MeatLoaf!

Get out the sweet bell pepper and the spagetthi sauce for this one.....

Meat loaf is the all time American fav for dinner. Its easy, quick and delicious and this recipe never lets you down.

Take 1 1/2 pound to 2 pounds of good quality ground beef.
You will need some Italian seasoned bread crumbs (you decide how much.. I use a lot!)
you will need 2 eggs,
some good Italian Spagetthi sauce..your own or bottled that you like.
Finely Chopped Onion and green bell pepper.. again, your call as to how much.

Mix the meat, eggs, bread crumbs , onion and peppers together with your hands (wash those little puppies first now!)

Now add just enough of your sauce to make it all stick together nicely but don't make it too mushy.
Meat loaf has to be just the right consistancy ..not too sloppy wet and not too dry ..to be good.
You will learn this by experience.
But, a good mixture stays together .
Form into a loaf and pop in a 375 F oven for about 40 minutes.
After 40 minutes, pour the rest of the sauce over the top and bake another 10 minutes or so.
This will serve a hungry family of 4 or 5..unless you have boys then it might serve one if you are lucky.

Serve this with Basmati Rice like we do.. or baked potatoes that you put in the oven alongside the meatloaf pan.

If you like something a bit different and if you love surprises.. make 2 loaves from this.

Put on loaf down as a base and layer with sliced tomatoes. Now take the rest of the meat and top off the loaf to cover the slices and hide them inside. Bake as above.

happy eating!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.

delicioius and good for you too! We serve them in the cafe and people love them!

Try a couple with a cuppa hot java or tea. You will not be sorry you did.

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
Cream together butter and brown sugar. Beat in eggs, peanut butter and vanilla.
Add flour, cornstarch, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Stir in chocolate chips.
Roll into balls about 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls (or use cookie scoop) and place onto ungreased cookie sheets about 2 inches apart. Flatten slightly because they do not flatten much while cooking.
Bake for 10 minutes.

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.

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!

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

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)

TOP HITS OF 1965

1. Wooly Bully, Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
2. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch), Four Tops
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, Rolling Stones
4. You Were On My Mind, We Five
5. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', Righteous Brothers
6. Downtown, Petula Clark
7. Help!, Beatles
8. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat, Herman's Hermits
9. Crying In The Chapel, Elvis Presley
10. My Girl, Temptations
11. Help Me, Rhonda, Beach Boys
12. King Of The Road, Roger Miller
13. The Birds And The Bees, Jewel Aikens
14. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Mel Carter
15. Shotgun, Jr. Walker & The All Stars
16. I Got You Babe, Sonny & Cher
17. This Diamond Ring, Gary Lewis & The Playboys
18. The "In" Crowd, Ramsey Lewis Trio
19. Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter, Herman's Hermits
20. Stop! In The Name Of Love, Supremes
21. Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers

NOW PLAYING

Rebel Without a Cause (1955) is a film that sympathetically views rebellious, American, restless, misunderstood, middle-class youth. The tale of youthful defiance, which could have been exploitative - but wasn't, provides a rich, but stylized (and partly out-dated) look at the world of the conformist mid-1950s from the perspective of the main adolescent male character - a troubled teen with ineffectual parents, who faces a new school environment.

The screenplay (by Stewart Stern from an adaptation by Irving Shulman of an original storyline synopsis by director Nicholas Ray) was based on an actual case study (contained in Dr. Robert Lindner's 1944 factual book titled Rebel Without a Cause: The Story of a Criminal Psychopath) of a delinquent, imprisoned teenage psychopath in the post-war years. The film was originally titled The Blind Run - the same as the title of the series of vignettes, both violent and strangely erotic, that Ray had penned. The actual film's title, Rebel Without a Cause, was the same as the title of Lindner's psychological study - signifying the rebellious and idealistic protagonist's search for a 'cause' - honesty and decency in a hypocritical world.

The colorful wide-screen Cinemascope feature is most remembered for being the film that best presented the talent of young charismatic cult star James Dean, shortly before his premature death in 1955. It opened at the Astor Theatre in New York on October 29th, 1955, about a month after the death of its star (on September 30, 1955) on a highway in his sports car.

It also served as a springboard for the acting careers of its two other stars Natalie Wood (in her first non-child 'adult' role) and unknown 16 year-old actor Sal Mineo. It affords a classic, semi-glamorized portrait of three troubled, frustrated, anguished, and identity-seeking teenagers - all outsiders, alienated and outcast from the world and values of parents and adults, who attain maturity through rebellion and tragic circumstances. In the film, Dean formed a friendly bond with the other two characters: Wood as confused teenaged Judy, and Mineo as a strange, adoring boy named Plato - the film's sacrificial lamb by film's end.

The reactionary film is considered Hollywood's best 50's film of rebellious and restless youth (and sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll) that spawned many other lesser teen exploitation films in its wake. [Other films that caused the same sensation included the earlier 50s film The Wild One (1953) with Marlon Brando, Blackboard Jungle (1955), and High School Confidential (1958).] It has been surmised that Sal Mineo's teen-aged character in the film was obviously gay and troubled by typical problems of in-the-closet homosexuals in the 50s - the film disguises his problems, but hints at the possibility that he is seeking out Dean's character because he rejects fake machismo.
[All three leading stars, who experienced troubled lives of their own, suffered premature deaths under unusual and tragic circumstances - a car crash at age 24 in 1955, a mysterious drowning at age 43 in 1981, and a stabbing-murder at age 37 in 1976.]
The film received only three Academy Awards nominations (without wins): Best Supporting Actor (Sal Mineo with the first of two unsuccessful career nominations), Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Wood with the first of three unsuccessful career nominations), and Best Motion Picture Story (Nicholas Ray). It wasn't nominated for either Best Picture (won by the short, unassuming romantic drama Marty (1955)) or Best Director for Nicholas Ray. Ironically, Dean was not nominated for his role in this film (although it eventually became his iconic career role), but was nominated instead for his Best Actor performance as insecure, tortured, neurotic loner and unappreciated son Caleb "Cal" Trask in his first major film role, East of Eden (1955). He was also nominated as Best Actor in the next year for his performance as Jett Rink in his third and final film, Giant (1956), filmed in the summer and early fall of 1955 and released in 1956 - a year after his death.

1959

1959 ......were you around when....

President Dwight D Eisenhauer and his vice pres. Richard Nixon are in office.

Nikita Krushchev tours the US.

Barbie doll made her debut! she was a smash hit too.

The new institution of the supermarket now accounted for 69% of all food purchased. Small grocers took a hit here.

Four Seasons Restaurant in NYC opened in the Seagram Building.

Iran and US become friendly and sign treaty for economics.
Israel signs deal to sell arms to West Germany.

There are now 3,287 AM radio stations across the nation.

Lady Chatterleys Lover banned by the US postal system!!

Switzerland votes down the vote for Women yet again.... and its 1959!!!

Fidel Castro makes his debut in Cuba.

The Guggenheim opens in NYC

On TV you can now watch BONANZA or the TWILIGHT ZONE, 2 brand new shows.

The microchip is invented.

Average American pay is $91.00 per week. But homes were affordable and so was food and utilities.

Last Civil War Vet dies.. Walter Williams of the Confederacy.

Alaska and Hawaii become states.


Opening of the St Lawrence Seaway .

Slang of the 1950's

Here are some oldies but goodies for you to remember.


Agitate the Gravel ....... > To leave (hot-rodders)
Ankle-biter..........>A child
to go Ape........> - to explode or be really mad
Are you writing a book?.........>.You're asking too many questions


Back seat bingo.................Necking in a car
Bad news......................Depressing person
Bash...........Great party
Bent eight..............a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
Big Daddy.......................An older person
Big tickle......................Really funny
Bit.....................An act
Blast.......................A good time
Blow off..................To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
Bobbed.......................Shortened


Boss........Great
Bread.............Money
Bug.................."You bug me" - to bother
Burn rubber............To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)
Classy Chassis.... a girl with a great figure
Cook, cookin".... really great as in "Man, that really cooks!"
Cool it...simmer down
Cool... well, cool still today
Cranked...turned up and excited
Crazy man.... like thats so totally awesome dude.
Drag---care race , boring person or thing
Epistle.....letter
Flat out.... completely, as in "he is so flat out stupid/gorgeous" "he is a flat out liar" Also a car term meaning to put the pedal to the metal.
Flat top........... crew cut hairstyle which along with the DA was popular in the 50's and 60's
Frosted..... upset, angry. Flat out angry too.





Remember the tv show 77 Sunset Strip?
Kookie parked the cars.. here are some of his beat generation hip talk:

Antsville.............A place full of people
Chick in skins...............Woman in a fur coat
Front burner....................Current crisis
Germsville .................An illness - Buzzed by germsville means put in the hospital
Ginchiest............Coolest
Heels on fire.................In a hurry
International intrigue dodge...............Private eye business
Lighting up the tilt sign...................Lying
Long green................Money

Mushroom people....................People who come out at night to play.
Smog in the noggin'..............Memory loss
Stable the horses.................Park the cars
Washington..................dollar.

NOW HIRING

The Rock and Roll Cafe here on Internet St and Web Way is hiring!!
We need about 8 waitresses willing to work all shifts as we are open 24 hours.. and each girl must have her own roller skates for our curb service feature which will be opening in the spring.
Classical roller skates only please, no roller blades.
Must be an expert on rock and roll and hamburger preparation, must know all level of CocaCola-ology.
Fountain help needed also: a soda jerk who has at least 25 years experience in making ice cream sodas and malts. Needs to work well under pressure and make mean banana splits and Sundaes.
Applications available in our office which is open 9-4 daily.

To be or not to be..........

I am not sure how to get music working. I think I have to find a free site to host the midi, then put it on here.
Hmmm... thats why God made Google . (hears thunder in distance)

I love my blog!

I even installed a ceiling fan for keeping things nice and cool, how's that for nifty huh?
I think this blog needs a bit of background music to make it nicer.
Ahh, tomorrow is another day yes?
Yes, the Coke sign means we do serve refreshments here.
Just wait til our waitress comes in for the day.
Smile!

work in progress

Posting away here we go..posting yes posting yes..indeedy poo.