[ foodgun ]

What do butter, sugar, karo syrup, almonds and dark chocolate create?

Update: The jalapenos are awesome. Haven’t tried the carrots yet.
I found a recipe for escabeche on Simply Recipes, that pickled jalapeno, carrots and whatnot mixture that you get in mexican restaurants. It looked good, but the olive oil listed as an ingredient gave me pause. You just don’t see oily peppers here. Still, I went [...]

I’ve been a regular reader of Real Life Comics for a while now, and the current one really hit home.

Must… Make… Gas-Powered… Garlic… Press…

And Everyone’s Invited!
Mandy brought me a few goodies back from jolly old England. One I was waiting for:

and one I wasn’t:

And then there’s the cider…

After watching the Good Eats Tricks for Treats episode for the 400th time, and failing at making the jelly recipe, I decided to try my hand at brittle. The show has a dead simple recipe. 2:1:1 sugar to water to nuts ratio, with a little cinnamon and cayenne for flavor. Wipe the sides of the [...]

Texas’ largest 99 cent store is a bit of a bust – nothing unusual there, really. However, while wandering around, I noticed they had a bunch of bottle openers. There are always bottle openers in a 99 cent store, you say? Well, these have interesting takes on the labels they’re imitating. They had “Killer Lite,” [...]

So, Heather gets a pack of noodles while we were at World Market. Mushroom and soy – vegetarian – but still a good looking noodle bowl for $1.49. It sat in the pantry for a few days and when we finally broke it out, here’s what it looked like:

Note the silver package. All the while [...]