IM BAAAAAAACK!
Yes, today is 2-11, also 211 is California police code for robbery.
Good 40º foggy morning. Foggy here as well as in Grants
Pass...
Yesterday morning it was the coldest it's been for a few, 33º. No rain
since the 7th. Well, just a few sprinkles. Not enough to measure.
This was going to be on my blog on Sunday, but computer
dumped.....
I have to tell you this will make you smile first thing this
morning... a video compellation of dogs and their blankets:
Then... there is this one of just one dog... OMG you want to
help him so badly and they you will just laugh!
Historically this date....
1942 – The first gold
record is presented to Glenn
Miller for "Chattanooga Choo
Choo".
1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower refuses a clemency appeal
for Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg.
1990 – Nelson
Mandela is released from Victor Verster
Prison outside Cape
Town, South
Africa after 27 years as a political
prisoner.
1997 – Space Shuttle
Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space
Telescope.
2011 – The first
wave of the Egyptian
revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni
Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme
Military Council after 18 days of protests.
And births this date
include....
1847 – Thomas Alva
Edison, American inventor
(d. 1931)
1926 – Leslie
Nielsen, Canadian actor (d.
2010)
1934 – Tina
Louise, American actress
(Gilligan's Island!)
OMG!
1936 – Burt
Reynolds, American
actor
Can we say "PLAS-TIK"
!!
Right now there seems to be a lot of talk about Uma Thurman changing her look. Here she is before and after. I thought she was beautiful before! Don't really care for her after....
The rain here has caused some damage along with high winds.. Here is a
highway in Ashland....
My go to hair girl, Leah and her Jordan, had a huge tree branch come down
on top of their house.....
A little video... 8 seconds of the walkway that goes to the barn...
Here is something to make for Valentine's Day...
Hmmmmm...... close but no cigar!
My friend Linda Rohrbaugh said it looks like a mouse on Bruiser's nose with
it's tail going down towards his mouth.
Monday I made a pizza....Didn't know it was National Pizza Day!
The History Of Pizza
The history of pizza as we know it is relatively
recent, given how old flat breads and cheese are in man’s cuisine. As far back
as 8000 B.C.E., man knew how to mix flour with water into dough, season it with
herbs and heat it on a hot stone to create a flat bread (see the history of bread). The earliest cheesemaking
began about 5500 B.C.E. The pizza, if it is defined as baked flat bread covered
with cheese, could have been invented by the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the people
who would become the Romans or anyone in the greater Mediterranean area of the time.
In fact, while we think of pizza as a quintessential
Italian food, food historians credit the idea of using bread as a “plate” for an
assortment of toppings and seasonings to the Greeks, who ate flat round bread
(plankuntos), topped by stews, thick broth, meats, vegetables and
fruits. Just as it is today, it was a thrifty, convenient and tasty meal for the
working man and his family, requiring no additional plates or utensils. One can
think of pizza originating as an “edible plate”—a true convenience food.
(Injera, the Ethiopian flatbread, is still used
for this purpose and is a mainstay of Ethiopian cuisine—most dishes are prepared
as toppers for injera.)
With the constant traffic between the worlds of
Greece and Rome, plankuntos made its way to what is now Italy, where it
became known as pizza. The word “pizza” may have derived from the Latin word
“pinsa,” which means flatbread. Pizza became popular street food, sold from
open-air stands by vendors, typically young boys who would walk around the city
with small tin stoves on their heads, calling out to “hawk their wares” to
customers. The pizzas of the time were simple but tasty, topped with olive oil
and fresh herbs, not unlike focaccia. Sometimes, some grated sheep’s cheese
was added. Pizza was still food for the poor, but soon became a tourist
attraction.
Ok, so on my pizza....
olives, mushrooms, artichoke hearts, re-hydrated green beans, cocktail
shrimp (from the USA.. the only ones I could find. The rest from Asia or So.
America!) rehydrated spinach, Ragu Creamy Tomato sauce, and mozzarella
cheese.
I mixed the shrimp, artichoke hearts, olives, mushrooms, spinach and green
beans into the sauce. Then topped the pizza crust and added the cheese....
It was REALLY good but I used too much sauce. Will cut in half next time.
That Creamy Tomato sauce is great! Yesterday I scooped off the toppings and set
them in a strainer. Then used it to top another crust and cooked it crunchy. It
was WAYYYYY better.
I got my new camera lens... a 1150-600 mm. I will tell about that tomorrow
with critter photos.
I also watched the Grammy's. ICK. May comment on that tomorrow too. Picked
up my computer from Turk yesterday afternoon early. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to
have Hal back! He did a super good job and fast too! See, Turk, I said you were
fast! LOL.
Nuff said. All I know. Happy Hump Day. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
February 11th.
Peppermint Patty Day
This one... Mmmmm.....
Not this one! LOL
