Obviously, most of us don’t need much of an incentive to eat, but if you have kids who are picky eaters, it might help to make mealtime more fun. The following products will help you do that — well, most of the products will. I’m not going to pretend that a knockwurst-controlled pair of lederhosen has any practical value.
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Take a look at what I had for lunch today—zombie flesh!
We’ve been waiting since last summer to get our hands on some of Harcos Labs Zombie Jerky, and the good news is that it’s finally ready to ship. The bad news is that this stuff isn’t worth the $5 per bag price tag.
You can have a spectacular Firefly themed shindig even if you don’t have a floating chandelier or a spaceship. You just need time, a lot of fabric, props, food, helpful friends, and talented folks! That’s not so hard, right? Right.
You’re on an epic quest or maybe just a journey to the closest big city. You’ve fought orcs or direwolves, and you’re bone weary. You’ve slogged through rain and mud or dragged yourself through unbearably hot weather. You round a corner on a well trodden King’s Road, and finally—you see the dim glow of village lights. They are far away, hard to see – as if the lights are covered by wax paper, but they are there. You can’t wait to find the local inn. You might know it, you might not. Either way, you have an idea of what the fare will be: crusty bread, cheese, a meat stew or skewer, and a mug of mulled cider, wine, or ale. Coffee and tea might be options too along with some fruit for dessert.
We have a full weekend to play with for New Year’s, which means partygoers might be more apt to completely abandon reason only suffer the consequences when they wake up in a dumpster the next morning with a terrible hangover and an inexplicable mohawk. That having been said, rough times are ahead should you decide to employ any of the following gadgets in your New Year’s celebration. And even if you do have fun, well … you probably won’t remember any of it.
Unless you’ve been living in a space slug on an asteroid, you’ve heard about the Williams Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutters. It’s tempting to buy them just because they are Star Wars, but you might be wondering about the quality or how often you will really use them. I’ll make it easy. As long as you have a good recipe (what a coincidence, I’ve included one below!) the cookie cutters work like a charm. Sure, they’re different from classic tin cutters. Different is not bad. You can imprint and cut the cookies with just a light touch on these push style cookie cutters. Make sure you keep the surface of the dough floured though. This will keep the cookie dough from sticking to the inside of the cutter; you don’t want squished Stormtrooper faces. Cleaning is easy too. I just use warm water and a scrubby brush.
How often will you really make Star Wars shaped cookies? I’ve found that if you’re making cookies, people don’t care so much what they look like. It usually only makes people happier when they realize they can chew on Yoda’s ears (people always bite the ears off first, like with chocolate bunnies).
Coffee is a necessity. The time of day doesn’t matter. It’s the preferred hot, cozy caffeinated beverage choice of many (yeah, yeah tea. Earl Grey. hot I know). So much so, that by one name or another, coffee permeates fantasy novels and series.
Did you ever think, “Hey, I would love for my kitchen to have a Star Wars theme!” I have. Of course, I was just thinking about decor. I could put up a shelf for some of my toys and maybe make some Yoda themed contact paper for the cupboards. But I can go a step beyond that now. I can actually stock my kitchen with Star Wars gadgets and serving things and baking accessories. I think I can say that there has never been such a wide range of Force sensitive cooking gear available. Oh yes, it goes far beyond the Williams-Sonoma cookie cutters and pancake molds.
I always look forward to going over to my parents’ house on Thanksgiving. My mother will whip up a meal that would probably fill up one of those really long tables we all picture at medieval feasts. Of course, it takes a lot of hard work to put together something like that — especially since she does all the cooking the old-fashioned way. Sure, there are a lot of gadgets out there to help people prepare food faster and more efficiently, but as you will see in this list, as fun as they are, not all of those gadgets make total sense.
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If you missed all of the awesome food, wine and scenery from our trip to Napa and Sonoma last week, make sure to check out the complete coverage.
Seriously, the Napa area is like the Mecca for foodies. Definitely someplace you should make a pilgrimage to at least once in your life.
