The Kentucky Derby, “the most exciting two minutes in sports,” is this coming Saturday. If you’re throwing a Derby party, you’ll want some traditional recipes based around mint juleps (like these cupcakes), Kentucky Hot Brown, roses, Derby pie, Benedictine, and Bourbon. No horse food here, but horses do figure in the decorations in Buzzfeed’s 14 Delicious And Charming Reasons To Throw A Kentucky Derby Party. Who knows? You might want to try some of these treats out even if you aren’t throwing a party!
Hãagen-Dazs is introducing two new ice cream flavors in Japan: tomato and carrot. The ice cream will be sold under the name SpoonVege beginning May 12. A rough Google translation from the product page:
" Cherry tomato " That the leading role the sweetness and flavor of tomatoes , add acidity and fruity aroma of cherry , and I prepared to enjoy the full-bodied taste and a rich tomato , ice cream deep taste . I can enjoy the soft hue of the original material .
" Carrot Orange " By starring plump smell sweet and soft carrot , add refreshing fragrance and refreshing acidity of orange , can enjoy the refreshing sweetness of carrot and finished it in taste sophisticated . I can enjoy the shade of bright carrot unique .
UsVsTh3m, the quiz spinoff of b3ta, has a calculator with a database of “ridiculous food days.” Yes, every day of the year is a celebration of something. I entered my birthday, September 27, and up pops National Chocolate Milk Day. Was that true, or are they giving out random answers? So I Googled it, and you see what I got. But my results bring up another question: if it’s a “National” day, what nation are they talking about? UsVsThem is a British site. The first FOUR resulting links did not say, so I gave up. Try it yourself and you might have something really nice to celebrate when your birthday rolls around.
If the ridiculously long name isn’t enough of a mouthful, chew on this-Greg says their aim is to attract customers who are "edgy in how they live their lives but not necessarily in how they eat."
The first two overpriced taco varieties they have announced are the “one percenter”-lobster and garlic butter taco with cabbage slaw, and the “winner winner”-a chicken taco with brown gravy.
Taco Bell may be movin' on up like the Jeffersons, but will their new demographic accept them with open arms, or send them back to Junk Food Junction?
Ooh, this is a perfect sandwich for a kid’s birthday party, or a video game night! Dress up your bacon turtle burgers as Super Mario Koopa Troopa turtles with colored, edible shells. They’ve got hamburger, hot dogs, and bacon inside and visual appeal outside, so take pictures before you eat them. They won’t last long.
Ronald McDonald was (generally) cute in cartoon form, (often) downright creepy in real life, and (arguably) never seemed like an appropriate spokesperson for a fattening burger chain like McDonalds, especially when he was standing next to the more likely candidate- his morbidly obese pal Grimace.
Clowns brought the festive feel to burger chains back in the day, but nowadays people seem a bit less enthusiastic about buying fast food from a burger shill in clown white, so McDonalds has decided to revamp Ronald's look by dressing him up in a mcfancy new blazer and striped mcshirt.
His new wardrobe was designed by Tony Award-winning theatrical designer Ann Hould-Ward, and the masterminds behind this mcmakeover want Ronald to play a bigger role in their new social media campaign "fun makes great things happen", yet somehow Ronald looks like less fun to me now.
Would you like some Spam? We prepare it in a wide variety of ways. Today, we're offering it as fries. Brandi Malloy of Pop Sugar shows us how to make it in an instructional video, as well as tells us trivia about nature's wonder food. For example, Spam is so popular in Hawaii that it is known as "Hawaiian steak."
Jim Koch is a man who knows a thing or twenty about beer- he's the founder of the Boston Beer company, he helped design the Perfect Pint glass and he's the founder of Brewing The American Dream, a micro-lending program that has helped over 300 food and beverage companies get their start over the last ten years.
It's safe to say Jim loves him some beer, and he drinks beer every day yet never loses the taste for those delicious foamy suds, but how does he drink beer all the time without getting drunk?
His amazing secret is stupidly simple- he eats active yeast before drinking, one teaspoon per pint of beer he plans to drink that night. To make the yeast more palatable he mixes it in with yogurt, but warns that yeast "will mitigate – not eliminate – but mitigate the effects of alcohol!"
So the next time you don't feel like stumbling home from the pub try this simple trick and you'll be the last person standing!
Mad culinary scientists are feverishly at work, advancing the dark and dangerous frontiers of dessert science. First, they devised the cronut--a cross between the donut and the croissant. Next came the crookie--a croissant with a Double Stuf Oreo inside.
Now, thanks to the Waffle Cafe in Chicago, we have the wonut. Or the doffle. The chefs haven't decided on a name yet. But it is as it sounds: a combination waffle and donut. They make it by preparing a small waffle, then frying it like it is a donut. Behold the results!
Japan is hardcore about its frozen desserts. We've previously seen a parfait that is topped with not a cherry, but an entire slice of cake. Other Japanese parfaits are even more extreme, such as this parfaitzilla.
But if you really want to know about pop culture in Japan, then consult the experts at Rocket News 24. They've rounded up photos of the most inventive parfaits available, including the one pictured above which has raw tuna.
This beautiful looking (and probably tasting) dish is a skinned 5-foot alligator filled with a crawfish-based stuffing. It's the creation of the BBQ Pit Boys, a barbecuing federation that teaches members how to cook food properly. The alligator was the centerpiece of a full Cajun gourmet meal that also included poboys, stuffed red snapper, and deep fried oysters.
I've had barbecued pork, chicken, turkey, and beef, but never alligator. The narrator says that it has the consistency of pork and the taste of chicken. That squares with my experience of baked alligator.
This Tuesday, April 22, is Earth Day. To mark the occasion, Beth Klosterboer made a spherical cake. She used 2 hemispheric pans to form the body of the cake, then hollowed out the core. She frosted blue icing around the outside and then filled the core with rock candy. After assembling the components, she then used green frosting to show the continents.
Do you have a plethora of Peeps sitting around your house after Easter? You should send them to the guy in this video, he devours them by the dozens!
His name is Matt “Megatoad” Stonie and he is a Peeps devouring machine, seizing the world record for fastest Peeps eater ever by scarfing down 100 cute little marshmallow birds in less than two minutes.
For him Easter was Peeps-a-palooza, and a good reason to get tested for diabetes as soon as possible, and with a last name like Stonie you know he was celebrating 4/20 early when he came up with the brilliant idea to devour an entire flock of Peeps!
Ann Reardon is the baker responsible for the Twitter and Instagram logo cakes. She made this birthday cake for her husband. It is not, I stress, a mound of fondant, as so many artistic "cakes" are these days. It's actually a carrot cake covered with frosting squirted on to resemble spaghetti. The meatballs are Ferrero Rocher chocolate candies. The spaghetti sauce consists of a mixture of raspberries, lemon juice, white chocolate, and pieces of carrot cake. You can find her how-to video embedded below.
Fanesca is a traditional soup recipe for Easter in Ecuador. It is only made for Easter because the preparation is time-consuming, with a lot of ingredients, and the recipe makes a large batch. Fanesca contains a variety of fresh grains and beans, squash, salted cod, cheese, and milk. Wikipedia says that the twelve grains and beans represent the twelve apostles, and the cod represents Jesus. The presentation is traditional as well.
And of course, side dishes are very important and this soup must be served with slices of hardboiled eggs, fried ripe plantains, slices of queso fresco, slices of hot peppers or a good Ecuadorian hot sauce, white onions marinated in lime juice, and empanadas de viento or fried empanadas. These last empanadas are sometimes replaced by masitas or just the empanada dough shaped into small balls and fried. Fanesca is usually followed a dish of Ecuadorian mashed potatoes called molo.
The recipe says it serves 25 people, but it appears to feed an entire village. Reading the list of ingredients, the spices alone make me want to try it out! However, I’d never be able to find all the ingredients in my small town. The complete recipe and instructions for Fanesca are at Laylita’s Recipes. Check out her other Easter recipes, too. -via Metafilter
