Why I Love Burrito Van, or Down With Kale!
Enjoy a burrito with cheese, beans, and rice goodness. If you’re looking for kale, then get out of the van!
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Tag: Food
A Bacon Scented Pillowcase For Sweet Bacony Dreams
You’ll have sweet, bacon-filled dreams with these pillowcase that smells like everyone’s favorite pork product.
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Quick and Easy Tentacle Breadsticks [GeekMom]
Looking for a last-minute addition to the Halloween party spread this year? Make these easy tentacle snacks using only packaged croissant or breadstick dough.
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The Poisoned Pumpkin: Taste-testing Seasonal Pumpkin Products
This year, the pumpkin spice is everywhere. During these weeks leading up to Halloween, store shelves are loaded down with seasonal pumpkin-flavored coffees — as well as breads, cakes, cookies, mints, trail mix, yogurts, sodas, health bars, teas, oatmeal… Ice cream? Jell-O? And so much more.
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The Stratford Zoo Midnight Review Presents Macbeth
With artwork that bounds off the page, The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Present: Macbeth is a clear but very silly take on one of the Bard’s most famous plays.
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Our Totally Unscientific Food Box Experiment
One family, two food subscription services: Plated and Blue Apron. Beneath the pile of boxes, they discovered something: They liked cooking again.
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Fund This! A New Role Model for Boys, Eating Good and Cheap, and a 3D Printer for Kids!
Get a peek at a company trying to expand the options of role models for boys in the toy industry, where eating healthy and well can be done on $4 a day, and a 3D printer designed for kids.
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Cooking the Books: Attack the Geek with Michael R. Underwood & Giveaway!
The author discusses his latest book, how publishing is like a restaurant, his favorite pizza recipe, and a book giveaway.
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How to Make Game of Thrones Weirwood Tree Cauliflower Steaks
The culinary gods approve of this delicious and easy dish inspired by the sacred trees of Westeros.
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Feeding Mr. Banks: Secrets of a Hollywood Food Stylist
Recreating 1960s cuisine for Saving Mr. Banks took more than a spoonful of sugar.
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Favorite Holiday Sweet Treats
Geeks indulge in holiday goodies at least as much as others. Here are some of my traditional and non-traditional favorites.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Holiday Traditions: Holiday Open House
GeekMom Patricia hosts a holiday open house for friends, neighbors, and colleagues.
Continue ReadingReview: NatureBox Subscription Box, A Snacking Alternative
NatureBox subscription boxes deliver natural foods to your door every month to give you an alternative to the stuff found in your local grocery aisle.
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Lonely Planet’s Travel Books Inspire and Motivate
Lonely Planet just published a new set of books, great for traveling, coffee tables, and bucket lists alike.
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Fair Logic Puzzle
Were you able to determine each child’s favorite food and ride? If so, $50 from ThinkGeek could be yours!
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Fair Logic Puzzle
From the clues given, can you determine which favorites each child had at the State Fair?
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Food Allergy Cards for International Travel
Laminated cards that explain your (or your child’s) food allergies in a wide variety of languages.
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Teenager Aims to Un-Junk Junk Food with Unreal Candy
A 16-year-old is building his candy empire without the use of corn syrup, artificial flavors and colors, and GMOs.
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History Geek: 1930s Week
Swing dancing! The creation of Superman! Adagio for Strings! Radio Plays! Migrant Mother photojournalism! Heath bars! The Wizard of Oz! Monopoly! Last week I directed a summer camp all about America during the 1930’s.
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Chop Chop – A Fun Cooking Magazine For Families
One of the most exciting resources I’ve found lately, that brings it all together beautifully, is a bright little magazine called Chop Chop.
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Chew on This: Is Big Biz influencing dietitians? – San Antonio Express-News
A group of registered dietitians has taken to Facebook to protest their professional organization’s more and more intimate relationships with “Big Food”. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics often counts on funding from ConAgra, Coca-Cola, Kellogg’s and other large corporations for its conferences and training.
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Check Out NASA’s Space Food Hall of Fame
Did you know NASA has a Space Food Hall of Fame?
Continue ReadingAlton Brown Joins the MythBusters in Tonight’s Thanksgiving Episode
What do you get when you combine the culinary curiosity of Alton Brown’s Good Eats with the madcap misadventures of the MythBusters? In tonight’s Thanksgiving episode of the Discovery Channel’s perennial geek favorite, Alton joins hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam …
Continue ReadingSara’s Cooking Class: Spil Games Knows Tween Girls (Part 1)
Much as I don’t like to admit it, Spil has done extensive research into the mind of the tween girl, as well as the mothers of tween girls. The age range listed was roughly around 8 to 9 years old, and it basically said that at this age, young girls are dreaming about their “first kiss.” In my head, I had a knee-jerk reaction of NO WAY TOO YOUNG ARE YOU KIDDING. And the next thing they said was that their studies showed that the mothers of tween girls HATE this fact.
Continue ReadingA $20 Box of Awesome: La Bella Box
Our subscription box review series continues with La Bella Box, an affordable assortment of boutique items.
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Lonely Planet’s Coffee Table Books Bring Adventure Into Your Home
Last month, Lonely Planet published two gorgeous new books that will both inspire you and decorate your coffee table. When I think of Lonely Planet, I think of travel guides that you take along on your travels. But these new books will instead plant the seed for future adventure. Great travel books include magnificent photography that evokes emotion and paints a scene. These books definitely succeed there.
Continue ReadingA Delicious Subscription: Knoshbox
Monthly subscription boxes are a delicious trend. Here’s a look at Knoshbox, an assortment of artisan foods delivered to your door.
Continue ReadingEat Like a Geek: A Medieval Feast
So you don’t have time or energy or the extra cash to get to a Renaissance Faire this year? Why not make our own at home!
Continue ReadingJulia Child’s 100th Birthday Celebrated Online
If you grew up in the 80s like I did, there’s a high probability that you came across Julia Child the same way: through PBS. The ebullient and impressive host of a variety of programs, she had a way with food–a casual, almost childlike enthusiasm for great ingredients and everything French.
Continue ReadingFourteen Fictional Foods You Can’t Have (And Recipes For Them)
Our favorite fictional worlds are often fantastically full of fantasy flavors–some better than others. It’s hard to resist trying to create Earthly versions of them, so why try? Here are fourteen foods from fiction and ways to make them yourself, along with three you can find without much invention.
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