Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Annie's Sloppy Joes Recipe

How about Annie's Famous Sloppy Joe Recipe?
I am willing to part with it ... its simple, fast, easy, sloppy as can be and delicious!

You will need a pound of lean ground beef,
a medium onion, well chopped
a stalk or two of celery, chopped
a can of condensed tomato soup
and some cooked rice if you have any leftover.

Saute the celery to soften it a bit, then the onion, then add the meat and cook crumbling it up finely as you go.
When the meat is browned, add your can of tomato soup and heat through.
If you have some left over rice, add that too.
Spoon over warmed hamburger buns and top with sliced tomato , pickle or raw onion if you like.
For a Mexican flavor, you can add some chili powder to taste when you add the tomato soup!
If you are into Italian style, add some sauted sweet red pepper slices or green peppers too and more onion.
You might like to add some hot sauce if you are adventurous!
Saute some mushrooms or some fried pototoes for a satisfying meal...Yup, put them right into the sandwich. The sloppier the better.
It makes a hot , hearty and quick dinner and kids will love it !





If you like Sloppy Joe foods, you might like this sandwich for a nice lunch:

Its the Turkey Joe!
You will need some delicious sliced turkey meat,
Some Challah or thick bread is best and you need 3 slices!
Some sliced tomato , some cole slaw and some Russian or Thousand Island dressing.
Layer the meat, tomatoes and cole slaw between the 3 layers of bread adding a bit of the dressing on top of each layer as you go.
Slice into sections to eat more easily and serve with a big kosher dill pickle on the side.
This combo is also good on a submarine roll piled thickly with the turkey meat!

Bon appetite!

Thursday, January 11, 2007

For a Special Customer: Happy Birthday


Recalling A Special Year: 1960



Top 10 Hits of the 60's:
Hey Jude, The Beatles
1968 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (9 weeks)
2 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones
1965
Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (4 weeks)
3 Light My Fire, The Doors
1967 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (3 weeks)
4 Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys
1966 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)
5 Yesterday, The Beatles
1965 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (4 weeks)
6 The Twist, Chubby Checker
1960 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)
7 I Want To Hold Your Hand, The Beatles
1964 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (7 weeks)
8 The House Of The Rising Sun, The Animals
1964 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (3 weeks)
9 The Sounds Of Silence, Simon & Garfunkel
1966 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (2 weeks)
10 Suspicious Minds, Elvis Presley
1969 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)






Top Headlines of 1960:

Capt. Gary Powers U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia

Israelis Kidnap Adolf Eichman from Argentina to Jerusalem

Khrushchev at U.N . Pounds Shoe In Anger.

John F. Kennedy Wins Democratic Nomination, Nixon wins GOP

Kennedy Wins Presidency, Democrats Sweep Congress

Two White Public Schools in New Orleans Are The First To Integrate.

House Committee Looks Into "Payola" American Bandstand DJ Dick Clark Involved

Alan Freedman Eight Arrested In Taking Radio Payola
Soldiers stop riots at Newport Jazz Festival

Enovil 10, first contraceptive pill sold for .50 cents each.

Two airliners collide over Staten Island, 134 die.

Howdy Doody show ends after 13 years

Negro Sit-ins Integrate Lunch Counter In Greensboro North Carolina

Floyd Patterson is first fighter to regain title by beating Ingemar Johanson

Castro Nationalizes all American property.





Movies
Movies:
Dolce vita, La
The Alamo
G.I. Blues
Butterfield 8
Elmer Gantry
Exodus
Inherit the Wind
Never on Sunday
Spartacus
The Apartment
Books of 1960
Advise and Consent - Allen Drury
Hawaii - James Michener
The Leopard - Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
The Chapman Report - Irving Wallace
Ourselves to Know - John O'Hara
The Constant Image - Marcia Davenport
Sermons and Soda-Water - John O'Hara



It is the year of:
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury is a best seller

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer is another best seller

Harper Lee wins a Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird

Nick Holonayk invents the digital display for the pocket calculator and electronic watches

Eco One is launched, the worlds first communication satellite

The worlds first weather satellite, Tiros is launched

Pete Rozell becomes NFL commissioner

Rafer Johnson wins gold in the decathlon

Cassius Clay wins Olympic gold in boxing

Mrs. Kennedy becomes the fashion to follow

Women's "knickers" are in

Men's sports coats are plaids, bold prints, strips and checks

Berry Gordy borrows $800 and starts Motown Records

Estimated 850,000 "war babies" enter college, overcrowding dorms

JF. Kennedy Jr. is born on Nov. 25 , by Cesarean delivery

Fads, talkathons, folk singing in coffee houses

Deiz Arnaz and Lucille Ball file for divorce

New York court rules "Lady Chaterleys Lover " is not obscene

Earnest Evans changes his name to Chubby Checker

New words, Anchorman, sit-in, cosmonaut, bluegrass, laser, compact car

First appearances: Astroturf, Librium, felt-tip pen, Rayon, OPEC meeting








Sunday, January 07, 2007

Formula For Coca Cola... Oh What Fun

Oh, how we love Coca Cola!

Refreshing, delicious and great for healing migraine headaches. If you haven't become a fan, may I suggest you think this over seriously?

Formula for Coca Cola:

Ingredients1 oz. Citrate Caffein 3 oz. Citric Acid 1 oz. Ext. Vanilla 1 Qt. Lime Juice 2 1/2 oz. Flavoring 30 lbs. Sugar 4 oz. F.E. Coco Caramel sufficient 2 1/2 gal. Water Flavoring80 Oil Orange 40 Oil Cinnamon 120 Oil Lemon 20 Oil Coriander 40 Oil Nutmeg 40 Oil Neroli 1 Qt. Alcohol

DirectionsMix Caffeine Acid and Lime Juice 1 Qt. Boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool. Let stand for 24 hours.

Some Notes on Preparing The Coca-Cola FormulaIt takes 1 oz. of syrup mixed with carbonated water to make a 6.5 oz. serving of Coca-Cola. "F.E. Coco" means fluid extract of coca (the plant that produces cocaine), however the recipe does not go into details as to how this extract was prepared.

Another old Coca-Cola formula in the possession of Frank Robinson's great-grandson1, indicates that 10 pounds of coca leaf are required to flavor 36 gallons of syrup. It is also believed that the coca plant with lower cocaine levels was used to produce the extract. This is based on some of Pemberton's writings that indicate some coca plants were too bitter (that was because of cocaine).

The cola in Coca-Cola comes from the kola nut, yet kola nuts are not mentioned in the above Coca-Cola formula. This was because the reason for using kola nuts was for their caffeine content, and Pemberton almost positively bought his "Citrate Caffein" from a company that derived their caffeine from kola nuts. (Pemberton had previously praised the German firm Merck of producing a superior form of the stimulant from kola nuts)