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Celebrating Spaghetti
Today’s Spotlight is on Spaghetti.
Spaghetti is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. It is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine. It is made from milled wheat, water, and sometimes enriched with vitamins and minerals. Italian spaghetti is typically made from durum-wheat semolina. Spaghetti is a long, thin, cylindrical pasta that is a staple of traditional Italian cuisine.
Spaghetti is named for its “thin string” shape. It is versatile and can be paired with a variety of sauces, including:
Fruitcake Toss Day
Today’s Spotlight is on Fruitcake. Well it’s more about getting rid of un eaten fruitcake.
Fruitcake Toss Day is an annual holiday that takes place on January 3. The day celebrates fruitcakes by tossing them in an empty space. The goal is to get rid of unwanted fruitcake.
On Fruitcake Toss Day, people toss any leftover or uneaten fruitcake into the air. Some people prefer the classic arm toss, while others use a fruitcake slingshot or pneumatic weapon launch.
In Manitou, Colorado, hundreds of people gather to compete to see who can throw their fruitcake the highest or the greatest distance.
Celebrating Cream Puffs
Today’s Spotlight is on Cream Puffs.
A cream puff is a filled French choux pastry ball with a typically sweet and moist filling of whipped cream, custard, pastry cream, or ice cream. The puffs may be decorated or left plain or garnished with chocolate sauce, caramel, or a dusting of powdered sugar.
Cream puffs are made with a high water content, which turns into steam during baking. The steam expands the dough, leaving behind hollow pockets of air with a crisp outer shell.
Celebrating Black Eyed Peas
Today’s Spotlight is on Black Eyed Peas.
Black-eyed peas are a type of legume that are actually beans, not peas. They are a variety of the cowpea, which is a member of the legume, pea, or bean family. They are also known as "goat pea" and "southern pea". It is a subspecies of the cowpea, an Old World plant domesticated in Africa, and is sometimes simply called a cowpea.
Celebrating Champagne
Today’s Spotlight is on Champagne.
Champagne was a province in the northeast of the Kingdom of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name in modern-day France. The County of Champagne, descended from the early medieval kingdom of Austrasia, passed to the French crown in 1314.
Champagne the beverage, is a sparkling wine that's made in the Champagne region of France. It's made using the traditional method (méthode traditionnelle), the rules of the appellation, that demand specific vineyard practices, which involves sourcing of grapes exclusively from France and a two-step fermentation process. The grape juice is fermented into alcohol and then bottled to turn into sparkling wine.
Celebrating Bacon
Today’s Spotlight is on Bacon.
Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically the belly or less fatty parts of the back It has a rich, savory taste and a satisfyingly crispy texture when cooked. . It is eaten as a side dish, used as a central ingredient, or as a flavoring or accent.
Bacon is eaten as a:
Celebrating Pepperpot
Today’s Spotlight is on Pepperpots.
Pepperpot is an Amerindian-derived dish popular in Guyana. It is traditionally served at Christmas and other special events. Along with chicken curry, and cook-up rice, pepperpot is one of Guyana's national dishes.
There are two versions of pepperpot:
Celebrating Fruitcake
Today’s Spotlight is on Fruitcake.
Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. The ratio of fruit and nuts to the batter is high, with just enough cake batter to hold it all together. In the United Kingdom, certain rich versions may be iced and decorated. Fruitcakes are usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.
Celebrating Pumpkin Pie
Today’s Spotlight is on… Pumpkin Pie.
Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling. The pumpkin and pumpkin pie are both a symbol of harvest time, and pumpkin pie is generally eaten during the fall and early winter.