October 2018 archive

Deep Fried Ice Cream Lava Cake

Deep Fried Ice Cream Lava CakeI came up with this idea one night as I was sitting on the couch watching Netflix and eating a pint of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

All the cookie dough chunks seemed to be concentrated right in the middle so that’s where I kept scooping from. In the end I was left with a pint of ice cream that had a completely hollowed out center.

Immediately my instinct to deep fry everything in … CONTINUE READING »

Yeah… I’m Basically a Corn Expert Now….

An ear of Iowa cornEarlier this month I was invited by Iowa Corn to spend a couple days in Iowa with eleven other bloggers learning everything there is to know — or as much as you can possibly learn in 48 hours — about corn.

Being from Wisconsin I’ve been on similar trips around my home state learning about milk and cheese and I actually noticed a lot of similarities between the farms I visited in Wisconsin and the … CONTINUE READING »

Deep Fried Fish and Chips on a Stick

Deep Fried Fish and Chips on a Stick

The older I get the more I hate winter. Especially here in Wisconsin. Sure, it’s fun when you’re a kid and if it snows too much one day they might cancel school and you can spend the afternoon sledding, but as an adult all snow means is that you’re going to spend your morning shoveling.

Fall though? Aside from the fact that it precedes winter I love everything about fall. The leaves on the trees … CONTINUE READING »

S’mores Shot Glasses

S'mores Shot GlassesThis would have been much more topical had I posted it back on August 10th for National S’mores Day but honestly, I can’t keep up with all these damn food holidays and didn’t even know about National S’mores Day until after the fact anyway.

The idea for these S’mores Shot Glasses came about solely because I had a bunch of marshmallows left after a failed attempt at making a Cookie Crisp ice cream cone.

I … CONTINUE READING »