Coca Cola Beef Dinner.. Mmmm, Good!

Here is a meal you should try at least once in your life if you enjoy eating good food.

You will need a good cut of Roast Beef, it is your call as to which kind you prefer.
One nice roasting pan to accomodate it....
A package of kosher dry onion soup mix , and a can of Original Recipe Coca Cola.
If you can get the kosher for passover kind..so much the better as it is the REAL Original recipe made with real cane sugar and not fructose syrup.

Now place the roast in the pan, sprinkle the pack of onion mix over the top and pour the Coca Cola over it all.

Roast at about 300° F for 3 hours or so.. well until done. You can use a meat thermometer if you like.
Beef is well done when the juice runs out clear if you press down with a fork a bit. Less done if still a bit pink and if its red.. well it will Moo.

I think you will like this beef recipe served with mashed potatoes and lovely asparagus served as we do here in the cafe , over a nice pureed onion sauce.

To make the sauce for the asparagus, simply cook down a super large sweet onion , a clove of garlic , add a sprinkle of kosher salt and put in some pareve margarine if you are Jewish, butter if you are not.. you can lay on the butter thickly too. Cook gently.
When the mixture is mushy, you can whip it into a puree to serve over or under the asparagus as a base. Season to taste as you like.

Remember to not overcook your potatoes before you mash them. Nothing worse than that.
Mayonnaise in place of milk or any nice creamy salad dressing you enjoy make very tasty mashed potatoes.

Return to 1960

The Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones' musical "Fantasticks," premiered in 1960 New York City and it's back again at the Snapple Theatre located at 50th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.
It is the longest running play in history!
If you have never seen the "Fantasticks" you have never seen a musical at its finest. The music is some of the best and the story line is sweet .. you will not be sorry .
The Snapple Theatre is small and upstairs in this building and the players are right there in front of you..not up on stage. Its a wonderful venue for a play such as "Fantasticks" I loved it.. and the audience was blown away by the whole experience. (by the way, even if you see the understudies, you will be blown away..the entire cast is sensational!!!)
Get yourself to NYC to see it. Tell them Annie sent you.



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Ben Hur won the Academy Award in 1960 and John F. Kennedy announced his run for the presidency.
A man named John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years ! Imagine that? And don't you wonder how he arrived at that?
Egypt began building the Aswan Dam which was a controversial thing at the time due to the potential loss of many ancient objects.
Two colossal statutes were moved.. sliced with special saws to preserve them and they were then moved to a new location . Otherwise they would have been completely submerged. It was a giant feat at the time. National Geographic ran an entire series on the moving alone!

The Bathosphere reached the bottom of the Pacific Ocean at 10,500 m.

High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points in a game.

March 3, 1960 New York City had 14.5 inches of snow!!! Amazing for that time of year.


You know, when you look back over history its amazing all that happened. Placing it inside a *year* somehow crystalizes it for me. I don't know if its the same for you. I would be curious to know , though.

500 people died in Southern Persia that year from a massive earthquake.

Payola rocked the music and radio industries and a House Investigative committee was formed to look into it.


On May 6 President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act and America was at the beginning of a new era.

History is in the making even right now.....Looking back puts that into perspective. Well, maybe.