lemons, lemons and more lemons

fruits that flower

You will need fresh pineapple, strawberries, cantaloupe, grapes, a flower cookie cutter, a melon baller, bamboo skewers, and some floral foam

Cut up pineapple into 1/2 inch thick slices.

Using the cookie cutter, press each slice of pineapple and cut out a flower of pineapple.

Using the melon baller, scoop out one ball of cantaloupe for every 2 pineapple flowers. Cut the cantaloupe ball in half and lay the flat side of one half against one pineapple flower.

Take each pineapple flower and stick a bamboo skewer through the center. Make sure your skewer pokes through the pineapple about 1/2 inch and stick that part of the skewer onto a cantaloupe ball, make sure not to let the skewer stick out the other end of the cantaloupe ball. Do this for each pineapple flower.

Take each strawberry and stick a bamboo skewer into the top of it, but don't let the skewer poke out the other side.

Take a bamboo skewer and stick it through about 6 grapes. When you stick one grape on, slide it down to make room for the next one. Repeat this until your last grape. Make sure that the skewer doesn't stick out of the last grape (the one on top). Then slide each grape up the skewer until they touch the grape just above it.

Put your floral foam into a vase. Place each skewer into the foam at various angles.

french hot dog fan page

This is the best picture we could find for a French Hot Dog. They're really easy to make. Take an end of a baguette, scoop out the center enough to fit a hot dog, add a tablespoon of dijon mustard, insert the hot dog and voila you're hot dog is now officially French.

food photos

This month we're focusing on food that offers something more visual than the usual dish. If you know of any visually impressive foods please let us know. We'd love to feature them.

huxtable chili

In a memorable episode Cliff explains to his family why it's essential to wait three days before eating his famous chili: "If you tasted this on the first day, you'd say, 'What can did this come out of?' If you tasted this on the second day, you'd say, 'Oh my goodness, somebody's grandmother got up off her chair and just took this to the mountain!' But on the third day you don't even have to taste it. You just walk by the pot and something says, 'Hey, come here!'"

Epicurious was lucky enough to capture the recipe and has published it for everyone.

Laverne's Milk & Pepsi

Do you remember Laverne and Shirley? Laverne’s favorite drink was milk and Pepsi she use to say that the milk took some of the fizz out of the Pepsi and the Pepsi took some of the ick out of the milk.

4 ounces. Pepsi
4 ounces milk
3 ice cubes

Put 3 ice cubes into a glass. Add very cold Pepsi and wait until fizz goes down. Slowly add cold milk. Stir gently and enjoy.

Aunt Bee's Cookbooks

We were really surprised and excited to find out that you can now own your own copy of Aunt Bee's (from the Andy Griffith Show fame) cookbooks.

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