I love gardening, but I’m not very good at it, which is why I absolutely adore these cute graveyard plant markers. After all, this way you can leave them up after you manage to kill off your poor plants with your not-so-green thumb — via Neatorama
They’ve sold millions of albums as one of the greatest all-time bands and now AC/DC hope to do a similar trade in liquor.
The hard-living Australian rockers have teamed up with NSW-based winery Warburn Estate for a nationwide release of an AC/DC wine collection.
Back In Black Shiraz, Highway To Hell Cabernet Sauvignon and You Shook Me All Night Long Moscato are just some of the varieties that will be available — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This confectioners’ sugar lollipop mould tutorial from King Arthur Flour is one of those great ideas that totally stopped me in my tracks. Instead of getting hard candy stuck in moulds, why not just use confectioners’ sugar to make your own? Plus, depending on what object you use to make the indentations, you can get really creative with shapes and colour layering — via CRAFT
Vicky of Stasty created this amazing Rubik’s Cube battenburg cake in honour of the puzzle cube’s inventor, Ern? Rubik’s, birthday. What I love most about the cake is that it was constructed in such a way that each slice reveals a different colour block pattern. Brilliant. See how it was constructed over on Stasty — via CRAFT
A City of Victoria councillor is sweet on the idea of handing out candy suckers to late-night, inebriated revellers after leading a successful Canada Day test run.
Following the traditional fireworks display, which drew an estimated 30,000 people to downtown Victoria, Councillor Charlayne Thornton-Joe, her husband, two City of Victoria staff and Victoria Police Department officers doled out hundreds of red and blue lollipops to loud and aggressive, mostly young, men.
Ms Thornton-Joe said after the men popped a lolly in their mouths, their nasty energy all but dissolved. They got calmer after taking the lollipops,
she said. It had an immediate effect
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists are reporting development of a new approach for producing large quantities of human-derived gelatin that could become a substitute for some of the 300,000 tons of animal-based gelatin produced annually for gelatin-type desserts, marshmallows, candy and innumerable other products.
Their study appears in American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Jote of Bless Her Heart posted about these amazing-looking ginger cream cookies.
Last month we ran away to the beach with one of my besties and her family for a weekend. While the kids were playing cards she whipped out a bag of cookies that her mother had made for them. They were dark and gingery, but light and spongy rather than a typical crunchy Ginger Snap. Over the course of the next twenty minutes, we devoured them…leaving the kids to pinch the crumbs and fallen icing from the bottom of the bag. These cookies have haunted me since our little trip away.
Read more about the special woman who passed on the recipe for these tasty cookies and get the full recipe over on Bless Her Heart — via CRAFT
US fast food chain McDonald’s has persuaded the Russian authorities that its outlets are supermarkets rather than restaurants in a landmark lawsuit that blocked an attempt by the Russian taxman to almost double its tax bill — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I’ll admit it: I’m a confirmed hooker. I have an embarrassing number crochet projects running amok in my apartment, and a yarn stash that is threatening to break free from its box at any moment. So, of course, I was absolutely delighted to see this tutorial for Granny Square Cookies from Sugar & Meringue. There’s just something so right about crocheted goodness in cookie form — via CRAFT
I am a bit of a chocoholic, so I was intrigued by this positively healthy chocolate bean brownie recipe, which turned out to be fantastic! I added in a banana, and my toddler and I downed a few slices in a minute flat. Next time I’m going to add some chocolate chips for extra decadence — via CRAFT
Food giant Nestle has taken a big step towards expanding its operations in China, one of the world’s biggest consumer markets.
It has agreed to buy a 60% stake in the Chinese sweets and snack maker, Hsu Fu Chi International, for $1.7bn (£1bn) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Florida is warm in the winter, and it’s an easy trailer-truck ride to most of the country. But Florida is also about the worst possible place to grow tomatoes. Both the climate and the soil are completely unsuitable, Estabrook says, so farmers must drench their fields in pesticides and fertilizers to have any hope of a crop.
On top of that, the tomatoes you see in those supermarkets have been bred for high yields and durability, not flavor. As a farmer once said — an honest farmer — ‘I don’t get paid a cent for flavor,’
Estabrook says.
There’s an even darker side to the modern commercial tomato, too, he says. Up until recently, workers on many of Florida’s vast industrial tomato farms were basically slaves. People being bought and sold like animals,
Estabrook says. People being shackled in chains. People being beaten for either not working hard enough, fast enough, or being too weak or sick to work. People actually being shot and killed for trying to escape. That sounds like 1850’s slavery to me, and that, in fact, is going on, or has gone on
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man who allegedly threatened to blow up a service station because it was out of sausage rolls has been bailed by a Brisbane court.
Scott Jason Bryant, 40, of Roma, held his head in his hands in the dock of the Brisbane Magistrates Court after he was charged with making a bomb hoax at the Caltex Service Station’s shop on Toombul Road about 12.30am today.
He also faced counts of committing an act intended to cause grievous bodily harm to the console operator after he allegedly poured petrol on the ground — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A London restaurant has created a high-tech solution for unpronounceable ingredients and tardy wait staff.
Asian-themed restaurant Inamo, in London’s theatre district is projecting images of dragon rolls, black cod, and other dishes directly onto diners’ plates.
Ready to place your order? Just tap the touchpad — your sashimi will be with you shortly — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A study retracing the bananas’ family tree has found their wild ancestors have rarely crossbred in the last 7,000 years, strengthening calls to diversify the popular crop.
The standard yellow banana currently found on most supermarket shelves are mass cultivated as infertile clones and are therefore genetically identical.
But this makes them particularly susceptible to disease, pests and ecological challenges, writes a team of European and Australian scientists in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hundreds of people have marched in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, against government plans to import genetically modified (GM) maize — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the tradition of the Chocolate Cthulhu Idol and the Giant Cthulhu Chocolate Bar comes our first foray into the world of hard candies. We offer you… Loathsome Lovecraftian Lollipops! Included in this first wave are Cthulhu, a Deep One, Nyarlathotep and the Elder Sign — via Cryptocurium
This brownie recipe from Bridget of Bake at 350 is presented as a dude’s
dessert, but I’d be all over them. Nutter Butter cookies baked inside brownies, and covered with ganache? Yes, please — via CRAFT
These cupcakes from Joy the Baker might be about the most awesome cupcakes I’ve ever seen. Chocolate cupcakes, peanut butter chocolate chip cookie dough, toasted meringue frosting — via CRAFT
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