Teenage chocolate ninja turtles – Heroes on a half spoon!

Nablopomo – Favorite candy – Chocolate

Chocolate pecan and pretzel turtles that really look like turtles

Adorable, no? As if candy turtles could get any better beyond their pecan caramely chocolatey goodness, then somebody had to go and add turtle heads.

That somebody was Robin Sue from Big Red Kitchen, and if you read her About Me section, you can get a great sense of how funny and awesome she is in both the kitchen and her blog writing. Here is where I tried to sum up the variety of recipes and stories she posts in a single line and well, it just wasn’t happening because there’s too much to say….so just go look. :P

Chocolate pecan and pretzel turtles that really look like turtles

And then she does stuff like this that really tickles my fancy. Do you see that tail??  Her tutorial gives the full low-down on how to do it and with even more adorable pictures than the teasers I gave you here. Look at those faces!

Chocolate pecan and pretzel turtles that really look like turtles

Oh, and if you have any nut allergies in your house, you’ll be happy to notice the pretzel leg alternatives. Yum.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween

candy, cereal, Halloween | October 17, 2011 | By

Okay, so these were actually from last year, but I ran across them in my pictures and thought I’d share. Yay Halloween hands.

Bananas go with M&Ms, Pringles with red peppers – Food art

Yellow groceries - bananas, yello m&m's package, sunsweet raisins, yellow pepper, soda, Gold brand snacks
Cool, huh?
Most times when I find something like this, it’s from a source that’s divorced from the original source’s cousin’s brother-in-law’s second wife’s daughter, twice removed.
Red groceries - red pepper, pringles, Ajax soap cleaner, nestle brand snacks
And so then I often go on a wild google hunt, trying to find the original. These pictures are from an art project by  Marco Ugolini and Pedro Motta.
I thought it was a neat concept when I saw the pictures, but I got a few laughs to go with it when I found the link on Toxel from when they were featured last year.
Blue groceries - negresco, fondue, tutlet, becel, soda shampoo, soap

Truthiness said:
So grocery shopping is art now? I like to sort my Skittles by color before I eat them, next time I’m going to take a picture before I eat them and submit it for posting.

Art is in the eye of the beholder….or something like that. :P  And well, I’d probably be just as likely to post pictures of separated Skittles, too, I think.
Also, I’m kinda disappointed by a fact I found on the art project site.
Green groceries - cucumbers, limes, green peppers, soda, Classic soda bottle, soaps, asparagus

None of the products have been bought after the shooting.

Booooo! I wouldn’t expect them to buy everything, of course, but really, didn’t buy any of it? I wonder if they even restocked any of it themselves or if they just left most of it. I can’t see any refrigerated items off hand, so that’s good at least, but there’s some produce there that was hopefully handled with care.
White groceries - Cheese, eggs, Toblerone chocolate, kenata
Black groceries - Hair brush, black coca cola coke zero, booze, energy drinks, toblerone chocolate candies