Showing posts with label ice cream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice cream. Show all posts

Monday, September 16, 2013

Having Fun with my Food

Mmmmmm.....
Mmmmmm.......good!

"Summer Cake"
original Collage Art Doll by inkspired
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Food!
We all love it.  We all eat it.  We all think it.


"Little Miss Muffet"
original Collage Paper Painting using all recycled junk mail
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"A hungry stomach makes a short prayer."

- Paiute Proverb



"Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater..."
original Collage Paper Painting by inkspired
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"I go running when I have to.
When the ice cream truck is doing sixty."

- Wendy Liebman


Ice Cream for dogs
www.whatwouldadogdo.blogspot.com


www.fourhockeyfans.blogspot.com



American and Russian space flights
have always included
chocolate.


In addition to other documented health benefits,
 dark chocolate may help sharpen the mind.
Why?
Researchers say that it's possible that flavanols (found in cocoa drinks) 
may improve blood flow to the brain.

- REALSIMPLE.COM April 2013



"Time for an office snack"
original Collage Art Doll by inkspired
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In 1875 Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams
making a declaration about chocolate's superiority over tea or coffee 
for both health and nourishment.


"Coffee Run"
original Collage Art Doll by inkspired
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Going on dates usually include some sort of food.
A restaurant is a 'safe'  place to meet with someone you don't know well, and it is informal enough you don't have to feel pressured.
Here is a date with food involved, 
Horror Stories:

“I had a first date with a recent divorcĂ© at a lovely Italian restaurant on a Saturday night. 
I proceeded to order eggplant Parmesan. 
As soon as I said it, he started choking, even though he had nothing in his mouth. 
Apparently, that was his ex’s favorite dish — and as I was about to find out, 
he was still hung up on her. 
I offered him water, the waiter whacked him on the back... but he wound up having a full-blown panic attack, so I called an ambulance. 
Since I couldn’t ride in the ambulance because I wasn’t a relative, I had to meet him at the hospital, where doctors determined that he was still so upset 
that he was committed to psychiatric care. 
By the time his paperwork was processed, my date couldn’t remember my name. 
Even so, he asked me to go to the store and buy him cigarettes, underwear, and deodorant. When I returned to the hospital, I suppose that was our second date, 
because it was already Sunday... but it was also our last.”
— Sherry Davey, Brooklyn, NY

from Date Night Disasters, Laura Gilbert
yahoo.match.com


"Call Me"
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sparkling cookies
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'Polly Put the Kettle On'
vintage song sheet graphics
c.1870
courtesy Indiana Music Libraries


"My mother's menu consisted of two choices;
Take it or leave it."

- Buddy Hackett, comedian, actor



"Horse Food" with pomegranate
original Collage Art Doll using all recycled junk mail
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Snacking on a mix of strawberries and blueberries
may lower your risk of heart attack.

from a study published in the journal Circulation
REALSIMPLE.COM  April 2013

original Collage Art Doll by inkspired


"Vegetables are a must on a diet.
I suggest carrot cake,
zucchini bread and pumpkin pie."

- Jim Davis


Mother Says 'Eat Your Vegetables'
original Collage Art Doll by inkspired
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"Plant a radish, get a radish,
never any doubt.
That's why I love vegetables,
you know what they're about!"

- Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt


"Santa Monica Diet"
original recycled junk mail Collage Art Doll by inkspired
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Well, that's it for today!
I hope you will see your food 
in a little different light now!!!

inkspired

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Cows, Hot Dogs and Ice Cream Days

Mooo Moo
c.1901

Today is
Cow Appreciation Day!

Apparently they just don't get all the attention and fame they so deserve. So someone had July 16th made into an official "holiday"!
 
Does that mean the dairies give their cows a break today?
Plan a picnic for them?
Have little cow games to play?
 
Really, there should be ribbons involved somewhere.


How about the 'cow crop' as my rancher friend Shelly calls them?
Do they get music played to them today?
What music would a cow like?

c.1878

I have read that some farmers play classical chamber music to their cows, and swears they produce more milk.
I have also read about a farmer that plays country music to his milking herd, and says they produce more milk.



They both did experiments on different kinds of cows.
Maybe their music preferences are regional?


You know, Texas cows want western music,
Tennessee cows want country
and those Northern cows want their classical?
Oh, the things we have to think about...
Good thing we use only a smallish portion of our brain.
Wouldn't want my brain to get too full or anything!
 
awwww....

Cow craft!!!
smashed can cow

You can find the directions for this really cutesy cow at:
Smashed-Can-Cow
m.favecrafts.com
I know, weird address.
If it fails, do a GOOGLE search for favecrafts.,
but that is the addy on my searcher!
Aleene's Crafts has a book (which I own)
that has an entire Noah's Ark done with smashed cans!


Today is also
National Hot Dog Day!

How you like your hot dog
is usually influenced by where you live,
or where you grew up!

Here's a Chicago dog:


Here's a heart-attack-waiting-to-happen dog:


(Can I say that on National Hot dog Day?)

Here's the way I usually had my hot dogs:

side note:
NEVER use the branches of an oleander to cook hot dogs.
The branches are toxic. Learned that in Phoenix,
where oleanders are plentiful!


DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EAT.
WARNING!
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO EAT.


I don't know what region claims this as their 'own' hot dog,
but I ate a lot of these growing up:
A chili dog: hot dog, bun, chili, chopped onions and spicy mustard.
Plain mustard is okay too!


Paper Dolly Fun from the 1940's

and a must-have item for all dorm rooms:


Well, that's it for today's holidays.
There are many others, of course!


tomorrow is
National Ice Cream Day!!!

You might need to get started today...
so I am giving you a heads up!

"It is difficult to overcome one's passions,
and impossible to satisfy them."

 Marguerite de La Sabliere, late 17th century



costume polls.com
ice cream cone costume

Do not attempt to eat.
WARNING!
Do not attempt to eat.

hee hee

Enjoy your cows
and your hot dogs today!


and it's okay with me if we all get a head start on tomorrow's
National Ice Cream Day!


inkspired