Slashfood

• PB & sushi?
  

  Filed under: Comfort Food

  
  I got on the sushi train ridiculously late (it took me 31 years to hop on), but I can't help but wonder if I would've enjoyed the tasty world of nigiri, sashimi, and more had I gotten sandwich sushi as a kid.
  
  Over at The Kitchn, there's a recipe up for making faux sushi with bread, peanut butter, and pieces of fruit. They chose bits like apples and mangos to curl up, but you could use some jam + fruit (like strawberry jam plus berry slices), or take out the peanut butter and try another tasty condiment -- mayo, ketchup, cheese... The options are endless....
  



• Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker
  

  Filed under: Dessert, Dairy, Food Gadgets, New Products, Comfort Food, Guilty Pleasures, Summer

  
  
  Last summer, a reader took the opportunity to excoriate me for my perceived show-offery when a sorbet recipe I posted mentioned the use of an ice cream maker. Well, for one, a goodly percentage of ice cream, sherbet and sorbet recipes conclude with the mandate to "freeze according to ice cream maker's directions" and for another, it was a goshdarned wedding gift!
  
  Perhaps some small accord could be struck, or perhaps even kicked with the use of the UCO Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker. Ice and rock...
  



• Poverty brings out the best in consumers...and cuisine!
  

  Filed under: Frugal Food, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, Pork, How To, Did you know?, Comfort Food, Retro cookery, Meat

  As the ongoing recession/inflation/credit crunch drives the cost of food higher and higher, British chain Sainsbury's has begun working to minimize food wastage. Meanwhile, ever-increasing numbers of consumers are cooking from scratch in an attempt to stretch their food budgets. Clearly, thrift is back!
  
  As you rush around in your search for cheap things to eat, it's worth remembering that, in the kitchen at least, poverty can definitely be the mother of invention. Although cheap gas, greenhouse...
  



• What would you do for a Klondike bar? How about going to jail?
  

  Filed under: America, Comfort Food, Fast Food, Food News

  When most people look at commercials for Klondike bars, I imagine that they see silly people doing fun, wacky things in return for yummy ice cream treats. Personally, I see cruelty, torture, and the dark side of addiction. Hunger is a harsh mistress; luckily, I've never been placed in a situation where I've had to do something embarrassing or illegal to get fed. To my shame, I have to admit that, under the right circumstances, I would probably humiliate myself for a Klondike bar. If the reward was a nice crême brûlée, there's no doubt: all bets would be off.



• Denny's and IHOP take back breakfast
  

  Filed under: Breakfast, Business, Comfort Food, Fast Food, Food News

  
  Over the past few years, fast-food joints like McDonald's and Burger King have cashed in on nutritionists' advice that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. At this point, they all have a breakfast value menu. So, it's no surprise that food service businesses, such as Denny's and IHOP, which built their restaurants on the fact that they provide breakfast, are getting competitive with fast-food alternatives. An article from the Baltimore Sun explains that Denny's is going to offer breakfast skillets for $5.99. IHOP is now selling...
  



• Make your own Pop Tarts, Pim-style
  

  Filed under: Breakfast, Snacks, Comfort Food

  
  This recipe is too great to ignore, and looks like an easy and tasty re-introduction to the world of Pop Tarts. That being said, I'm not talking about your box kind. I'm talking fresh, easy-to-make pastries with jelly inside.
  
  Pim has thrown up a recipe for her style of Pop Tarts. They not only look tasty, but have a ridiculously simple list of steps that I just might have to break out the rolling pin later. Her recipe is just pie crust, jam, and a little bit of finagling. She outlines each step with a picture guide, but really, there's not...
  



• Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry's: A traitor speaks out
  

  Filed under: Dessert, Business, Comfort Food, Celebrities

  Okay, I'm going to get something out in the open here: I am somewhat biased when it comes to Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Just in case the title of this post wasn't enough to make my feelings clear, I want you to know that, from where I stand, the famed ice cream makers share moral ground with Kim Philby, John Walker, and Robert Hanssen. In my house, we don't use the term "Benedict Arnold." For us, the gold standard of betrayal takes the form of two Vermont pseudo-hippies, and the phrase "You're a total...Ben and Jerry!" can be the prelude to...
  



• Bizarre ice creams: Beet sorbet is just the beginning
  

  Filed under: Dessert, Restaurants, Comfort Food, Sugar, Artisan Foods

  While I pride myself on my willingness to accept a weird culinary challenge, this trait has led me to put more than a few strange things into my mouth. Codfish pancakes? No problem! Raw fish in Tijuana? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Scorpion vodka? Slightly chitinous tasting, but it did the job. Rendered pork fat on toast? Well, once was enough...
  
  Recently, however, an Asylum post about weird ice creams made me realize that there might be limits to what I'm willing to consume. Forget red bean ice cream and wasabi...
  



• An improvement on youthful loves: Vanilla Rice Krispies
  

  Filed under: Breakfast, New Products, Comfort Food

  These days in the cereal world, it's quite popular to take old favorites and spin them just a little bit, whether that means adding a variety of fruit or some extra flavor combinations. I've tried a number of these new variations, but they always left something to be desired. They were good, but they never reinvigorated my childhood cereal love ... until now.
  
  I must have been living under a rock, because it took me over a year to spot Vanilla Flavour Rice Krispies, which debuted just over a year ago in Canada. They're just like the old...
  



• Double-smoked bacon
  

  Filed under: Pork, On the Blogs, America, Comfort Food, Meat, Artisan Foods, Guilty Pleasures

  
  
  Gourmet's Ian Knauer has bacon on the brain ever since a fateful foray into one of Greenpoint, Brooklyn's omnipresent Polish groceries. The specimen in question is double-smoked, non-brine injected belly meat, has roots in the former Eastern Prussia, and is sold in Germany as Geräucherter Speck. Looks insanely delicious, no?
  
  Mr. Knauer is also pretty certain that one's personal selection thereof over all other bacon formats is a potential indicator of, well, he's not entirely certain, but if nothing else, this meat-based emotional indexing is a lot...