Inside Out Champagne Glass

I just love good design… at $60 for a pair, these won’t be appearing in the restaurant any time soon.

via Charles & Marie: InsideOut Collection

Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies

Parking in the sun can be a real pain when you get back to your car – steering wheel too hot to touch, seats that burn and sauna-like conditions while you wait for the aircon to do its job. If you have to park in the sun for a few hours, why not bake some cookies on your dashboard?

No need for air freshener as your car will smell like fresh baked cookies… find the recipe and instructions at Car-Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies, step by step | Baking Bites

How to prepare a kiwi

via Phils Phun

Live Food

I remember watching a Korean movie with my brother – forget the name – in which the lead character walks into a local restaurant and orders a live octopus and eats it… which would be boring except the octopus was alive. If you don’t find that repulsive you can click over to Extreme dining: Four edgy alternatives to burger and fries. article in the LA times that features a restaurant that serves live wriggling octopus tentacles and here’s the best bit – there’s a video on the page.

Asian Meat labels

Jeff at SIDE SALAD tags along with Jaden from Jaden’s steamy kitchen blog to explore the wonders of Asian supermarkets. And if you fancy making a beef aorta salad or perhaps a pork uterus soup then you’re about to discover the mother-load. Personally I like this zen-like meat product:

Ah meat… where would we be without you?

South African BBQ Etiquette

South Africans are serious about braaing [braai = barbecue]. It’s so serious there’s even a hierarchy – first the tong master, then the boerie layer, and finally the fork pronger.

YouTube – South African Braai Etiquette

101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World

The Japanese have never been scared of adopting and adapting western ideas and technology… cars, electronic goods etc. But they really fail when it comes to Ice cream- like the offering below- a fish flavoured icecream with some of the fish flavour masked out with Brandy… Urrgh

101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World has a great list of god-awful ice creams but it seems most of them are made in Japan.

5min – How to cook pizza on a gas BBQ – Video

title says it all really…

5min – How to cook pizza on a gas BBQ – Video

ICE ROCKS

When bottled water first came out I thought things were getting a bit crazy… imagine buying water!

Now comes ICEROCKS® which are hermetically sealed ice cube trays made from spring water drawn from the Vendée Region of France in the Massif Central. Wow!

You can buy them from ICE ROCKS

Best burger recipes

Chef Jeffrey Starr ran a competition where people send in their best burger recipes… here are some of the best recipes for better, tastier & juicier burgers