REPOST - LEST WE FORGET - Titanic Tribute 4 - Traveling in Style

  

  

  

  

Resources:  Good reads: can google and buy online
Last Dinner on the Titanic
The Discovery of the Titanic
When We Went First Class
Others

Videos:

Original footage 1912
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD9-z6Nw2FM
Titanic Expedition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WkvDswV40c
The Gash
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/deep-inside-the-titanic-the-icebergs-gash.html

Lots of photos and more on this one!!
http://www.rmstitanic.net/

LEST WE FORGET - REPOST - Titanic Tribute 3 - Traveling in Style - 2 VIDEO LINKS

2nd Class Dinner:
3 courses and coffee. 
First course:  soup or consomme
Second course:  Haddock, chicken, lamb, turkey, vegetables, potatoes, rice
Third course:  Desserts: puddings, American ice cream, nuts, fruit, biscuits
Coffee

3rd Class Midday Dinner:
First Course:  soup
Second Course:  fresh bread, cabin biscuits, roast beef with gravy, sweet corn, boiled potatoes
Third course:  plum pudding with sauce
Tea

Titanic Video by Celine Dion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpltlIQEDuo&feature=related

This is a goodie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKlO9w0P8Pc&feature=related

LEST WE FORGET - REPOST Titanic Tribute 2 - Traveling in Style

First class Breakfast:
Fresh fruit, cooked or dried fruit, cereals (Oat, hominy or other), Haddock or salmon, ham, sausage, stew, eggts, meats, potatoes cold meats, rolls, scones, cornbread, buckwheat cakes, marmalade and more.
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First class: Tables with white daisies and pink roses. Full formal dress worn by the diner. Music from Puccini and Tchaikowsky.  Diners entered the dining area through 3 elevators or down the "grand" staircase.  The weather was perfect. Guests last names were:  Astor, Guggenheim, JP Morgan, Tyerson, Straus & more!!
Dinner:  Drinks in reception room
Menu:  Hors d'oeuvre (appetizers), Potage (Soup), Poisson (soup), Entrees, Removes (tough to find a definition for this one - my definition would be a larger portions than the entrees), Punch or Sorbet, Roti (Roast), Salade, Cold dish, Sweets, Dessert and After Dinner coffe, cigars, port or cordials.
Wow, in modern times we would need Perrier, San Pellegrino or alka-seltzer.

Watch this delightful video on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugk2BxeZmNk

Mother's Day Tuscan Recipes

Tuscany is a provincia in central Italy.  The finest virgin olive oils are made there. Meats: beef, chicken & rabbit are roasted or grilled (to disperse fat) with rosemary or fennel. Fish is also popular. Olive oil is used in  the cooking of sweets (don't knock it till you have tried it!!).

Desserts:  Biscotti dipped in Vin Santo wine (indigenous to Tuscany; castagnaccio is a cake made with chestnut flour, fennel, raisins and pine nuts. 

1. Check out this website. They have it all together. There are a lot of Tuscan favorites that you can make for mom (mom or la mamma o mia madre) on Mother's day such as:

Tuscan Cheese Souffle or  Souffle al Formaggio Facile

Tuna Panzanella or Panzanella al Tonno 

Tuscan Ribollita Soup or Ribollita Toscana 

Traditional Tuscan dishes

2. Pressed Tuscan virgin oil, aged wine, pecorino cheese, rosemary, sage, prosecco or chianti - just a few

How about thyme, sage, rosemary, tarragon, fennel and chile pepper.

Vegetables are served with olive oil. Popular sangiovese grapes are the basis of chianti classico and brunello

Yum!

  3.  Want some interesting information on Tuscan spices and herbs?

  Visit these links of some of my earlier blog entries:

Tuscan spice

Tuscan spice mix

Tuscan spice mix uses