SUPER EASY HOMEMADE EGG NOODLES
Wednesday morning greetings amazing Daymakers,
On this Wednesday, let’s find a reason to smile and be thankful for everything we have.
Great line-up today!
BEGINNING WITH:
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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LESLIE ELMAN’S
Trivia and Fascinating Facts
QUICK QUESTION
Would I rather have the ability to speak with animals
or speak all human languages?
Me — I’d choose the ability to speak with animals.
You?
Homemade Egg Noodles
Totally worthy of a few minutes to make and give a pass to the
dry pasta in your pantry
TRACY BECKERMAN
Never disappoints with her tongue-in-cheek
slice of life!
Hat tip Tracy.
THANKS ALL FOR SLIDING BY THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING
And giving to us a part of your valuable day + sharing + caring
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HAVE A GREAT WEEK
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POP QUIZ
- WHO HOLDS THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RECORD FOR SINGLES IN A CAREER?
a) Hank Aaron
b) Tony Gwynn
c) Derek Jeter
d) Pete Rose - THE LEAVES OF WHICH TREE ARE THE PRIMARY FOOD SOURCE FOR KOALAS?
a) Bamboo
b) Chestnut
c) Eucalyptus
d) Teak - IN GEOMETRY, WHAT TERM REFERS TO AN ANGLE OF GREATER THAN 90 DEGREES
BUT LESS THAN 180 DEGREES?
a) Acute
b) Obtuse
c) Reflex
d) Right
QUICK QUESTION
WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE THE ABILITY
TO SPEAK WITH ANIMALS OR SPEAK ALL
HUMAN LANGUAGES?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
- Pete Rose holds the Major League Baseball record for singles in a career with 3,215.
- Eucalyptus leaves are the primary source of food of koalas.
- In geometry, an angle of greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees is an obtuse angle.
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ALICE HAD BEGUN TO THINK THAT VERY
FEW THINGS INDEED WERE IMPOSSIBLE.
~ LEWIS CAROLL ~
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE AWARE
OF WHAT IS BEFORE YOU.
RIDDLE ME THIS
SOMETIMES I RUN, BUT CANNOT WALK.
WHAT AM I?
HOMEMADE EGG NOODLES
My best friend — grade school through high school — was Jacque.
So many shenanigans and good times straight outta Billings, Montana!
Jacque’s mom’s name was Hazel.
Hazel was cool.
She was totally no nonsense — life had dealt her some hard cards — tragic, sudden deaths of a husband and son.
However, Hazel was resilient, kind, peaceful and was totally full of interestings to be around.
Hazel grew giant gardens.
Froze sweet corn that she scraped from the cobs and cooked for a few minutes or more with a little sugar on the stove and then placed kernels in zipper lock bags and threw them in the freezer for winter time.
And she canned tomatoes, peaches, pears and green beans — same — for come winter time.
AND (!) Hazel canned the BEST hot dill pickles — hands down.
Jacque and I’d sit on the floor in front of the television and eat an entire jar watching a movie on TV.
Forget the popcorn!
It was hot dill pickles! One by one.
Sometimes, we’d go and grab another jar of hot dill pickles from the downstairs pantry and crack it open while still watching the movie.
(( I actually do have the Hot Dill Pickle recipe and I’ll share it this summer when cucumbers are ready to be plucked from gardens or purchased from Farmer’s Markets. ))
Today, I wanna share one of the outstanding “things” that Hazel made right there on the kitchen counter like it was a no biggie — Homemade Egg Noodles!
Think — simply buttered in a bowl with with a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper, or marinara with ground beef, or stroganoff, chicken noodle soup — etc… ya get the idea.
Big fat boo, I don’t have Hazel’s recipe.
I lost it along the way.
However, perseverance is key and after researching and reading recipe after recipe on good ol’ Google — I stumbled on this one. I think it would be the closest to how Hazel did it wayyyy back in the day and I think Hazel would agree.
RIDDLE ANSWER
A NOSE.
LOST IN SUBURBIA
A HALF-BAKED COLUMN
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
“I think it’s time we retired this oven,” I said to my husband as I displayed a sheet of blackened sweet potato fries. “Even the dog won’t eat these.”
“Sure he will,” he said, tossing some fries on the floor. The dog immediately sucked them down.
“Not my point,” I said.
We had known our oven was on its last burners for quite some time. But it still worked, sort of, which was more than we could say about the prehistoric dishwasher or fridge, so those got replaced first. For years, I tried to convince myself that I really wasn’t jealous of my friends with their fancy stainless steel ovens with enough BTUs to power a rocket ship.
But the truth was, I had major cooktop envy. I wanted a stove that could boil water in 6.2 seconds. I wanted an oven that not only cooked my salmon perfectly but also caught it off the coast of Alaska, skinned it and cleaned it for me.
OK, maybe I wanted something that didn’t exist. But I at least I wanted a stove that had actual numbers that weren’t rubbed off the dials so I didn’t have to guess whether I was baking or broiling.
And thus began our quest for the perfect oven. Armed with our pretty little internet oven pictures, we headed off to the appliance store.
“My old stove had one oven on top and a separate one on the bottom so I could cook two things at one time,” I told the salesman. “Do you have any 30-inch stainless steel stoves like that?”
“Was your old oven 7 feet high and pale yellow?”
“Yes!” I said excitedly.
When he was done rolling on the floor laughing out loud, he helped us find something that was actually better than what I’d had and was also from this millennium. Then he showed us the price.
I choked.
“You know for this price, the thing really should be able to go to Alaska and catch us some fish,” I said.
“That’s the next model up,” he replied.
Finally, we had our stove. We set up a delivery time, then I waited home for eight hours so it could be delivered and installed.
When the big, new, shiny, stainless steel oven arrived, I immediately knew how my husband feels when he goes into a car dealership. I stared in reverence for a full minute then I caressed the knobs, stroked the burners and polished a little streak away with the edge of my sleeve. It was truly a thing of beauty.
“So how’s the new stove?” asked my husband when he got home that night.
“It’s pretty!” I gushed.
“I know it’s pretty,” he said. “But how does it cook?”
“Oh. Um,” I stammered. “I don’t know.”
“You don'[t know?”
“Yeah,” I replied. “I was so excited to get it, I forgot to go food shopping.”
~ 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
A motley is the wildly colored outfit worn by court jesters — or fools — in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Around that time, the word motley also became an adjective for a group of things or people that are wildly mismatched and just a little bit crazy. That’s where we get the term “motley crew.”
For the benefit of future generations, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has in its collection the laptop used by Sarah Jessica Parker’s character Carrie Bradshaw to chronicle her observations on “Sex and the City,” the stopwatch used in the original opening segment of “60 Minutes,” a prop egg made with plaster of Paris for the movie “Alien” and the “puffy shirt” from “Seinfeld.”
The yellow barrels you often see along highway roadsides around potential crash hazards are called Fitch barriers. They’re named for John Fitch, the race car driver turned roadside safety expert who designed them. Filled with sand or water, the barrels absorb the impact of an oncoming car, slowing or stopping it before it hits a less forgiving structure, such as a bridge abutment. Fitch barriers are an economical and effective way to increase the chances of a wayward driver walking away from a crash.
The painter Amedo Modigliani reportedly told friends that he wanted to live a “short, intense life.” He achieved that goal, dying of tubercular meningitis in 1920 at age 35. (The following day, his pregnant mistress killed herself by jumping out of a window.) Spending his career in poverty, he lived near the slaughterhouses in Paris, in a room for which he paid $3 a month. So it’s ironic that in 2015, his painting “Nu Couche” (“Reclining Nude”) sold at auction for more than $170 million and another reclining nude sold for $157 million in 2018.
~ COPYRIGHT 2025 LESLIE ELMAN
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Always love the trivia! I’m about 90% on the questions so far – and yes, I’m keeping score!
Awesome!
Wish I could claim 90%! ha
Thanks Trent for your time and reading and commenting.
Matters a lot.
Oh, the elegant and whimsical art! Love it!
Easy Homemade Noodles – YES! I love, love fresh pasta – and even have an untried pasta machine – and this recipe sounds simple and easy enough to try. I too imagine it with butter and fresh parmesan. Yumm. My mouth is watering at the thought!!!
I can so relate to Tracey’s oven story. My oven wet out during Covid and the part needed to repair it had to come on a slow boat from China. And, alas, it never came. Not really wanting to spring for a new oven, I “did without” for over a year. I learned that my oven was not the new standard size so replacement choices were limited at best. And it seems no one wants WHITE appliances anymore. Further limited choices. Happy to report that a kind salesman took my plight to heart and helped me find a perfect replacement. But during the time I was doing without an oven, my husband took up grilling and now that I have a beautiful multi-talented oven, I almost never use it 😉
Great issue!
Right on Carol!
“Gifts” present themselves in unusual ways.
… meaning your oven going out and improvising and you did eventually get a new oven — and your husband took up grilling.
And grilling has taken over oven anything!
I think that’s a slam dunk!
Thanks for reading + sharing + engaging.
Treasure you, Daymaker!
A gift for sure! And a delicious one at that!!!
Oh my goodness I can’t wait to try the egg noodle recipe so quick and easy and even able to freeze it for a quick fresh meal love it! have a wonderful day everyone
Hi J –
You will not be disappointed with the noodles!
And I totally agree — today or tomorrow or next week because these noodles are freezer friendly.
Thanks for your time.
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