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Friday Foodie Finds, November 20: the Do It Cheap Edition

This week’s fun foodie finds: Simply Recipe’s  Cooking on a Budget Get personalized weekly meal menus and grocery lists from Mealopedia Homemade chocolate syrup…cheaper than the store and easy! the One Dollar Diet Noelle’s $2-a-serving anti-Wal Mart challenge for charity! Try it for yourself; I will be!

Friday Foodie Finds, Nov 13

This week’s fun finds: Make your own cake flour with Joy the Baker Make your own…jello watermelon? India Tree Spices: specialty spices, sugars and decorative items This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen—a fried eggs and bacon cake McDonalds menus from around the world 10 weird food laws  

Friday Foodie Finds, Nov 6: The Make Your Own Edition

  With Vegan Highlights Vegan Chocolate Avocado Cake…I have to admit, that’s a group of words that I never thought I’d see put together intentionally.  From Joy the Baker Beer Battered and Fried Avocado Wedges….this is basically deep fried fat.  But it’s deep fried Omega 3 fats. Make Your Own… Vegetarian Sushi Candy Bars Baguettes! [...]

Friday Foodie Finds: Oct 23

Sandwich art Pumpkin Caramel Cheesecake Turtle Bread from Closet Cooking Vanessa Dualib’s Food Art Zombie Halloween Cupcakes!! OMG!!  Completely awesome.  From the Sweetest Kitchen Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake from the Smitten Kitchen (did I just hear you joygasm?) Banana bread roll? I’m intrigued.  From Pinch My Salt. How Stuff Works: 10 Quirky Facts about Mass [...]

Foodie Friday Finds, Oct 16

My favorite food finds from the week: World Food Day! A sheet of barbecue, from the Playing with Fire and Water blog: This is insanely awesome and I have to try it out myself. Potato Fruit? Sinfully Dark Chocolate Brownies from the Craving Chronicles Chef Brian’s How-To for New York Style Pizza Fun Halloween Recipes [...]

Foodie Friday Links, Oct 9

My favorite food finds from the week: What Chefs Do When They Are Bored: This is fun Cinnabon post from the Cooking Photographer: Makes me crave cinnamon rolls.  Oh man. EatMakeRead: Homemade Ginger Ale Food-made Flags of the World Everything you wanted to know about bread crumb. Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento [...]

Ring that Bell Pepper

Josh is growing bell peppers on the deck for the first time ever and they are coming in quite nicely, as evidenced by the photo below of the biggest pepper we’ve got going so far.  So in preparation for the deliciousness to come, I thought I’d post a few of my favorite recipes for utilizing [...]