Anne Widya makes dinner into works of art for her four children. She started out with simple shapes, but when she posted a picture of a meal on Facebook, she received lots of encouragement. Since then, Widya has made food art her hobby, to the delight of her children. Continue reading to see more.
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Holly Lofthouse's recipe looks quite simple. She took canned biscuit dough and sliced a pocket into each biscuit. She then stuffed sliced cheese and tiny pepperoni shingles into the pocket. After sealing the pocket, she cooked them on a waffle iron for 3 minutes.
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PYT is a restaurant in Philadelphia known worldwide for its research into the burger sciences. The geniuses in its laboratory have developed revolutionary new hamburger products, such as the cheeseburger-stuffed donut, the deep fried Twinkie burger and the peanut butter and jelly sandwich bun burger.
Since Thanksgiving is fast approaching, PYT is now offering its Thanksgiving meal burger. It has a patty made of turkey dark meat, stuffing, rosemary gravy, and cranberry sauce. Yummy!
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Doritos and Mountain Dew naturally belong together. When combined, they form the main fuel of the human body. We've previously seen them combined in cupcakes. But that was unofficial and unsponsored by the parent companies.
Redditor Steve Barnes, a freshman at Kent State University, spotted a kiosk distributing free samples of a new Mountain Dew product: Dewitos. Yes, that's Mountain Dew flavored like Doritos. Barnes reports that "it actually tasted like Doritos." Quartz received an email from Pepsi, the company that makes Mountain Dew, confirming that this is a real product being tested. So we now have reason to keep living, dreaming, and hoping for a better future in this broken and fallen world.
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The Happy Dog is a restaurant in Cleveland. Since Sean Kilbane purchased and renovated it in 2008, it’s been a happening place for live music and original food. The chef decided to start by offering only 4 foods: hot dogs, vegetarian dogs, French fries, and tater tots. But to these you can add a vast array of toppings.
The menu includes 50 hot dog toppings. Yes, you can have ketchup and nacho cheese. But you can also get fried eggs, brie cheese, and SpaghettiOs. You can ask for mustard, but you’ll have to be specific because the restaurant offers three different kinds.
The chef’s best idea was to offer Fruit Loops. I’ve never had them as a hot dog topping, but it really makes sense.
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Miss Cakehead and London Mess catered a dinner to promote the Surgeon Simulator game for the iPhone. It was pretty gruesome! The food was served in an operating room, around a live surgical patient, called “Bob” just like in the simulator. The first course was served in pulp trays, with Miso added from drip bags. The meat dish was disguised as Bob’s ribcage. Drinks came in urine specimen jars, and candy was distributed in pill form.
Dessert? That was a Brain Piñata, which guests cracked open to reveal delicious chocolate inside. And there were no eating utensils besides surgical instruments! See more from the Surgeon Sim Dining Experience at Miss Cakehead’s site.
Redditor Rcrowley32 said, “My daughter had a very specific birthday cake request 'animals wearing birthday hats, having a party'. I think I managed to pull it off.” The birthday girl also asked for strawberry cake with whipped cream frosting, so that’s exactly what she got. It’s a serious challenge to fulfill such specific requests, but mothers get a lot of satisfaction from accomplishing it. These are some real party animals!
Cake designer Kylie Mangles challenged herself to do something new and different with cake that she’d never done before. She selected an image of Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons by Erick Flores called Cutout Ralph. How do you translate this into a cake? Mangles combines a lot of art and cake techniques to get it done, and described the process at Threadcakes. A snippet:
Then the fun part began: adding the intestines, spine, ribs, what I suspect might be a gallbladder and spleen or maybe a kidney. Then I added the cut up leg and arm. There was one more support dowel in the arm to hold everything up. I wanted to do the black outline but I wasn't sure how it would turn out, so I put him all together first and then added the black outline after. I think it would have been easier to add the black lines as I went along but it worked out in the end, just with a little more patience and a lot more coffee. While I was doing this I also removed all his lower teeth and added to his lower jaw to bring it out and put his teeth back on.
Thanks to the black outlines, the finished product really did look like a drawing. But they ate it anyway, and enjoyed it. There are lots of pictures to remember him by. By the way, the image above is of the cake, not the drawing!
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Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
Elvis Presley's favorite ice cream flavor was vanilla.
John Lennon's favorite room service snack was corn flakes with cream. He grew up during the war, when cream was rationed and was a rare luxury.
Jerry Lewis is crazy about Wendy's burgers.
Wilt Chamberlain's favorite sandwich was peanut butter and mayo on white bread.
In 2011, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made a pledge that he would only eat meat from animals he has slaughtered himself. He once sliced the throat of a goat. He also killed a chicken and ate it's heart. The pledge lasted over a year. At his wedding, Zuckerberg, his bride, and their guests dined on a mouse-shaped chocolates, a snack the couple both love and had shared on their first date.
George Reeves loved snacking on chocolate doughnuts he'd buy at the local farmer's market.
Michael Jordan's favorite fast food is Taco Bell.
Sarah Palin's favorite food is moose stew.
George Clooney's favorite food is Chaya steak. He is also a beer drinker. He had a keg of Guinness installed in his dressing room during the filming of Ocean's Eleven.
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Is your ice cream trying to hide from you? If it wants to survive, then wearing camo could be a good idea.
The ice cream shop chain Baskin-Robbins is selling ice cream and cones that come in a woodland camouflage pattern. It's a mixture of chocolate, salty caramel, and cake flavors. So if you go into a Baskin-Robbins, you'll have to stalk your prey more thoughtfully. You are hunting the most dangerous game--ice cream that can not only hide, but also approach you in stealth.
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Christi of the food blog Love from the Oven has been working hard all week, rounding up inventive and delicious recipes that can be made with popular Halloween candies. So raid your kids’ trick-or-treating bags and start cooking!
Earlier this week, I directed you to her list of 50 Butterfinger candy bar recipes. Christi has created similar lists with Snickers bars, Whoppers, and peanut butter cups. The latter are among my favorite candies, so I’m really tempted by this cheesecake that looks like a massive version of a peanut butter cup. Jocelyn of Inside Bru Crew Life made it.
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A few minutes ago, I didn't know these things existed. It had never occurred to me to combine sweet, fruity flavors with the meat-like flavor of hot dogs. But now I want to eat them all!
Rocket News 24 reports that at what I gather is a gas station in central Honshu, it is possible to buy packaged hot dogs that come as Nature intended: with strawberry or lemon flavors.
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The difference between fruits and vegetables depends on whether you are talking to a botanist or a cook, but Daven at Today I Found Out gives us a decent short course in telling the difference. He also explains the difference between jelly and jam, kosher salt and table salt, and the different colors of pepper. What blew my mind was the difference between green olives and black olives. I thought they were different kinds of olives! Personally, I much prefer the taste of green olives. -Thanks, Daven!
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So the kids come in Halloween night, and they pour the contents of their bag on the floor to pick out their favorites. They slowly eat themselves into a sugar coma, and this is when the adults strike. They grab the stash and put it somewhere safer so the kids wont have diabetes in a few days. Thing is, mom and dad reach in and take a few treats because, well, don't you think they've earned it? But when they sit down to eat their mini-Snickers, they freeze. Why? Because they don't know which wine would best accentuate it.
Well now, thanks to Bustle, they do. In the article all of us have been waiting for for most of our lives, they tell us which wine pairs best with which Halloween candy. Though some may know at its most basic that chocolate goes well with red, this list runs much deeper than that. Put it this way, when you crack into that Reese's Cup, match it with a bold red, like a malbec. They will accentuate each other perfectly.
I mean, come on. We all knew that, right? (I totally didn't know that).
I have to say I was honestly surprised by an article at Sploid that explains how KFC makes fried chicken. First, I was surprised that so many people did not already know how fried chicken is made, and also by how many people were surprised by KFC’s technique. But then I remembered that I live down the street from Colonel Sander’s first restaurant (now a museum) and that I’ve made fried chicken all my life. I also worked at KFC for a short time, which I’m sure many folks have. But if it’s new to you, it’s worth telling you about.
The process is pretty much how your grandmother would make chicken (and you should have paid attention), with one big difference: the pressure frying. Grandma would love to be able to fully cook chicken pieces in ten minutes like KFC does, but the equipment to do it is large and expensive. Read the entire procedure at Sploid.
