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Cute as a bug BLT sandwich

animals, edible art, food art, lookalikes, sandwiches, summer, tomatoes | September 2, 2013 | By Jessi

This is Jill’s creation and you can find the details of her open-faced ladybug BLT sandwich on Canadian Family.

The ladybug is certainly adorable and is easy to make. I immediately saved it away to share with you guys. Now that I’m posting about it, though, I can’t help but think….

But who eats a BLT as an open-faced sandwich?? Don’t get me wrong….I’d still eat the heck out of this and it doesn’t change its cuteness factor at all. But it seems like it’d be a pain to eat.

There’s no way a fork is going to easily tear through the chewy bacon or the leaf of lettuce on top. Adding another slice of bread would cover up the food art, but it’d make it more practical to eat.

Also, who eats olives on a BLT? I suppose Jill and her family does, but I’m betting those icing/candy eyes aren’t a normal topping for bacon, lettuce, and tomato, even in her family.

Unfortunately, the more I play with my own food, the more I hate when a food has to be changed right before eating in order to actually enjoy it, whether that’s eating the parts that don’t really mix well first (like the candy eyes on an olive) or pulling out toothpicks or having to take a knife to a sandwich that would otherwise be simple to eat in a different arrangement.

Then again, maybe I’m being a party pooper and should’ve just stuck with that “awww, isn’t it cute??” reaction I had first, hehe.

Street corner bananas – How Vegas feeds the homeless

banana, images, Las Vegas, sandwiches | August 30, 2013 | By Jessi

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Yes, I’m pretty sure that’s a hooker hoagie…. Or stripper bananas?

I really don’t have much of an explanation for this photo actually. There’s no missing context from my end.

While in Las Vegas, we crossed the street and were waiting to cross the next. On the corner, right next to the light, there was a bunch of 3 bananas and a fully wrapped sub just sitting there. No one else was around. I can only assume that this was left for some homeless guy or gal to come by and scoop up.

I have no idea if this is normal, but I love the idea! I can only hope that the food wasn’t tampered with and was really just good intentions to make someone’s day with a full belly.

Chocolate and peanut butter – It just works

brownies, chocolate, cookies, peanut butter | August 29, 2013 | By Jessi

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Hershey really knew what he was doing when he created the Reese’s cup back in 1928 (Thanks Wikipedia!)

You really can’t go wrong with combining peanut butter and chocolate. Well, I guess you kind of can if you’re the type of person who hates chocolate (shame on you!) or you have a fatal peanut allergy….

But outside of that, chocolate and peanut butter just work. This weird brownie cookie, peanut butter stuffed creation was no exception to the rule either.

A ball of cookie dough, stuffed with peanut butter

Unfortunately, I don’t have a recipe for these, though.

Chocolate cookie dough with peanut butter filling buckeyes

(This one looks like a buckeye!)

They were inspired by some long-forgotten chocolate cookie I found online, but during a heated moment of peanut butter craving, I tried stuffing them with a peanut butter and powdered sugar filling.

I quickly realized that trying to create a pocket in the somewhat-dry cookie dough and then filling it with peanut butter was rather tedious….not to mention kind of messy and ugly.

And because I wanted cookies *now*, I moved to creating a base and “top” out of cookie dough and dropping dollops of peanut butter in the middle instead.

Cookies made in a muffin tin with peanut butter filling

The result wasn’t really any prettier, but it did seem a lot faster and easier.

Put the top layer of chocolate on filled cookies in a muffin tin

And the result was tasty regardless. They look drier in the pictures than they really were. The oil from the peanut butter soaked into the surrounding chocolatey goodness, leaving an almost brownie-like coating around the peanut butter center, but with crunchy edges.

Reese's peanut butter filled chocolate cookie brownies recipe

They were the perfect blend of brownie/cookie with ooey gooey peanut butter in the middle. If you’re the type who likes the chewy edges on brownies, but a soft middle, these are wondermous. It’s a shame I didn’t record the ingredients I used at the time, but oh well.

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