Archive for the ‘food’ Category

gordon ramsey doing a live cooking show

Friday, January 18th, 2008

i totally wish i lived in the UK so I could watch this show live! gordon ramsey (hell's kitchen, kitchen nightmares) is a well known celebrity chef that actually makes good food. alot of his restaurants are very well rated, and unfortunately so well rated, i've never actually been able to go to ...

lifesavers changing their packaging

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

i wonder how many times lifesavers has changed their brand image in the however many long years. whatever the number is, this is probably the most intelligent choice for the current market. how smart is the big cherry lifesaver right in the middle? cherry is probably their most popular ...

more chocolate things… euk

Monday, January 14th, 2008

why do people think that chocolate makes any food better? here's an example of strawberries that were "infused" with chocolate by freeze drying the strawberries and then reintroducing liquid with chocolate instead of water. [via: DVICE]

lose weight by chewing gum

Friday, January 11th, 2008

according to an article in wired.com you can lose too much weight when you chew excessive amounts of sugar-free gum a day. what?! at first glance it sounds like this should be the new "easy" diet that everyone can go on, but as you read the article you realize that it's probably ...

ice cream maker/ball

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

i've seen this pretty cool contraption on the interweb and the food network before. it's an ice cream maker in the shape of a ball: you basically put all the ingredients in and then you kick it around for a while. eventually it make some ice cream. might be fun to buy ...

egg cuber

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

today's lunch was an egg salad sandwhich. i haven't had one of those in years. in my quest to find some intresting egg recipes (my MIL and FIL love eggs - but can only have them in small quantities because they both have high cholestrol), i found this: The contraption doesn't look like ...

rice cookers

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

some of you know that I'm a heavy rice eater. i love rice. no, i LOVE rice. so to me a good rice cooker is extremely important. so the secret of my sucessful rice cooker buying is ... to steal the rice cooker from my mother :-P but if you're considering a rice cooker, maybe you should take a look at this FAQ site for rice cookers.

more interesting snacks

Monday, December 17th, 2007

so in my, now old and forever gone, blog I had written about one of my favorite snacks as a kid called "saewooggang" and how some japanese company covered it in chocolate and made it one of the worst snacks ever. Here's one to add to the list of weird ...