April 8 Empanada Day

April 8 recognizes as Empanada Day a food holiday. Portuguese and Spanish verb “em pandar”, meaning to wrap or coat in bread. In the Southern and Southwestern US, empanadas are called Creoles. In Jamaica, empanadas are referred to as "Jamaican patties" and are made with crispy pastry dough. Empanadas are also referred to as a “fried pie”.

The name empanada comes from the Galician. Empanadas are a stuffed bread or pastry that is baked or fried. Empanadas are made by folding the dough or bread around a seasoned stuffing like chicken, cod, or pork loin. Other ingredients include tomatoes, garlic, and onion sauce.

Though this tasty dish originated in Europe, immigrants brought the method to different countries around the world where it was adopted and a little altered to fit the tastes of that particular country.

Enjoy these delicious and yummy Empanada recipes.

April 8 Zoo Lovers Day

On April 8, Zoo Lovers Day is observed. Zoo is actually short for Zoological Garden. The oldest modern styled zoo was established in 1752 at the order of “Emperor Francis I”. The oldest collection of this type was found during an archeological dig in “Hierakonpolis” Egypt in 2009.

This would be a perfect day to visit a Zoo, Zoo Lovers Day is a great excuse to get your family together and go for a trip to see the exotic animals of the world. Enjoy seeing your favorite animals swinging from the trees or splashing in the water and have a fun-filled day.

A few zoo facts:

The world’s largest zoos is in Berlin Zoological Garden: 84 Acres, 1,500 Species of Animals

The Vienna Zoo is the oldest existing zoo and was opened to the public in 1765.

The United State’s first public zoo, Central Park Zoo, opened in 1874 in New York.

There are over 10,000 zoos worldwide. There are 350 zoos in the United States

Approximately 175 million people visit a zoo each year.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom has had more than 9.8 million annual visitors.

More than 3.2 million people visit the San Diego Zoo each year.

April 7 Beer Day

April 7th its Beer Day, Founded in 2007. As per document the first beer created in Mesopotamia and recorded in the written history of ancient Iraq and ancient Egypt. Beer is the third most popular beverage in the world, behind water and tea. Nowadays, there are many varieties of beer exist across the globe. In 2009, Smith and Connolly created a Beer Day on FB page. From this page, they invited friends to join and word has spread too many sources that April 7 is Beer Day.

On April 7, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt took the first step toward ending Prohibition and signed a law that allowed people to brew and sell beer, in the United States, as long as it remained below 4.0% alcohol by volume (ABV).

This day was created as National Beer Day by Justin Smith, a Richmond, Virginia Craft Beer Examiner, and his friend Mike Connolly from Liverpool, England. April 7th was chosen because the Cullen-Harrison Act was signed into law and became effective on this day.

On this day all bear lovers come to gather and celebrate in Bars, restaurants and pubs.

April 7 Coffee Cake Day

April 7 is Coffee Cake Day. Although the coffee cake itself does not contain any coffee. The first coffee cakes appeared around the 17th century in Europe. Coffee cake is a cake that is wished-for to be eaten while enjoying a cup of coffee, maybe for breakfast or during a coffee break.

Here recipes of coffee cakes select and make it enjoy it.

Celebrate Coffee Cake Day with your family or friends and serve this cake, enjoy... 

April 7 No Housework Day

No Housework Day is observed once a year on April 7th. No Housework Day was created by Thomas and Ruth Roy at Wellcat.com. This day is celebrated for those who usually work at home, today to give them a break.

Average married American woman does 17 hours of housework per week. Doctors and health experts say that it is essential for people with busy lifestyles to factor in time to relax. Relaxation can lower heart rate and blood pressure, reduce headaches, and improve concentration.

Celebrate this day at on your style. Go to your favorite place. Go to meet some old friends. Go on one day expedition. Visit to god means go to church, temple, mosque, or where you feel harmony and peacefulness.

Make one post on social media #NoHouseworkDay.

April 6 Sorry Charlie Day

Sorry Charlie Day is observed each year on April 6. Have you ever been rejected, for anything, Sure you have. We all have. Sorry Charlie Day is for all of us who have been discarded, and yet somehow survived it.Celebrate this day by taking a minute to remember a past rejection. After doing this, be happy und realize the fact that this happens to all of us. Some level of rejection is an inevitable part of life.

Nevertheless, rejection can become a problem when it is prolonged or consistent, when the relationship is important, or when the individual is highly sensitive to rejection. The experience of rejection can lead to a number of adverse psychological consequences such as loneliness, low self-esteem, aggression, and depression. 

April 6 Student-Athlete Day

April 6, 2013 marks the 26th celebration of National STUDENT-Athlete Day, Created by theNational STUDENT-Athlete Day (NCAS) in 1987. The program seeks to encourage families, schools and communities to support their STUDENT-athletes in their endeavors.

Events celebrating the day can take place throughout the entire month or in conjunction with an event that is already in place. It has become one of America’s strongest endeavors promoting the positive virtues of sport and student-athletes as a whole, and the positive affect they both have on society.

+More than 4.1 million student-athletes honored

+In 2015, over 229,000 student-athletes honored

+All student-athletes honored have achieved a 3.0+ GPA and are involved in outreach and community service. 

April 6 Tartan Day

National Tartan Day is a US observance on April 6 each year. It commemorates the Scottish Declaration of Independence, from which the American Declaration of Independence was modeled on. It also recognizes achievements of Americans of Scottish descent.

Tartan Day parades occur in major cities such as New York on or around April 6. These parades often feature bag-pipe bands playing Scottish music and people dressed in kilts with tartan patterns that represent their Scottish clans. Special award events are also held on Tartan Day, often organized by groups such as the American Scottish Foundation.

In the United States it is estimated that there are 6 million people who claim Scottish descent. Little was done to follow up the New York event in 1982. In 1998, a Coalition of Scottish Americans with the Support of Senator Trent Lott successfully lobbied the Senate for the designation of April 6 as National Tartan Day "to recognize the outstanding achievements and contributions made by Scottish Americans to the United States". 

April 6 Teflon Day

Teflon Day is observed each year on April 6. It honors the accidental invention of Teflon on April 6, 1938, by Dr. Roy Plunkett.While working in the Chemours Jackson New Jersey lab that April day, Plunkett, along with his assistant, accidentally discovered polytetrafluoroethylene. Chemours registered the Teflon trademark in 1945. Dr. Plunkett was added to the Inventors’ Hall of Fame in 1985.

If Plunket invented Teflon, which was trademarked in 1945, then Marion A. Trozzolo brought from the laboratory into the kitchen. The Kansas City, Missouri professor had been using the substance to coat his scientific utensils. He later founded Laboratory Plastic ware Fabricators.

In 1961, he marketed the first US-made Teflon coated frying pan, “The Happy Pan”.

But once DuPont decided to market cookware coated with the stuff, a much shorter name was needed. You're probably way ahead of me at this point: DuPont decided to call the coating Teflon. 

April 6 Caramel Popcorn Day

Caramel Popcorn Day takes situate on April 07, 2016.In January, we celebrated National Popcorn Day. We now add delicious caramel popcorn to the calendar, one of America’s favorite snacks.Caramel popcorns history goes back 150 years.

The day celebrates the combination of Caramel and Popcorn. Caramel corn is an American confection made of popcorn coated with a sugar or molasses based caramel candy shell.Popcorn is an amazing food, and a delightful treat, capable of being so many different forms of things.

The simplest way, of course, is merely to buy a bag of caramels from the grocery store, along with some plain popping corn. You then melt the caramels in a double boiler, and pour the resultant rich silky material over the popped corn, shaking to prevent it from sticking together in the process.

You can try looking at existing recipes for varieties such as

Amish Caramel Corn

Baked Caramel Corn

April 5 Caramel Day

It’s April 5 Caramel Day. Caramel is made with butter, brown and white sugar, milk or cream, and vanilla. It is usually enjoyed as an ice cream topping, a candy filling, or on its own. You can also find caramel flavored puddings, popcorn, desserts, and coffee.

Caramels are made by adding milk and fat to sugary syrup that has been heated and stirred constantly until it reaches a light brown color. Americans began making sugary syrups in the 1600s; American women were using caramelized sugar and water to make candies. Milton Hershey’s first business was the Lancaster Caramel Company.

The longer caramel cooks, it takes on a deeper color and a darker flavor until the sugar becomes bitter and is no longer tasty. To celebrate you can enjoy some of your favorite caramel candies or make a batch of homemade caramel.

Following are a few yummy caramel recipes for you to enjoy:

Easy Caramel Corn
Hot Caramel Apple Dip
Caramels
Caramel Filled Chocolate Cookies
Caramel Custard 

April 5 Deep Dish Pizza Day

April 5th recognizes a food holiday that is Deep Dish Pizza Day, let us thank Pizzeria Uno’s founder Ike Sewell, without whom this day wouldn’t exist. Ike Sewell credited with creating the spectacular deep dish pizza in 1943 in Chicago. This wonderfully tasty pizza, also known as Chicago-style pizza, is characterized by a superb buttery crust that can be as high as 3 inches tall, along with generous amounts of flavorsome sauce, toppings and cheese.

In ancient Greece, the Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese which some people believe is the beginning of the pizza.

In Byzantine Greek, the word was spelled “πίτα”, pita, meaning pie.

A sheet of dough topped with cheese and honey, then flavored with bay leaves was developed by the Romans. The modern pizza had its beginning in Italy as the Neapolitan flatbread.

The original pizza used only mozzarella cheese, mainly the highest quality buffalo mozzarella variant which was produced in the area surrounding Naples.

It was estimated that the annual production of pizza cheese in the United States in 1997 was 2 billion pounds. The first United States pizza establishment opened in 1905 in New York’s Little Italy.

Pizza has become one of America’s favorite meals. 

April 5 Go For Broke Day

Go For Broke Day is observed annually on April 5. The phrase “Go for broke” has roots in Hawaiian Pidgin meaning “wager everything”. It was adopted from the 442nd Infantry Regiment's unit motto "Go for Broke", which was derived from the Hawaiian pidgin phrase used by craps shooters risking all their money in one roll of the dice. On April 5, 1945, Sadao S. Munemori "saved two of his men at the cost of his own life and did much to clear the path for his company's victorious advance" near Seravezza, Italy. Munemori was a member of the 442d Regimental Combat Team.

Know that stepping out of what you know is the only way you can truly grow as a person, with new experiences and challenges paving the way for personal growth and a realization of which you truly are. Falling into a rut is a sure way to lead to depression and a failure to make the most out of life, don’t be one of those who look back and asks of your life ‘what if?’ Instead, go for broke.

There’s a saying that is close to the heart of this day, “It is better to regret the things you’ve done, than the things you haven’t.” This quote goes straight to the idea of “Life is meant to be experienced doing things, not sitting around not doing anything.” Old age is the time of regrets, why not take this opportunity you have as few regrets of things you haven’t done to follow you to the end? Get out there, carpe diem.

Best of luck dear friends and now “Go For Broke Day”.