Make these for Easter!

It’s time for a Frivolous Friday post!  And because it’s almost that time of year, I’m sharing a fun recipe I found for homemade Easter Creme Eggs!  Yes, I know you’re just as egg-cited as I am!

There is a beautiful food blog called Not Without Salt, and the brilliant Ashley there has devised a “healthier” version of the Easter Creme Egg that you can make at home. Maybe a little trickier than popping to the store and picking up a single egg (or a bag full of the mini version, please!), but your friends and family will be amazed that you made these yourself!

You can read Ashley’s full recipe right here on the Food 52 blog. There are gorgeous photos and the instructions look simple enough to follow. I might even whip up a batch of these this weekend…you know, just to try in case they don’t turn out for Easter.  

Frivolous Friday Food!

This post isn’t about frivolous food, but rather, a fun post about food (and how to keep it fresh)…on Frivolous Friday!  In a workplace of five women, we talk about food quite a bit.  We talk about what we ate last night, what we’re making for a special occasion, and what great deal on food we just got at a particular store. So when I came across this great post called 27 Ways to make your Groceries last as long as Possible, I thought it was something I should share.

Some of the tips are genius, and some look a little wacky, but I might give them a try. (Storing onions in pantyhose might work, but I’m not thrilled about leaving them out where anyone could see them. You decide if you’d like to try it.) Anything to make our money stretch a little further is always appreciated.

Will you try any of these tips? Do you use any of these money-saving ideas already?

Eat Your Book!

With all the controversy around ghost writers  and cookbook authors, this is timely.  How about a cookbook you can eat!

Photo by Korefe

Gerstenberg Publishing House has come up with an edible cookbook. Each page is a sheet of pasta, embossed with the idea that using the book will make a delicious lasagna.  Since this is in German, people are saying it doesn’t actually include the instructions on how to make it, but the idea is fun. (The goodness really is baked right in!)

It’s really quite pretty, each page designed with art in mind (and hopefully, food), and you can see the entire group of photos right here.  Would you buy this book for yourself, or someone else?

Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook, or what not to buy Grandma for Christmas

With the excitement surrounding Suzanne Collins’  The Hunger Games coming to theaters in March, all sorts of book related items are turning up. One of the most interesting so far has to the the Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook, by Emily Ansara Baines.  It includes such mouth-watering items as Grilled Tree Rat with Peanut Butter Dipping Sauce, President Snow’s Sauteed Dove Breasts in Bacon Drippings and more. While it might not be something you’d want to purchase and cook your way through, it might be something that crazed Hunger Games fan would enjoy leafing through. You can find it on Amazon here.

Gingerbread Typewriter

It wasn’t so long ago that we still used a typewriter in the library.  I know what you’re thinking.  A typewriter??? In the age of computers?  It was back when we had our old library cards and needed to type the names on the front of each one.  Since switching to new, modern cards….we don’t need the typewriter anymore, which was a welcome change for the girls who had it taking up the space on their desk. (On a funny note, one night while we were making up several cards, a young girl approached the desk with HUGE eyes. “What’s that noise?”  She’d never heard a typewriter before!  It made us all feel older than dirt.)

So when I saw this fabulous gingerbread cake, it made me think of all we’re missing.

Created by a woman from Baked Ideas, it’s 100% edible, right down to the typewriter ribbon. You can read more about the creation right here.

I feel inadequate when I see amazing things like this. Going to go home right now and break out my piping bag and fondant!

Will it look like the picture?

A lot of people enjoy reading cookbooks.  Yes, I’m one of them.  I read them from cover to cover and if I never make a recipe from a pretty new cookbook, it’s okay.  I just enjoy going through the recipes and looking at the pictures. But sadly, not all cookbooks have pictures. However, I came across a wonderful website that incorporates both drawing and cooking, if you can believe it.  It’s called They Draw & Cook.

The brother and sister illustration team of Nick Padavick and Salli Swindell have done countless magazine layouts, but the idea to illustrate food came out of Padavick’s love for cooking and Swindell’s chance drawing of one of his recipes. They realized how fun it was to draw food and put together this great website. 

You can search by random recipe, or choose something based on ingredients.  Each recipe is creatively illustrated and makes you want to give it a shot. You can submit recipe ideas yourself, or just follow their blog to see the things they’re working on.  This is a fun site that you’ll want to return to over and over.