Archive for January, 2010

Valentine’s Day chocolate might actually be good for you

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

It’s that time of year, the time when we all try to stir our heart’s desires with guilty pleasures. Valentines day is around the corner and so is all the chocolate. Giving chocolate to your love ones may actually be better for your loved one’s hearts. As stated in About.com’s low fat cooking article. It contains flavonoids, which are thought to prevent heart disease, lower blood pressure and is very good for the cardiovascular system. That being said, giving chocolate does more then a great display of affection. So to help all those who wish to continue the tradition of hand made chocolate, a video will soon be posted to help all those you win hearts as well as do some good for their hearts too.

Though chocolate may be good for the heart, It still has a long way to go before it becomes a part of the healthy food group. Even though there are many beneficial effects of chocolate, it’s not very beneficial for a waist line. Like wine which is good for the heart and bad for the liver, there are the obvious downside of chocolate. which still leaves it on our list of guilty pleasures.

The Maul of Vegan Slaying +10

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Life has a tendency to let you think you understand the limits and then break it over your head like a bar brawl from a bad TV movie.

Thanksgiving is already well established as a holiday to stuff your face without feeling guilty about it. At the center of this American holiday is the turkey which on average is a whooping 12 pounds of meat (well at my house anyway).

But thanks to the “ingenuity” of human society, we raised the stakes to the next level by stuffing MORE meat into the turkey. Known as the Turducken, this is the excessive merger of a turkey, duck, and chicken (if the subtle hints in the name weren’t clear enough).

While this already broke all etiquette for a proper and healthy diet, Corey James at “Bacon Today” has an article about the ultimate evolution of the Thanksgiving turkey: the TURBACONDUCKEN (Who would have guessed from a site called Bacon Today?).

Before you proceed, I must advise you that if you are on a diet or are offended by meat products, this is clearly not for you.

BEHOLD

That’s right.  What looks like a turkey molded out of bacon strips is actually three types of birds wrapped in bacon.  Yep, you take a chicken and wrap it in bacon, then stuff that into a duck and wrap it in bacon, and then finally you stuff that into a turkey while wrapping it in a last layer of bacon.

Sounds crazy huh?  To give you a better idea of the sheer amount of meat stuffed into this package, check out the image below.

I don't know about you but my cholesterol level jumped up by just looking at this picture.

According to them, that’s five pounds of bacon in there.  Five whole pounds of bacon.  Repeat that to you a few times.  I’m content after eating two strips with eggs, home fries, and some toast.

But I think, if we are going to go this far in breaking the norm, let’s go all the way.

Let’s squeeze this monstrosity between TWO RACKS of LAMB.  Then wrap that in bacon.  Then we need to STUFF this into a HORSE LEG.  I’m not sure how we’re going to accomplish that part but it needs to happen.  Then after we wrap THAT part with bacon, we are going to deep fry it.

The end result would probably have an aura to cause every vegan in a kilometer radius to cringe with unknown dread.

While this dish is not something you would want to try to prepare for your weekly Sunday dinner, it is definitely a feat you and your friends can try for your next really big gathering (like Thanksgiving or some enormous summer picnic!).

For more details about the recipes and commentary by bacon lovers, you can visit the original article.