What to drink on St. Patrick’s Day
Last year, I blogged about drinking options on St. Patrick’s Day, a post that is currently seeing a resurgence of popularity. Last year, I quickly ran through the standard Irish beer options, and...
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Oh my yes: Make sushi out of Peeps
When it comes to classic Easter candy, you’ve got your chocolate bunny, you’ve got your jelly beans, you’ve got your Cadbury eggs — and you’ve got your Peeps. So why not have a little fun with that?...
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Fun way to serve watermelon
This is a fantastic way to dress-up a watermelon as a centrepiece. Who said that Jack o’Lanterns were only for Halloween — or only for pumpkins? Now, dare your kids to stick their hands in there. Use a...
View ArticleAttention vegans: You should eat oysters
Christopher Cox makes a compelling case for the ethics of eating oysters. Although I’m not a vegan, I can understand what drives some people to avoid eating meat or other animal-sourced food. In short:...
View ArticleWhen you don’t know what you’re hungry for, try Unicorn meat
You know how sometimes you get a hankerin’ for some meat, but you don’t know exactly what? You’ve overdone it on the beef and you had bacon for breakfast. Chicken and fish are okay, but they don’t...
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A profane recipe site
Grant and I often have a hard time coming up with things to make for dinner (as I’ve gone on about before). We have our staples, but sometimes we want something different, and are both too easy-going...
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A plate to help you eat right
Or wrong, as the case may be. The Wheel of Nutrition helps you figure out your portions, based on what kind of eater you are. The wheel of nutrition is a dining plate that reminds us of the fundamental...
View ArticleArtistic pancakes
Here’s a cool video that shows you how, with a squirt bottle and pancake mix, you can make pancakes that look like giraffes: If you go to the blog, Jim’s Pancakes, you can find a fuller explanation,...
View ArticleChocolate cake from scratch, in five minutes
If it wasn’t a quarter past seven in the morning, I’d be making this chocolate cake RIGHT NOW: I love her solution for if the cake spills over the top of the mug: “Next time, get a bigger mug.” (via BB)
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World’s biggest hamburger took four people to flip
I’m salivating. Click on the thumbnail or here to read the whole story and to see a couple of full sized photos that show off this huge burger. It was created at a café in Syndey, Australia, and it was...
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Pork industy seeks new slogan
For years — nay, decades — its been “The Other White Meat.” That’s been the official slogan of the National Pork Board in the U.S. since 1987. I can remember making schoolboy jokes about it. Now,...
View ArticleCooking … with ’sner
That’s “Cooking with SNER”, as in making food with Old Style Pilsner — the Canadian version of a hipster beer like PBL. Imagine if the Trailer Park Boys had a cable access cooking show. Check out...
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Candied bacon for Hallowe’en? Yes please!
I cannot thank Francis Lam at Salon enough for this recipe: Candied bacon Adapted from the amazing Andrea Albin and her recipe for frozen peanut butter pie in the September 2009 issue of Gourmet....
View ArticleMy Drunk Kitchen
If there are two recurring themes on Absurd Intellectual, it is the enjoyment of and appreciation for food and drink. Wait. Is that one theme? I’m trying to say that food and beverages are the two...
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Conspiracy theory: The McRib is what McDonald’s does to play the pork futures...
(Photo: McDonalds McRib Sandwich, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from io_burn’s photostream) Let me first say that I haven’t eaten a McDonald’s sandwich since high school — and not single...
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