For a quick pick me up at work or at home you can keep this cake mix in a ziplock bag for a fast coffee mug full of cake. You’ll just need to mix one box of Angel Food cake mix with one box of any other cake mix and combine them together in a freezer bag. When you need a shot of cake-y goodness put 3 tablespoons of this mix in your mug with 2 tablespoons water and microwave on high for 1 minute — via Lifehacker
A special kind of peanut butter has been bringing malnourished children back to life for years. Pharmaceutical company Abbott Labs is hoping it will help revive the Haitian economy, too.
International healthcare organisation Partners in Health (PiH) has distributed Nourimanba, a ready-to-use nutritional paste, to combat malnutrition in Haiti since 2007, and demand has only increased following the 2010 earthquake there, according to The New York Times.
As many as 300,000 children suffer from malnutrition in Haiti, says UNICEF. For these kids, Nourimanba is a lifesaver. Made from peanuts, milk powder, vegetable oil, sugar, and a scientifically formulated mix of vitamins, it’s like a souped-up version of common child favourite peanut butter. This helps to explain why it’s been successful: It actually tastes good — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Inspired by the heirloom craft of sewing, we hope to have offered a sweet embellishment for those threading memories that last.
Each of our Red and White Cherry and Vanilla Buttons are crafted by hand and lovingly detailed to perfection. And the sweet tart cherry and pure vanilla are an irresistible treat on their own or for a confection embellishment! Even great for decorating cookies — via Etsy
A deranged burglar was found smeared in peanut butter and chocolate, according to police reports.
Officers in Neon, Kentucky allegedly found 22-year-old Andrew Toothman wearing only a pair of boots when they entered the Food World store at 6.00am on Tuesday morning.
According to the report Toothman had also written sorry
on the shop floor using NyQuil pills — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Megan Reardon from NotMartha.org has created a very tentacle-y pot pie — via Family Kitchen
A pair of Bronx food pantries in jeopardy of closing have gotten a reprieve in the form of a large donation.
The Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development has been operating food pantries in Highbridge and Parkchester since 1997, but without $50,000, the organisation would have had to shutter the pantries at the end of the month.
But Monday evening, executive director Nurah Ama’tulla received a check for $100,000. She says she is grateful and relieved that thousands of families in the Bronx won’t have to go elsewhere for assistance.
The lifeline came from the Collegiate Church Corporation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
So you’re out of vanilla for your annual Thanksgiving upside-down cake. Try peach schnapps. Out of eggs for baking? Give it a shot with some olive oil. Or corn starch. Or a mashed banana. A team of researchers mined recipe sites to find out what can be swapped for what. Turns out that almost any ingredient is replaceable — via io9
The task was to help local scientists try to persuade village women to place chunks of iron in their cooking pots to get more iron in their diet and lower the risk of anemia. Great in theory, but the women weren’t having it.
It was an enticing challenge in a country where iron deficiency is so rampant, 60 per cent of women face premature labour, haemorrhaging during childbirth and poor brain development among their babies.
A disease of poverty, iron deficiency affects 3.5 billion people in the world.
The people they worked with — the poorest of the poor
— can’t afford red meat or pricey iron pills, and the women won’t switch to iron cooking pots because they find them heavy and costly. Yet a small chunk of iron could release life-saving iron into the water and food. But what shape would the women be willing to place in their cooking pots?
We knew some random piece of ugly metal wouldn’t work… so we had to come up with an attractive idea,
he said. It became a challenge in social marketing
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Untitled, originally uploaded by Joel Brochu.
Joel Brochu is taking hundreds and thousands to a whole new level in this portrait of a pup getting a bath. The piece includes 221,184 hundreds and thousands that are painstakingly placed using jewellers tweezers. Only six colours of sprinkles were used in the picture, giving your brain a colour blending treat when viewed from a distance — via CRAFT
The oldest bialys store in the country is still on a roll. The sweet smell of bread will continue to waft down Coney Island Avenue, as a landmark kosher bakery in Brooklyn gets a whole new lease on life.
Coney Island Bialys and Bagels, teetered and fell in September, after Steve Ross, whose grandfather began the company 91 years ago, called it quits. In a twist of history — and, one might say, a twist of bread as well — the store has been saved by two Muslim businessmen who leased the space and started a corporation under almost the identical name. They’ll keep the kosher shop’s offerings the same, preserving its history.
It’s the same bialys… We are using the same recipe, too,
said Peerzada Shah, who now co-owns the business with Zafaryab Ali, who worked with Ross at the bialy shop for a decade. We want to keep the place on track,
said Shah. And since re-opening in September, customers have regularly told the pair, We appreciate that you’re keeping the store open,
according to Shah — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two managers of a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in Lake City have been charged with arson in connection with a fire that gutted a Papa John’s Pizza location.
Late Friday, police said they were still looking for an ignition device that the men claimed they made but did not use to start the fire. Instead, the possibly still active device may be lying alongside Interstate 75, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Baked and seasoned pumpkin seeds are one of my absolute favourite seasonal treats. So, when Kimberly posted her recipe for spiced pumpkin seed brittle on The Storque, the Etsy blog, I knew immediately that I’d need to try it out. Plus, with such simple ingredients, it’ll be a snap to veganise this brittle for non-dairy eaters like me — via CRAFT
In a contest that matches humans against some of the world’s hottest chilli peppers, no one wins. Last week, restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland, held a competition to eat the extra-hot Kismot Killer curry. Some of the competitive eaters were left writhing on the floor in agony, vomiting and fainting.
According to reports, two British Red Cross workers overseeing the event at the Kismot Indian restaurant in Edinburgh but became overwhelmed by the number of casualties and ambulances were called. Half of the 20 people who took part in the challenge dropped out after witnessing the first diners vomiting, collapsing, sweating and panting.
So what exactly are the health impacts of eating really hot chilli peppers? Can eating too much of the spicy stuff kill you? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many people think heavy drinking causes promiscuity, violence and anti-social behaviour. That’s not necessarily true, argues Kate Fox.
I am a social anthropologist, but what I do is not the traditional intrepid sort of anthropology where you go and study strange tribes in places with mud huts and monsoons and malaria.
I really don’t see why anthropologists feel they have to travel to unpronounceable corners of the world in order to study strange tribal cultures with bizarre beliefs and mysterious customs, when in fact the weirdest and most puzzling tribe of all is right here on our doorstep. I am of course talking about my own native culture – the British.
And if you want examples of bizarre beliefs and weird customs, you need look no further than our attitude to drinking and our drinking habits. Pick up any newspaper and you will read that we are a nation of loutish binge-drinkers – that we drink too much, too young, too fast – and that it makes us violent, promiscuous, anti-social and generally obnoxious.
Clearly, we Brits do have a bit of a problem with alcohol, but why? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I’m with Jamie of Prudent Baby: I’ll take a sweet and spicy coffee cake over chocolate any day of the week. In the great cake-or-pie-in-a-mug tradition, she’s sharing how to make a simple coffee cake serving in a mug. You can have a mug of coffee in one hand, and a mug of coffee cake in the other — via CRAFT
Well, I don’t know much about baking bread or Rosh Hashanah, but this seems like a pretty sweet and timely tutorial for making Round Challah.
Here it is dear readers at long last, a tutorial on how to braid gorgeous round challah loaves, just in time for Rosh HaShana! We have the custom to eat round loaves on Rosh HaShana to symbolise the continuity of life, and on Rosh HaShana we dip the challah in honey (rather than salt) to symbolise our hopes for a sweet new year.
— via CRAFT
Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage — a jar of Vegemite.
Mr Rudd was heading to New York from Mexico City when he attracted the authorities’ attention.
He explained that the dark brown paste was his breakfast and, with help from local diplomats, was allowed through — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police say well-organised gangs of shoplifters are travelling across Tasmania to satisfy a lucrative black market that supplies a highly sought after product — meat.
Five shoplifters, who have allegedly stolen more than $1,000 worth of meat each, have been arrested over the past fortnight.
Police say the high cost of living has triggered the unexpected crime wave and say thousands of dollars worth of meat is being stolen from Tasmanian supermarkets each week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
California’s Legislature sent Governor Jerry Brown a bill seeking to ban the sale, trade or possession of shark fins on Tuesday, over the objections of two senators who called the measure racist because the fins are used in a soup considered a delicacy in some Asian cultures.
The bill has split the Asian delegation in the Legislature. It was introduced by Assemblyman Paul Fong, D-Cupertino, and was supported by Senator Carol Liu, D-Pasadena, who said it is needed to protect endangered shark species — via redwolf.newsvine.com
And there’s a tutorial as well — via Dabbled
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