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10 November 2009

Video: Unbelievable, OK, Weird, Foods and Recipes

From Denny: Just when I think I'm going to post something typically Cajun I run into this funny food video! These have got to be some of the most disgusting, too salty, too sugary, fatty, highest calorie, wonderful tasting recipes around. The author of the blog turned book, This Is Why You're Fat! gives you a sampling.

These are some crazy recipes! Try fried Coke - now how do you fry a liquid was my first thought? Then there are Bacon Cinnamon Rolls, McNugget-tinis (vodka and McDonald's chocolate milk shake with fried battered chicken nuggets only as a garnish, whew!), Mac 'n' Cheese layered into your meatloaf (which actually looks kinda pretty) and an Elvis Presley donut - peanut butter frosted and garnished with sliced bananas and slices of bacon on top. To qualify as "why you're fat" category a recipe has to be smothered in cheese, deep-fried or wrapped in bacon. There are a lot of bacon blogs out there, folks! And we wonder why America is fat!



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If you are game - and crazy enough - to make these recipes, enjoy!

Bacon cinnamon rolls

From: "This Is Why You're Fat"

INGREDIENTS

• 1 container bacon strips
• 1 container cream cheese
• 1 roll ready-to-cook cinnamon rolls

DIRECTIONS

Cook the bacon in a pan until one side is mostly done, but not fully cooked through. Dry the bacon of grease, then slather the mostly cooked side of the bacon with cream cheese.

Unroll the cinnamon rolls on a hard surface. Place the cream cheese-slathered bacon onto the unrolled cinnamon rolls. Roll the cinnamon rolls back up with the cream cheese bacon inside.

Place the rolls on a nonstick baking sheet and bake for 17-20 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove from oven and top with icing provided in the cinnamon roll packaging.

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Deep-fried Coke

From: "This Is Why You're Fat"

INGREDIENTS

• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups Coke
• Whipped cream
• Maraschino cherries

DIRECTIONS

Mix together flour and baking powder. Add eggs and Coke and mix until a batter is formed. Pour 1/3 cup batter into a funnel, dropper or turkey baster and pour into a skillet filled with oil. Fry for a minute on each side.

Serve warm, garnished with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry.

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Bacon mac and cheese meatloaf
(Italian grandmothers must be rolling over in their graves...)

From: "This Is Why You're Fat"

INGREDIENTS

• 2 eggs
• 2 slices wheat bread, crumbled
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 large garlic clove, minced
• 2 tablespoon parsley, minced
• Worcestershire sauce to taste
• Cayenne pepper to taste
• Salt to taste
• Black pepper to taste
• 1 1/4 cups onion, sliced
• 10 strips of bacon
• Premade macaroni and cheese

DIRECTIONS

Mix ground chuck, eggs, bread, ketchup, garlic, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne pepper, salt and black pepper with hands in a large bowl.

Meanwhile, sweat onion until translucent but not brown. Allow onions to cool, then add to meat mixture. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and move to refrigerator.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lay bacon across the width of a loaf pan. Press a layer of meat into the bottom of the pan, on top of the bacon. This layer should fill exactly one third of the loaf pan.

Scoop some of the macaroni and cheese into the loaf pan, making sure to press out any air bubbles. This layer should also fill one third of the loaf pan.

Form a slab of meat in the approximate size and shape of the remaining one third of the loaf pan. Transfer the slab to the loaf pan. Add or remove meat as necessary to ensure a snug fit.

Fold strips of bacon back over the top of the meatloaf. Roast until internal temperature reaches 160 degrees.

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Elvis donut

From: "This Is Why You're Fat"

INGREDIENTS

• Glazed donut
• Peanut butter
• 3 to 4 slices of banana
• Bacon strips

DIRECTIONS

This is a peanut butter glazed donut topped with bananas and bacon.

Make some extra crispy bacon, and let cool to room temperature.

In a shallow pan heat up a peanut butter of your choice in the microwave for 30-45 seconds.

Dip one side of the glazed donut in the peanut butter.

Top the donut with 3-4 slices of banana.

Lay the bacon on top in an 'X' or chop it up and top. Lady's choice!

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McNuggetini

From: "This Is Why You're Fat"

INGREDIENTS

• 1 bottle vanilla vodka
• 1 large McDonald
• 1 container McDonald
• 2 Chicken McNuggets

DIRECTIONS

Mix 3-4 shots of vanilla vodka in the McDonald's chocolate milkshake. Rim each martini glass with McDonald's barbecue sauce and pour the milkshake and vodka mixture into the glass.

Garnish each with one McNugget.

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09 November 2009

Chocolate Trivia from Horror Director Hitchcock



Director of movie Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock

From Denny: What has Alfred Hitchcock done now that we never knew about? (scratching your head) Well, seems this horror guy has ties to chocolate that we chocolate foodies went ill informed about for decades. Turns out our campy Hitchcock thought it great fun to use Hershey's chocolate syrup as a blood substitute in his black and white film "Psycho."

Chocolate syrup was used in the 45 second shocking shower scence that terrified America at the time. As an actress can you imagine being covered in chocolate syrup for the full 7 days it took to shoot the scene?

No need for coffee breaks. The crew probably just all gathered around the syrup covered woman and took turns with finger dabs at wiping off the excess dripping syrup. Bet the men on the set thought it sexy stuff to see an actress covered in chocolate syrup! :)

And here everyone thought it was gooey blood. Looks like Hitchcock punked us again... what a sense of humor.


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Cajun Joke: Boudreaux and Thibodeaux Play Golf



From Denny: Louisiana folks have an endless supply of Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes they tell for generations, using the local French-accented dialect, enjoy!

From: maremare @ StumbleUpon who is from Sunshine, Louisiana



Boudreaux and Thibodeaux Play Golf

Boudreaux decided to go play a game of golf with his good friends Thibodeaux and Guidry one morning. He promised his wife, Clotile, that he would be home in time for lunch. Well, lunchtime came and went, and no Boudreaux. Mid afternoon came and went, still no Boudreaux. Suppertime passed, and Boudreaux finally shows up about an hour later. Clotile is, of course, just a little bit mad.

"Boudreaux, where have you been ? You say you gonna be home by lunch, and here it is dark time, and you jus now gettin' home !"

Boudreaux says, "Clotile, don' get on my case. My good fren, Guidry, died on de golf course dis morning."

Clotile says, "Oh, Boudreaux, I'm so sorry. I can understan' now; makin' funeral arrangements for your fren, and all. I understan' why you late."

Boudreaux says, "Funeral arrangements. What funeral arrangements? It was 'Hit de ball, drag Guidry. Hit de ball, drag Guidry.’ It took me and Thibodeaux all day to finish the game!”


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08 November 2009

Awww, 7 Funny Dog Photos to Make You Laugh

From Denny: 7 funny dog photos to amuse and delight! I've been collecting these for a while this past year. Like so many things floating around on the worldwide web, many are without proper attribution to the photographer. If you happen to know about any of these images, shoot me an email: Denny Lyon - warriorspearl @ gmail.com. Glad to hear from you, thanks!

Photo courtesy of byme249 @ StumbleUpon - he collects a lot of funnies; check him out!



Ouch! From the socially inappropriate, and ironically true...



Photo by ano-cha @ flickr of Cocoa the dachsund clowning around.



Sunning Lab mocks by sticking his tongue out at the photographer. No attribution available on this one, if you know, shoot me an email.



I'm crazy for ya, baby! by inga @ flickr



Oh, the art of hiding out with my pet dog who is clueless...



Jack Russell terriers sleeping with their pet cheetah on the master's bed in South Africa - this came from a story from a UK newspaper.



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06 November 2009

Warm Chocolate Pudding Cake



A restaurant version of warm chocolate cake (I am so there!) Photo by Lummmy @ flickr

From Denny: Just recently discovered Kraft Food's Chocolate Lovers' Center, no kidding. This struck my eye today since the weather has turned cooler, even here in Louisiana where it gets down to the 40's at night. (yay!) I haven't made this kind of cake in quite a while and have always made it from scratch in the fall and winter. It will be fun to try out this easier version.

A warm pudding cake is so easy to make even from scratch. They use a cake mix here which makes it even easier and faster! I like how you can take this simple idea and do your own variations to suit your personal taste. You can make a warm lemon pudding cake or a banana one. Your choices are only limited by what you can create!

The only thing about this site is they haven't figured out to make their videos easy to embed and require a link. So, if you desire to see what the cakes look like you will need to take a hike on over there via this link. You won't regret it! :)

Here's the recipe:

Warm Chocolate Pudding Cake

Prep Time: 15 min
Total Time: 1 hr 35 min
Makes: 16 servings, 2/3 cup each

Ingredients:

1 pkg. (2-layer size) devil's food chocolate cake mix
2 cups cold milk
1-1/4 cups water
2 pkg. (3.9 oz. each) JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping (or real whipped cream)

Directions:

HEAT oven to 350°F. Prepare cake batter as directed on package. Pour into greased 13x9-inch baking dish; set aside.

POUR milk and water into large bowl. Add pudding mixes and sugar. Beat with whisk 2 min. or until blended. Pour over batter.

PLACE baking dish on baking sheet to catch any sauce that bubbles over sides of dish as dessert bakes. Bake 55 min. to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center of cake layer comes out clean. Cool 20 min. (Sauce will thicken slightly as it cools). Spoon into serving dishes; top with COOL WHIP.

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Prepare as directed, using JELL-O Vanilla Instant Pudding.

Note

There is no need to reheat leftovers - this cake is also delicious cold.

Here's the link so you can see the photos, go here.

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