Red Velvet Quesadillas
Becky McKay has a great idea for a dessert with a vaguely Tex-Mex theme. You can find her full recipe at the link. She uses cake frosting for the filling, but I'd be tempted to try a very light cream cheese filling.
Oreo Peanut Butter Beats All Other Peanut Butters
If you have a food processor at home, you can easily make delicious homemade peanut butter with nothing more than peanuts. But if you really want something delicious, albiet slightly less nutritious, try throwing some Oreos into the mix to make Oreo peanut butter.
8 Foods Presented In Delicious Cone-y Goodness
Ice cream cones are popular for good reason -they are easy to eat and delicious. If you can't get enough cone foods, enjoy these 8 fun cone recipes courtesy of Food Beast. I'm particularly intrigued by this taco cone made with a simple dough around classic taco treats.
How to Eat Like a Pirate
Want to eat like a pirate on Talk Like a Pirate Day? Marauding buccaneers didn't leave cookbooks behind, and we rarely run across a description of what pirates ate. The fact is that living at sea with no refrigeration made food storage a nasty business. One reason rum was so important is that it helped to make stagnant water and moldy food palatable. But they did have a recipe or two.
In the West Indies, a popular pirate dish among marauders was salmagundi, a stew of the odds-and-ends of meat and vegetables thrown into a communal pot and heavily seasoned. In his book Pirates and Piracy, author David Reinhardt provides a litany of ingredients one might find in the cauldron and the manner of preparation:
Included might be any of the following: turtle meat, fish, pork, chicken, corned beef, ham, duck and pigeon. The meats would be roasted, chopped into pieces and marinated in spied wine, then mixed with cabbage, anchovies, pickled herring, mangoes, hard-boiled eggs, palm hearts, onions, olives, grapes and any other pickled vegetable available. The entire concoction would then be highly seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper, and mustard seed and soaked with oil and vinegar.
Doesn't that sound wonderful for supper? Read more about the pirate diet at Smithsonian's Food and Think blog. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user BrotherMagneto)
How to Eat Your Food
Jeff Wysaski isn't giving you a tutorial as much as he is illustrating the way the real world works. -via Pleated-Jeans
I Need to Book A Trip to Canada Just to Enjoy This Poutine Burger
Why get your burger with a side of poutine when you can instead get it on your buger, complete with a side of gravy and a pickle on top? If you're wondering Triple-O's poutine burger actually is comprised of, it features bacon, fries, cheese curds, gravy and chipotle mayo.
Link Via Food Beast
Ramen Crust Pizza
(Photo: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt)
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's recipe combines two perfect dorm foods. Though to get the full experience, the ramen pizza should be baked, then left in a box in a closet for a day before consumption. You can find his full recipe at the link.
Sweet Waffle Breakfast Sushi
A waffle cone maker, some cream cheese and fruit is all you need to make delicious, fresh waffle sushi at home. If you're wondering what you would dip these sweet treats in, well, that would be warm maple syrup, of course.
Link Via Food Beast
The McEverything Is a Combination of 43 McDonald's Sandwiches
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Gaze upon the work of Nick of DudeFoods. It is a glorious, but it is also sad. For what worlds are there now for Nick to conquer? He writes:
After all 43 sandwiches were finished and sitting at my table I got to work putting the McEverything together. I originally anticipated it only being a couple of feet high, but as you can see from the pictures it ended up MUCH taller than that. I took a few photos along the way as well just so the whole thing wouldn’t be a total waste if ended up tumbling over onto the floor before I finished stacking all the sandwiches on top of one another. Oh, and if you’re wondering how I held the entire thing together the answer is bamboo skewers… lots and lots of bamboo skewers….
At the link, you can see more photos and read the story of our hero's journey into greatness.
Deep Fried Clam Chowder? What the What?
Crab cakes are so boring and old school. Why bother with something so passe when you can instead enjoy deep-fried soup without even traveling to a KFC in Japan?
Via Eater
14 Things You Didn't Know About Sriracha
You like Sriracha hot sauce, but you still have some questions, right? Thrillist has the answers, from how to pronounce it, where the rooster came from, how many Scoville units it has, and more facts that you didn't even know you needed, like how the company produced 20 million bottles a year. Link -via Foodbeast
Apple Pie S'mores You Say? Count Me In!
Why limit your s'mores to merely chocolate, marshmallow and graham crackers when you can easily switch it up so it combines two tasty dessert favorites? Just switch out the chocolate for apple butter and cinnamon baking chips.
Blue Cheese Lollipops: Because Sometimes We Need Savory Sweets
Tailgates with blue cheese dressing and buffalo wings are great, but sometimes you need something a little more portable -like a blue chese lollipop. These wonderful concoctions were created by the fine folks at Lolliphile, the company who has also created absinthe, sriracha and maple bacon.
