Top 10-ish List of the Week

7. Spam It’s not easy to introduce an air of intrigue when it comes to pre-ground, canned pork.  But the Hormel corporation’s brand has done just that since World War II!  With just 6 ingredients, it’s often confused with ham based on taste.  This sketch is also the reason why junk e-mail today is also […]

5. Monkey Bread Elvis love of carbohydrates and sugar almost met its match with this recipe.  A mix of biscuit dough, nuts and sugar, nowadays Monkey Bread is also known as a cinnamon roll!  The name comes from the tendency of diner’s to rip it apart with their hands like a primate.  This recipe is […]

6. Meatballs Meatballs with spaghetti is an Italian American dish that, like with Alfredo, failed to catch on back home. Over 3 million people from southern Italy immigrated to the U.S.A. in the early 1900s.  The movie starts in 1945 with the first and second generation of these native Italians.  Clemenza is both their resident […]

10. Jessica’s Severed Toes in a Blanket Jessica Hamby, the rebellious vampire equivalent of a teenager who already knows everything.  If she wants to sulkily munch on someone toes, be prepared for a lot of whining if you say no.  From Woman’s Day comes this fun recipe.  Click here to see it!   9. Bill’s […]

9. Rocky Mountain Oysters (Bull Testicles) Also known as bull’s eggs and cowboy caviar, bull testicles have been served by ranchers for hundreds of years.  How many of their guests actually knew what they were eating is a different story.  This is definitely a dish worthy of Indiana Jone’s Temple of Doom meal.  From the […]

5. Butternut Squash Soup While the number 1 cause of cardiac arrest is heart disease, in Bill’s case it was the 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique.  Rich in fiber, butternut squash is also low in fat making it a delicious and heart healthy alternative.  From the American Heart Association comes this recipe that does […]

10. Ned Stark’s Decapitated Head Pops The Game of Thrones is a brutal one as the Hand of the King found out.  From Popsugar comes this recipe that fits in with any Halloween motif while immortalizing poor Ned.   9. Jon Snow’s Honey Roasted Fowl When your pet and lifelong friend is a giant wolf, […]

5. McRibs That’s right, reconstituted meat, invented by the U.S. Army, available in McDonald’s across the world to go when in pursuit of evil kidnappers who’ve Taken something of yours!  Or make your own with this Serious Eat’s family-friendly recipe.   4.  Weaponized Garlic You’re on the run, sprinting after evil-doers, and you don’t have […]

5. Shake Shack-Style Hamburger Famous restaurateur Danny Meyer is the founder of the fast casual Shake Shack chain.  Opening his first N.Y.C. restaurant the Union Square Cafe at age 27, he immediately started recruiting renowned chefs such as Michael Romano.   The result today is a restaurant empire that crisscrosses the globe.  Shake Shack in particular […]

10. Darwin Tremor’s Redneck Quiche Shooting a bunch of people and dumping them in a lake can work up a man’s appetite!  This Spam & Velveeta Quiche recipe has all the ingredients a growing hillbilly needs!   9. Lazlo Soot’s Rumbledethumps Lazlo is an assassin of a thousand faces with a Scottish accent and Glasgow […]

7. Swordfish Meatloaf Well, there seems to be an idea of a swordfish meatloaf but no actual recipe.  No one, psycho or otherwise, so far has been brave enough to create it.  However there is a variation from Just a Pinch that uses salmon instead.  Substitute swordfish in this recipe et voila!   6. Squid […]

  10. Beer Can Chicken When you’re Star War’s hero and smuggler Han Solo, hiding in who knows what or where, flexibility in your dining choices is an occupational requirement.  But ever wonder where he got the idea to stick his best friend up into that giant Tauntaun snow lizard?  Leave it to Han to […]

10. Spotted Dick This famous British desert was invented right around the same time that Moby Dick was published.  Whether it is New England or just England, this desert became popular among celebrity chefs of the time.  Click here to see the recipe from the Daring Gourmet.   9. Clam Chowdah (Chowder) Click here for […]

7. Harry Houdini Chicken Paprikash is the dish that his mother and then wife Bess used to make for Erik Weisz a.k.a. the magician Harry Houdini.  It reflected both his Jewish and Hungarian upbringing.  The following old recipe is from his niece Ms. Marie Blood.  Click here to see it!   6. Doug Henning Doug […]

7. Roasted Asparagus with Parmesan Working in Human Resources aboard the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk might sound like a dream job.  After all, it’s the future where everything is fair and money is no longer important!  But if that’s true, why do only staff in red shirts keep dying?  If that doesn’t qualify as […]

10. Жаркое (Zharkoye – Meat and Potatoes Stew) When spymaster Claudia cooks this dish for young Paige, she attempts to introduce not only Russian food culture but a bit of the terrible toll World War II had.  To say that provisions were often in short supply is like saying that the rain was often wet.  […]

10. How to Break Down a Whole Chicken Like a Chef! Stop wasting money buying pre-cut chickens at the store.  The reality is that it’s both cheaper and quicker for you to buy a whole chicken, break it down, and then store the breasts in 1 ziplock bag and the wings and legs in the […]

8. Artichokes with Garlic Thyme Mayonnaise Artichokes are a vegetable famous for releasing oxytocin, a hormone that helps boost men’s sex drive.  Adding garlic,  which contains allicin, increases the blood flow to your sexual organs.  And the mayo – let’s just take that as a sexual metaphor to help move things along.  But when it […]

  5. Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri From the website Love Food comes this recipe for an alcohol free drink!. If you are going to be the only woman in a stadium full of male Rush fans, best to keep your wits about you!   4. Pomegranate Martini Let’s be honest, if you’re going to be surrounded […]

10. Taco Popcorn If you lived the same day over and over for 8 years, wouldn’t you want some positive reinforcement?  Luckily comfort foods are the magicians of the gustatory world.  They trick our brain chemistry into making us feel better.  Women supposedly prefer sweet comfort foods as a guilty pleasure versus men with their […]