In last week’s newsletter, I ran a link to a story about a meatcake: meatloaf cake with mashed potato frosting. Barbara was inspired. I only got before shots though, it was eaten too quickly to get shots of the meatloaf-y inside.
Every parent knows that kids prefer to eat “fun” food than plain old normal food. Halloween gives us a great opportunity to cater to this impulse, making food that’s as much fun to look at as it is to eat. Sometimes that goes so far that grown-ups won’t eat it. Like chocolate pudding served in [...]
Deviled eggs are always the first thing to go at parties. But people keep trying to dress them up, make them “fancy” and “sophisticated”. Which usually means paprika on top. Ooh, exciting. :-/ I respect the classic simplicity of a good deviled egg recipe. But yeah, I’ll do the paprika too, just do they don’t [...]
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t like corn syrup. I try to avoid it in anything I buy, which is surprisingly hard to do if you buy anything other than raw fruits and vegetables and unprocessed meat. Yes, we still buy some prepared foods, but less and less all the time. Jenn complains [...]
After watching Food Inc. and Julie & Julia on NetFlix, their system has decided that I like food movies. (It’s not rocket science, people.) So this weekend it recommended Food Matters. I had never heard of it, but the synopsis sounded promising: With a staggering number of Americans suffering from obesity and other food-related maladies, [...]
