OK, I admit it. I like some Nestle products. I know I shouldn't. I am a pretty big chocolate snob. But I, like a lot of people, grew up with these candy bars. It's hard to get over that. I still enjoy the occasional KitKat bar. I'd like it even more if I were in Japan. There, Nestle Japan has come out with a new variety of the wafer bar, and they are just my style.
The new variety is called KitKat Lucky Little's. They are bite sized versions of the original and they are pink! Well,pink and white. Pink just happens to be my favorite color and I pretty much can get drawn in by anything that color. Apparently the color is meant to represent blooming cherry blossoms.
Not only are the snacks completely adorable, Nestle Japan has created a cute game to go with them. You just buy a bag of the candy (of course) and count how many pieces of each color you got. Then you go to their website, and have your fortune told based on those numbers.
Though I suppose this would be an ok snack for the super bowl, the pink and white coloring of the candies might not be the best fit. Maybe they'd be better for the next big holiday coming up. But I guess that point is moot if you're in the U.S. I want to go to Japan!
What is with beverage companies and their crazy new obsession with women? Last week, I wrote about Nuvo, a new "sparkling" vodka cocktail marketed at women (it's pink and the bottle is shaped like a tube of lipstick) and this week, I was reminded of a vodka that I first tried a few months ago: p.i.n.k. vodka.
Strangely enough, though the name of the vodka is "pink" and the bottle is frosted over like a tube of 8th grader Wet n Wild frosted pink Barbie lip gloss, there is nothing on the bottle or on the website that says the drink is designed specifically for women.
Some might describe these as the perfect accessory for the well-dressed foodie, but I'm just not convinced that they really need to be added to anyone's wardrobe. Pink describes them as "a fun and tasty accent to our summer collection. Sterling silver cupcakes 'iced' with white enamel and a glass candied cherry in the centre. Chain link connector leads to a glass 'cherry' base."
Love them or hate them, I'm leaving this one up to you to decide. However, I may influence the votes a little bit with this additional information - they cost $150 a pair.
Add another product to the list of things that have going pink in support of breast cancer awareness. This special edition set of Mundial knives is a ten piece set and includes seven knives, a carving fork, kitchen shears and the wood block holder to keep everything organized. One of the included knives is a granton edge santoku knife, one of the most popular models available, and this is the first Mundial set to include it.
Even though the set was created in honor of the company's partnership with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the charmingly feminine pink color of the set should make it appealing to many for purely aesthetic reasons. In other words, whether you intend to support the cause or not, a girly set of kitchen knives is a nice change from the basic black of most manufacturers.
If you want to honor breast cancer awareness month, or if you just happen to like pink, there are a lot of options for pink foods that don't require you to get a new set of cookware or buy cookies. Besides, baking your own cookies is much more fun, isn't it?
A good place to start is by looking back at our archives, because last year some food bloggers got together to make up their own pink recipes. Once you've had your fill of those, you can take a look at the famous pink recipes from KitchenAid's Cook For the Cure collection, as well as looking (perhaps somewhat lustily) at all their lovely pink appliances, as well. iVillage has a complete pink party menu that will get you from appetizers and cocktails through dessert. Speaking of cocktails, there are well over 100 cocktail recipes that turn out pink-hued drinks, or at least use pink in the name. Finally, RecipeZaar, a great online recipe source full of user-submitted recipes and reviews, has 156 pink recipes, including one for Pink Fluff, a sweet concoction that can be either salad or dessert.
Whew! That was quite a list, but you should be able to find plenty of pink foods even without using these resources. How about a medium steak for dinner, followed up by a creamy strawberry milkshake?
These are the cutest salt and pepper shakers I have seen yet, except for the little porcelain ducks I swiped from
my parent's garage sale. I love that the pink bodies are made of hand blown glass, but they are made from Pyrex,
so no need to be all too delicate. The snouts are brass (and they don't really squeak).
Whoppers are candies with a chocolate coating
over a malted milk center. They are almost identical to Maltesers,
though fans of one will argue that it is better than the other. Maltesers are made by Mars, while Whoppers are made by
Hershey. Around Easter, Whoppers adds a brightly colored candy coating to the balls and calls them Robin Eggs. Personally, I am a huge fan
of the candy coating and look forward to picking up a bag of these around Easter. The extra crunch that comes before
reaching the chocolate layer and melt-in-your-mouth malted center is great.
It's not just sugar cookies that are suited to be dressed in whites and pinks and reds for Valentine's Day.
Try this creamy, rich, sultry potato and porcini soup. It cooks up in no time and is filling enough to work as a lunch
to pack for your sweetheart.
potato, porcini and gruyere soup for the one you love
Peel and slice four small russet potatoes and simmer in four cups half-and-half
along with four large slices dried porcini mushrooms, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and
four cloves of garlic, roughly chopped until potatoes are tender. Add in two teaspoons of
Better than Bouillon chicken stock base (or one cup of chicken stock) and stir until combined. Put mixture in
blender and pulse until desired consistency.
Top with sprinkles of pink Hawaiian salt,
paprika and chipotle pepper, to taste, and grate one ounce of gruyere
cheese over the top.
We have mentioned both a $10,000 cake and a $950 cocktail here at Slashfood, but we have never
before seen a cake like this one. Selling at a department store in Tokyo is a cake that costs $1.7 million dollars. The two tiered
fruitcake, created by pastry chef Jeong Hong-yong, is covered in marzipan and a total of 223 diamonds, the largest of
which is a heart-shaped, 5-karat stone. Though the article mentions that there "have been many inquiries," it
does not say whether the cake has been purchased outright.
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