May 18 – National Cheese Soufflé Day

National Cheese Soufflé Day 

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Food Facts on Cheese Soufflés 

  • To make a great a soufflé you must beat the egg whites into stiff white consistency and carefully fold them into the sauce, keeping as much air in the mixture as possible. 
  • Cheese is added to make a cheese soufflé, you can add different ingredients like chocolate to make a different types of soufflés.
  • Savory soufflé’ are often too light for a main course, but add chicken and spinach and it turns into a main course.
  • The secret to success is making sure your timing is just right. Time the soufflé to go into the oven as you sit down for your first course.

May 16 – National Barbecue Day

National Barbecue Day

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Food Facts on Barbecue

  • The most popular holidays for barbecuing are, July 4th, Memorial Day, and Labor Day.
  • The most popular foods for cooking on the grill are, burgers, steak, seafood, hotdogs, and chicken.
  • The most popular flavors of barbecue sauce are hickory, followed by mesquite, honey, and then spicy-hot.
  • Competition barbecuing is one of the hottest hobbies in the country with hundreds of cook-offs held throughout all 50 states.
  • Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer of Pennsylvania patented a design for charcoal briquettes in 1897.

May 15 – National Chocolate Chip Day

National Chocolate Chip Day

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Food Facts on Chocolate Chips 

  • Chocolate chips are tiny teardrop-shaped morsels of chocolate.
  • American consumer over 7 billion chocolate chips annually.
  • Chocolate chips can be used in brownies, pancakes, muffins or cookies or just scarf them by the handful straight from the bag.
  • Today, 25% of all the cookies baked in the United States are chocolate chip!
  • In the 1930′s the Chocolate chip cookie was discovered, by Ruth Graves Wakefield at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
  • The term “Toll House” is legally a generic word for chocolate chip cookie.