Liberace and A Tea Party. . .
I read yesterday about the closing of the Liberace Museum. At one time it was one of the largest attractions in Las Vegas, with more than 450,000 visitors a year. Now it has dwindled to only about 50,000 a year.
When we were in Vegas this past Spring, we didn’t visit the museum, but we did take some photos of the outside. Kinda neat, actually.
They say they want to close the museum and put some of the displays on traveling exhibition.
Personally, I think they ought to move it to Branson. It would fit right in, and the age demographic is certainly right.
I did find this recipe from a Liberace Cookbook for Sticky Buns. Looks delicious.
Ingredients:
1 cup white raisins (or, of course, flame)
8 oz. pecan halves
1/2 cup light rum
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 pound (two sticks) unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon each of ground nutmeg, allspice, cloves, and ginger
3 packages (18 buns) Pillsbury crescent dough.
Directions:
Soak the raisins in the rum over a low flame. Set aside.Preheat oven to 325 F. In a saucepan, melt butter and stir in the spices and the brown sugar until the mixture becomes a bubbling syrup.
Unroll the crescent dough, keeping each package in one flat place. Drizzle one quarter of the syrup over each individual piece of dough, reserving the last quarter for later.
Sprinkle one third of the raisins and spread one third of the chopped pecans on each of the three sheets of dough. Roll up each section of dough, jelly-roll style and cut into 1-inch pieces.
Grease two eight-muffin pans or three six-muffin pans with butter. Put a scant teaspoon of the reserved syrup and a few whole pecans in the bottom of each muffin mold.
Cover with the individual jelly-roll pieces, cut side up. Bake in preheated oven for the time recommended on the Pillsbury packages.
While pans are still hot, invert them on a sheet of heavy aluminum foil allowing the buns to be released. Replace any of the syrup and pecans that cling to the molds on the individual buns.
You should serve the buns while they are still warm and have that fresh-from-the-oven taste.
And that’s your cooking tip for the day.
As far as today was concerned, our son Chris called about 11:15 and said he was up (he works nights this week), so I drove over to his house to finish setting up his new computer. We’ve been trying to recover his iTunes account from his dead/dying laptop without a lot of success, but I’m still working on it.
After stopping by the bank, I got back home about 2 pm. Then about 3 we headed over to Monterey’s Little Mexico for some Chicken Tortilla Soup.
But before we left the park, I had to get a shot of the beautiful view of the water.
The weather has really been great here lately, with temps in the low 80’s in the daytime and in the 50’s at night. It doesn’t get much better.
Leaving Monterey’s we drove about 10 miles down I-45 to the Gulf Greyhound Park in La Marque to attend a Tea Party Rally put on by the Clear Lake Tea Party. We didn’t know what to expect as far as attendance so we got there early to just people-watch.
We knew it wouldn’t be any where near as large as the last one we attended in Searchlight NV in late March of this year.
That one was enornous, with over 30,000 people there. It look like this.
and this.
The traffic was backed up for miles. Luckily we only had to drive down from Las Vegas and got there early.
Some people just parked their cars and walked to the site, some for almost eight miles.
We got to see Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Jerry Doyle, Sharron Angle, Andrew Breitbart, and many others, and had a great time.
Or course we knew this one wouldn’t be any where near that big, but it did turn out pretty good, as there looked to be about 1000 people there.
We certainly had a great moon overhead,
and some great speakers, too.
Among others, was Congressman Ron Paul,
Congressman Pete Olsen,
and State Senator Dan Patrick,
but the real hit was Apostle Claver
who brought the crowd to their feet several times. That man can really give a speech!
The event wrapped up about 9 pm and we were home in about 20 minutes. We had fun, but it turned out to be a long day, and it was good to get back to the rig.
More Tomorrow…
Thought for the Day:
If timidity made you safe, Bambi would be king of the jungle.
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