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The Best Halloween Candy — No, Seriously.

October 22, 2010 by Chris Mower 5 Comments

I’ve gotta’ say, Halloween is a dangerous holiday. It’s too easy to buy candy long before October 31st; it’s even easier to justify buying it early when you say to yourself, “Oh, I’ll stick it in the top cupboard and save it until then…”

Yeah right.

I don’t know of anybody who has ever successfully done that. Before too long, it just starts gnawing away at you because you know it’s there… eat me, eat me, eat me… *sigh* … Two years ago I bought my Halloween candy on October 31st, Halloween Day. I went to the store to find nearly empty shelves and ended up coming back with the stuff nobody wants: stale pumpkin peeps, Sunmaid raisins, and a mini-size candybar mix. Mini size. Really? Halloween is about packing in the goodies, not skimping on treats that you don’t even have to chew before swallowing.

So this year I decided to–yep, you guessed it–buy my goodies early. I bought them two weeks ago during a “weak moment” on aisle 5. Needless to say, I’m going to have to buy more. Dangit. At least there is one huge benefit to buying your Halloween candy early; besides having to buy and eat twice the amount of candy for Halloween, you get the best of the best. No stale pumpkin peeps for me this year.

So this year I’ve rounded up a list of the 10 best Halloween candies (I cheated and added more than one candy to some numbers), that if I had to buy twice this month, I wouldn’t complain.

In no particular order, behold the list…
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Filed Under: Food & Cooking Tagged With: Chocolate, Holiday, Snacks

An Awesome Gift + Where I’ve Been

February 28, 2010 by Chris Mower 3 Comments

Hey folks, I can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last post. Wow! In blogging terms, 1 month or longer between posts is equivalent to shooting myself in the foot.

But before we get into that, and above all else, I wanted to send a grateful shout out to Maren, my friend from Seevetal, Germany (near Hamburg). Over Christmas Maren sent me a really really awesome Christmas package full of German delight!
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Filed Under: Food & Cooking Tagged With: Chocolate, Cookies, Holiday

2nd Annual QA Christmas Candy Party

December 31, 2009 by Chris Mower 3 Comments

Excuse me for a second while I fill you in on the my latest happenings and not-so-adventurous adventures, then we’ll get to the real stuff.

It’s been a while since I’ve had the chance to sit and down and work on The Cooking Dish, which is unfortunate because I have some delicious foods I’ve been wanting to post. Unexpectedly, however, I now have 4 to 5 days to work on it, if I’m up to it. For the past two weeks I’ve been fighting off a cough and intermittent fevers, and I finally thought I was getting better… BUT I woke up last night at 2:00 a.m. with a sever chest pain which kept me up for the rest of the night. Straight away this morning I contacted the family doctor and after a visit to the office left with a note saying, “stay home from work, you’ve got bronchitis and other junk” and some prescriptions to fill. Oh joy. I’m personally not a fan of involuntarily taking time off from work, but I don’t want to infect my co-workers either (you guys can thank me later–when I get back to the office).
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Filed Under: Chris in Real Life Tagged With: Butter Toffee, Candy, Cherries, Chocolate, Christmas Candy, English Toffee, Fudge, Holiday, Holiday Squares, Honey Taffy, Kisses, Party, Peanut Butter, Sugar Cookies, Sunshine Bars, Toffee

December Giveaway: Cookie Cutters (Closed)

December 6, 2009 by Chris Mower 22 Comments

Now that I’ve completed The Ultimate Kitchen Gifts List, I figured I would give away one item from it. One of my favorite Christmas activities is making sugar cookies, so in honor of my favorite activity, I’m giving away Fred’s ABC (Already Been Chewed) Cookie Cutters. These cookie cutters are supposed to help people stay away from your cookies… but to me, a broken or ABC cookie is an invitation to snitch. To each their own, I suppose. However, if you looove cookies and your kids absolutely demand you leave some for Santa, making Santa’s cookies with these will almost guarantee there’ll be some left for you on Christmas morning.

This contest will run through Friday sometime (December 11th), and then I’ll ship them a.s.a.p to the random lucky winner.
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Filed Under: Food & Cooking Tagged With: Baking, Giveaway, Holiday

The Ultimate Kitchen Gift Ideas List

December 4, 2009 by Chris Mower 4 Comments

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*Phew!* This gift ideas list is exhaustive (and was exhausting to make), but it will be an excellent holiday (and non-holiday) shopping guide for you; it’s also great for birthdays, Groundhog Days (because who doesn’t like a random present for a random holiday), national Be Nice to a Cook days (is there such a thing?), etc. etc. etc. Most of the kitchen items on this list I have used personally, and the ones that I haven’t, are ones that I feel confident are still good quality.

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Filed Under: Food & Cooking Tagged With: Christmas, Extreme Happiness, Gifts, Holiday, Lists

Fun St. Patrick’s Day Green Food Ideas

March 17, 2009 by Chris Mower Leave a Comment

Whenver St. Patrick’s day rolls around, inevitably I start thinking of Dr. Seuss’s book, “Green Eggs and Ham.” I’ve always loved that book; Sam-I-am is hilarious trying to get the other guy to eat the colored food. I’m sure Dr. Seuss had feeding kids in mind when writing it. But just taste it! Okay, back to food coloring…I always start experimenting with food coloring around the holidays, and sometimes end up with some pretty weird stuff, luckily though, it’s always edible and the kids still eat it.

Seeing how today is Saint Patrick’s Day, I decided I’d write down some ideas for you to mix up your food routine. Keep in mind that the possibilities are endless. I’ve taken the time to just write out a few. Think GREEN with everything you make and you’re well on your way to a festive St. Patrick’s Day meal.
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Filed Under: Food & Cooking Tagged With: Fun, Holiday, St. Patrick's Day

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