A Message from BJ...Looks like the season is off to a great start, our Good Morning Aripeka West Breakfasts are back every Wednesday Morning at 9AM, we had lots of fun at our Halloween Spooktacular Party, yes we are off to a great start and the fun has only just begun! The months ahead will be lots of events here at Aripeka West, Thanksgiving is the next holiday event, hope everyone in the Park will come and enjoy some good food with your neighbors and give thanks for all that we are so luck to have!
Daylight Savings Time Ends...
Good MorningAripekaWest...
Remember that Breakfast is being served every Wednesday Morning in the screen room at the RV Park, everyone is welcome to stop by, have a cup of coffee and eat breakfast with us. We start at 9 AM and are normally there for about an hour and a half. If you can make a small donation to our "bacon fund" , it would be greatly appreciated! We used to call it a "coffee fund", but since bacon now costs more than most steaks, we need a fund to be able to afford it!
Thanksgiving at Aripeka West...
We will celebrate Thanksgiving here at Aripeka West on Saturday November 23rd with a Turkey Dinner and all the Trimmings! By holding our Celebration early, it will allow everyone with plans for November 28th, the real Thanksgiving Day, to attend our celebration! Thanksgiving Dinner will be an RSVP Event this year so we can better plan our dinner. You will receive an Invitation on your door early in November, please sign and return it to us if you plan to attend. We would appreciate everyone bringing a covered dish to share. There will be a place on your Invitation to let us know what dish you plan to bring. Aripeka West will supply Turkey, Stuffing & Cranberry Sauce, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Green Bean Casserole and Pumpkin Pie. Your unique dishes will make this meal a real Thanksgiving Feast to remember!Black Friday & Cyber Monday...
For those of you who like shopping "Black Friday Sales" or "Cyber Monday Sales", let's share our great Ad finds! If you get early notice about any special buy that is being offered on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, please share it with everyone on our FaceBook Page, Aripeka West MH & RV Park Page. These ads can be for stores located in our area or for online deals, doesn't matter. So come on all you "thrifty shoppers" let's see who can come up with the best deals!Halloween Spooktacular Pics...
Our 3rd annual Halloween Spooktacular was fun. The food was great as were the costumes. Our Mile High Captain, Nancy Rudd won the Costume Contest! We also had Witches, a Gypsy, a Bucs Fan, a Dolfan, a French Maid, a Princess, two Chefs and more! See the pics!
Recipe Sharing...,
Garlic Rubbed Roasted Cabbage Steaks
By: Everyday Maven, Serves: 4 Ingredients 1 (approx 2lb) head of organic green cabbage, cut into 1" thick slices 1.5 tablespoons olive oil, 2 to 3 large smashed garlic cloves, kosher salt, freshly ground... black pepper and olive oil spray OR non-stick cooking spray. Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 375F and spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray. Pull outer leaf off cabbage, cut cabbage from top to bottom (bottom being root) into 1" thick slices. 2. Rub both sides of cabbage with smashed garlic. 3. Use a pastry brush to evenly spread the olive oil over both sides of the cabbage slices. 4. Finally, sprinkle each side with a bit of kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper. 5. Roast on the middle rack for 25 minutes. Carefully flip the cabbage steaks and roast for an additional 25 minutes until edges are brown and crispy. A very nice optional condiment would be adding balsamic vinegar on the top when finished cooking.
Kentucky Hot Brown Bake
INGREDIENTS8 oz package refrigerated crescent rolls
1 lb. package smoked turkey lunch meat
8 slices cooked bacon
8 slices Swiss cheese
3 Roma tomatoes, sliced thin
4 eggs, beaten
INSTRUCTIONS
Unroll the crescent dough and separate into 2 squares.
Place one square in bottom of 8" pan that is greased or lined with parchment paper.
Press dough to fit pan.
Layer with half the turkey, bacon, cheese and tomatoes.
Pour half the eggs over the top.
Repeat the layers.
Top with remaining dough square.
Pour remaining eggs over top.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, covered with foil. Remove foil and bake another 20-25 minutes.
Let sit at room temp for 15-20 minutes before serving.
Black Forest Waffle Ice Cream Cake
Ingredients:
12 Eggo waffles -homestyle
1 jar (16 oz.) hot fudge topping, homemade or store bought
1.5 quart Breyers chocolate ice cream
16 oz. chocolate whipped topping
1 can (21 oz.) cherry pie filling & topping
chocolate shavings for garnish, optional
Directions
1.Bring waffles to room temp.
2.Soften ice cream by removing from the freezer to thaw. You will want your ice cream almost melted, so that it’s easy to spread.
3.Spread each waffle with fudge topping. Lay each waffle side by side in two rows in a 3 qt. baking dish. (Each row will have three, for a total of six.)
4.Next, spread half the container of ice cream all over the fudge covered waffles. Spread the fudge topped waffles with half the whipped topping. Top whipped topping with half the pie filling. Evenly dredge the filling with a knife. Repeat layers, ending with pie filling on top.
5.Now, gently dredge a knife through the pie filling and whipped topping to make it look pretty. Use the remainder whipped topping to star the sides for a finished look. Gently cover and freeze over night. To serve, remove from freezer and let set at room temp for approx. 8-10 minutes before slicing; serve.
Fun Facts...
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
USPS & Aripeka...
Carl Norfleet and the USPS have finalized the lease for the Aripeka Post Office. The USPS will take possession of the facility on Aripeka Road November 1, 2013, but it is not known when our Post Office will actually re-open. Remember when they closed, it took them about 2 weeks to remove their property from the building, so it will most likely take them at least that amount of time to put it back together. It has been a long month and a half of driving to the Hudson location, but it will soon be over. Thanks to all who wrote letters, made phone calls, signed petitions, attended meetings and worked with the media to help make this happen. And a special "thank you" to Carl Norfleet, had he not stepped up to purchase the building we would have lost our Post Office in Aripeka forever.
1.Bring waffles to room temp.
2.Soften ice cream by removing from the freezer to thaw. You will want your ice cream almost melted, so that it’s easy to spread.
3.Spread each waffle with fudge topping. Lay each waffle side by side in two rows in a 3 qt. baking dish. (Each row will have three, for a total of six.)
4.Next, spread half the container of ice cream all over the fudge covered waffles. Spread the fudge topped waffles with half the whipped topping. Top whipped topping with half the pie filling. Evenly dredge the filling with a knife. Repeat layers, ending with pie filling on top.
5.Now, gently dredge a knife through the pie filling and whipped topping to make it look pretty. Use the remainder whipped topping to star the sides for a finished look. Gently cover and freeze over night. To serve, remove from freezer and let set at room temp for approx. 8-10 minutes before slicing; serve.
Fun Facts...
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
Starfish don't have brains.
Polar bears are left handed.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
Porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
USPS & Aripeka...
Carl Norfleet and the USPS have finalized the lease for the Aripeka Post Office. The USPS will take possession of the facility on Aripeka Road November 1, 2013, but it is not known when our Post Office will actually re-open. Remember when they closed, it took them about 2 weeks to remove their property from the building, so it will most likely take them at least that amount of time to put it back together. It has been a long month and a half of driving to the Hudson location, but it will soon be over. Thanks to all who wrote letters, made phone calls, signed petitions, attended meetings and worked with the media to help make this happen. And a special "thank you" to Carl Norfleet, had he not stepped up to purchase the building we would have lost our Post Office in Aripeka forever.