With so much good food content popping up on the interwebs every other minute, it's sometimes hard to know which sites to turn to for the best in recipes, polls, product reviews and other food-related goodness. We know you love Slashfood, but what's a foodie to do on those occasions when you've devoured everything Slashfood's got and there's still half an hour of the work day still to kill?
How about checking out our buddies over at YumSugar? They consistently offer high quality content covering all things tasty. We like them so much that starting tomorrow, we'll be offering up a weekly round-up of some of our favorite YumSugar posts from that week. They think we're pretty nifty too, and so will be doing a round-up of our stuff on Thursdays as well. Hooray for food blog buddies!
Over the last year, I've posted quite a few of my grandma Bunny's recipes here on Slashfood. There was her recipe for Lemon Thing last summer, Zucchini Bread in August, Apple Cake in the fall, Shrimp Curry Improv for those quick weeknight dinners and her recipe for Kheera ka Rayta just last week.
Yesterday, Yumsugar posed the question, "What's your most treasured recipe?" Their query made me realize that I've never posted my favorite recipe from Bunny (both in terms of which one I like to eat the most, as well as which card I favor). I have a very special place in my culinary heart for this card, which instructs the reader on how to make Mushroom-Spinach Salad. I remember being about six years old and helping Bunny wash the spinach and slice the mushrooms for this dish. I can instantly recall how helping make the salad made it that much more delicious to me.
I also treasure this recipe for the physical presence of the card. I love that Bunny marked it with her signature bunny sketch, that she starred it to indicate that it was particularly tasty and that it has a stain just left of center that shows it was loved. I get great joy from having it as a symbol of connection to my personal food heritage.
Last week, our friends over at Yumsugar had the enviable task of attending the menu unveiling for California's Governor's Ball. It's made even more drool-worthy by the fact that it was Wolfgang Puck who was doing the unveiling. Sadly, they didn't get a chance to taste any of the goodies. Luckily, picture taking opportunities were many (it's nearly as good as tasting, right?) and there is a gorgeous gallery of food pics up on their site. We have but one warning for you: don't click over if you haven't eaten lunch yet, as these images are certain to make you hungry.
People have been enchanted by the idea of making exceptionally large versions of food ever since the town of Cheshire, MA gifted President Thomas Jefferson with a 1,200 pound wheel of cheese in 1802. In recent memory there's been that giant ketchup packet that the folks in Collinsville, IL made last summer. A town in Italy made the world's largest tiramisu last spring, just because they could.
Latest on the giant food table is a monster cheeseburger, made by Fat's Grill in Stockton, California. This mammoth burger doesn't break any world records, but it is now the largest cheeseburger to have ever been created in the state of California. And as my father would say, that's nothing to sneeze at.
What do you guys think about giant food? Do you love the spectacle of it or do you have some reservations about using food as a medium to garner a little media attention?
Most of the people who know me in real life are quite aware of the fact that I have a very boring wardrobe. Having been a grad student for the last year and a half, I've settled into a comfy pattern of jeans, a black top and Dansko clogs. Just about every day. It stuns people when I whip out a little color or accessorize this uniform with a necklace or scarf.
However, I do believe it's time to start sprucing things up and I'm leaning in the direction of a few of these fun food-themed tee-shirts that the folks over at Yumsugar compiled into a slideshow. They've got shirts from Threadless, Johnny Cupcakes and more (and they've even tracked down a few that are on sale!).
When I was a kid, my grandmother had a basket full of fake sushi. My aunt is Japanese, and she brought back the plastic reproductions with her from a trip to Japan as a gag gift for Christmas one year. I loved playing with that fake sushi, setting it all up on a black lacquer tray and then pretending to serve it to my relatives. They were good to me and always played along.
This is the memory I immediately thought of when I saw the picture above. However, those rolls you see there aren't plastic and they aren't real sushi. They are cookies! If you look closely you can see that they rely on rice crispy treats as the base instead of sushi rice. I am always amazed at how clever people can be with food. I would have loved to have served these treats to my relatives back when I was a kid, for the surprise they would have shown when they realized they were sweets.
One of my guilty pleasures about the end of the year are all the 'Best Of' lists that pop up. I don't know why, but I always find it really entertaining to watch a year of pop culture, media, politics and (of course) food boiled down to an assortment of Top Ten lists. If you also find it fascinating and want to put your $.02 into the process, then I suggest you navigate yourself over to Yumsugar, where they are giving their readers an opportunity to cast votes on a variety of food-related topics.
The image above is nabbed from their poll about who is the Best Food Reality Judge of 2007.
When I was a kid, my mom was one of those health-conscious parents* who refused to pack chips, twinkies or Halloween candy in my lunch. Occasionally, my sister and I could wear down her resistance enough to convince to buy fruit snacks (gussied up gummy bears) or fruit leather but those days were very few and far between. I think though, that had she been aware of this recipe for homemade fruit roll-ups, I could have gone through the lunch period each day in elementary school feeling incrementally less deprived, as it would have given me a treat that would have looked very similar to the stuff that the rest of the kids were eating.
*I cursed her in those days, but am now pretty darn grateful that she was being so careful that we ate well.
Last Saturday a couple of friends came over for brunch. We ate french toast, drank a pot of coffee and watched four episodes of Flight of the Conchords back to back. My friend Shay passionately in love with FotC and so I'd been saving up, not watched any of the episodes until we could watch them together. I watched, amazed that something this funny and ridiculous was actually getting made, and became instantly besotted.
So you can imagine my delight in discovering that the folks over at YumSugar have developed a lasagna-for-one recipe, inspired by the FotC song, "I'm Not Cryin'" in which Bret sings about his heartbreak and how he's "making a lasagna...for one." I love it when parody becomes inspiration.
I didn't see this recipe in time for National Root Beer Float day, but that doesn't mean we can't make them today or this weekend.
They're Root Beer Float Cupcakes! I almost categorized this as Food Porn, but I think the "Mmmm" says it all. You never see the words "root beer" and "cupcakes" in the same recipe, so I'm intrigued. YumSugar not only has a great recipe for the cupcakes but also several handy tips on how to make sure they come out right.
Each Thursday, we bring you an assortment of tasty links from our friends over at YumSugar. We hope you enjoy!
With so much good food content popping up on the interwebs every other minute, it's sometimes hard to know which sites to turn to for the best in recipes, polls, product reviews and other food-related goodness. We know you love Slashfood, but what's a foodie to do on those occasions when you've devoured everything Slashfood's got and there's still half an hour of the work day still to kill? 
When I was a kid, my mom was one of those health-conscious parents* who refused to pack chips, twinkies or Halloween candy in my lunch. Occasionally, my sister and I could wear down her resistance enough to convince to buy fruit snacks (gussied up gummy bears) or fruit leather but those days were very few and far between. I think though, that had she been aware of this recipe for 
I didn't see this recipe in time for National Root Beer Float day, but that doesn't mean we can't make them today or this weekend.
New York Times Magazine's food issue
Chicken McNuggets frolic at New York City pet store
Eat your broccoli orbs! 
