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The Snack Report: Maple Cotton Candy
Cotton candy is a magical treat. It’s sugar that’s been transformed into something light and fluffy and fun. Cotton candy has been around since the 18th century, but it was expensive then, so not many people knew about it. Like many popular food stuffs today, cotton candy got its first real introduction to a wide audience at a World’s Fair, in this case the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis.
Cheat Codes: Ice Pops without Popsicle Molds
Ice pops are a beloved summer-time treat. They’re cold and refreshing on hot summer days. It’s always nice to keep some ice pops in the freezer during the summer. The problem I’ve continually had with store bought variety fruit flavor ice pop packs is that there’s almost always at least one flavor I don’t like (usually grape). This usually results in either leaving them in the freezer until they’re really old and gross so I ultimately throw them out, or pushing them off on to someone else. Whichever the case it seem like you should be able to have the ice pop flavors you want. And you can! Ice pops are super easy to make at home. Allow me to show you how.
He could use an ice pop
Recipe Time! Cinnamon Toast Crunch Fried Ice Cream
My first experience with fried ice cream was at a Mexican restaurant, which my friends and I stopped at after seeing a movie one night. I was instantly intrigued by this contradictory dessert. Warm, crisp fried shell on the outside, cold, creamy ice cream on the inside; it was wonderful. However, I realize some of you, Erik included, had a different first experience with fried ice cream. You first had it at a Japanese or other Asian restaurant, with a tempura based batter as the shell. So where did fried ice cream come from? No one can really seem to agree. Its origins go back further than one would originally think, with two fried ice cream origin stories placing its invention in America in the mid-1890s. In the 1960s it started being associated with Japanese cuisine, and then later becoming associated with Mexican fare in the 1980s. In the end, I don’t think it really matters that much where it came from…what’s important is that it’s delicious!
Pizza Lab #20: Raspberry Tart Pizza
One of my favorite pastimes of the Summer is eating fruit straight off the bushes at my parents’ house. I could make a quick breakfast or even lunch just out of foraging around the yard. And no, they don’t live in some remote backwoods town deep within the Ozarks, they live right here in Patchogue on Long Island. The suburbs. 10 minutes away from a frigging Wal-mart. But! There’s everything ranging from blueberries to raspberries to apples to pears growing there; their property is a lesson on the virtues of planting edible landscaping when you finally own a home. Of course that’s an article for a different time, but for now we’ll dive into this edition of Pizza Lab, which was fashioned from the fresh, organic, homegrown raspberries I bring up.
Cheat Codes: Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies
Picture the scene: It’s midnight. An adorable mid-20s couple wanders into the kitchen in their PJs with the intent of making chocolate chip cookies. Then, disaster; they discover that they are out eggs. How this happened, no one knows. But there’s nothing that can be done about it now. What do they do? Do they give up on having cookies? Do they go to bed without dessert? No! They adapt!
“But what did they do?” asks the little bird.
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