The mighty Egg cuber.
When an egg carton isn’t efficient storage. Makes eggs easily stackable. Honestly, what good is one egg cuber? You can only do one at a time. You know, for those times when you want your square hard boiled egg all alone. Kind of like those old International flavored coffee commercials, only with an egg.

A different time…

I especially like the golden color of the space age polymer cuber. It is dated from 1977 and I think our oven was a similar color, just not transparent. That would be cool, a transparent golden oven. The best thing about this is the swearing chicken on the box. The box alone is worthy of coffee table display.

Totally unrelated
If your interested in photos of vintage cookbooks take a look at this group on flickr.

Even less related

My kids are watching Starsky and Hutch and the part where Will Ferrell wants Hutch to arch his back and growl like a dragon is on. Oscar material.

Just a quickie today...
Japanese Scandinavian appetizers - sounds brilliant doesn’t it. Check out this piece of ingenuity- Pickled herring ume cucumber rolls at Eat Yet? This is the kind of culinary exploration that gets me fired up. I love this stuff.

Lina Chen

Here is the wizard responsible for my pick of the week.

• Lina.
• She could use some sun huh?
• She looks engineered from a petri dish - a fearless droid.
• Large head small body (read #6 in the link). A popular trend in web grafix lately.
• Mona Lisa smile smirk. Sassy!
• ACTUALLY THIS ILLUSTRATION IS DONE BY LINA, SHE IS EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED SEE HER WORK AT lina-chen.com/
• No harm intended, I hope Lina is easy goin’.

Normally I avoid many of the fluffy food sites but this one seems a bit more realistic. It has sandwiches! Take some time and browse thru Eat Yet?

Ignore the cup goo. My daughter was drinking from this.

My 13 yr old son was inspired by a recipe in his book “The Blender Way to Better Cooking”. Not having all the ingredients he improvised like a pro.

His recipe: Ginger Ale Apple-Lemon Slushy
Serves 3 large glasses. We squeezed it into 5 smaller glasses.

Place into your blender the following

1. 2 cups of lightly or unsweetened apple sauce
2. 1/4 cup of sugar
3. 1/2 cup of lemon juice
4. 1 tsp of hazelnut syrup
5. 1/2 tsp of salt
6. 1/3 cup of water

Ginger Ale - save for later.

Mix this in your blender on the lowest setting for about 45 seconds. It will froth up slightly. After it is mixed, thoroughly chill by placing it in the fridge for an hour or two.

When it’s time to serve, fill a glass half way with your apple mix. Then top off with ginger ale. Serve with a straw.

This was a refreshing tart drink. It tasted great after dinner. After looking at the original recipe in his book, I believe his would be much better. If it were anything near warm outside this would make a great summer beverage. Hell, this tastes great anytime. I’m thinking it could almost be a breakfast drink.

The kid is takin’ after his old man.