Celebrated every year on December 5. Sachertorte is a very dense chocolate cake with a layer of apricot jam on top and then all covered in a layer of chocolate. It is traditional to serve it with whipped cream. Sachertorte was created by Franz Sacher in 1832 when he made a cake for Prince Wenzel … Read more Sachertorte Day
Celebrated every year on December 4. Cookie Day was created in 1980 by the Cookie Monster. Because cookie is all the reason he needed. Nom nom nom, nom! The word “cookie” probably came from the Scottish word “cooky” or “cucky” which both mean “tiny baked morsels”. Or the Dutch word “koekje” which came from the … Read more Cookie Day
Celebrated every year on December 2. fritter /ˈfrɪtə/ verb 1. -to waste resources on trivial matters. 2. -to divide into small pieces.perhaps related to German Fetzen ‘rag, scrap’. 3. -a small mass of fried batter often containing other food particles for extra flavor. Back in the days when daily meals were not daily at all, … Read more Fritters Day
Celebrated on the day after Thanksgiving Sinkie Day was created in 1991, by the International Association of People Who Dine Over The Kitchen Sink. Sinkie Day is celebrated by eating your dinner over the kitchen sink. This way you don’t have to set the table. You don’t have to clean the table You don’t have … Read more Sinkie Day
Celebrated every year on November 29. If you still have Thanksgiving leftovers and you haven’t bothered to put them in the freezer… Then you realize that food from last Thursday is probably going to give you food poisoning by now. Also, you probably didn’t want to eat those left overs anyway. Be nice to yourself … Read more Throw Out Your Leftovers Day
Celebrated every year on November 28. French toast noun – bread dipped in a mixture of egg and milk and sautéed Traditionally french toast is eaten with some kind of sweet topping. Optional is adding some cinnamon and/or rum to the mixture. One of the oldest references to the recipe of french toast dates back … Read more French Toast Day
Celebrated every year on November 29. Saint Pancake originates from the Dutch comic “Jan, Jans en de kinderen” by Jan Kruis. In 1986 a comic was published where the grandfather told a story about how when he was young every November 29 families would celebrate Sint Pannekoek (this is Dutch for Saint Pancake). The mother … Read more Saint Pancake
Celebrated every Year on November 27. Bavarian cream is a substance that is essentially custard mixed with whipped cream. The first mention of Bavarian cream was in the Boston Cooking School cookbooks, by D. A. Lincoln, 1884. Bavarian Cream Pie Day is not to be confused with: Banana Cream Pie Day on March 2 Coconut Cream Pie Day … Read more Bavarian Cream Pie Day
Celebrated every year on November 26. Cake Day can refer to somebodies birthday. On several social platforms Cake Day is also used to celebrate somebodies anniversary of joining that platform. And apart from all these reasons to eat cake, of course we need even more reason to let us eat cake. This day you have … Read more Cake Day
Celebrated every year on November 23. The word “” comes from several different meanings of the word “expressing”. It combines the meanings of the pressure used in brewing the espresso with the quick delivery of the process. Also it sounds cool. In 1884 a steam-driven “instantaneous” coffee-beverage-making-device was patented by . This machine was able … Read more Espresso Day
Celebrated every year on November 23. Cashew nuts are seeds that we call , just like tomato is a that we call . The word “cashew” is a distorted derivation from the word for the cashew tree “cajú”, which in turn is derived from the word “acajú” which literally means “nut that produces itself”. The … Read more Cashew Day
Celebrated on the third Thursday in November. Beaujolais Nouveau Day was made to celebrate the end of the wine harvest because is a good wine to drink while aged relatively young. It has been celebrated before after the 15th of December because of official regulations prohibiting it to be sold earlier. In 1951 these rules … Read more Beaujolais Nouveau Day
Celebrated every year on November 19. Cafe macchiato is Italian for “stained milk”. The traditional way to make cafe is an espresso with a bit of hot milk added. Preferably hot foamed milk. Preferably with a hot foamed milk drawing on top. But only a little bit of hot foamed milk or else it’s a … Read more Macchiato Day
Celebrated every year on November 17. Homemade Bread Day was created by the Homemade Bread Committee in Michigan in the early 1980ies. It has since been adopted as a holiday world wide to have an excuse at least once a year to fill the house with the scent of fresh bread accompanied by sandwiches so … Read more Homemade Bread Day
