Featured Recipes
Pretty boiled eggs (so you can tell them apart from the raw ones in the fridge!)
I hesitate to publish this right before Easter, as it’s really a year round egg hack, not an easter egg hack, but I suppose it is extra useful at Easter, where you might want some pretty brown eggs.
If you’re looking for fancier Easter egg ideas, you can find some here, here, .. and an Easter basket here.… [ KEEP READING ]
So I usually buy a big thing of eggs, and boil a handful of them ahead of time to throw in lunchboxes or to make tuna salad with, or whatever, and I like to be able to tell them apart from the non-boiled at a glance.
Halloween Cocktail Inspiration
Six years. Long enough to have a baby and raise him/her until they are school ready. Long enough to date, get married and launch a career. Six years is long enough to remodel a house, launch a business, go to graduate school or change the course of your life. Six years is a substantial commitment and you may not believe this, but: I have been blogging for six years.
I will give pause for you to roll your eyes. You should. And you might think I am about to pontificate about my ability to own a soapbox, talk incessantly and blog blog blog into the horizon.
Braaains! Salmon Brain Dip every Zombie would just die for.
Really, Halloween is NOT that far away, and if you’re really into Halloween, like we are around here, it just makes sense to start thinking about things early! So, as part of my new “clean up old stuff on Dabbled” series, I realized that while I gave the recipe for this brain dip as part of a post on the food I created for a previous halloween party, I had not actually pulled it out into a post of it’s own. So it’s high time that we did! I’ve done some kind of brain shaped dip… [ KEEP READING ] for halloween for pretty much ever, but I used to do a crab dip that had gelatin in it so it kept it’s shape really nicely.
Tutorial: How to Make the Doctor Who Dalek Cake
As promised yesterday, here are more details on the Doctor Who Dalek Cake. You know I’m a big believer in showing you that YOU can make a really cool cake, and I do one every year for the Boy’s birthday. Past years: Angry Birds cupcakes, Dragon Cake, Perry the Platypus Cake, and Clone Trooper cupcakes. So, today I’ve promised some of the details of how to make this cake yourself. Tomorrow I’ll try to get up some of the decor, and a wrap up :)
The Dr. Who Party (and the Dalek Cake!)
Update: Dalek Cake Tutorial is posted!
So this weekend’s Dr. Who themed birthday party was a smashing success. (View Invitation) Both kids and adults had a good time enjoying the food, the Timey Wimey waterslide, the Sonic Screwdriver cocktails (adults!) , fish fingers and custard (kids!), and of course, the most awesome (if I do say so myself!) Dalek Cake. (Can you guess what the Daleks are made out of?)
I’ll get a tutorial up on how to do the cake later this week – I took a bunch of pictures of the process. There were a few roadblocks along the way, like the Crack in the Universe deciding to manifest itself on the top of my base cake, and of course, the mess in the kitchen afterwards… [ KEEP READING ].
Awesome technique for Microwaving Corn on the Cob
I don’t normally cross post between here and Foodwhirl, but since I’ve been such a slacker at posting either place lately (I know, I know, I’ll do better this summer, I promise!) I figured you wouldn’t mind too much. Plus this technique is soooo cool. It’s super easy, no-mess, and really quick. You don’t have to shuck the corn before hand, which I love.
Anyway, I wrote it all up at Foodwhirl, so go check it out:
Corn on the Cob: Fast, easy, & No Mess!
Enjoy!
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