In the dog days of August, I try to avoid cooking more than I have to. But I have to because its canning season. To save time, I am putting the kids to work making tomato juice. They love to put tomatoes through the blender and the food mill, and they are willing to do the  tomato-washing and cooking in between. But they seem to have a small problem with cleanup duties. They processed a ton of tomatoes yesterday while I took a nap, and the kitchen looked like a murder scene. Every dish and utensil in the house was used in some way, and the floor was quite slippery. I’ll be scraping tomatoes off the walls for weeks to come, starting as soon as the last batch of salsa is finished. But I’m proud of them for producing a large batch of quality juice, which they are even willing to drink!



Beatboxing in the kitchen. (via b3ta)

What’s Cooking, Grandma? Grandmas of the world share their special recipes. (via Look at This)

Learn how to feed your family cheap with The Hillbilly Housewife. (via All-Night Surfing)

How to pour ketchup. A full technical explanation on how ketchup works, and how to make a traditional glass bottle give it up. Now, if they can only decide on the proper spelling. (via the Presurfer)

The hungry geeks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have constructed some circuit boards out of sweets and posted the instructions for you.

Who was General Tso, and what was his association with chicken? (via Grow-A-Brain)

Christopher Walken uploaded a video of himself roasting a chicken.

Veggies!

Green peas, yellow corn, purplish beets,
white cauliflower, quite tasty leeks.
Kids run in terror from foods such as these,
Who’d have thought it was scary,
to bring children world peas?
                                   ~ Saskboy

I really wonder sometimes whether Wendell Wit should be allowed to cook at all.

The Museum of Burnt Food. Celebrating the Art of Culinary Disaster. (via Dump Trumpet)

Mouths around the world are demanding real food. In fact, they’re boycotting junk. If it isn’t real, spit out your meal!

Cooking by Numbers. Fill out the form on what ingredients you have, and this website will tell you what you can make with them! I don’t know how accurate it is, because we are out of bacon, butter, and oil, but it still tells me I can make a fried egg or omelet. I don’t think so. (via Ursi’s Blog)

How to make healthy, air-popped pocorn into something worth eating. (via Cynical-C)

Blonde Cooking Diary

(Thanks, Whitesnake!)
It's fun to cook for Tom. Today I made angel food cake. The recipe said beat 12 eggs separately. The neighbors were nice enough to loan me some extra bowls.

Tom wanted fruit salad for supper. The recipe said serve without dressing. So I didn't dress.  What a surprise when Tom brought a friend home for supper.

A good day for rice. The recipe said wash thoroughly before steaming the rice. It seemed kind of silly but I took a bath anyway.  I can't say it improved the rice any.

Today Tom asked for salad again I tried a new recipe. It said prepare ingredients; lay on a bed of lettuce one hour before serving.  Tom asked me why I was rolling around in the garden..

I found an easy recipe for cookies. It said put the ingredients in a bowl and beat it. There must have been something wrong with this recipe. When I got back, everything was the same as when I left.

Tom did the shopping today and brought home a chicken. He asked me to dress it for Sunday.  I don't have any clothes that fit it, and for some reason Tom keeps counting to ten.

Tom's folks came to dinner. I wanted to serve roast but all I had was hamburger. Suddenly I had a flash of genius.. I put the hamburger in the oven and set the controls for roast. It still came out hamburger, much to my disappointment.

GOOD NIGHT DEAR DIARY. This has been a very exciting week! I am eager for tomorrow to come so I can try out a new recipe on Tom. If I can talk Tom into buying a bigger oven, I would like to surprise him with a chocolate moose.

HUNGRY?

(Thanks, Phil!)
A woman asks her husband, "Would you like some bacon and eggs? A slice of toast and maybe some grapefruit and coffee?"  

He declines. "Thanks for asking, but I'm not hungry right now. It's this Viagra," he says. "It's really taken the edge off my appetite."

At lunchtime she again asked if he would like something. "How would you like a bowl of soup, homemade muffins, or a cheese sandwich?"

Again he declines. "The Viagra," he says, "really trashes my desire for food."

Come dinnertime, she asks if he wants anything to eat. "Would you like a juicy porterhouse steak and scrumptious apple pie? Or maybe a rotisserie chicken?”

He declines again. "Naw, still not hungry."

"Well," she says, "would you mind letting me up? I'm starving."

Thought for today: I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen."

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