ORANGE TARRAGON CHICKEN
Wednesday morning greetings friends and April 2025.
Did ya get pranked yesterday for April Fool’s Day? I didn’t but had a gut splitting visit with my friends Troy and Sandy and they reminisced about all the pranks Troy has played on crew over the years. Yes, I remember a few of them having worked on many of the same shows as Troy. Funny stuff. He totally owns the “King of Pranks” title in my memories. hahaha
Great line up today.
BEGINNING WITH:
CAT ARTWORK
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LESLIE ELMAN
TRIVIA AND FASCINATING STUFF
I mean the Skunk/Bees trivia was my favorite take away. Seriously, who knew? Now we do.
Leslie is so interesting! I’d love to sit down at lunch with her and just see what she’s like.
Gotta be a totally unique personality for sure.
CARTOONS and TRACY BECKERMAN all cracked me up!
ORANGE TARRAGON CHICKEN
Is delish!
Definitely worthy of your time and effort for a different kind of spin on “what’s for dinner”
QUICK QUESTION
Am I a planner or spontaneous?
Generally a planner but not too detailed about it and lots of time I find myself going 50/50 depending on the situation.
You?
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POP QUIZ
- WHAT JAPANESE LOAN WORD REFERS TO A TASTE THAT IS PLEASANTLY SAVORY?
a) Bento
b) Karaoke
c) Umami
d) Wasabi - WHAT WAS THE NAME OF JODIE FOSTER’S CHARACTER IN “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS”?
a) Anna Crowe
b) Phoebe Forrester
c) Cecily Pigeon
d) Clarice Starling - BRITISH GENERAL CHARLES CORNWALLIS SURRENDERED HIS TROOPS TO GEORGE WASHINGTON AT WHICH VIRGINIA SITE?
a) Appomattox Court House
b) Manassas
c) Richmond
d) Yorktown
QUICK QUESTION
DO YOU PREFER TO PLAN
THINGS OUT OR BE SPONTANEOUS?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
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- Umami, or pleasantly savory, is the “fifth taste,” after salty, sweet. sour and bitter.
- Jodie Foster won an Oscar for her role as Clarice Starling in “Silence of the Lambs.”
- Gen. Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington after the siege at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781.
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ORANGE TARRAGON CHICKEN
Pull a sprig of tarragon through the center of an orange slice for a colorful garnish and top chicken with grated orange zest. Serve with brown/wild rice and fresh steamed asparagus.
HERE’S HOW WE MAKE IT
INGREDIENTS:
1 TBSP grated orange zest
1 cup fresh orange juice
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup honey
2 TBSP Worcestershire sauce
1 TBSP fresh tarragon or 1 tsp dried
1 tsp dry mustard
Salt and Pepper to taste
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
2 tsp cornstarch, dissolved in 1 TBSP water
GET THE CHICKEN READY
Whisk together orange zest, juices, honey, Worcestershire, tarragon, mustard, salt and pepper.
In a zip seal bag place chicken breasts and whisked orange mixture.
Let marinate, for 2 hours in the refrigerator.
After 2 hours remove from ‘fridge and let come to room temperature.
Place chicken and marinade in a large, flat baking dish.
BAKE, COVERED AT 350* FOR ABOUT 30 MINUTES OR UNTIL COOKED THROUGH.
REMOVE BREASTS TO INDIVIDUAL SERVING PLATES OR SMALL PLATTER.
THICKEN SAUCE IN BAKING DISH – BY GENTLY WHISKING IN THE CORNSTARCH/WATER MIXTURE.
SPOON A LITTLE SAUCE OVER EACH CHICKEN BREAST AND SERVE.
Ta-Dah!
RIDDLE ANSWER
SHORT
LOST IN SUBURBIA
NOTHING COMES BETWEEN ME AND MY LAVA CAKE
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
When it comes to desserts, there are three kinds of people: sugary-dessert people, fruit-dessert people and no-dessert people.
I’m a sugary-dessert people. I don’t get the other kinds of dessert people at all. I can almost understand no-dessert people. But fruit dessert people? Fruit as a dessert seems like a completely wasted opportunity. If a molten chocolate lava cake is on the menu, why would you possibly order fruit unless, perhaps, you were a pirate with scurvy and needed the vitamin C?
I had all this in mind when my husband and I finished dinner with one of his clients and client’s wife. The dinner was perfectly nice. The conversation was lovely. But when it came time to order the desserts, my husband and I got a sugary-dessert, hello, lava cake (!), while the husband got fruit and the wife got nothing.
“Just coffee for me,” she said to the server. And then to me, “I’m trying to cut out sugar.”
I nodded respectfully at her choice to be a no-dessert person.
When my cake arrived, I went to dig in.
But before I could get my fork into the cake, the no-dessert lady reached over with her fork, took a giant swipe of my cake and then plunged it into her mouth. No “Do you mind if I …” or “May I have a taste?” She just went in with fork blazing and carjacked my cake. I was floored.
“Ummmm,” she swooned. “This is yummy.”
“I wouldn’t know,” I said under my breath. “I haven’t tried it.”
I glanced at my husband, who had his fork up in midair, ready to have his taste. He took one look at me and lowered his fork.
“Oh, honey,” said the no-dessert lady, who was rapidly becoming someone-elses-dessert lady to her husband. “This is so good. You have to try it!”
With that she plunged her fork into my cake a second time and then fed her husband my cake off her fork.
“Oh yeah, that’s good lava cake,” he replied, licking his lips.
I went to say something, but I honestly was at a loss for words. I was astounded that someone would actually have the audacity to pilfer my dessert not one but two times, and before I had any. I wondered if I had a look about me that said, “Sure go ahead, take my cake.”
The bigger issue, though was not that she had shoplifted my cake twice but that I really couldn’t say anything about it. This was the wife of my husband’s client. She might be a cake-napper, but she still was the cake-napping wife of a client.
Fortunately, before I could say something, the client’s wife excused herself to go to the bathroom, and the client stepped out to make a call. Impulsively, I reached out, picked up the saltshaker and dumped a generous amount of salt in her coffee.
My husband stared at me, appalled.
“What are you doing?!? he hissed.
I shrugged. “I’m giving her her just desserts.”
~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love and Kibble.
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Fascinating Stuff
FASCINATING STUFF
We all know that our senses become less acute over time, but which one tends to be the first to go? That would be your sense of taste, according to a study of “older adults” — people ages 57-85 — conducted at the University of Chicago. Researchers found that 74% of the people they studied showed a deficit in their sense of taste.
Brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb collaborated on “Tales from Shakespeare,” a young peoples introduction to the Bard that’s so influential it hasn’t been out of print since 1807. Their personal lives had as much drama as any Shakespeare play. In 1796, at age 32, Mary stabbed their mother to death. Rather than see her committed to a mental institution, 21-year-old Charles took responsibility for Mary’s care. They lived and worked together for nearly 40 years and are buried in a shared grave.
Skunks are attracted to beehives not for the honey but for the bees. They’ll scratch around the entrance to the hive at night. When the bees come out to investigate the ruckus, the skunks swat them down and eat them.
Thomas Jefferson’s grave marker calls him the author of the Declaration of American Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and the Father of the University of Virginia. He said those three accomplishments were the things for which he wished to be remembered. Thus, per his request, his gravestone doesn’t mention that he was the third president of the United States.
~ COPYRIGHT 2025 LESLIE ELMAN
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What fun cat pictures! Love the bright colors and the depictions of antics that only cats can perform!
Great historical facts – I feel so much smarter!
Thanks, Daymaker. Happy Day to you!
Today’s Daymaker’s question was an easy answer for me. “DO YOU PREFER TO PLAN THINGS OUT OR BE SPONTANEOUS? My husband loved the spontaneous. I announced on one of our 8 day road trips that we were simply going to pack our bags, grab our big Atlas and drive to the “Y” in the road, pull over, flip a coin to determine if we do drove 80 north or south? It’s true, we were gone 8 days wonderful days with every major decision made by flipping a coin. My husband felt honored that I would do this as I am by nature A PLANNER.
Tracy is a hoot always makes me laugh🤣. I easily can go both ways planned things or fly by the seat of my pants good times either way👍🏻