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Trying to Re-create Dishes from Restaurant Cookbooks, Including Shopsin's 'Slutty Cakes'
I read it more as "book" than "cookbook" as well, but as a Shopsin fan in general, I gotta say that slutty cakes RULE!!! I wrote a post about the book a while back:
Weekend DVD Giveaway: 'Bottle Shock'
Alchemy at work.
Life within these walls of glass,
Intoxicates me still.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
my husband, dipped in chocolate.
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15 Illegal Immigrants Found in Tanker Truck of Cocoa Powder
"The cocoa powder in the truck is very fine, and the stowaways ran the risk of suffocating..." Hey, we all gotta die, there are certainly far worse ways than suffocating in chocolate. :)
Trying to Re-create Dishes from Restaurant Cookbooks, Including Shopsin's 'Slutty Cakes'
I read it more as "book" than "cookbook" as well, but as a Shopsin fan in general, I gotta say that slutty cakes RULE!!! I wrote a post about the book a while back:
Weekend DVD Giveaway: 'Bottle Shock'
Alchemy at work.
Life within these walls of glass,
Intoxicates me still.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
my husband, dipped in chocolate.
What to Do With Leftover Wine: Mulled Wine Syrup
Leftover wine? What's leftover wine? Never heard of such a thing....especially not in my house!
Rocco DiSpirito: Misunderstood Chef of the People or Megalomaniacal Celebrity?
It's really a damned shame because, although people should be allowed to pursue whatever the hell it is they want to do, most will now view Rocco as a dolt and the truth is that he was more than just a "young talented chef"....he was an AMAZING chef. His departure from the kitchen is my tummy's loss.
Serious Grape: A Mixed Case of Wine for the Holidays
Nice post, Deb! If I could add an American bottle of bubbly for those that want to drink some local juice:
Gruet makes excellent sparkling wines that are inexpensive...they're out of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (seriously)
Cheers!
Cook the Book: 'Simple Italian Snacks'
without question, my homemade roasted peppers atop mozzarella, on crostini.
Dinner Tonight: Bubble and Squeak
I may not be a Brit, but I LOVE the Bubble & Squeak! The only thing better than that for leftovers is to make meatball-sized balls of leftover stuffing, bread them, deep fry them and serve them with a pesto made of leftover cranberries and walnuts!!!
Salumeria Rosi: One Man's Pleasure in Feeding People
I'm with pooch....the photo of the salumi is intoxicating....tell me, is Cesare married?!? :-)
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Funny, I wrote about a few of these things on my blog last week (esp. Green bean casserole, the marshmallows, etc.)...
'Top Chef' Season 5, Episode 2: It's a Dog Eat Dog World
I gotta agree with the first comment by Blah....this was NOT a hot dog challenge...they try to be cute with their names and such because they're in NYC, but just call it a damned sausage contest...or forced meat...whatever they were, they weren't dogs!
In Videos: Megadeath Burger: World's Hottest Hamburger in Australia
Nice to see that Americans aren't the only idiots :-)
Photo of the Day: Passive-Aggressive 'Feed the Fish' Note
I'm with Pete....first thing I noticed was the Christopher Moore book! Too funny....I guess I'm not the only fan of his on this blog! Ditto that, Pete....can't wait for Fool to come out!!!!!
Braille Wine Label
@Cassaendra: AHHHH....makes a heap more sense now!
What's cooking for Thanksgiving
Couldn't help but leave a link here to my most recent post....it doesn't include recipes, and it's a rather non-traditional, pre-Thanksgiving post, but I thought you would all really enjoy it!!!
Braille Wine Label
@Cassaendra...as a graphic artist I love this idea, and the texture is fantastic as well. But to say "who care what it tastes like" makes it sound as if blind people don't need to actually have GOOD wine, they just need to have a label designed for them. THEY care what it tastes like :)
Cooking from the Glossies: White Bean and Roasted Garlic Hummus
Sounds great...will have to try it. I have to admit that when I first saw the title of the recipe I was about to start ranting that if it's made with white beans instead of chick peas, it's not a Hummus, and should just be called a "dip"....I have this thing about calling everything a "martini" too, even if it isn't made with gin and vermouth...but that's MY problem!! LOL! But then I saw that it does have chick peas AND tahini, so it's definitely a Hummus, just tweaked. Yummy!!!
I am Obsessed with......
1. Growing a blog I am overwhelmingly passionate about.....
'Chocolat,' by Stéphan Lagorce: You Mean I Can't Eat It?
Fantastic marketing scheme, though I'm sure that adds a pretty penny to the cost of the book. I'll wait for the paperback version ;-)
'The New York Times' Doesn't Know What the Flying Spaghetti Monster Is
@sloppy....I'm not so sure. Not that I disagree with you about the general state of media, but these guys were probably CLUELESS about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster....that was predominantly a cyberspace phenomenon that exploded via email, texting, etc. and unless you're hip to stuff like that (which, let's face it, most of them aren't) it would go right over your head.
Lou Dorfsman's 'Gastrotypographicalassemblage'
Holy crap! Speaking as a graphic artist, that was AMAZING!!! Thank Bacchus they restored it! I know what my new desktop picture is gonna be! Thanks.
In Videos: Creating a 'Font' From Food
Norman would be right....as a graphic artist, I can add that a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular TYPEFACE. All that nitpicking aside, very cool idea!
Cook the Book: 'Fat'
A simple fried egg.....in the rendered bacon fat rather than butter.
Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'
@eleeb, so funny....my father-in-law loves peanut chews! Goes to show you. I'd have to add mini bags of pretzels also, but THE WORST IS GETTING CHANGE!!!!! My kid looks at 22 cents like WTF?!?
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
I love all of those things. I don't have them anymore at my thanksgiving table, but if I'm served (any and all of it!) somewhere, I go for it and bask in nostalgia for days gone by with Nana and the whole fam!
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
@ mr guy- I agree, the brining doesn't do much for me either. I've done it the past two years, and if you ask me it's a big pain in the ass for little results. Expensive too.
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Cans of thick slop and sludge never get anywhere near my cooking. As a matter of fact, Campbell's cream "soup" line is single handedly responsible for making crock pots the biggest laugh in the kitchen. (The crock pot was later de-throned by Sandra Lee as the biggest laugh in the kitchen - ironically a chronic user of cream soups.)
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Don't be hating on me, but Campbell's creamy onion soup is far superior to use in casseroles versus the cream of mushroom. When I took over Thanksgiving duty from my MIL, that marshmallow sweet potato monstrosity was banned from my menu. As well as the canned cranberry "sauce", I make my own SF version from the real cranberries from the produce section.
Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate
Everything was fair game until you got to the marshmallows.
Marshmallows aren't Thanksgiving food. They're candy.
Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'
I disagree about a lot of the candy items mentioned here.
I, for one, LOVE the fun-sized (or mini, if you prefer) candies. It's a tiny bit of something insanely tasty, enough to give pleasure without causing tummy pains. When I was a young'un and I went trick-or-treating, one house gave out mini Clark bars. Yum-o-delish! I polished those off first.
I think the chewy peanut butter kisses taste absolutely divine.
Candy corn, I think is plenty of tasty, as are the candy pumpkins made of candy-corn base. Think little dollops of hardened cake-frosting.
As for apples and raisins, those I didn't mind in the least.
However, some items, I do agree about.
Toothbrushes -- a boring reminder
Religious pamphlets -- disappointing and WEIRD to boot.
Packages of "normal" food -- oh, for crying in Manhattan, what kid wants to receive a can of baked beans or a box of oat bran in his little plastic jack-o-lantern.
One time I received cough drops -- and not the Ludens or Pine Bros or Smith Bros or F&Fs, which are tasty and could pass as hard candy (as can the Ricolas). These were nasty little green pellets that were -- and tasted like -- MEDICATION. Like I said, for crying in Manhattan! For crying in Manhattan, Chicago, and San Francisco
Oh well. At least I didn't get a ROCK
Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'
If I didn't live in an apartment building with no kids in it I'd be giving out and full sized candy bar AND a red bull to every kid. HAHAHA!!! HALLOWEEN IS FOR KIDS! SUCK IT PARENTS!
The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun
mini-barf, but what a tasty mini-barf indeed...
The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun
Oh my, WHEN are THEY going to come up with that magic pill? Can you imagine this creation with a side of fettucine Alfredo?
Top 10 Awesome Nostalgic Foods We Want Back
I miss the S'mores cookies and Fudgies, the little Kraft chewy candies in a gold wrapper. Does anyone remember the cereal, Double-Dip Crunch? I was like a "frosted" Crispix. Mmmmm!!! Oh, and the Quacker "strawberry" snack/dessert bars that looked like Nutri-Grain but had a little "squiggle" of white "icing" on top. I'm hungry now.
The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun
If I had any bacon left, I'd do this idea tomorrow for lunch/dinner. As it is, to really put the topper on it, I had a few ideas on how to make this really nice and unhealthy.... first, take a page from the burger with the cheese ooze core... stuff some cheese in the burger as well! maybe chop up some bacon to mix in with the meat too. Next, gotta add some mayo, then slap a fried egg in there as well. If you're still alive and not on your way to the hospital after the first bite, then I'd applaud you, but you may want to have someone ready just in case.... in case you take a second bite.
Top 10 Awesome Nostalgic Foods We Want Back
This is hysterical - I have been trying to enlighten my fiance on the yumminess of Magic Middle cookies (apparently he was sheltered and never tried them) and he just doesn't get it. I guess if you never tried one, you wouldn't know what you were missing, but still. Also, LOVED Crystal Pepsi!!! Was it really only out for one year? That's surprising - I thought it was fairly popular in my little neck of the woods.
Top 10 Awesome Nostalgic Foods We Want Back
I miss everything on the top ten list with the exception of the C3PO's-never had those. I also miss Planters Cheeseballs and Cheesecurls, and O' Boises (those were by far my favorite potato chip growing up-especially the sour cream and onion).
But I'm super surprised that one of the most amazing foods of the 80's was left off of this list and wasn't named by anyone. I want to know what happened to Red Devil Cheese Puffs. My mom would buy them every year for New Years Eve and we were so excited to take them out of the freezer and bake them-and even if they were burnt they were still good. I really miss those and can't find them anywhere.
As far as fast food restaurants, I was very happy to find a Roy Rogers a couple of years ago (to only have it taken away from me) but all of their food from my childhood all tasted the same right down to the french fries and the pickles in the fixin bar.
Also, I don't know if any one has noticed but the good old "two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame bun" (of course I'm referring to the Big Mac), the special sauce is different from when I was a kid-which I kept telling my mom about and she thought I was crazy, but I saw something on food network recently that said McD's lost the special sauce recipe in the 90's and the sauce is different now-so that being said I also miss the original big mac.
The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun
OMG, I had the Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt for lunch and I'm dying.
Well, not really. But, I do feel funny.
It was delicious nonetheless.
Don't know how soon I would do it again.
Top 10 Awesome Nostalgic Foods We Want Back
Gizmosma , totally LOVED Boppers! Would love to see those again. I also remember Fruit Wrinkles and Fruit Bars.
The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun
Who wants to meet their maker in pristine condition? Bring it on.
Top 10 Awesome Nostalgic Foods We Want Back
I totally remember Doo Dads. I grew up in Michigan and my father loved that snack. Since moving to Florida 15 years ago I've never seen it again.
I'm also glad to see others that remember Cinnamon Chachos. I loved those and when I explain them to people (to see if they remember them) they look at me like I'm insane.
I didn't realize that Planter's discontinued Cheez Balls. That's a bummer.
sable42, I'm happy to report that here in Florida Little Caesar's has had a huge resurgence thanks to cheap $5 take-away pizzas. Years ago Caesar's started closing up, but in the last year or so they've exploded all over my area, even opening a Drive Thru location! Now all the pizza places in the area are trying to copy them (usually with a bigger $6 pizza) but L.C. is doing business like gangbusters.
Also, if you never had GatorGum don't worry, it was terrible.
The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt, a Bacon Burger with Two Bacon-Stuffed Grilled Cheese Sandwiches as Bun
My mouth is actuakky salivation. I would eat this in a heartbeat. I cant wait until I'm hungover.
15 Illegal Immigrants Found in Tanker Truck of Cocoa Powder
Adam makes a very good point. Who were they? Why did they do it? This brief article touches on the fertile topic of illegal immigrants but fails to delve into the topic at all. I would like to see a longer article, to give this important subject the space it deserves.
15 Illegal Immigrants Found in Tanker Truck of Cocoa Powder
see, this is why i prefer fair trade chocolate: it *never* has illegal immigrants in it.
15 Illegal Immigrants Found in Tanker Truck of Cocoa Powder
I wonder what they did with all the cocoa powder?? Hmmmm
15 Illegal Immigrants Found in Tanker Truck of Cocoa Powder
@_greenbean: I think I would much rather have my stomach filled with chocolate
15 Illegal Immigrants Found in Tanker Truck of Cocoa Powder
While it is fantastical -- in that it sounds like something out of a dream or zany skit, it is sad. They put themselves in serious danger and must have had no other options if they'd resort to going inside the tanker.
15 Illegal Immigrants Found in Tanker Truck of Cocoa Powder
before the word suffocation registered in my brain, i was thinking that i wouldn't mind having my lungs filled with chocolate.
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"The cocoa powder in the truck is very fine, and the stowaways ran the risk of suffocating..." Hey, we all gotta die, there are certainly far worse ways than suffocating in chocolate. :)
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