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Food Inspiration

When things get busy in my life my food creativity decreases significantly, and I’m sure I am not the only person to experience this phenomena. During these times I simply can’t seem to do anything with the food in my refrigerator and feel absolutely uninspired despite that I truly do like cooking.

The past two weeks have been especially hectic and now that it is all over and the long weekend is slowing things down food is becoming more interesting (finally). On top of that I came across a site with the most beautiful pictures of food linked to recipes at TasteSpotting. Perfect timing.

What’s for Dinner?

I tried this recipe for Shrimp and Spinach Curry with some large wild shrimp last night and it was quite tasty.

Photo courtesy of krayker on stock.xchng

Visualize What You Eat

Spotted in the Shared Reading of Danielle, one of my two super cool sisters. Foodsel is a website that provides visualizations of food nutrients based on food category or by manufacturer. It also can display equivalence - “eating this food is the equivalent of eating…”

So if we look at something like a Taco Bell taco salad, it is the equivalent of eating 13.2 D-cell batteries (amount of energy not nutrients) and its fat content is equivalent to eating 0.2 sticks of butter (17.88g of fat). Not an overwhelming amount, but I can’t stomach the thought of eating even that much butter straight.

Foodsel also will tell you how much of a variety of exercises you would have to do to burn the calories for each food. In this case, we would have to dance for 52 minutes or carry a load of bricks for 36 minutes if we ate the salad from Taco Bell. I’m not a huge fan of dancing, but it does sound more appealing.

Image of the Canal Walk food court, courtesy of coda on Flickr

Baker’s Edge Recipes

While I can’t help but make fun of novelty bake ware, the Recipes page on the Baker’s Edge website all sound extremely tasty right about now…
Ganache and Peanut Butter Layered Brownies
Rocky Road Brownies
Friendship Bars
Bailey’s Cheesecake Bars with Chocolate Crust