Do you need to power your rotisserie while camping? Forget a generator. Nature provides all the force you need. Here's a rack of beef ribs rotating on a water wheel. The fire is in a metal pan so that it doesn't get wet.
Casual Googling suggests that this is not a new idea, though it is a clever one. You can find instructions on how to make your own courtesy of DJ BBQ.
-via Geekologie
This lovely spread looks like a grilled cheese sandwich with a tasty bowl of tomato soup on the side, but that's far from the reality. In actuality, this is a grilled pound cake with melted chocolate and berry soup on the side. Naturally, the croutons in the soup are actually pound cake and the swirl of sour cream is whipped cream. You can learn how to make your own delicious dessert sandwich and soup over on Instructables.
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Japan is not limited by Western sensibilities of what is an appropriate ice cream flavor. Let us be glad, else we might never get the chance to try beef tongue ice cream or foie gras ice cream.
Now we can try one more meat-based ice cream. Rocket News 24 reports that the city of Fukuoka is hosting the Karaage Festival--a celebration of a type of fried chicken dish. Visitors will be able to eat karaage-flavored ice cream. Let's go!
-via First We Feast
You can say a lot of bad things about Gordon Ramsay if you base your opinion solely on the way he acts on TV, but all that cursing and screaming is there for ratings sake and in real life Gordon is far more amiable.
He's also the kind of guy who enjoys showing people the ropes in the kitchen, and you'd be surprised how much you can learn from him when he's not screaming orders at you!
Gordon has been posting cooking videos on his YouTube channel for about six years now, and this time he has blended five videos into one powerhouse lesson in mastering 5 basic cooking skills- finely chopping an onion, cooking rice, deboning a fish, sharpening a knife and cooking pasta.
-Via Laughing Squid
Are you hungry? You sure will be after watching the preparation and consumption of this filling meal! The BBC program Wonders of the Monsoon showed a Giant Red Leech swallowing a blue worm longer than itself.
That's right: the filmmakers estimate that the leech was 50 cm and the worm 70 cm long. The leech started at one end and started sucking down the worm like it was a thick strand of spaghetti.
This incident took place at Mount Kinabalu on the island of Borneo. The filmmakers had to wait for weeks for the rains to get heavy enough to draw the reclusive leeches out into the open. But as you can see, the wait was worth the reward. Yummy!
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Learn how to make proper french fries with a little song from the YouTube channel You Suck at Cooking (previously at Neatorama)! The steps may be hard to follow in the song, but the video gives you all the instruction you need to make fries from scratch. Or potatoes.
But if you really need them, the lyrics are in the YouTube description. Now I have a rhythm in my head and a craving for french fries! -via Tastefully offensive
No matter how you personally feel about fast food restaurants, there's no denying they are some of the most popular restaurants in all of America. Some might even argue you can tell a lot about someone based on their favorite fast food restaurant. If that's true, then you can certainly make some interesting conclusions about the mentalities and values of different states with this cool map illustrating the fastest-growing chain in each state.
Before you get ready to argue about their results, keep in mind they set up these rules before choosing the winner for each state:
That being said, I can't attest to the popularity of any restaurants in other states, but the California one seems pretty dead on. I never even heard of Pieology until a few years ago and now it seems they're opening up everywhere.
You can read more about the results over at Thrillist.
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It's a completely consumable drinking vessel. Rocket News 24 reports that Fujiyahonten, a specialty seafood shop in Hokkaido, Japan, offers this unique goblet made entirely of squid meat. It's ideal for drinking warm sake.
Once you're done with your alcohol, then you can heat the cup over an open flame, baking it into a crispy form. Then you can cut it into smaller sections and eat it. Yummy!
Amanda is a food photographer and chef in Sydney, Australia. At her blog, Chew Town, she reveals this incredible dessert that's perfect for an Easter gathering. She made them with hollow Cadbury creme eggs which she filled with tiramisu and savoiardi cookies. Then she topped them with shredded chocolate and what appears to be whole coffee beans.
-via Tasteologie
Everybody should know how to whip up a batch of chocolate chip cookies, they're the magical munchies that never fail to put the muncher in a good mood, and they're so simple to make even kids can manage it.
But not all chocolate chip cookies are created equal, and the ingredients and ratio of each used in the cookie dough can have a very noticeable effect on the flavor, shape and consistency of the cookies.
Thanks to the efforts of chef Tessa Arias you can see how your chocolate chip cookies will turn out when you modify the basic recipe, so you can skip the experimentation and go straight to snacking!
Hungarian artist Mézesmanna is an master with royal icing as a medium. Here, she takes a cookie and turns it into a lace basket of flowers with a deft hand and a mesmerizing style. These intricately-iced cookies, a sort of gingerbread, are a Hungarian tradition and are given as gifts and souvenirs. The original video is on Facebook. -via Sploid
Stuffed Garlic Bread | Image: Cookies and Cups
A birthday card with unexpected money inside. Opening an old box only to find a beloved, lost item. The proverbial pearl inside the oyster. Sometimes we get surprised with such delights — it's a part of what makes life worth living. Some might think food with delicious centers may not fall into such a category, but I beg to differ. The first time I bit into a juicy burger and found that the center was full of deliciously gooey melted cheese, I felt as if I had won the food lottery.
The recipes linked here, whether sweet or savory, all have one thing in common: they are stuffed with delicious ingredients. Check all of them out, select one to make and surprise your loved ones twice — once at the sight of the treat, and a second time when they bite into it.
Strawberry Cheesecake Stuffed French Toast | Image: Just a Taste
Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Parmesan Meatballs | Image: Blog Chef
Salted Caramel Molasses Cookies | Image: Crazy For Crust
The waffle iron is seemingly the most useless appliance in the kitchen, spending most of its time gathering dust in the cabinet, and unless you run a Bread & Breakfast you probably wonder why you even own one.
Of course, that feeling goes right out the window when you dig in to a stack of delicious waffles, the iron earning a reprieve once again, but wouldn't it be nice to put that iron to work more often?
Well, as you'll see in Lifehacker's Top 10 Surprising Foods You Can Make In Your Waffle Iron you can make all kinds of delicious stuff with that hot iron press, from hash browns to fried mac n cheese to brownies and (as pictured above) mozzarella bites.
Everything you cook will come out with a waffle pattern, of course, but in many cases this is an improvement, because mozzarella sticks don't come with built-in sauce pockets.
See the Top 10 Surprising Foods You Can Make In Your Waffle Iron here
It's not just a snack--it's an adventure!
Doughnut Time is a donut shop in Brisbane, Australia. It's been very successful in its first year of operation. In fact, the business is already expanding to new locations. And to celebrate its first birthday, the business invited 20 local bakers to radically alter their classic glazed donut in 6 different ways.
This one by Elisa Pietrantonio is one of the most deliciously preposterous. It has strawberry Persian fairy floss, gold leaf, vanilla unicorn buttercream, popcorn, sprinkles, chocolate bark, and more. The most novel part of it is a syringe filled with edible glitter. I'd never heard of this practice before, but I can see how it would appeal to customers.
You can see more extraordinary donuts from this project at Distractify.
-via Lost at E Minor
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You can grind up cricket bodies and turn them into flour. You can then use this flour to make pasta. That's how you end up with this delicious-looking radiatori. It's high in protein that the human body can easily digest.
The Independent describes how one artisanal pasta shop in Thiefosse, France is using cricket flour to revive its business:
“The name of the ingredient may be a turnoff, but it's really delicious, especially with game meat,” smiles Alain Limon as he spreads cricket-flavoured fusilli on a drying rack. […]
His boss Stephanie Richard began her homemade pasta business in 2012, and is now hiring again thanks to the success of her latest creations made from insect flour.
“The insect is the protein of the future,” Richard says. “It's protein of high quality that is well digested by the body.” […]
For Richard's unique pastas, she uses pulverised crickets and grasshoppers, sometimes mixing the two, and sometimes mixing ground cepes with cricket flour.
“There's a kind of nutty taste thanks to the cepes, making it taste more like whole wheat pasta,” Richard says.
If you want to buy some cricket pasta for yourself, the online store Bugsolutely appears to have you covered. Of course, if you're more sporting, you'd try to catch the crickets yourself.
-via Nerdcore
