National Holidays: Cream Puff and Spaghetti Days!

January 4: National Spaghetti Day

Make sure to whip up some scrumptious spaghetti on this idiosyncratic day! Bond with your family over a steaming plateful of this food. Of course, spaghetti lovers should take any opportunity to eat this fantastic food staple, no matter the day. 

Benefits of Spaghetti: In order to satisfy a variety of different culinary tastes, spaghetti has a wide range of sauces, such as marina and tomato sauce.

Additionally, spaghetti goes down well with both meat and vegetables, providing nourishing protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins. For vegans or vegetarians, spaghetti with vegetables taste extraordinary as well.

Last of all, spaghetti is simply a delicious food!

Spaghetti Facts:

The word ‘spaghetti’ originated from the Italian word ‘spaghetto’, which means ‘little cord,’ according to Britannica.

Spaghetti is mostly believed to have originated from Italy, but there is debate about it being invented in Asia, other European countries, or the Mediterranean. However, spaghetti as we know it is an Italian dish.

January 2: National Cream Puff Day

Cream puffs are a French dessert pastry filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, ice cream or custard. They may be served plain or can be decorated with chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, or dusted with powdered sugar.

How to Make Cream Puffs:

To prepare cream puffs, a pastry chef pipes choux pastry through a piping bag or drops it with spoons into small balls, then bakes them to form hollow puffs.  After cooling, the cream puffs are injected with a filling using a piping bag and narrow piping tip or by slicing off the top, filling the puff, and then reassembling.

Cream Puff Facts:

The largest cream puff ever recorded was baked at the Wisconsin State Fair. It measured 38 inches wide, seven and a half inches high, and weighed 125.6 pounds, according to Original Cream Puffs.

Cream puffs originated in France, and they are also known as profiteroles and choux a la creme.

Borrowed from the French, the word “profiterole” has existed in English since 1604. The “cream puff” has been found on United States restaurant menus since around 1851.