Meat loaf baby with bacon diaper – Don’t eat the baby!
Yep, that’s meatloaf shaped into a baby, complete with bacon diaper. I originally saw it on This is Why You’re Fat. Of course, this should be reason ‘not’ to make it, but come on, it’s a meat baby!
Mine isn’t as fat as the one on TIWYF. The meat is also half ground beef and half turkey. I was afraid that using all beef would cause it to shrivel up and become deformed (and I like mixing in turkey anyway because it’s healthier, so all the more reason here). That also explains the slightly lighter, more yellow color as it browned.
The diaper is made of bacon, the eyes of sweet pickle ends (I had also made some potato salad, so I just used the ends I cut off), and the mouth is drawn on with ketchup.
As this was finishing up, a friend of mine kept sending me pictures via text of the foods they were eating. They went out to a lovely restaurant and all the pictures were of drool-worthy foods placed perfectly on their beds of lettuce on white plates.
Typical.
And I, being the one that gets jealous and envious of everyone else’s delicious food, popped into competitive mode and said “I can do that!”
I chopped off the arms and legs, and served those for supper. The baby already reminded us of the Gingerbread Man, but as I started cutting the arms/legs off, it became clear that it was just like the Gingerbread Man in Shrek.
I almost felt bad for it, but my food envy got the best of me and I moved forward with my plans to have the same thing someone else had.
So.
I chopped off the head and placed it carefully on my own bed of lettuce and white plate.
Pfft. Mine’s better. ;)
Six pounds of jalepeno peppers later…..
The girls love jalapeños and spicy foods in general. It’s not uncommon for me to make something relatively mild and one of them to ask if they can have peppers with it, too. Who am I to say no?
Last summer I had access to garden fresh ones from a friend of the family, so I was using them frequently. One day, though, I burned myself really bad.
Until that point, I didn’t even own rubber gloves, much less actually use them, and I’d never had any issues. I would always just be careful not to get the oil in my eyes and wash well when I was done. Not this day, though. This particular day lit my hands on fire and they ached for over a week. I searched for solutions online but by that time, the damage was done and all I could really do was wait it out.
The worst part wasn’t the surface burns, though, but rather that the jalapeño fun had gotten under my nails, too, and even a simple act like scratching an itch would reignite burning sensations. If you’ve never been burned by peppers before (and I hadn’t…at least not more than just slightly anyway), it basically feels like you’ve touched a hot burner….and then laid out in the sun, fallen asleep, and sunburned yourself to a crisp. Except there’s no soothing it with aloe. :(
Anyway…
After my fresh stock ran out, my plan was to find a large jar of sliced jalapenos to have on hand. No more of this “cutting one a night” and risking burning myself again. Sure, I bought a pair of gloves to have on hand, but that’s not the point. I wanted to be able to reach into the fridge, pull out the little slices of heat, and move on.
Instead, I stumbled across the 6 *pound* can of jalapeño peppers and became giddy. Do you have any idea what I could do with that many peppers!?!? Yeah, me neither, but I was suddenly envisioning several bowls of different sliced, diced, and whole peppers, neatly stacked in the back of my fridge.
And so I made it true:
I immediately turned over half of the whole ones into pepper poppers. The rest got stacked neatly in the back of my fridge and have been used extensively since. I don’t remember how long it took me to do all the de-seeding and cutting, but it wasn’t ‘that’ long. Considering they’re pickled and we don’t eat ‘that’ many at once, these will last for many months to come, with no future effort required.
Tip: Do this while the kids aren’t home. I ended up terrifying mine by not letting them anywhere near where spicy oils might fly. I burned myself really bad, remember? Lol. The next few times I put jalapenos on the table, they were a bit reluctant to pick them up with their fingers and I felt bad. :( Oops!
There’s always one pink speckled apple in the bunch….er, bad apple?
(~Edit~ Apparently PhotoBucket finds something offensive about the above photo. I don’t know what’s wrong with it, but they removed it for terms violation. Is there something dirty there that I don’t see? Is my thumb copyrighted? Are pink apples illegal in some countries? I’m so confused.)
I remember last fall that apples were on sale for dirt cheap and I was so excited to snatch up a large set for myself. As I started peeling the first one for my massive apple cooking adventures that day, I noticed that not only was it red on the outside….but also on the inside.
Now unless you’re well-acquainted with this yourself, you’re probably thinking that I just didn’t peel deep enough and that’s actually red tint left from the skin still. Wrong. I thought that might be the case myself, but I cut into it and it had pink/red vein-looking streaks all the way through.
I set it aside and moved to another, thinking it was maybe just “the bad apples of the bunch,” but nope, it turns out that several of my apples were pink to the core (especially the one on the right).
(Ignore that they’re not evenly peeled, hehe)
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