Groundhog’s Day meatloaves – Happy Rodent Day!
I think my meatball groundhogs are more like meatloaf gophers, but same idea, right? B thought they were more like squirrels even, oops! And another looks more like a rat. Hmm. A rodent is a rodent?
I wasn’t sure what to make the cartoon faces out of, so tried a few different things. This one has radish and and cut chocolate baking chips as eyes, cranberry nose, monterey jack teeth, and baking chip ears. I gave each rodent a lobotomy, it seems, to wedge their new found body parts into.
I tried oyster crackers for ears on this one and cut the cranberry in half so it’d be flatter on this one. Not that you can tell in the picture, but he’s a little less Rudolph-ish.
Gopher caught in the headlights! Er, I mean, ground hog. I switched to dark colored cranberries cut in half for the eyes and walnuts for ears. This one is a little more squirrel-like.
Anyway, more rodents!
I tried going for a more realistic “groundhog walking around on the ground” viewpoint, but uh, yeah, it looks like a rat, hehe. The only thing that’s missing is a licorice tail.
When I started running out of time, I solicited some help. :D This little guy is my sister’s groundhog. Oh, and that’s brown mustard on the eyes to help stick some of the parts together. My little rodent family:
Happy Groundhog’s Day, guys!
Creative food blog names
It’s not uncommon for me to read into a blog further or even subscribe on a whim, based solely on their name. If it’s eye-catching or makes me giggle or holds my interest in any way, chances are, the rest of the blog is going to have some similar qualities. Never underestimate the power of a blog name.
Here are some of my favorite creatively named food blogs:
Blogging Over Thyme
(never home)maker (love the parentheses and play on words)
It’s Not You, It’s Brie (hehe)
Hangry Pants
Food for Thought (which is actually at the domain “wherefloursbloom” which is also kinda witty)
Peanut Butter & Jargon
Food for a Hungry Soul
How Sweet It Is (can you read it without singing it in your head?)
Insanewiches (and boy are they insane)
Weelicious (delicious recipes for the wee ones)
Lick The Bowl Good
Lovin’ from the Oven (rhyming is fun)
A Dash of Sass
Two Peas and Their Pod
Picky Palate
Taste and Tell
The Parsley Thief (and yes, the whole blog really is about parsley)
Mini powdered doughnut snowmen
Powdered Doughnut Snowmen from The Idea Room
Cute, right?
I love edible art, but for me personally, that means I prefer the entire piece to be edible. The tophat and scarf being unedible, even though just a couple pieces that are easily removed, doesn’t really cut it for me.
The scarf would be pretty easy to replace. A straw/stick of licorice is the first thing that comes to mind, although you might have to use the pull-apart kind instead of old fashioned licorice. It’s much more flexible and you could pull off a few of the strands if it was too thick to hold right.
As for the hat, that’s a little trickier. At first, I thought maybe some thick fruit leather, but it might not hold its shape as well as I’d want. You could do it in two pieces, maybe, so for example, the bottom of the top hat could be part of an oreo and the top could be…what?
Or maybe like the witch hats I make. Did I ever post those? You spread a thin chocolate cookie dough on a silmat, bake for a few minutes, and then while they’re still warm, you bend them into the shape you want. Maybe something like that would do it. 
Or, hmm, are there any other candies and such that would be the shape of a tophat? Or could be altered to work? These pilgrim hats use little Reese’s cups, so I’m trying to think of something similar. Any ideas?
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