Vodka makes us warm and happy when we drink it, and doesn't destroy us the next day like the browns, but what makes vodka so awesome is you can do a whole lot more with it than just make martinis.
Vodka is a natural disinfectant, deodorant and mold and mildew remover, so you can use some of your liquor cabinet stash to clean house before your friends come over for cocktails.
The clear liquor is also an insect repellant and dandruff remover, although you probably don't want to spray yourself with vodka before driving or you'll have some explaining to do if you get pulled over!
Amy of the great food blog Oh, Bite It! offers a recipe that looks both delicious and simple. She cut fresh pears in half, removed the cores, and added canned cinnamon rolls. When baked, they filled the holes to create a piping hot treat with an original flavor combination. Amy then added frosting and cinnamon on top. She also suggests ice cream, which sounds like a great idea!
This picture of pumpkin spice salmon was posted as an example of the trend taken too far. Then in the discussion at reddit, salmon lovers said this sounds pretty good, if you don’t put any sugar in the spices. Then there are those who say a sugar rub on salmon is actually delicious. I’m not much of a fish eater, especially at $12.99 a pound, so what do I know? What do you think?
You get a candy cornocopia! Jessie Oleson Moore, the internet's CakeSpy, melted an entire bag of candy corn on a cookie sheet in her oven. It turned into a flexible sheet of candy corn that resembled orange stained glass. She rolled it into the shape of a horn, then filled it with more candy corn, creating a Horn of Plenty that's perfect for both Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Kathleen Siegle made a batch of cupcakes that resemble a Sarlacc -the horrible, man-eating monster buried in the sands of Tattooine in the movie Return of the Jedi. The sand is really graham cracker crumbs, the tentacles are chocolate, and the teeth are almond slivers. Yum! The recipe and instructions are at Yummy Crumble.
The Sarlacc cupcakes look fairly doable for an ambitious Star Wars fan, but Siegle also has some really artistic creations that are bit more intimidating, like the Sarlacc Bundt Cake, Tusken Raider Cookies, and a Wampa Cake. -Thanks, Kathleen!
We've all heard people claim they made something from scratch, but mixing up your own batch of cookie dough with ingredients you bought from the store is a lot different than actually milling your own flour, churning your own butter, etc. We tend to take the accessability of most food items for granted, but what would happen if you really wanted to make something completely from scratch? This YouTuber did just that by making his own sandwich and the result reminds us just how lucky we are to have food readily available at the closest grocery store.
While winter is defined by temperature, and summer is defined by activities, autumn means smells and tastes. It’s harvest season, after all, and spices are added to preserve food for winter. That means great recipes! Even alcoholic beverages can have a taste of autumn when you use ingredients like cinnamon, pumpkin, cranberries, ginger, cloves, caramel, and lots of apple cider! And considering the holiday parties coming up the rest of the year, you might want to snag some tasty cocktail recipes from a big list at Buzzfeed. Shown here is caramel apple sangria, fromA Night Owl. A toast to autumn!
Kool-Aid used to sell their soft drink mix by offering to send a giant anthropomorphic pitcher of brightly colored drink crashing through the wall of your house if you drink the mix with extra “Oh Yeah!”.
This seemed like an ultra cool idea when you had a few friends over after school, but realistically it would have left your family at the mercy of every dog, cat and raccoon in the neighborhood.
Even though the Kool-Aid man never came crashing through our living room walls we kept on pouring in the powder, adding the sugar and water and stirring until we had our own pitcher of multi-colored deliciousness.
Kool-Aid is still one of America's favorite drink mixes nearly 90 years after Edwin Perkins invented the delicious beverage. It's the official soft drink of its home state of Nebraska, is seen as a less sugary alternative to sodas, and can be used for much more than just drinking and dyeing your hair.
Japan loves Kit Kat bars. There are at least 15 different flavors of that candy bar available there. And now people in that nation can enjoy it in a new form: croissants. Pronto, a restaurant chain, is offering crescent rolls that have two Kit Kat bars baked inside of them. Rocket News 24 tested them and finds the combination perfect:
If you’d prefer your croissant warm and your Kit Kat melty, the staff will be happy to heat it up in the toaster oven for you. While this takes away some of the satisfying crunch of the Kit Kat itself, it also helps the chocolate seep into croissant, forming layers of sweetness between the buttery flakes. And just like the name implies, the flavor makes for a great contrast to the bitterness of a cup of coffee.
Pronto offers these croissants with both regular and matcha green tea Kit Kat flavors.
Pope Francis is visiting New York City on Thursday. There will be this example of that city's most famous food waiting for him. Chef Tony Salihaj of Bleecker Street Pizza in the West Village composed this picture-perfect pizza portrait of him. His robe is made of mozzarella and ricotta cheeses and his staff of anchovies.
This is only one of a surprisingly large number of pizzas that New York City's finest pizzerias are creating in the Pope's honor, often with the hope of actually delivering them to him. You can see photos of more Papal pizzas as the New York Post.
Whether you call it a soft drink, a carbonated beverage, a soda, a pop or you just call them all Coke there's no denying that soft drinks are appealing.
People often disagree about which type or brand of soft drink is best, but if you live in an area that has a regional brand you'd better at least pretend to like it too, because folks there are probably mighty attached to their regional brand.
These regional favorites are seen as a part of people's lives in these areas, but many residents have forgotten where these particular soft drink brands came from, not to mention why they're so popular in their region.
Take Moxie for instance- it's a big hit in New England, especially in Maine where Moxie has been the official state soft drink since 2005, and yet it tastes a bit too medicinal for most folks.
That flavor comes from the fact that the drink's inventor, Dr. Augustin Thompson, originally intended Moxie to be a tonic that "nourishes the nervous system, cools the blood, tones up the stomach, and causes healthful, restful sleep."
The soft drink craze was just taking off, so the doc decided to market Moxie as a soft drink, and the rest is New England beverage history!
If you enjoy having a few drinks at your local tavern then you know it's important to keep the bartenders happy so they don't start watering down those drinks.
Tipping is a great way to get on their good side, and it never hurts to be polite to servers and treat them with respect, but these are pretty much common sense rules for drinking out.
So what can we do to keep our neighborhood booze jockeys happy?
Is there any truth to the rumor that donut holes are getting smaller? Or is it just a crackpot conspiracy -a “donutspiracy,” if you will. Phil Edwards takes a look at the historical record and concedes that yes, the holes in donuts appear to be much smaller in the 1950s than they were during World War I. Since a hole is a negative space, that’s a good thing. And there are a few possible reasons for the shrinking holes, which you can read about at Vox. -via Daily of the Day
Peanut butter, chocolate and Corn Flakes crunch fudge brownies Image and recipe: Half Baked Harvest
Sometimes you get a craving that only sugar will satisfy. And there's only one way to mainline sugar better than eating a sugar cereal: making sweet treats with sugar cereal! These recipes, appropriately assembled by PopSugar, use cereal as a main ingredient. Most of the recipes are sweet, but a few are savory, for the people who prefer salty over sugary. None of the recipes are too complicated. Some are even "no bake." Check out all the recipes here.
She probably grew up and become proficient in the ways of pizza, since the video is dated 1989, but this slice of childhood struggle should serve to remind us all that our pizza skills were once poor too.
