An ice cream shop in Columbia, Missouri decided to take lemons and make lemonade. Or rather, take cicadas and make ice cream. Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream shop in Columbia tried a new take on seasonal flavors: brown sugar, chocolate cicadas. The shop’s employees gathered the cicadas from their back yards, removed the wings, boiled the bugs and then covered them in brown sugar and chocolate before adding them to brown sugar and butter flavored ice cream. The ice cream sold out immediately. But the party-pooper local health officials stepped in and advised Sparky’s to stop using the insects in food. Cicadas are actually a good source of protein. I guess if you can drive to McDonald’s and get a Big Mac, then you shouldn’t be allowed to eat a bug. Boooooo!
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Hey! Do you want to avoid Salmonella and all other manner of stomach mites that may make you very close personal friends with a toilet bowl until you want to die? Okay, then. Read this list of things that have recently been recalled because of their epic disgustingness, or propensity for cutting off a finger.
Yes, you, put down that vending machine ham salad sandwich and read this.
Some of us are fat. Some of us are not. However, society mainly focuses on the former and what they can do to make themselves skinnier. Most studies on obesity focus on people that are already large, but recently I came across a BBC documentary that decided to go in the opposite direction. Continue reading
The other day I scored at the grocery store. I mean scored.
I found a massive package of Thai chilies for $1.00. I stood there stunned. It’s not like chilies are expensive, but we don’t normally have Thai chilies in our grocery store. So, I threw those babies in my cart and drove home with a lead foot on the accelerator.
I was excited to make Thai chicken with basil. Continue reading
One of my absolute favorite things to order in our local “greek style family restaurant” is called “The Gypsy Steak.”
It’s served in a ceramic skillet, and it has a layer of hash browns, then veggies, then steak, then eggs, then cheese. Throw some ketchup and hot sauce on there and it’s all good in the neighborhood.
Last night, I figured out how to make this concoction at home and save about $20 (plus tip) when feeding two people. Continue reading
Yesterday, this Canadian asked the denizens of CTalk for the elements of a proper southern U.S. barbeque. I really wasn’t thinking about an article about it, but I got so many good answers I wanted to put them together for my own later reference and then I thought, what the hell, might as well post them.
So here we have, according to Crass’s own southerners, a pick-and-choose list of potential dishes. Continue reading
Summer is officially here in Florida. Temperatures have been in the mid nineties for the past few weeks, and all I can think of is yummy cold desserts. Last month’s Bon Appetit was all about Italy, and had a gelato recipe that looked simple enough. Continue reading
Feeling lazy? Too hot to cook? Find yourself a sushi house and head over there with a few friends. Be sure to save me a seat! Continue reading
Can’t we all kiss and make up? No? How about a rousing game of spin the bottle?
GIN!! Yes! Gin on a warm day is the best.
This weekend marks the beginning of my summer. My country club’s pool opens at noon and I will promptly go to my bartender Rachel and ask for one of these:
To me, pouring a cheese sauce over fresh vegetables makes as much sense as putting Cheese Wiz on Filet Mignon. Continue reading