Claire de Lune- Independent Consultant for Pampered Chef

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Today's Food Tip!!
September 1st is National Gyro Day!

Did you know?
🌯A gyro is a dish of meat roasted on a vertical spit. It is usually served as a sandwich, also called a gyros, with tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce, wrapped in pita bread.
🍖To make gyros, pieces of meat are placed on a tall vertical spit, which turns in front of a source of heat, usually an electric broiler. If the meat is not fatty enough, strips of fat are added so that the roasting meat remains always moist and crisp.
🥩The rate of roasting can be adjusted by varying the strength of the heat and the distance between the heat and the meat, allowing the cook to adjust to varying rates of consumption.
🥗The outside of the meat is sliced vertically in thin, crisp shavings when done. It is generally served in an oiled, lightly grilled piece of pita, rolled up with various salads and sauces.

How to Make a Homemade Gyro Gyros are a classic Greek sandwich. Learn how to make an American variation at home complete using ground spiced lamb, tzatziki, and pita.

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Today's Food Tip!
August 31st is National Trail Mix Day!

🥜 Trail mix is a combination of dried fruit, grains, nuts, and sometimes chocolate, developed as a snack food to be taken along on outdoor hikes.
🏔Trail mix is considered an ideal snack food for hikes, because it is tasty, lightweight, easy to store, and nutritious, providing a quick boost from the carbohydrates in the dried fruit and/or granola, and sustained energy from the mono- and polyunsaturated fats in nuts.
🏄Many claim that trail mix was first invented in 1968 by two California surfer who blended peanuts and raisins together for an energy snack.
📘 However, trail mix is also mentioned in Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel The Dharma Bums as the two main characters describe their planned meals in their preparation for a hiking trip.
🔖 The recipe for trail mix is most likely European in origin, where it has been known as a snack under various names in various countries since the 17th century.

Spicy Snack Mix Perfect for game day parties, this snack mix has a spicy kick that's sure to satisfy!

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 30th is National Toasted Marshmallow Day!

🌱 This confection is the modern version of a medicinal confection made from Althaea officinalis, the marshmallow plant .
🥚 Not all marshmallows are vegan, most marshmallows contain eggs or animal based gelatin.
❤️The marshmallow is a confection that, in its modern form, typically consists of sugar, corn syrup, water, gelatin that has been softened in hot water, dextrose, vanilla flavorings, and sometimes coloring, whipped to a spongy consistency.
🤒 The marshmallow probably first came into being as a medicinal substance, since the mucilaginous extracts comes from the root of the marshmallow plant, Althaea officinalis, which were used as a remedy for sore throats.

Lemon “Meringue” Cake Find delicious and easy recipes perfect for any occasion. Browse PamperedChef.com for more recipe ideas and new kitchen products. Get inspired today!

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 29th is National Lemon Juice Day!!

🍋These brightly colored sour fruits originated in the Himalayan Mountains millions of years ago.
🍋 However, they have evolved since then, and today the citrus fruit is grown commercially in temperate climates.
🍋In the United States, California and Arizona produce more lemons than any other state.

Lemon Dream Tart This delicious, foolproof lemon tart is topped with an easy “meringue” that is simply heavenly.

Which hot drink do you prefer?

Today's Food Tip!!
August 28th is National Cherry Turnover Day!

🍒On average, commercially grown cherry trees produce about 7,000 cherries annually.
🍒Over 75% of the cherries sold in the U.S. come from Michigan.
🍒There are two main species of cultivated cherries; the sweet cherry (also called wild cherry), and the sour cherry (also called tart cherry).
🍒Freezing cherries not only preserves but also concentrates and improves their taste.

Cherry Cheese Coffee Cake Find delicious and easy recipes perfect for any occasion. Browse PamperedChef.com for more recipe ideas and new kitchen products. Get inspired today!

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 27th is National Burger Day!

🍔 The oldest fast food restaurant in the world is the White Castle franchise, which opened in 1921.
🍔 The people of America eat more burgers out at restaurants or on the go than they do at home.
🍔 The largest hamburger ever created was over 8,000 pounds and was cooked for a burger festival in Wisconsin.
🍔 However, the hamburger in its current form, with ground beef and a bun, is a decidedly American creation.
🍔 Hamburgers are made of beef, not ham, and there is much debate over whether they actually originated in Hamburg.

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 26th is National Cherry Popsicle Day!

In 1905 in San Francisco, 11-year-old Frank Epperson was mixing a white powdered flavoring for soda and water out on the porch. He left it there, with a stirring stick still in it. That night, temperatures reached a record low, and the next morning, the boy discovered the drink had frozen to the stick, inspiring the idea of a fruit-flavored ‘Popsicle’, a portmanteau of soda pop and icicle.
Eighteen years later in 1923, Epperson introduced frozen pop on a stick to the public at Neptune Beach, an amusement park in Belmar, New Jersey. Seeing that it was a success, in 1924 Epperson applied for a patent for his “frozen confectionery” which he called “the Epsicle ice pop”.
He renamed it to Popsicle, allegedly at the insistence of his children.

Berry Lemonade Quicksicles Red, white, blue, and refreshing! These homemade frozen treats make great snacks on a summer day.

What is your favorite waffle topping? 🧇

Today's Food Tip!!
August 25th is National Whiskey Sour Day!
🥃Pure ‘malt’ whiskey is produced only from malted barley.
🥃After opening, a half-full bottle of whiskey will remain good for five years.
🥃A closed bottle of whisky can be kept for more than 100 years and it will still be good to drink.
🥃A whiskey stops maturing after it is bottled. It ‘ages’ in wooden barrels not glass.
🥃Around 90 percent of Single Malt Whisky comes from Scotland.

Classic Whiskey Sour This timeless cocktail isn’t just for special occasions. Learn how to make a whiskey sour at home—for one or everyone.

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 24th is National Peach Pie Day!

🍑Did you know? Peaches were once known as Persian apples.
🍑“You’re a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving a peach to the friend you liked.
🍑Peaches were mentioned as early as 79 A.D. in literature.
🍑Most peaches are cultivated by grafting different combinations of rootstocks to scions; not raised from seed
🍑There are over 700 varieties of peaches-some Chinese varieties are even flat like hockey pucks.

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 23rd is National Cuban Sandwich Day!

🥪A Cuban sandwich is a variation of a ham and cheese sandwich that originated in cafes catering to Cuban workers in Key West and Ybor City, Tampa; two early Cuban immigrant communities in Florida.

🥖Many say a “true” Cuban sandwich, starts with Cuban bread. The loaf is sliced into lengths of 8–12 inches, lightly buttered or brushed with olive oil on the crust, and cut in half horizontally. A coat of yellow mustard is spread on the bread. Then sliced roast pork, glazed ham, Swiss cheese, and thinly sliced dill pickles are added in layers. Sometimes the pork is marinated in mojo and slow roasted.

🍞In 2012, the “Historic Tampa Cuban Sandwich” was designated as the “signature sandwich of the city of Tampa”

🥪It is believed by some that the sandwich was a common lunch food for workers in both the cigar factories and sugar mills of Cuba during the 1870’s. When the cigar industry in Florida shifted to Tampa in the 1880’s, the sandwich quickly appeared in workers’ cafés in Ybor City and (later) West Tampa,Fl.

Cuban Sandwich This recipe is a fresh take on a classic Cuban sandwich. Grilling the citrus for the marinade adds deep, caramelized flavor that makes the pork taste like it was cooked over an open flame.

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 22nd is National Pecan Torte Day!

🤎Pecans provide nearly 10 percent of the recommended Daily Value for zinc.
🤎It would take 11,624 pecans, stacked end to end, to reach the top of the Empire State Building in New York City.
🤎Texas adopted the pecan tree as its state tree in 1919. In fact, Texas Governor James Hogg liked pecan trees so much that he asked if a pecan tree could be planted at his gravesite when he died.
🤎Albany, Georgia, which boasts more than 600,000 pecan trees, is the pecan capital of the U.S. Albany hosts the annual National Pecan Festival, which includes a race, parade, pecan-cooking contest, the crowning of the National Pecan Queen and many other activities.
🤎Pecan trees usually range in height from 70 to 100 feet, but some trees grow as tall as 150 feet or higher. Native pecan trees – those over 150 years old – have trunks more than three feet in diameter.

What is your favorite pecan dish to make?

Pecan Tassies A chewy pecan mixture fills buttery pastry cups for an all-time favorite Southern treat.

Today's Food Tip!!
August 21st is National Sweet Tea Day!

🫖 Many say iced tea was ‘invented’ at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair where ice was added to hot tea to cool down the visitors.
🫖 Thomas Sullivan ‘accidentally’ invented the teabag when he sent out tea samples in small silk pouches to customers in 1904. The pouches proved much less messy than raw tea leaves. The rest is history.
🫖 Tea is believed to have arrived in Europe thanks to a Portuguese Jesuit priest named Jasper de Cruz after visiting China in 1590
🫖 Drinking tea helps boost the immune system do to its natural antibacterial properties.
🫖 Tea can also help regulate cholesterol.

Smooth Sweet Tea This sweet tea is a classic Southern drink served chilled and easily made with tea bags and sugar for a great way to cool down on a hot summer day.

How do you prefer to cook bacon? 🥓

Today's Food Tip!!
August 20th is National Bacon Lovers ‘ Day!!

🥓Bacon is one of the oldest processed meats in history. The Chinese began salting pork bellies as early as 1500 B.C.
🥓More than half of all homes (53%) keep bacon on hand at all times
🥓Pregnant women should eat bacon. Choline, which is found in bacon, helps fetal brain development
🥓Each year in the US more than 1.7 billion lbs. of bacon are consumed
🥓Bacon is said to cure hangovers 🍻

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Today's Food Tip!!
August 19th is National Hot & Spicy Food Day!!

Your favorite chicken wing shop may rate its spiciness in clever terms ranging from "mild," to "hot," to "su***de hot," but did you know that there actually is the semi-scientific Scoville scale for measuring spicy hotness? This scale rates the amount of capsaicin, an ingredient in chili peppers that creates that burning sensation.
What is your favorite spicy 🌶 recipe?

Spicy Cauliflower Bites Make these bites as spicy or mild as you like. They're a delicious, meat-free option if you're making snacks for a game or appetizers for a casual dinner.