National Crab Meat Day

Early crab recipes called for tiny amounts of the meat because crabs were so tough to harvest and shell. Nowadays, crab meat comes fresh, frozen, canned or even imitation — no cracking required!  


Here are just a few dishes you can make with crab meat:
Classic Crab Cakes
Creole Crab-Stuffed Avocados
Steamed Snow Crab Legs
Corn & Crab Fritters
Crab Dip
Crab & Artichoke Appetizer Pizza

National Crown Roast of Pork Day

HAPPY....

I didn't know that this was an actual thing.  I do not eat pork and I guess that's why I wasn't aware of this day.

A crown fit for a serious fan of the other white meat - March 7 is National Crown Roast of Pork Day!

Turn your normal meal into a royal feast with this white-capped crown of pork glory.

Known as the crown roast, pork loin is gathered into a circle with the rib bones pointing upwards like the peaks of a crown. Usually, this contains two rib racks, or 12 ribs from one pork loin, tied together with twine. This also means "Frenching" the ribs - slightly cutting and cracking the bone so they can be molded into a crown.

The meatiest part of the impressive crown roast is at the bottom, facing inwards. And any serious pork fan knows that the rib portion of the loin is one of the choicest and tastiest cuts.  (Compliments of Eatocracy)

National Banana Cream Pie Day

Nearly one out of five (19%) of Americans prefer apple pie, followed by pumpkin (13%), pecan (12%), banana cream (10%) and cherry (9%)

Until the early 1900′s Pie was considered a breakfast food.

In England, Oliver Cromwell banned the eating of pie in 1644, declaring it “a pagan form of pleasure”

“Wet bottom” molasses pie, Shoo-fly pie, were not originally made to eat. They were used to attract flies from the kitchen. They would stick to the pies

Early colonists cooked their pies in long narrow pans calling them “coffins”  Round pies were not common until the early 1800′s.

Today’s Food History

on this day in…

• 1799 The first U.S. weights and measures law was passed by Congress. Actually it did not set standards, but rather required the surveyor of each port to test and correct the instruments and weights used to calculate duties on imports. Basically each surveyor was on his own in setting the standards to be tested.

• 1887 Harry E. Soref was born. Inventor of the laminated steel padlock, founder of the Master Lock Company in 1921. The company became well known in 1928 when it shipped 147,600 padlocks to federal prohibition agents in New York for locking up speakeasies they raided.

• 1904 Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) was born. Writer and cartoonist. A few of his childrens books were ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ ‘One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,’ ‘Scrambled Eggs Super!’ and ‘The Butter Battle Book’