SIMCHA SUSIE

         Thank you so much SALLY GOODMAN, for your review of Enzo's Restaurant
         in Rancho Mirage, 70030 Hwy. 111. Phone #  760/321-7635, Italian.  I checked the prices on           the menu and
         they are $$. Sally said the food was great and she rolled her eyes when discussing
         the  FROZEN  CREME BRULEE, which I take as being wonderful!

         Throughout my years as a Ballabusta, I've come across some of what I think of as
         crazy ways to clean pots and pans of burned on food.


                  1.      Take your largest bottle of Tomato Catsup!  Liberally pour on top of every
                           piece of burned on food, let stand overnight.  The acid in the tomato's will soften
                           the food. Then wash as usual. Everything comes out sparkling clean and
                           there is no need for hard scrubbing and or ruining your pot surfaces. Works
                           every time.

                 2.       Take a dryer sheet, place in a pot or pan, fill it with hot water and
                           leave overnight.  I have been told that this method works as well.


                3.        This one, even for me sounds crazy!  Cut or chop celery into very pieces 
                           and boil in pot or pan until celery becomes mush and let cool overnight. 
                          your utensil should become perfectly clean!

      These three methods for cleaning burned on food are what I call "bubbemeises"
     Yiddish for bubbe's stories, although the one with the catsup, I use all of the time!

    
     I've had to stop knitting and looming, so I try to find ways to do what I use to without hurting        my hands.  I have been cautioned about being too long on the computer, but Dr. - you can't
    take away everything that gives me pleasure!

   I am taking a lot of yarn to donate th the children's program in my South Haven, Michigan  home  community. We have programs for the children, ages 4 though teens, in our   recreation hall each summer evening. Diana, the lady that runs the program, is a retired principal, and loves the
kids. The "Rec" Hall has a "Juke  Box" and table games and sometime the older siblings come
to help with the younger children as well.
The Fourth of July Celebration will be held on Saturday, July 6th, with the usual BBQ. The signup calls have gone out, asking for gri;;ers, cleanup, setup, food donations, both sweet and  savory. There will be kosher hot dogs, burgers and chicken, a variety of salads and vegetables,
and of course kugels.  One can find a table outside on the lawn, under a tent, or inside. Dessert will be served inside.
This is the first meet and greet of the summer season. Of course there is a charge for all of this
deliciousness.  We also have a silent auction, a raffle, and the lucky bock! All of this fun is for togetherness and to fundraise to supplement the expenses of our community. 

June 11th, I made a birthday party for my husband , Sid, who turned eighty-three! How time flies!
The restaurant was La Casita on Date Palm, just south of Dinah Shore.  We arranged for one long table, set for twenty, and we had twenty-six! Esmeralda, the manager, had to bring over more tables. Even Pearl came, who is well on the way to her 103rd birthday. She ordered a bowl of chicken tortilla soup. but the bowl they brought her could have fed ten people - it was so huge.
Gail kindly ordered the birthday cake. Sid's favorite is Strawberry Shortcake and the bakery had never heart of that type of cake for twenty! Sid was verklempt. None of our friends could believe that he was eighty-three, they all said that he did not look eighty-three.  What does eighty-three look like?

Many  friends are like us, taking off for the summer, some going to Maryland and up the east coast, Big Bear and cool mountain air, Santa Barbra, Fire Island, NY., South Haven, Mi., but most stay here.

You will hear from me  this summer. Although I am home, I have not gone to the moon!