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I hope some of you enjoyed looking at the Strawberry Moon last night. 😎💕

Good Morning Peeps and welcome to our wonderful Community. 😎🎈
Very hot Saturday stay safe and cool.

SUMMERSGIVING

The Saturday after the Summer Solstice, gather your friends and family to celebrate Summersgiving! This day is designed to combine all the fun of summer with America’s favorite Thanksgiving food. It’s a celebration of life, rooted in gratitude, to be shared with the friends and food that make life fun.

Everyone has a favorite holiday food or tradition, and Summersgiving provides the opportunity to bring them all together under the sun and stars for one big celebration. Make a feast and share the dishes that mean celebration with a broader crowd of friends and family. Let the joy and fun memories grow year after year!

INTERNATIONAL BEING YOU DAY

International Being You Day, on June 22, invites you to celebrate being…YOU. It’s time to ditch the self-judgment and have gratitude for yourself. Today we invite you to explore what it means to truly be YOU beyond the projections of society and the need for perfection. It’s your day to discover and acknowledge the beauty of you and your unique capabilities. It’s also an invitation to celebrate everyone’s differences.

What if you could ditch the judgment and have gratitude for yourself just for a day? What if you could start going from having a life run on autopilot to one of curiosity, joy, gratitude and presence? On International Being You Day, start the day by celebrating YOU and embrace the differences of everyone around you.

3 Ways to Celebrate YOU

Empowering you to know that your dreams of what is possible are way more valuable than fitting in.
Inviting people to embrace their unique capacities and get away from comparison and judgment as the deciding factors for happiness.
Inspiring people to use lightness, joy, and laughter as their guide to who they can choose to be, instead of all they should and should not’s of our age, race, cultures, and families.

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ECLAIR DAY

National Chocolate Eclair Day falls on June 22 each year and recognizes a delicious cream-filled pastry covered in smooth chocolate. Pastry. Check. Cream filling. Check. Chocolate. Check. What more could you want in a food holiday? Maybe a cup of coffee to go with it, but other than that, you won’t need anything else.

We all know the French make many delicacies from dough and the eclair is no different. Eclairs are a particular pastry made from a dough called pate a choux that is piped it into an oblong shape using a pastry bag. Once baked, the eclair is light and crispy on the outside and hollow on the inside making it the perfect avenue for transporting creamy vanilla or chocolate creme.

The word eclair comes from the French word, meaning “flash of lightning.” The connection between the word and this French pastry remains unclear. Some people suggest that the éclair is so named because it is eaten so quickly. For instance you might say, “You ate that in a flash!” Another interpretation, however, says that the name came from the glistening of the frosting, which resembles lightning.

Originating during the nineteenth century in France, the eclair was first called pain à la Duchesse or “petite Duchesse.” Food historians believe that French chef Antonin Careme (1784-1833) first developed the eclair.

The 1884 Boston Cooking School Cook Book, by Mrs. D.A. Lincoln, has the first known English-language recipe for eclairs.

In some regions of the United States, Long Johns are marketed under the name eclairs. However, the two are not quite identical. Long Johns are made with donut pastry and typically filled with vanilla pudding or custard. The eclair, on the other hand, requires a little more effort and expense to make.

NATIONAL ONION RINGS DAY

National Onion Rings Day lands on June 22 to recognize the batter-dipped, deep-fried bite of deliciousness that runs rings around other appetizers.

Onions have been around for some time. A recipe called “Fried Onions with Parmesan Cheese” is included in John Mollard’s 1802 cookbook The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined. Within the recipe, it suggests cutting onions into 1/2 inch rings, dipping them into a batter made of flour, cream, salt, pepper, and Parmesan cheese then deep-frying them in boiling lard. It also recommends serving them with a sauce made of melted butter and mustard.

Some believe that a recipe for French Fried Onions (not claiming to be the originator of the recipe) appeared in the Middletown, NY Daily Times on January 13, 1910.
The Pig Stand restaurant chain, established in Oak Cliff, Texas in the early 1920s, is one of the claimants to the onion rings invention. Another recipe for deep-fried onion rings dipped in milk then dredged in flour appeared in a 1933 Crisco advertisement in The New York Times Magazine. By the 1960s, the A&W restaurant gained official credit with popularizing the onion rings in fast food restaurants.

Many agree onion rings taste best hot from the fryer. Whether you dip them in a sauce or not is up to you. There are plenty to choose from these days, too. Sweet, spicy, salt and vinegar, and everything in between.

@71flowerchild

It is so wonderful to hear from you. Not lying, I was thinking of you when I saw the news on TV about the fire. I know your hands are full and I will say prayers for you and all in the area that you stay safe.🙏 Good luck with everything.🤞

A shout-out to Miss Mabel! By the size of her, sounds like she will rule the roost.🐶🤗