March 21

How I Celebrated

Nate bought some more of those small french bread baguettes that we used for the artichoke dip last week. Strawberries here are usually from Cali, but I guess the ones we got are from Mexico this time. But we bought them here. I know there is a Strawberry festival somewhere on the coast north of us or something, but that is kind of a long way and too much mula right now. Oh and of course, some frozen corn dog. Of course I would rather have a deep fried one (fresh) but what are you going to do at 4 in the morning? We opted not to do the crunchy tacos this time. Enjoy! P.S. Why am I sweaty? It is a little thing I like to call Dance Central. You should try it sometime.

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  Strawberries are great, tacos usually are not seasoned with sugar. This recipe for sugar free and gluten free bread uses palm sugar, so it still might need a little tweaking if you feel that still counts as a "refined" sugar. Here is a recipe for sugar free corn dogs.

• Gluten Free

  Strawberries a go go, make sure you have corn tortillas for your tacos. You can use the above recipe for your baguettes. This recipe uses almond flour for the corn dogs

• Vegetarian

  Strawberries yes, you can sub TVP for meat in tacos or just have bean tacos. Baguettes are fine, and I know you can buy vegetarian corn dogs or hot dogs to make your own (Nate was vegetarian for a while). Or, skewer some veggies and make sure they are all cut rounded at the edges and pressed close together to look like a hot dog, batter that up and there you go!

Recipes

• Take some recipes straight from the California Strawberry Comission.
• Here are some of what Huffpost calls the best taco recipes
• Or try some more tacos from Cooking Light
• Here is a French bread recipe from Betty Crocker
• All Recipes has their twist on French bread as well
• Here are Martha Stewart's Texas Corn Dogs
• Some of you might trust Alton Brown better

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History

Punchbowl
Most of my bread knowledge was sliced bread, but French bread was something we got to indulge in once in a while. Hot, soft, french bread with a nice cup of Samoan cocoa. Now that is comfort food!

Merchandise

Everything strawberry is so cute.  
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Restaurants

• Check out the Strawberry Inn in Strawberry, California
• I know LA is probably one of the best places for tacos, but believe it or not, I have yet to try any of these from Refinery 29 (maybe you can believe it because there are so many flippin taco trucks haha)
• Hey look, Texas French Bread in... Texas!
• So I have heard that Disneyland Corn Dogs are the best in the world. I saw the price and thought they were also the most overpriced corn dogs in the world.
• Of course, there is always Hot Dog on a Stick at the mall!

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• National Frozen Food Month
• National Caffeine Awareness Month
• National Peanut Month
• National Celery Month
• National Flour Month
• National Nutrition Month
• National Noodle Month
• National Sauce Month
• Act Happy Week
• American Chocolate Week
• Health Information Professionals Week
• International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
• Lent
• Make Mine Chocolate
• National Animal Poison Prevention Week
• National Button Week
• National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week
• National Poison Prevention Week 
• Orthodox Lent
• Passiontide
• Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination
• Wellderly Week
• World Folktales and Fables Week
• Big Bang Day
• Brain Injury Awareness Day
• International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• International Day of Forests and the Tree
• International Day of the Nowruz
• National Common Courtesy Day
• National Day of Action on Syringe Exchange
• National Flower Day
• National Fragrance Day
• Single Parents Day
• Spring Fairy Fun Day
• WE Day
• Well elderly or Wellderly Day
• World Down Syndrome Day
• World Poetry Day
• World Puppetry Day