Archive for the 'food' Category

January 14th, 2008

Eggs over Uzi

Gun Egg Fryers

They are going to scratch that Teflon coated pan!
via about a billion people long chain

January 11th, 2008

Almondy Goodness

How Much is Inside Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds?
Cold cereal walks the line between healthy breakfast and a sugary junk food. To become a top-seller, cereals have to be delicious and good for you.
A new “How Much is Inside” from cockeyed.com. When it comes to cereal, I prefer Wegman’s brand Fiber Essentials mixed [...]

January 10th, 2008

Great Googly Moogly

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - One Hundred Percent EDIBLE Googly Eyes!
After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like many other great inventions, it seems almost simple in retrospect, but in this [...]

January 7th, 2008

BRAINS!!!

Undead Twist on the Food Pyramid - Slashfood
The Zombie food pyramid sets new guidelines for the undead in their insatiable pursuit of sustenance.

Slashfood has been added to my list of food blogs, helping me stay up on the world of food.
This first important update is for all the zombies out there, helping you to [...]

January 7th, 2008

Stuck for 2 Days

Women stuck in elevator for 2 days — chicagotribune.com
Two suburban Chicago women were trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, surviving on two cough drops and six aspirin until they were rescued.
I am not quite sure, but I don’t think aspirin counts as food, or even something that would really fend off starvation.  The [...]

January 6th, 2008

jellyfish wafers

Demand for jellyfish aids state shrimpers — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Shrimpers trying to stay afloat during the off-season have been scooping them out of the Gulf of Mexico by the thousands since September. The gelatinous masses have turned out to be a profitable commodity on the Asian market, once they are processed into crispy protein wafers.
apparently [...]

December 19th, 2007

Popcorn Lung

Food: Microwave Popcorn Makers Vow To Remove Diacetyl
Although there has been one consumer case of “popcorn lung,” there’s no real danger to consumers who don’t eat microwave popcorn several times a day. The real concern is for those people who work in popcorn plants. Soon, however, you’ll be able to eat your popcorn totally guilt-free. [...]

December 19th, 2007

raisins

ya know how raisins come in that cardboard barrel type container.  And they clump together, because they are raisins?
If you shake the container just right, the loose raisins knock other raisins loose so you can just pour them on your cereal instead of using a spoon.  I hate scooping clumped raisins.
anyway, the cardboard tube with [...]

November 29th, 2007

New Nutrition Labels

Wider nutrition labeling systems headed to stores in U.S. | Health | Reuters.com
A new system for scoring the nutritional value of foods will find its way to grocery store shelves next year, the latest attempt to come up with a standard way to make healthier food choices.
The Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI) was developed by [...]

November 20th, 2007

You Call That Health Food?

You Call That Health Food? - Men’s Health
Take a moment and consider this logic: 1. Fat-free foods are healthy. 2. Skittles are fat-free. 3. Therefore, Skittles are healthy. Make sense? Of course not. But it’s exactly the type of reasoning that food manufacturers want you to use.
Right off the bat they have one that [...]

November 19th, 2007

Ratchet Corkscrew

Ratchet Corkscrew - Boing Boing Gadgets
Each ratcheted corkscrew is $100, the equivalent of 100 bottles of the finest ripple.
Is it REALLY that hard to use a normal corkscrew that $100 gadgets need to be invented?  I can maybe undertand if you are opening a high volume of bottles, but then you should just get really [...]

November 13th, 2007

Apple Spice Cupcakes with Cider Glaze

So the idea to cook with apple cider came to me when I at some point saw something for about Apple Cider Donuts. I have never had an apple cider donut, but they sounds awesome.
I don’t deep fry things so I decided on cupcakes because they are easy to take to work. The [...]

November 12th, 2007

hands burning

How do I get my hands to stop burning ??? (Archived thread) -
Ouch. Rubbing alcohol is supposed to cut the oil, then follow that with a lotion or ointment
I cut up a bunch of peppers from the garden (i finally decided it was too cold and they weren’t going to grow anymore) today to freeze.  [...]

November 7th, 2007

3,000-Calorie Dinner

A 3,000-Calorie Dinner? Belly-ssimo! ~ Newsroom ~ News from CSPI
OLIVE GARDENLasagna Classico: 1,060 calories and 28 grams of bad fat (saturated plus trans fat
ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL
Spaghetti & Meatballs with meat sauce: The following nutrition numbers are not typos: Romano’s rendition of this classic dish provides more than an entire day’s calories (2,430) and nearly [...]

November 4th, 2007

espresso

Amazon.com: Saeco 30013 Aroma Traditional Espresso Machine, Black: Kitchen & Dining
Amazon.com: Breville 800ESXL Commercial 15-Bar Triple-Priming Die-Cast Espresso Machine: Kitchen & Dining

Amazon.com: Saeco A-SP-SV Spidem Villa Super-Automatic Espresso Machine, Silver: Kitchen & Dining
Newegg.com - Salton FES15B 5c Pump Esprosso Maker
I want an espresso machine, but I have no idea how to pick one. There [...]