SUNDAY KOMEEKZ

 

Saturday 9: Shoo Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy)

I know… I’m no fun anymore …. We are at war…we just don’t know it yet… this is my last Saturday 9.  I bid you peace.  ☮️ you are all so wonderful.  

Stay sunny! 😎 

Shoo Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy) – 1946

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

This month Saturday 9 will be tasty, featuring songs with food in the title.

1) Shoo fly pie got its name from Shoo Fly the Boxing Mule. After the Civil War, the mule who could box was such a popular circus attraction that a molasses manufacturer started featuring him on their packaging. Since molasses is the key ingredient of this pie recipe, homemakers just began referring to it as "shoo fly pie." If we looked, would we find molasses in your kitchen?

Yes.  I've used molasses since I started baking as a kid.  My mom used it, too.  I like it better than white sugar.  

Here's a tip:  You can even "make" brown sugar by using granulated sugar with a little molasses stirred through it.

2) Apple pan dowdy is another uniquely American recipe from the 19th century. It's like apple pie, except it only has a top crust, which is broken up. Apples are a good source of fiber, Vitamin C and antioxidants. Do you consider nutrition when choosing a dessert? Or are you just all about how it tastes?  I just consider how it tastes, but fresh fruit is dessert sometimes anyway, and it's plenty sweet as it is. But I've found That since I no longer have a sense of smell after a calamitous fall in the kitchen several years ago , that a baked dessert usually is tasteless unless it's sweetened quite a lot.  I basically can only taste, the fab four.  Sweet, sour, bitter and salt.    

3) The lyrics describe these two desserts as the ultimate comfort foods, able to make "the sun come out when the heavens are cloudy." Do you find that the foods you crave change with your mood?  Yes.  Especially anything with dark chocolate in it, I can't taste it but the sweet and the texture and lovely memories of it carry it off.  And, I love, LOVE salty things.

4) Singer June Christy pleads with her mama to whip up this "wonderful stuff." Did your mother have a dish you often requested?  Having been raised on a farm, we ate what was before us, and didn't request anything other than the fudge Mom occasionally made from Hershey's cocoa. Later on, she had a job at the See's Candy Store, but it was a neighbor gave her the recipe for "See's Candy Fudge", really a reverse engineering coup, which I have made many, many times over the years. The newer ones printed on the back of the marshmallow jars are creamier but just as good. If my original card hasn't walked off with one of the kids, I still have the recipe mother wrote out.   

5) June was born in Springfield, Illinois' capital. Have you been to your state's capital city?  No, and probably because we stay along the mountains going north through Bishop, or stay on the coast when we go north to San Francisco.  The state capital is in the valley between. I once had a pen pal who lived there, and I wanted to go see her, but the pandemic and and a knee operation but "Paid" to that little excursion. 

6) June spent years singing with Stan Kenton's Orchestra. At one point, she gave 38 performances in 35 towns in 35 days. That's a busy schedule! Do you thrive on activity? Or do you find yourself rejuvenated by quiet time? At my age, quiet time is absolutely a great, and desired, event.  I've run around little a headless chicken so long in this life, that having time to "lolligag" is pure Heaven.  

7) In 1946, when this record was popular, bikinis were first seen in Paris fashion shows. How often have you worn your swimsuit this summer?  

😆😆     

8) Also in 1946, Elias Tupper invented Tupperware, a plastic container with an airtight top that's great for preserving leftovers. Are there any leftovers in your refrigerator right now?  Hold on.  I need to got look.  Well, I have a shed load of it.  It's lovely.... but I'm not the cook anymore so I must investigate whether my chemist Hubby has is growing any interesting Mold Cultures  in the fridge.....

9) Random question: Is there a day of the week that goes by faster than the others?  The day before the one with a doctor's appointment in it.  

 

Oh God..... And THANK YOU Robert Reich

Oh God Help US! 

And yes,  I am  WORRIED AS HELL!  

A direct quote from the Soviet Secret Agent in Charge at the white house:

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Trump’s View of Everything in the World Vassals, Mooches, and Thugs (oh my) Robert Reich Aug 21   READ IN APP   Friends, Trump says he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” military drills with South Korea, citing his “very good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un” — whom he calls “unthreatening and respectful.”

Very VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW….

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/venality-cupidity-and-corruption?r=fb32d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I hope this link works. It’s the best summary of the whole path to bringing down the American Dream for the people who actually do the WORK. I think Robert Reich is one of the finest minds and most important voices in our country.  Forget left or right wings for awhile and think of the eagle 🦅 in the middle…that’s where “we, the people” actually are. 

Three on Thursday:

Why I hate Desktops.... much b*tchiness ensues....

1.  There is a Huge Difference between the way that a desktop handles a blog and an iPad does it.  

2. Things that used to be easy-peasy are now hair pulling events of long duration.  I am twisted like a pretzel as I type this in a in tiny, unreadable font.

3. I'm renaming my desktop:  "Bite Me!"  AND.....If it wasn't so pricey to wreck a tower, I'd be sticking a long Phillips screwdriver into it's disc drive because that's actually its mouth.  It needs to know PAIN!

St. Michael is my Hero Saint.  He will take care of this!

 

Wordless Wednesday: Shhhh.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE...

🙏The difference between Sanity and INsanity is a VERY THIN LINE! 🙏 

I'm reading a book by Jane Smiley that I don't want to end.  However ..... I want to know whether Liddy "gets religion" or not.  Lol.  

👹

No, I just want to know if she remarries the Pastor or the Race Horse Owner.   The book is called, 

The Continuing Adventures of Liddy Newton.

It's a sequel to the first book with a similar name, only THAT volume deals with the earlier episodes in the life of Liddy.  Read that one first, if you have a mind to read them at all.  

MONDAY MUSIC: “ I’LL FLY AWAY”

https://youtu.be/pbzTeK5_hJ4?si=75-gkpTamWcR6lLP

I love this song so much.  And blue grass just hits it right!  Joyful!!  

My grandpa played guitar for all his grandkids whose moms lived with him and grandma during the Second World War when our dads were away fighting. 

I can't find a way to leave a comment on anyone's- except a few- blog

 Just want you  to know I'm trying to get through the thicket thrown up by blogger... sorry!

SUNDAY KOMEEKZ….

 

I love this comic!  

Saturday Nine with Sam.

Trying to do this after a big break is not going to be easy…but I want to do it ..  extricating the questions isn’t something I remember doing but then, Humpty Dumpty - me- had a great fall a few years ago and many things fell right out of her ear. 

Saturday Nine Questions and Answers...

1) Fats Domino sings about a hill named for blueberries. According to the Old Farmers Almanac, blueberries can grow just about anywhere in North America, as long as they have plenty of direct sunlight. Do you have a garden? 

I have had in the past.  It's now mostly dead. Sadly.. The result of living down stream from two people who poured literal GALLONS of Round Up on their gardens to kill someone else's big tree.  It got our elm as well, and all the miniature roses and the beautiful lilac bushes.  I hope to live in a garden when and if I reach *escape velocity*, hopefully as an Angel. 👼 I have it on the best authority that Devils do NOT get Gardens.  Nope!  

2) Blueberries are low in calories and rich in fiber. Are they a regular part of your diet? 

Yes.  I just ate some for lunch.  

3) They also have a high moisture content. Staying hydrated is important to human health. Do you drink the standard recommended 8 glasses of water every day?

Almost that much.  but in teas and also water...

4) Fats originally had a big hit with "Blueberry Hill" in 1956, and then enjoyed the record's renewed popularity in the mid-70s, when "Blueberry Hill" was often referenced as Richie Cunningham's favorite song. Without looking it up, do you remember what show Richie Cunningham was on? (Extra non-existent Saturday 9 points if you can also name the actor who played Richie.)

I cannot claim any of the Saturday 9 Points at all.  lol

5) Born Antoine Domino, he took the name "Fats" not just because of his physique. Growing up, jazz pianist Fats Waller was one of his heroes. If you were to adopt the first name of someone you admire, what would we call you? 

I'm old enough to remember the delight of listening to Fats Waller on my mother's 78's. 

6) Despite his warm and friendly stage persona, Fats was shy around strangers and hated giving interviews. Tell us about something you did only because it was part of your job, not because you enjoyed it.

When I worked on the switchboards as an Operator, I was the only one who could understand a sort of half *arsed, slurred vernacular Spanish that came through from Payphones at night.  (I spoke the *King's Spanish*!  Anyway.... I got the calls from payphone booths forwarded to me from poor little semi drunken Mexicans trying to call home.  So much fun, a literal riot. I was kind as I could be while tearing out my hair. My Spanish teachers would have been proud. 

7) In 1956, when this record was topping the charts, the Olympics were held in Melbourne. Have you ever been to the land down under?  Unhappily, no.  I would live there if I could.  No wait.  Maybe that would be New Zealand.  🤔  Yep... New Zealand. Aussie's are a VERY CLOSE second in line.  

8)  The star of the 1956 Olympics was Austrian Toni Sailer, who won all three gold medals in Alpine skiing. Do you prefer snow skiing, water skiing, or just watching other people ski?  Definitely a watcher.  I'd rather water ski.  Now that is fun and very exciting!  Shaboom was my hub's parent's boat.  She was a great little skier's tow boat.  Powerful and swift. I was a terrible water skier. 

9) Random question: Do you believe everyone has a jealous streak?

Yes.  Even if it's tiny and nearly non existent, I think it's human to be a little bit jealous.  

My beautiful header is gone.. removed …

UPDATED…It’s back up 🆙  and in the right place.  Whew!! 😰 it’s a LOT BIGGER than it should be… but ….. what the heck? 

I just don’t think blogger is for me anymore.  Maybe I’ll change my mind by the time the rest of the automatic posts go up, and maybe not.  Right now it’s been a struggle I could waste time trying to resolve.  But that won’t be so in the future.  

Three on Thursday…

1.  https://www.wired.com/video/watch/nasas-new-3d-model-shows-the-earth-is-a lumpy - bumpy old mess! A whirling dervish of rotting rock and spital?  

2. We all KNEW it was true, didn’t we?  We knew that being an “earthling” was a bumpy ride at best.  

But so Beautiful.. a storm over central California.

3. Be happy because weather is not up to us to create , though we try to do it!  

I HAVE MESSED UP MY POST HEADERS

 And I can’t get the old one back.  Hope this is readable.  Still working on it.  Tried something from the P.C.and that was a  MISTAKE,  

Wordless Wednesday…shhhh 🫢