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You know what I love most about America? The way that we have a holiday for everything. And even when we run out of holidays, we just make up more holidays and continue using them as excuses to glut. And when it's a food holiday, we are officially permissed to double-gorge! So here's a heads-up for my favorite August food holidays -- y'know, so you can get your shopping done early and beat the mad holiday rush.
- August 1 - Raspberry Cream Pie Day: This shortcut Chilled Raspberry Cream Pie recipe from Rachael Ray can be whipped up in a jif. It'll be just like one of those No-Bake commercials when your friends and family are fawning over you for spending the day slaving over the stove while you're secretly sniggering to yourself, "Heh heh, it was no bake, you fools!"
- August 2 - Ice Cream Sandwich Day: Sure, you could wade through the freezer case, or you could man up and make your own. Consider these decadent peanut-butter-'n'-honey-flavored "Bee-Nut Butter Ice Cream Sandwiches" from Domestic Goddess.
- August 3 - Watermelon Day: Who cares about eating watermelon when you can carve them up like victims on Nip & Tuck? The National Watermelon Promotion Board provides detailed instructions for 35 different carvings - from a bug convertible to a T-Rex.
- August 5 - Mustard Day: Stop being a slave to French's and make your own mustard. A mustard you can be proud of. Like a Dark Lager Mustard. Or a Pineapple-Rum Mustard. Or one of the other 161 mustard recipes over available at Melborponsti.
- August 16 - Bratwurst Day: Ohio will be hosting its annual Bratwurst Festival, but assuming you can't make it out to Bucyrus, consider this classic Beer-Simmered Brats recipe from Epicurious.
- August 19 - Potato Day: You know what they say about potatoes: There are craploads of ways to prepare 'em. So rather than suggest one recipe, allow me to point you to the Idaho Potato Commission. They have thousands of recipes, all featuring everyone's favorite tuber.
- August 30 - Toasted Marshmallow Day: If you can hike up a hill, assemble a camp site of twigs, and start a fire with two rocks, then you can certainly make your own marshmallows for roasting and toasting. Here's an oldie-but-goodie homemade marshmallow recipe from the Slashfood archives.
- August 31 - Trail Mix Day: To piggyback, if you can make your own marshmallows, you can make your own trail mix. Consider it an opportunity to be creative. Think beyond nuts, dried fruit, and M&Ms: How about freeze-dried veggies? Bugles? Gummy bears? (Stay tuned for my patented Trail Mix Recipe Generator™.)
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7-31-2008 @6:34PM Julie said... Butter nut Ice crean Sandwiches sound wonderful and look delicious.
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8-01-2008 @3:54AM ana said... i made the recipe included for the marshmallows tonight, but i added some rosewater to it... they came out sooo good!!!
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8-01-2008 @8:56AM Liz Petty said... I made my own ice-cream sandwiches just last night! My boyfriend loves them. I baked his favorite cookies -- white-chocolate chip with dried cranberries and chopped almonds -- and made four of them about twice the size of the others. I took these and slathered their undersides with Edy's no-sugar coffee ice cream. The ice cream served as a delectable glue as I gently pressed the cookies together. I wrapped them in plastic wrap and stuck them in the freezer -- voila! I can't wait to see my boyfriend's face when he finds them and takes that first, big bite!
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8-28-2008 @1:21AM Thomas Wayne said... I've been looking at the food holidays, too. There sure are a lot of them! And I agree with the notion that diets don't apply to holidays.
There's actually more than this. For example, the 13th is Filet Mignon Day.
I've been writing these for every month, going over all the holidays... Some of the stuff is out there, and some of it is just plain silly. But I try to make it interesting...
http://buffetoblog.wordpress.com/
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8-28-2008 @1:24AM Thomas Wayne said... I've been looking at the food holidays, too. There sure are a lot of them! And I agree with the notion that diets don't apply to holidays.
There's actually more than this. For example, the 13th is Filet Mignon Day.
I've been writing these for every month, going over all the holidays... Some of the stuff is out there, and some of it is just plain silly. But I try to make it interesting...
http://buffetoblog.wordpress.com/
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