Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ In-N-Out History ~ 15-Minute Glazed Pork Chops ~ National Book Lovers Day

  

Good 57º clear morning. 

 

 

Yesterday we had scattered clouds and lots of contrails and we topped at 101º.

 

 

Picture of the Day....comfy kitty

 

 

 

Interesting about In-N-Out....................

 

In-N-Out Burger is an American regional chain of fast food restaurants with locations primarily in California and to a lesser extent the Southwest from Oregon to Texas. It was founded in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948 by Harry (1913–1976) and Esther Snyder (1920–2006). The chain is currently headquartered in Irvine, California and has expanded outside Southern California into the rest of California, as well as into Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Oregon, and Colorado, and is planning expansions into Idaho and Tennessee. The current owner is Lynsi Snyder, the Snyders' only grandchild.

 

As the chain has expanded, it has opened several distribution centers in addition to its original Baldwin Park location. The new facilities, located in Lathrop, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Draper, Utah; Dallas, Texas; and Colorado Springs, Colorado will provide for potential future expansion into other parts of the country.

 

In-N-Out Burger has chosen not to franchise its operations or go public; one reason is the prospect of food quality or customer consistency being compromised by excessively rapid business growth. The In-N-Out restaurant chain has developed a highly loyal customer base and has been rated as one of the top fast food restaurants in several customer satisfaction surveys.

 

First generation

In-N-Out Burger's first location was opened in the Los Angeles suburb of Baldwin Park, California, in 1948 by the Snyders at the southwest corner of what is now the intersection of Interstate 10 and Francisquito Avenue. The restaurant was the first drive-thru hamburger stand in California, allowing drivers to place orders via a two-way speaker system. This was a new and unique idea, since in post-World War II California, carhops were used to take orders and serve food.

 

The second In-N-Out was on the corner of Azusa Canyon Road and San Bernardino Road, the third was in Pasadena and the fourth was opened west of the intersection of Grand Avenue and Arrow Highway in Covina, California, in the late 1950s. The company remained a relatively small southern California chain until the 1970s. The Snyders managed their first restaurants closely to ensure quality was maintained. The chain had 18 restaurants when Harry Snyder died in 1976, at the age of 63.

 

Headquarters at University Tower in Irvine, California
Type	Private
Industry	Fast food restaurant
Founded	October 22, 1948; 74 years ago Baldwin Park, California, U.S.
Founders	Esther Snyder Harry Snyder
Headquarters	Irvine, California
Number of locations	387
Area served	Arizona California Colorado Idaho[2] (coming soon) Nevada Oregon Tennessee (coming soon) Texas Utah
Key people	Lynsi Snyder (President) Mark Taylor (COO) Roger Kotch (CFO)
Revenue	US$1.073 billion (FY 2021)
Owner	Snyder family
Number of employees	27,000 (FY 2021)

 Headquarters...................

 

^{In 1976, 24-year-old Rich Snyder became the company president after his father's death. Along with his brother Guy, Rich had begun working in his father's In-N-Outs at an early age. Over the next 20 years, the chain experienced a period of rapid growth under Rich's leadership, expanding to 93 restaurants.}

 

^{If you want to read more, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger}

 

 

 

From Mr. Food

 

Our 15-Minute Glazed Pork Chops are fancy enough for company but easy enough to serve up for a weeknight meal. These skillet pork chops are smothered in a tasty glaze of Dijon mustard, orange juice, and cornstarch, making a dinner that'll leave the whole family reaching for seconds!

 

 

• 4 pork loin chops, 1-inch thick
• Seasoned salt for sprinkling
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/2 cup Dijon mustard
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch

 

 

1. Sprinkle both sides of  pork chops liberally with seasoned salt.
    
2. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat oil;  brown pork chops about 2 minutes per side.
    
3. In a bowl, combine remaining ingredients; pour mixture over pork chops. Cover skillet, reduce heat to low, and simmer 8 to 10 minutes, or until thoroughly cooked.

 

 

 

Historically this date......

1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

 

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.

 

1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski),coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

 

1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

 

 

1988 – Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in hockey history, upsetting many Canadians.

 

 

1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

 

 

And births this date include....

1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor

 

 

 

1957 – Melanie Griffith, American actress

 

 

 

 

1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer, actress, producer and model (d. 2012)

 

 

 

1964 – Hoda Kotb, American television news anchor

 

 

 

 

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

National Book Lovers Day on August 9th harnesses all the excitement bibliophiles feel about books into one celebration. 

A day for all those who love to read, National Book Lovers Day encourages you to find your favorite reading place, a good book (whether it be fiction or non-fiction) and read the day away.

Bibliophile – a person who has a great appreciation for or collects books.

 

Step back in time

• The very first books used parchment or vellum (calf-skin) for the book pages.
• The book covers were made of wood and often covered with leather.
• Clasps or straps kept the books closed.
• Public libraries appeared in the Middle Ages.
• Public libraries often chained the books to a shelf or a desk to prevent theft.

Moving forward

Along with several recent developments, book manufacturers use digital printing. Book pages are printed using toner rather than ink. As a result of digital printing, print-on-demand opens up a whole new realm of publishing. In this case, distributors don’t print the books until the customer places the order.

More and more, people read E-books. E-book (electronic book) refers to a book-length publication in digital form. They are usually available through the internet. However, they can also be found on CD-ROM and other systems. Read an E-book on a computer or via a portable book display device known as an e-book reader, such as a Reader, Nook or Kindle

HOW TO OBSERVE 

Sit back, relax and READ! Don’t forget to share the joy of reading with young people in your life. Inspire them with your favorite novel or find out about the last book they took off the shelf. Read to the littlest of the up-and-coming readers, too. And share what you’re reading with us, too! Need more ways to celebrate? We’ve got them!

• Shop for a new title to read or explore the shelves for one you would like to give.
• Explore the shelves of used book stores. You might find an out-of-print tome that might become the highlight of your collection.
• Discover the world of online bookstores. Their stock includes a variety of subjects and collectible items, too. 
• Record a video of you reading a story for a child in your life
• Randomly give a book to someone. 
• Visit your public library and check out a favorite tome.

Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ Ice Cream Cones ~ Garden Quinoa Toss ~ Phil and Suzanne Santisteven ~ National Dollar Day

  

Good 54º morning. 

 

 

Yesterday we had clouds, the sun came and went behind them, and we topped at 97º....

 

Picture of the Day .... strange friends!

 

 

Interesting about the ice cream cone.............

 

Anice cream cone, poke (Ireland/Scotland) or cornetto(England) is a brittle, cone-shaped pastry, usually made of a wafer similar in texture to a waffle, made so ice cream can be carried and eaten without a bowl or spoon, for example, the Hong Kong-style bubble cone. Many styles of cones are made, including pretzel cones and chocolate-coated cones (coated on the inside). The term ice cream cone can also refer, informally, to the cone with one or more scoops of ice cream on top.

 

There are two techniques for making cones: one is by baking them flat and then quickly rolling them into shape (before they harden), the other is by baking them inside a cone-shaped mold.

 

History

19th century

Cones, in the form of wafers rolled and baked hard, date back to Ancient Rome and Greece. When exactly they transitioned to being used for desserts, and ice cream in particular, is not clear. Some historians point to France in the early 19th century as the birthplace of the ice cream cone: an 1807 illustration of a Parisian girl enjoying a treat may depict an ice cream cone and edible cones were mentioned in French cooking books as early as 1825, when Julien Archambault described how one could roll a cone from "little waffles". In 1846, the Italian British cook Charles Elmé Francatelli's The Modern Cook described the use of ice cream cones as part of a larger dessert dish.

 

The earliest certain evidence of ice cream cones come from Mrs A. B. Marshall's Book of Cookery (1888), written by the English cook Agnes B. Marshall. Her recipe for "Cornet with Cream" said that "the cornets were made with almonds and baked in the oven, not pressed between irons". Marshall is consequently often regarded to have been the inventor of the modern ice cream cone.

 

20th century

In the United States, edible vessels for ice cream took off at the start of the 1900s. Molds for edible ice cream cups entered the scene in 1902 and 1903, with two Italian inventors and ice cream merchants. Antonio Valvona, from Manchester, patented a novel apparatus resembling a cup-shaped waffle iron, made "for baking biscuit-cups for ice-cream" over a gas range. The following year, Italo Marchiony, from New York City, patented an improved design with a break-apart bottom so that more unusual cup shapes could be created out of the delicate waffle batter.

 

At the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, after an ice cream vendor ran out of paper cups, a Syrian concessionaire named Ernest A. Hamwi offered a solution by curling a waffle cookie into a receptacle for the ice cream. This is believed by some (although there is much dispute) to be the moment where ice-cream cones became mainstream. Hamwi would later start his own cone-making company a few years later. 

 

Abe Doumar and the Doumar family of Norfolk, Virginia also claim credit for the ice cream cone. At 16, Doumar began selling paperweights and other items. One night, he bought a waffle from another vendor, Leonidas Kestekidès, who was transplanted from Ghent in Belgium to Norfolk, Virginia. Doumar rolled the waffle on itself and placed a scoop of ice cream on top. He began selling the cones at the St. Louis Exposition. After his "cones" were successful, Doumar designed and had manufactured a four-iron baking machine. At the Jamestown Exposition in 1907, he and his brothers sold nearly twenty-three thousand cones. After that, Abe bought a semiautomatic 36-iron machine, which produced 20 cones per minute and opened Doumar's Cones and BBQ in Norfolk, which still operates at the same location.

 

In 2008, the ice cream cone became the official state dessert of Missouri.

 

Commerce

By 1912, an inventor by the name of Frederick Bruckman, from Portland, Oregon, perfected a complex machine for molding, baking, and trimming ice cream cones with incredible speed. Inventions like this paved the way for the wholesaling of ice cream cones. He sold his company in 1928 to Nabisco, which is still producing ice cream cones as of 2017. Other ice-cream providers such as Ben & Jerry's make their own cones.

 

Prefilling

In 1928, J. T. "Stubby" Parker of Fort Worth, Texas, created an ice cream cone that could be stored in a grocer's freezer, with the cone and the ice cream frozen together as one item. He formed The Drumstick Company in 1931 to market the product, and in 1991 the company was purchased by Nestlé.

 

In 1959, Spica, an Italian ice cream manufacturer based in Naples, invented a process whereby the inside of the waffle cone was insulated from the ice cream by a layer of oil, sugar and chocolate. Spica registered the name Cornetto in 1960. Initial sales were poor, but in 1976 Unilever bought out Spica and began a mass-marketing campaign throughout Europe. Cornetto has since become one of the most popular ice creams in the world.

 

In 1979, a patent for a new packaging design by David Weinstein led to easier transportation of commercial ice cream cones. Weinstein's design enabled the ice cream cone to be wrapped in a wax paper package. This made the cones more sanitary while also preventing the paper wrapper from peeling off during transportation, or from becoming stuck to the cone.

 

 

 

From Mr. Food

 

We're introducing something new that's packed with light bright beautiful flavor and a healthy twist. You're gonna love out Garden Quinoa Toss. Along with being tasty, this dish is an easy way to sneak in a serving of veggies.

 

1 cup uncooked quinoa

2 cups cherry tomatoes, cut in half

1 (1/2 inch dice) seeded cucumber

2 tablespoons chopped red onion

1 (7.75 oz) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained

1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese

 

LEMON VINAIGRETTE

1/2 cup olive oil

1 T. lemon juice

3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

 

 

1. Cook quinoa according to package directions. Place in a large bowl; set aside to cool.
2. Meanwhile, prepare Lemon Vinaigrette by whisking together all the ingredients.
3. Add tomatoes, cucumber, onion, chickpeas and vinaigrette to the quinoa; toss to combine. Add cheese and lightly toss. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.

 

 

 

Special anniversary today.......... Phil and Suzanne Santisteven (both LASD ret) are celebrating #22.

                  HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KIDS! 

 

 

 

 

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

1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.

2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

 

 

And births this date include....

1921 – Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer (d.2013)

1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor

 

1938 – Connie Stevens, American singer and actress

 

1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor

 

 

 

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

National Dollar Day on August 8th commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786.

In 1862, the United States printed its first dollar bill. Do you know whose face was printed there? It wasn’t George Washington. The first dollar bill featured Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury.

 

More Dollar Facts

Interestingly, the dollar bill in our pockets today hasn’t been changed for more than 50 years. While the $5, $10, $20, and $50 earned redesigns in recent years, the single remains unchanged. Due to counterfeiting, redesigns keep the larger currencies ahead of counterfeiters. However, the single doesn’t face attention the more significant notes see.

Above the right number 1 on the face side of the dollar, a tiny bird peeks out. Whether it’s an owl, an eagle or another such bird is uncertain. Like other embedded items in the bill’s design, it fuels many conspiracy theories.

Speaking of conspiracy theories, the pyramid on the back fuels a few. It’s part of the Great Seal of the United States. However, the truth of the pyramid represents several things. You’ll find 13 steps on the pyramid equaling the 13 original colonies. The unfinished top represents a young country growing and expanding. Finally, the Eye of Providence includes the Latin motto Annuit Coeptis, which means, “It is favorable to our undertakings.”

The number 13 is represented on the dollar bill in several places. Do you know where else?

Opposite the pyramid is an eagle. The image represents both war and peace. In the eagle’s left talon it holds arrows and in its right an olive branch. How many arrows do you think the eagle holds? If you guessed 13, you’d be right.

Above the eagle’s head, there is a cloud with a constellation. How many stars are in the constellation? Again the number 13 is represented. The eagle includes a shield 13 stripes, too.