Entries tagged with 'Christmas'
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Christmas is here, and 'tis the season of splurging—when it comes to both cash and calories. On a recent shopping trip to Williams-Sonoma I couldn't resist picking up a box of this Sugarplum Crumble Specialty Bread Mix, which promised to be "a festive bread studded and swirled with sweet plums and topped with crystallized ginger streusel." The price seemed at little steep at $14.00, but the friendly sales associate persuaded me, with much eye rolling and gesticulation, saying that it was "brand new and absolutely amazing." Since I had offered to bring dessert to an upcoming holiday party, I figured, why not? Bread, loaf cake—what's the difference?...
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Photograph from Kent Wang Tired of traditional Christmas trees? Try a Brussel's sprouts Christmas tree this season: It looks pretty and has the potential to taste good. [via The Kitchn] Related Dinner Tonight: Dan Barber's Brussels Sprouts Golden-Crusted Brussels Sprouts Essentials: Roasted Brussels Sprouts...
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In between your hand-blown glass ornaments of stars and angels, hang a turducken ornament on your Christmas tree! Dana of She Walks Softly will make you one for $15. [via Neatorama] Related Weird Food Ornaments for Christmas Are Turduckens Really Good Eating? Tofucken, the Vegetarian Turducken, and Other Interesting Meat Marriages...
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Wallace and Gromit, our favorite clay-modeled inventor and his beagle, take a break from cheese enthusiasm to become baking entrepreneurs. The thirty-minute short film A Matter of Loaf and Death will debut on BBC ONE in December, and be released on DVD next year. Business is booming at their "Top Bun" bakery—where facilities include robotic kneading arms—until a cereal killer gets loose. Gromit is nervous (but can only make petrified facial expressions since he lacks an actual mouth for talking) while the endearingly absent-minded Wallace is in la-la land, pining for Piella Bakewell, a former Bake-O-Lite bread commercial star. This is the duo's first showing since the Oscar-winning film The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit in 2005. [via Kottke]...
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"I wanna nog your egg." If you watched Stephen Colbert's A Colbert Christmas last night, I'm sorry. That was an hour you'll never get back. Only marginally funny, the show's best bit was perhaps the John Legend performance. The R&B star played a visiting forest ranger singing a song about nutmeg. Legend: "I'll sprinkle your Christmas cream with my spice supreme Colbert: "What about all-spice?" "You know it leaves me cold as ice" "Cinnamon?" "Don't even think of putting that in" "Cardamom?" "It won't let me drop my love bomb" The video, after the jump....
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Photograph from on Laughing Squid on Flickr If Santa's belly could transform into coke bottles, this might be the portly result. Not sure if the marketing team also wanted the shape (originally designed as a Christmas ornament) to be associated with "bombs," but they do have that explosive device look. [via Laughing Squid] Related Coke Zero Zero 7, New James Bond Packaging Coca-Cola Light Bottles Designed by Roberto Cavalli Coca-Cola Vending Machine Robot in Japan...
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What's Lidia Bastianich, famed restaurateur, public television personality, and cookbook author, doing for the holidays? Find out!
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Clockwise from top left: Mario Batali, Thomas Keller, Cat Cora, and Lidia Bastianich. As part of our commitment to provide serious eaters with the most informative and entertaining holiday food content, we will bring you unprecedented glimpses into the holiday lives of some of America's best-known chefs and food television personalities. People like Mario Batali and Thomas Keller will talk about their favorite holiday dishes, provide recipes for them, and even tell us who will be at their holiday tables. First up is serious eater Batali, currently starring in PBS's Spain... On the Road Again with Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Bittman.. He'll be followed by, among other folks, Lidia Bastianich and Cat Cora. We'll let the rest of the...
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An assortment of food-related ornaments from Bronner's You could hang traditional ornaments on your tree, but wouldn't a taco look more interesting than a jovial Santa head? Christmas supplies purveyor Bronner's has all the food-related ornaments you could ever want and some you don't. [via Jezebel]...
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On Christmas morning, we wake up at 8, light the fire, open presents, and eat lightly: clementines, Marchesi panettone from gustiamo.com (which will become your only panettone once you taste it), and scrambled eggs with white truffles. Lunch really does not happen, but I fire up the pizza oven as we head out to ski. For dinner we go to the American South for inspiration. I put a ham from Nodines with cloves and a brown sugar glaze in the slow wood oven and steal the rest from the Lee Brothers' excellent cookbook; we eat black eyed peas, collard greens, biscuits with black truffle honey from Otto and then finish with a selection of chocolate gifts from my friend Katrina...
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