Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ Actress Kim Novak ~ "Don't Peek" Chicken ~ Pam Clark ~ National Chocolate Cake Day

  

Good 48º pouring rain morning.

 

 

Yesterday the rain poured and we hit 50º.

 

 

Picture of the Day ....New York then and now😀

 

 

 

Interesting about actress Kim Novak............

 

Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American retired film and television actress and painter. Her contributions to cinema have been honored with two Golden Globe Awards, an Honorary Golden Bear, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Novak began her career in 1954 after signing a contract with Columbia Pictures, and quickly became one of Hollywood's top box office stars, appearing in Picnic (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and Pal Joey (1957). She gained prominence for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Vertigo (1958), which is recognized as one of the greatest films ever made. Other notable films include Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Strangers When We Meet (1960), and Of Human Bondage (1964).

 

Although at the time still relatively young, Novak withdrew from acting by 1966 and has only sporadically worked in films since. She appeared in The Mirror Crack'd (1980), and had a regular role on the primetime series Falcon Crest (1986–1987). After a disappointing experience during the filming of Liebestraum (1991), she permanently retired from acting, saying she had no desire to return.

 

Early life

Marilyn Pauline Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933. She is the second daughter of Joseph and Blanche (née Kral) Novak (who both appeared with her in the 1962 film The Notorious Landlady). Both of her parents were born in Chicago to people of Czech descent. Joseph (1897–1987) was a history teacher who took a job as a freight dispatcher on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad during the Great Depression.

 

Novak attended William Penn Elementary, Farragut High School, and Wright Junior College. She won two scholarships to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

During the summer break in her last semester of junior college, Novak went on a cross-country tour as a promotional model for Detroit Motor Products Corporation's Deepfreeze home freezer at trade shows. Novak was pronounced "Miss Deepfreeze".

 

^{In San Francisco, after the refrigerator company tour ended, Novak and two other models decided to go to Los Angeles, to check out the film industry.[ In Los Angeles, with two other models, she, as Marilyn Novak, were extras in Son of Sinbad (filmed in 1953, released in 1955), and later, for The French Line (1953), starring Jane Russell at RKO. In Los Angeles, Novak was discovered by an agent, who signed her to a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures. From the beginning of her career, she wanted to be an original and not another stereotype. Therefore, Novak fought with Columbia's chief, Harry Cohn, over the changing of her name. He suggested the name "Kit Marlowe", arguing, "Nobody's gonna go see a girl with a Polack name!", but she insisted on keeping her name, saying, "I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name!" They eventually settled on the name "Kim Novak" as a compromise.}

 

Novak continued her creative endeavors as a photographer, poet, and visual artist painting in watercolor, oil, and pastel. Her paintings are impressionistic and surrealistic. The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio hosted a retrospective of her work from June until October 2019. Novak was present at the opening on June 16. In 2021 The Butler Institute also published a book with a selection of her paintings titled Kim Novak: Her Art and Life.

 

Novak endorsed Robert F. Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.

She is a Catholic.

 

^{If you want to read a lot more, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Novak}

 

 

 

From Mr. Food

 

SERVES

4

COOK TIME

1 Hr 15 Min

Hey you, no peeking! There's a reason why we call this chicken casserole "Don't Peek" Chicken! It's 'cause  the secret to this recipe, unlike other chicken dishes, is keeping the foil on tight; the foil ensures that all those yummy, classic chicken dinner flavors spread throughout the dish. So, resist the urge to glance in! You'll be thanking us later, for one of the best chicken recipes you've ever had!

• 1 cup uncooked long-grain rice
• 1 (10-3/4-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 (10-3/4-ounce) can cream of celery soup
• 1 envelope onion soup mix (from a 2-ounce box)
• 1 soup can cold water
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 chicken (3-1/2 to 4 pounds), cut into 8 pieces
• Paprika for sprinkling

 

1. Preheat oven to 350º. Coat a 9- x 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
    
2. In a large bowl, mix together rice, soups, soup mix, water, garlic, parsley, and Worcestershire sauce.
    
3. Pour mixture into prepared pan. Press chicken into mixture. Sprinkle with paprika, then cover tightly with aluminum foil.
    
4. Bake 1-1/4 hours. Do NOT open cover (not even to peek!) during baking.

 

***Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley before serving for an impressive finishing touch.

***This is great made ahead and rewarmed in the oven or microwave. For a different taste treat, why not try adding some carrot or celery chunks or using flavored rice? And remember, bottled garlic is a wonderful time-saver.

 

 

Special birthday today...

celebrating is Pam Clark, wife of Dave Clark (LASD ret). HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAM!

^2016 when Dave and Pam came to visit and we went to Taprock.

 

 

 

Historically this date...........

1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

 

............such a HUGE tragedy. Such a sad sad day!

 

1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium. 

 

2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.  

 

 

And births this date include....

 

1918 – Skitch Henderson, American bandleader (d. 2005) He was great! Missed as much as Johnny Carson....

 

 

 

1921 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

 

 

 

 

1936 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)

 

 

 

1948 –Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian ballet dancer

 

 

 

 

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

National Chocolate Cake Day celebrates the cake more people favor. And more often than not, we celebrate our special occasions like anniversaries, birthdays and weddings with cake. Why not enjoy chocolate cake on January 27th every year?

In America, chocolate was consumed primarily as a beverage until the 1830s or 40s. Chocolate cakes, as we think of them today, mostly did not exist then.  According to the Dover Post, the chocolate cake was born in 1765 when a doctor and a chocolate maker teamed up in an old mill.  They ground up cocoa beans between huge millstones to make a thick syrup. The liquid was poured into molds shaped like cakes, which were meant to be transformed into a beverage.

A popular Philadelphia cookbook author, Eliza Leslie, published the earliest chocolate cake recipe in 1847 in The Lady’s Receipt Book.  Unlike chocolate cakes we know today, this recipe used chopped chocolate.  Other cooks of the time such as Sarah Tyson Rorer and Maria Parloa all made contributions to the development of the chocolate cake and were prolific authors of cookbooks.

The first boxed cake mix was created by a company called O. Duff and Sons in the late 1920s.  Betty Crocker released their first dry cake mixes in 1947.