National Peach Melba Day - Today is National Peach Melba Day! In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
Peach Melba a classic dessert. A dish of peaches served with vanilla ice cream, raspberries and sauce.
Melba toast and Peach Melba are indeed related.
The dessert was created to celebrate famous and rather slender opera singer, Nellie Melba in 1892.
It is said when she gained weight in her later career the same chef created a thin baked toast for her diet—Melba Toast.
Other versions of this dessert use pears, apricots, or strawberries instead of peaches and use raspberry sauce or melted red currant jelly instead of raspberry purée.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
National Peach Melba Day, In the News, and Enjoy
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
National Cherry Popsicle Day, In the News, and Enjoy
National Cherry Popsicle Day - Today is National Cherry Popsicle Day! In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
According to legend, an eleven-year-old boy named Frank Epperson accidentally invented the popsicle in 1905.
He was stirring up a soft drink when he got distracted and left the cup and the stirring stick out on his front porch overnight. The next morning he discovered a delicious frozen treat with a convenient stick handle!
Thursday, May 29, 2014
End of the Middle Ages Day, In the News, Enjoy, and Juicing
End of the Middle Ages Day - Today is End of the Middle Ages Day! In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos! Juicing - Laura and I shall begin a juicing regimen Saturday.
May 29, 1453 is considered by many historians to be the end of the Middle Ages and the Beginning of the Renaissance.
On this day, the city of Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire after being under siege for almost two months.
Because of the fall of Constantinople, the Byzantine (Greek) scholars migrated away from Constantinople. It had been their political center. This scattering encouraged studies of Greek culture outside of the Byzantine Empire and began a revival of learning based on classical Greek sources. This was the beginning of the Renaissance.
Friday, March 21, 2014
National Common Courtesy Day, In the News, and Enjoy
National Common Courtesy Day - Today is National Common Courtesy Day! In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
Hold a door, make eye contact, and say "hello." Also, be certain to say "please" and "thank you."
While we should certainly show such courtesy daily, today is a great day to emphasize this.
Get into the spirit of common courtesy today, and make mirror this courtesy each day thereafter!
Thursday, March 06, 2014
National Frozen Food Day, In the News, and Enjoy
National Frozen Food Day - Today is National Frozen Food Day! In the News - They walk among us! Enjoy - Relax and enjoy these images and videos!
National Frozen Food Day celebrates all the foods and snacks in your freezer. The invention of the freezer made this day possible. But the methods and techniques of preparing and freezing foods is what makes frozen foods taste great, look great, and store in a frozen state until needed.
Imagine how your busy life would be if you had no frozen food!
Frozen foods first hit store shelves in 1930 in Springfield, MA. Clarence Birdseye developed the process that made frozen food possible.
Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 193, designated March 6, 1984, as "Frozen Food Day" and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation upon this occasion. In Proclamation #5157, President Ronald Reagan said: "Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim March 6, 1984, as Frozen Food Day, and I call upon the American people to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities."
