For Valentines Day I decided I should make something my girlfriend had never had before. Turns out she’s never had Manicotti. I went to my family cookbook and found a great recipe from my Uncle Yvon, which involved cooking for a few hours for her. Perfect. Hit the jump for a picture of the finished product and a full recipe to making my Uncle Yvon’s Manicotti from scratch.

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For the trifecta of amazing here is our third dinosaur story of the day… And when I saw it on Geekologie, I’m not sure I can come up with any as awesome for a write up as Geekologie Writer. Wow… just wow. I’ll let him sell the product for you.

These Create-A-Dino fruit snacks from Betty Crocker are hands down the best thing to happen to non-nutritional gummy snacking since Shark Bites. Each package contains a collection of different dinosaur parts and allows you, the snack-star, to create your own dino! Want to gobble a Tricera-raptor? No problem — the possibilities are limitless! But not really, there ARE a finite number of pieces. Still, I WANT TO EAT EVERY COMBINATION! And even if you do eat a whole box, you’ve still consumed 0 grams of protein, so you don’t have to worry about building any pesky muscle. WIN-WIN? No, WIN-RAWR! Now get inside me you sexy little Stegasaurus-Rex. Oooh — I’ve got your tail!

[via Somebody Give Me A Ride To The Grocery Store, Pleeease!: Create-A-Dino Fruit Snacks @ Geekologie]

While I was growing up, every Christmas our family would enjoy a large family gathering and an Italian dish called Anolini. When I decided I would make some to quench my 5 year long craving I ran into a few problems. First I couldn’t spell Anolini or Annalini or whatever (…Gah! I’ve made my point!) so trying to locate a recipe online proved to be more difficult than you would first think! And second I couldn’t get the recipe from my Aunt who used to make the dish, because she’s currently in Italy. How ironic. Sorta. I also had a bit of a hunch that maybe the name that has been assigned to it within my family, may not be the official name… which may have also lead to the difficulty in locating anything online to help me out. Rather than be beaten by old memories and lack of contact with those who count, I’ve gone ahead and made a recipe out of a few others with the help of my Father (thanks dad!). My hope is that by now posting it online, other people can locate a good Anolini recipe. After the short break there will be a full recipe with pictures of my progress in trying to make my favourite past-time Italian Christmas dish.

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How neat is this little contraption? It reportidly runs for $6.95, though I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to order less than 12 of them at a time from their website. >_< Lesson 1 in selling stuff online: Make it stupidly easy to spend my money on your website. The longer it takes me to find the checkout button, the higher the chance that I’m going to realize that it’s stupidly overpriced and totally un-needed. Fix your website people! The toaster is still kinda neat though

Thanks for the newstip Linda.

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[via Toast-it Notes @ insideout.au]

Umm… I’m not sure how to feel about this, but there seems to be a theme lately of awesome baking ideas. Someone make me a Zelda cake and I’ll know how to feel about it; Zelda is hot.. Especially straight out of the oven!

Oh and on an unrelated note, if you haven’t yet noticed, Some of the pages around the WritheM Network have been facebook enabled. This will let you comment on some pages that you previously couldn’t… it also means there is a shoutbox on the right of the blog that allows users to post anything to. Maybe your own links?

via Seriously, I Would Eat This Brain Cupcake @ Geekologie.

The crazy cooks over at Luxirare have outdone themselves this time. What happens when you mix my favourite dessert with a lollipop? Nothing short of genius! Check out the almost artistic pictures and a link to the full gallery after the break…

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I am totally skipping out on work tomorrow to make 6 dozen of these bad boys… They come with the power of vegetables too! Imagine making a salad for a dinner party and putting a bunch of these little guys into the salad. You’ll be seen as just as awesome as me! (well not quite, but it’ll definitely help).

A link to the full instructions can be found on AnnaTheRed’s flickr gallery for the little guys. Reminds me of the truffle mice I bake every year for christmas actually.

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Made me laugh, so I thought I’de share.

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You know I love you guys, so here’s a treat for you… going out for lunch today? stop off at orange julius and bring this printed coupon with you.

Offer valid only on June 19, 2009. Offer valid for one 20 oz. Light Smoothie, either Strawberry Delight™, Tropical Sunlight™, or Berry-Pom Twilight™.

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