Deep Fried Goldfish

What are these goldfish doing at the bottom of this deep fat fryer? And how the heck did did they get there? and is that water, by the way? Apparently, some guy spent 10 years designing this unusual deep fat fryer. How those little fish stays alive in there is beyond me! Why he invented the thing in the first place is beyond me. The whole thing just boggles my mind. Don't believe it? Here's a video!

Strange Entrees

Would you eat this? I don't think I would.

Fun With Food

Looking for a good way to get your kids to eat their fruits and veggies? Here are some fun ideas.

Hungry?

What we have here is the world's largest plate of hummus! The record was set in Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem by Hummus Tzabar, an Israeli hummus manufacturer. Just how big is it? Well, this incredible plate of hummus weighed in at 881 lbs, and was served on a really really large plate. Source: The Hummus Blog

Edible Landscape Art

Salmon Seas - Take a close look at this dusk scene and you'll discover it's good enough to eat -- the pebbles and rocks are potatoes and soda bread, while the red sky at night and sea are entirely formed of strips of salmon. Photographer Carl Warner painstakingly captures all forms of food in a series of still life's with edible ingredients he raided from his kitchen cupboards to design a series of dreamy landscapes and homey domestic scenes that appear scrumptiously good enough to eat. Italian Home - An Italian style home made just from vegetables and fruits. Bread Mountain - Loaves of bread as mountains. Fruity Balloons - The trees, of course, are made from broccoli's! The "rows" of farmland are made of corn, asparagus, and zucchini. Potatoes stand in for rocks. Cheesy Tuscan Villa - The castle is made out of cheese, the walls out of rice, and the wagon wheels out of mushrooms! Vege Cave - A sea cave made of bread, carrots crabs and a lobster. Vegetable Market - This Italian inspired rural scene includes a lasagna cart, fields of pasta, a pine nut wall, mozzarella clouds, trees of peppers and chilies and a Parmesan village. A Forest of Greens - A landscape made of bread and broccoli cabbage. Sea Cliff - A sea cliff made of Parmigiana cheese, potatoes and cabbage. Stormy Sea - A boat made of watermelon, peas, olives and asparagus plough trough a stormy seas made of radicchio salad. Mountain Landscapes - Mountain landscapes below, realized with ham, salami and other cold cuts which had been used for an ad campaign by the Italian brand Negroni. This resourceful and ingenious series requires numerous shots -- Carl first sketches out a traditional landscape scene before introducing the food. Each scene is then captured in separate layers to prevent the food from wilting. He then uses computer technology to combine them into a single final print. To give a realistic 3-D feel to the photos, each still life is composed on an 8 foot by 4 foot table. The foreground is only about 2 feet across. Source: carlwarner.com

Musical Silverware

Aren't these guys fun? The Silverware Angel says, "Thank you very much!"

Happy Easter

My butt hurts!" "What?"

Ukrainian Easter Eggs

Ukrainian Pysanky (Easter eggs) are an ancient form of Ukrainian folk art. They are an integral and cherished tradition in every Ukrainian household. Pysanka is derived from the Ukrainian word pysaty, meaning "to write". The designs are written or drawn on an egg with melted beeswax. The art of creating pysanky is a long process and requires a steady hand, time, and patience. It begins with the selection of a clean smooth egg. You will need a candle, beeswax, and a tool, called a ‘kistka'. The kistka is a small wooden dowel with a hole drilled through one end where a small copper funnel-like cone is inserted and wrapped securely by copper wiring. The egg must be at room temperature. If the egg is cold or even cool, when the wax is applied, it can affect the outcome of your pysanky. Eggs, like our skin, are porous. When the egg is covered with wax it fills the pores preserving the color that has been applied. Beeswax is used in pysanky because it is a softer wax and will cling to the egg, unlike paraffin wax which will peel off of the egg surface.