the grandkids, and maybe the gym wondering where you’ve been. Maybe your best pals want to meet for a drink but you’ve been stuck behind a desk or on the road working.
This holiday reminds you to take a little time for yourself every once in a while.

HOW TO OBSERVE

On this day, upon completion of all the necessary day’s work and the needed approval, it is suggested that you can then leave work early to enjoy the rest of the day with fun activities of your choosing. 

NATIONAL LEAVE THE OFFICE EARLY DAY HISTORY

Employee Productivity Specialist, Laura Stack, created National Leave The Office Early Day as a reminder to employees to take time for themselves.
 
And it's also................
 
National Rotisserie Chicken Day is observed annually on June 2nd.
Rotisserie chicken is cooked whole on a rotisserie or spit that turns continuously over heat source roasts it slowly. This type of cooking sears the skin to seal in the flavor, resulting in a tender and juicy chicken. Rotisserie chicken is often injected with a blend of seasonings to give increase the flavor. The popularity of rotisserie chicken continues to grow as the health benefits of it become more widely known. Leftovers can be used in many ways, including salads, sandwiches and casseroles.
HISTORY
National Rotisserie Day was submitted by Boston Market Restaurants in April 2015.  The Registrar of National Day Calendar declared June 2nd as National Rotisserie Chicken Day in May 2015.

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