Chillin' & Grillin'
Summertime cooks apply this thick sauce to meat toward the end of the grilling process.
Barbecue Sauce
If you apply it too early, it will burn while the food cooks through.
This popular purple vegetable, prominent in Italian and Greek cooking, is ripe for harvest in August.
Eggplant
When its skin is smooth and shiny and it seems too heavy, it’s ripe.
Money is not the root of evil, but this is.
Love of money
This comes from the Bible—1 Timothy 6:10.
Cairo is the capital of this North African country.
Egypt
The Great Pyramid of Giza outside Cairo is the only location of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World remaining.
Mallard...
Duck
This famous advertising symbol is of a large red "S" enclosed in a white circle.
Safeway!
This is a more common term for “mopping.”
Basting
Whatever you call it, it’s applying a seasoned liquid while grilling to keep the food soft and moist. The newfangled term for “spraying” is spritzing. Thank you to all the celebrity chefs for keeping us on our toes with new terminology!
When you begin to feel a nip in the air in late August, it is time to plant this generic salad ingredient. Some varieties of it include oak leaf and Buttercrunch.
Lettuce
You can also plant any salad green, cucumber, or root or tuber vegetable in early fall. Cucumbers prefer warm weather, but they grow quickly
Money doesn’t grow on these.
Trees
We say this when we perceive that someone doesn’t understand the value of money.
Lisbon is the capital of this country.
Portugal
Lisbon is the oldest city in Western Europe. Fado is a genre of sad folk music, and Fado restaurants are popular among tourists and locals there.
Great horned...
Owl
Add this to the ice in a manual ice-cream maker before churning the ingredients.
(Rock) salt
Adding salt makes the ice cream freeze faster.
This huge late bloomer is prized for its bright yellow color and its edible seeds.
Sunflower
What we think of as one sunflower is actually multiple flowers. The fuzzy, brown center comprises over a thousand tiny flowers.
The Canadian loonie coin has replaced this withdrawn paper denomination.
One Canadian dollar
The loonie got its nickname from the loon pictured on one side of the coin. The $2 coin is known as the “toonie,” because it’s made from two metals. Paper money of these amounts have been phased out in Canada.
Santiago is the capital of this South American country.
Chile
In Chile, husbands and wives have different last names because women keep their maiden names.
Emperor...
Penguin
A type of BBQ that uses a type of "coal."
Charcoal
Grilling with charcoal requires a bit of time and attention, but the effort is rewarded with delicious chargrilled food that you've cooked while enjoying the outdoors.
These beautiful insects love flowers, but you won’t see them once fall temperatures arrive, because they can’t fly in temperatures less than 55ºF.
Butterflies
A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope or flutter.
U.S. paper money is made from a combination of two textiles. One is linen, and this is the other.
Cotton
The composition is 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. Many countries have switched to longer-lasting polymer notes.
Reykjavik is the capital of this European country.
Iceland
Iceland is part of the European continent but not part of the European Union. Fun fact: Dogs were banned in Reykjavik from 1924–1984 because they were considered farm animals.
Gold...
Finch
This is the term for a slab of meat or chicken breast that has been slit almost in half and opened to lie flat.
Butterfly
You must be careful when preparing and grilling butterflied chicken or meat. Be sure not to cut it all the way through into two pieces, and remember that grilling time is cut in half because the meat is half as thick.
The act of removing spent blooms is referred to by this term. If you’ve been doing it all season, make sure to stop in August if you want the seeds to self-sow.
Deadheading or pruning
When you stop removing spent flowers, they will turn into seed pods. You can pierce the pod with your fingers and spread the seeds for even more blooms next year
This is the most counterfeited bill.
The $20 bill
Betcha thought it was the $100 note. That’s the most counterfeited note outside of the United States. North Korea is the largest counterfeiter, and their dupes look so genuine that they cannot be detected other than by the Federal Reserve’s special machines.
Kabul is the capital of this country, where Americans and Canadians fought a war that spanned the 20th and 21st centuries.
Afghanistan
In the 1970s, Afghanistan was a modern country, with women fully participating in society. It was difficult to distinguish their college campuses from those in North America and the Western world.
Ring necked...
Pheasant
Place ice on this pulse point for a few minutes to cool down quickly.
Wrist
Another way to cool down quickly is to place an ice pack on the back of your neck.
This August bloomer with many petals grows from tubers, has flowers that can grow to the size of a dinner plate, and comes in a vast array of colors.
Hint: Starts with a "D"
Dahlia
While they are in full bloom in August, they bloom from mid-summer into mid-fall.
This country was the first to use paper money.
China!
It was a double-edged sword: It was distrusted, but it made international trade easier.
Jakarta is the capital of this Asian country.
Indonesia
Jakarta is a province, not a city, but it received special status as the capital of Indonesia.
Whooping...
Crane