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Bake It Pretty and 31 Days of Giveaways

Jennifer — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:11:13 +0000

Bake It Pretty is my new favorite baking supply site. It has the most adorable chocolate candy melt molds you can find.

I particularly love the vintage button mold. That combined with the ever delicious Clasen candy melts she sells is a most decadent delight!

Image via Bake It Pretty blog. Hopefully it's okay to use :)

See the Bake It Pretty Candy Buttons 101 for instructions on how to melt candy melts and make some awesome!

To help supply your initial cupcake goodness, Fantabulously Frugal is having a 31 day giveaway special. Day 7 is a starter cupcake set from Bake It Pretty!

Today’s giveaway (Day 8) is also great for us green bakers – reusable snack and sandwich bag from Etsy shop Green Street Bags – awesome! Check it out! Even if you don’t win, they’re still great!

Bookmark their site for more giveaways this month!

31 Days of Giveaways

117 Nagging Food Questions

Jennifer — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:17:54 +0000

Make that 117 Nagging Food Questions and counting! Over at Chow, a food media site, every week the answer of a new nagging food question is posted. As of January 15, 117 answers are at your disposal!

Some of my favorites?

How Long Can You Keep Dry Spices? [Short answer: 1-3 years, depending on whole or ground, unless you bust out the fancy storing techniques]
Why Do Onions Make You Cry? [Short answer: It's all about the chemical reactions]
How Long Can Dried Pasta Be Stored? [Short answer: Years and years!]
What Makes Cheddar Cheese Sharp? [Short answer: Bacteria from aging - gross, but so delicious!]
Is Soy Lecithin Bad for You? [Short answer: Like anything, it's ok - in moderation. It's a natural derivative of the soybean]

via Wordhole

Recipes on Flickr

Jennifer — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:30:23 +0000

A lot of food groups on Flickr are pure fluff – just pretty photos of food with no utility beyond the visual. Once in a great while I enjoy looking at food, but more often than not, I’m going to want to reproduce it!

I stumbled upon a a few groups whose premise is that each photo must be accompanied by a recipe or a link to a recipe. It combines my love of looking at delicious food with real life reviews and reproduction ability! Recipes to Share, Cooking (recipe required), The (un)official Flickr cookbook, and Food with Blogged Recipes are all recipe based Flickr groups.

One delight that I found through The (un)official Flickr cookbook is this excellent idea of a Lemon-Ginger cookie:

You can find the recipe at the user’s blog, Coconut & Lime.

View my “food” tagged Flickr items to see more yums that yours truly has made or just plain eaten.

Cake Wrecks

Jennifer — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:08:00 +0000

“When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.” I had spent forever looking for this site after hearing about it at a conference. Everyone was referring to it as cake wreckers, so I tried cakewreckers.blogspot.com and other such things, always unsuccessful.

The real site is cakewrecks.blogspot.com, and it is a wonderful time waster for a snow day afternoon.

My current favorite is Fail Blog worthy the ultimate cake fail:

Firefork: Campfire Poker

Jennifer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:29:59 +0000

If you’re just building your camping supplies and you don’t want to invest in a series of campfire pokers for marshmallows and hotdogs, try the Firefork! Rather than using a gross stick you found in the woods, the Firefork is attached to the end of this stick, and then you place your food on the end of the clean pokers.

It is pictured with a protective guard on the pokers, of course.

Need to pay with £? Visit pedlars.co.uk for the same deal.

KitchenAid Professional Mixer Steal!

Jennifer — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:18:26 +0000

I’m building up my kitchen supplies – I have none of my own since I don’t have my own kitchen yet. I’m always looking for steals and right now Amazon has a promotion – vote for the KitchenAid mixer and you may get a chance to buy it next week.

We’re talking the pro $500 mixer for $69. This is insanity! ~~Vote for a chance on the customer vote page, the last item on round six. This~~ is a steal of a deal! Lasts until December 4, 2008.

Update: Didn’t get selected to buy it. Oh well. Buy the regular priced professional 6 quart mixer at Amazon. Just a note that often times, different colors are different prices.

Carbonara vs. Tomato

Jennifer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:50:46 +0000

I made the chicken parmesan over rotini again, but I love carbonara sauce so much that I decided to ditch the tomato and mix up some egg and cheese.

Well, normally this would be cool, but the chicken has tomato sauce between the chicken and the mozzarella. The tomato sauce completely overwhelms the carbonara. So, boys and girls, when making your carbonara dish, ensure that you are not smothering the flavor with something else in a side dish.