[video] “Great Depression” cooking with Clara Cannucciari

What a lovable, charismatic woman!  Here’s her first video.

91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.

Clara Cannucciari is a 94 year-old internet sensation. Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Claras Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up Americas spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a pull yourself up by your bootstraps philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Claras Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyones favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows whats really important in life.

Website:

http://www.GreatDepressionCooking.com

[photos] 14 Images to help you smile

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Which one gave you the biggest smile?

[photos] Food carvings: Apple butterfly, Banana dolphin, Cauliflower lamb…

I wish I could create things like this…

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I know your smiling right now.

Keep it going!

[news] Hungry helicopter crew drops in for A&W burgers

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KENORA, Ontario

Even military men get the muchies.

A Canadian military helicopter touched down in Kenora in the parking lot across from the A&W for a food run on Thursday evening.

Restaurant owner Randy Nickle said he was surprised to see the chopper touch down.

“They were hungry, they were looking for food.  They flew from Edmonton…and were trying to get to Thunder Bay and, of course, they needed fuel so they stopped to get gas at the airport.  But because there’s no food there they decided, “Hey, let’s go to A&W for supper.”

Nickle said crew members picked up an order of burgers, fries and drinks before lifting off.

The Canadian Press

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So there, I fixed it…[humor/photos]

These pictures add meaning to the quote, “If there’s a will, there’s a way.”  Enjoy!

Source: forwarded in an email

Slow-motion food fight [video]

I don’t usually find food fights funny; now, all that’s changed!

I wish someone would do slow-mo videos of The Three Stooges food fights.  Now that would be funny.

The right way to peel a banana [video]

If I never knew this trick regarding the right way to peel a banana, someone else out in cyberspace doesn’t either…

via The Presurfer

Nutrition labels should replace grams with “sugar cubes” [photo]

Would you eat 16 sugar cubes?  Probably not.  But that’s how much you’re consuming when you drink a bottle Coke.  A label reads “39 grams of sugar” in your soda but what does that much sugar look like?

“We’ve used regular sugar cubes (4 grams of sugar each) to show how the sugars in your favorite foods literally stack up, gram for gram.  Compare foods, find out where sugar is hiding, and see how much of the sweet stuff you’re really eating.“

You’ll find sugar content of foods in these categories:

• Beverages
• Breakfast foods
• Candy
• Cookies
• Deserts
• Fruits
• Sauces
• Shakes & Smoothies
• Snacks
• Vegetables

Definitely check out this informative website!

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God’s pharmacy

In the beginning, God created herbs and such before He made man so that ‘Adam’ [humanity] would be provided for and live a healthy life.  Adam lived 930 years!  Now…

For today’s lesson, look at these facts.

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the researches shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

Oranges , Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Mushrooms that taste like bacon [video]

Here’s an instructional video on how to make mushrooms taste like bacon.  Enjoy!

Tips everyone should know including how to recognize fresh bread in grocery stores

THINGS TO KNOW
1. Budweiser beer conditions the hair.
2. Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish.
3. Cool whip will condition your hair in 15 minutes.
4. Mayonnaise will KILL LICE, it will also condition your hair.
5. Elmer’s Glue - paint on your face, allow it to dry, peel off and see the dead skin and blackheads (if any).

6. Shiny Hair – use brewed Lipton Tea.
7. Sunburn – empty a large size Nestea into your bath water.
8. Minor burn - Colgate or Crest toothpaste.
9. Burn your tongue? Put sugar on it!
10. Arthritis WD - 40 Spray and rub in, kill insect stings too.

11. Bee stings - use meat tenderizer.
12. Chigger bite - use Preparation H.
13. Puffy eyes - use Preparation H.
14. Paper cut - crazy glue or Chap Stick (glue is used instead of suture at most hospitals).
15. Stinky feet - Jello!

16. Athletes feet - cornstarch.
17. Fungus on toenails or fingernails - Vicks vapor rub.
18. Kool aid to clean dishwasher pipes. Just put in the detergent section and run a cycle, it will also clean a toilet. (Wow, and we drink this stuff?)
19. Kool Aid can be used as a dye in paint also Kool Aid in Dannon plain yogurt as a finger paint, your kids will love it and it won’t hurt them if they eat it!
20. Peanut butter - will get scratches out of CD’s! Wipe off with a coffee filter paper.

21. Sticking bicycle chain - Pam no-stick cooking spray.
22. Pam will also remove paint, and grease from your hands!? Keep a can in your garage for your hubby.
23. Peanut butter will remove ink from the face of dolls.
24. When the doll clothes are hard to put on, sprinkle with corn starch and watch them slide on.
25. Heavy dandruff – pour on the vinegar!

26. Body paint - Crisco mixed with food coloring. Heat the Crisco in the microwave,  pour in to an empty film container and mix with the food color of your choice!
27. Tie Dye T-shirt – mix a solution of Kool Aid in a container, tie a rubber band around a section of the T-shirt and soak.
28. Preserving a newspaper clipping – large bottle of club soda and cup of milk of magnesia , soak for 20 min. And let dry, will last for many years!
29. A Slinky will hold toast and CD’s!
30. To keep goggles and glasses from fogging, coat with Colgate toothpaste.

31. Wine stains, pour on the Morton salt and watch it absorb into the salt.
32. To remove wax – Take a paper towel and iron it over the wax stain, it will absorb  into the towel.
33. Remove labels off glassware etc. Rub with Peanut butter !
34. Baked on food – fill container with water, get a Bounce paper softener and the static from the Bounce towel will cause the baked on food to adhere to it. Soak overnight. Also; you can use 2 Efferdent tablets, soak overnight!
35. Crayon on the wall - Colgate toothpaste and brush it!

36. Dirty grout - Listerine.
37. Stains on clothes - Colgate.
38. Grass stains - Karo Syrup.
39. Grease Stains - Coca Cola , it will also remove grease stains from the driveway overnight. We know it will take corrosion from car batteries!
40. Fleas in your carpet 20 Mule Team Borax - sprinkle and let stand for 24 hours.  Maybe this will work if you get them back again.
41. To keep FRESH FLOWERS longer Add a little Clorox! , or 2 Bayer aspirin, or just use 7-up instead of water.

42. When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest, so you ’squeeze’ for freshness or softness?  Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores five days a week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Each day has a different color twist tie. They are:
Monday = Blue, Tuesday = Green, Thursday = Red Friday = White and Saturday = Yellow. *yellow*
So if today was Thursday, you would want red twist tie, not white which is Fridays (almost a week old)!  The colors go alphabetically by color Blue – Green – Red – White - Yellow , Monday through Saturday. Very easy to remember. I thought this was interesting. I looked in t he grocery store and the bread wrappers DO have different twist ties, and even the ones with the plastic clips have different colors. You learn something new everyday! Enjoy fresh bread when you buy bread with the right color on the day you are shopping.

Pass this information on to friends so they can be informed also! 

Trivia 2: Cigarettes, gold, snowflakes, and more…

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Anatomy

• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
• Our eyes remain the same size from birth but our noses and ears never stop growing.
• Everyone has a unique tongue print.
• Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
• Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Animals

• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• The largest ant colony in the world stretches from Spain, through Germany, all the way to Italy, mostly underground. Thanks to the hive mentality of ants, any two of them, even if taken from the opposite ends, would instantly recognize each other.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• Goldfish have an attention span of 3-5 seconds.
• Sheep in Scotland faint if you jump out at them.
• Mosquito repellents don’t repel–they hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
• To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
• A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
• Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
• There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
• Octopus have three hearts.
• Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb.  The survivor is born.
• A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
• Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.

Entertainment

• During the chariot scene in “Ben Hur,” a small red car can be seen in the distance.
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA.”
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
• Elvis got a “C” in music in grade 8.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Food

• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Chocolate kills dogs!  It affects a dog’s heart and nervous system.  A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.

Language/Literature/Words

• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
• The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.” There was never a recorded Wendy before.
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
• The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
• “Dreamt” is the only word in the English language that ends in “mt”.
• “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.
• The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every Letter in the English language.

Other

• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
• The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles.  At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
• An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
• The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
• Drunk drivers can be sentenced to death by firing squad.
• The “number of the beast” (666) mentioned in Revelations was actually a mathematical representation of the name Caesar Nero.
• Two-thirds of the world’s lawyers practice in the United States.
• Dacryphilia is arousal from seeing tears in a partner’s eyes.
• Porphyrophobia is a morbid fear of the color purple.
• The initials YKK on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world’s largest zipper manufacturer.
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.  It also took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
• Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• Adolf Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
• The “pound” (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• In Chinese, the KFC slogan “finger lickin’ good” comes out as “eat your fingers off”.
• We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
• Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines .
• Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
• Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
• The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
• There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C.
• The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
• The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette company died of lung cancer.
• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
• The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
• When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
• Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
• The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu – a New Zealand hill.
• More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.
• Coca-Cola was originally green.
• The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades: King David; Clubs: Alexander the Great; Hearts: Charlemagne; Diamonds: Julius Caesar.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.  If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.  If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• The Romans used licorice near their pillows to shoo away bad dreams.
• The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
• Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
• 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
• If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
• The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

Sources come from all over the internet.

Q: What facts can you contribute to this list?

Trivia Time: Oldest joke, tickling, food, feathers…

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The World’s Oldest Joke
A Greek girl was praying to Zeus, the king of the gods.  She was trying to understand his eternal nature.
“Zeus,” she asked, “what’s a million years to you?”
“A million years is like a second to me,” Zeus explained.
“And a million dollars?”
“A million dollars is like a penny to me,” Zeus replied.
The girl felt daring, and she asked, “Zeus, would you give me one of your pennies?”
“Sure,” Zeus replied.  “Just a second.”

The Most Ticklish Spot on the Body
Scottish scientists have figured out the most ticklish spot on the body.  It doesn’t matter if a person is right-or-left footed, a small area in the middle of the right foot is the most ticklish spot for most people.  BTW, right-handed people are more ticklish than left-handed people.

* What are twin babies called before they are born?  Womb-mates.

* The Statue of Liberty wears size 879 shoes!

* Watermelons originally came from the Kalahari Desert region in Africa, which is interesting because the average watermelon is 92% water.

* The strawberry is actually a member of the rose family.  Each strawberry contains approximately 200 seeds.

* A pigeon’s feathers are heavier than its bones.