things to do and eat in retirement
I lost a tooth about 7 weeks ago. Since then I’ve been researching implants and have struggled to eat some days. Today I made chicken livers in paprika and cream sauce with a splash of white wine. Husband made white rice. It was fairly easy to eat.
300 species of fruit, including avocados, mangoes and bananas, depend on bats for pollination.
The word broom comes from the name of a shrub that brooms were made from originally.
The ancient Greeks believed redheads became vampires after death.
The flying fox is the largest bat and can have a wingspan of 6 feet.
Pumpkins are fruits, not vegetables. The world’s heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,674 lbs., which is heavier than a car.
Fridges and freezers are excellent at keeping our food and drinks cold, as well as preventing ice cream from melting. Of course, they keep our food safe for longer. Lots of people all over the world still don’t own a fridge. They were invented over a century ago but it took a long time for some homes to buy them.
Milk left on a counter out of the fridge will quickly go off during warm weather.
Pickling is a way of keeping foods for longer, onions, eggs, cauliflower etc. Food in tins last for ages, even past the sell by date.
Fermented food can last a while such as kombucha, yoghurt, sauerkraut and kimchi.
Each week, the average person sheds around a third of an ounce of skin.
Halloween dates back 2,000 years to the Celtic festival of Samhain meaning “Summer’s end”
Apple bobbing goes back to the Roman festival for Pomania, the goddess of fruit and orchards
Bram Stokers, who wrote Dracula, never visited Transylvania
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