Sandra Dodd

Well! Joyce found something wonderful and I know what Holly's having
for lunch. It has to do with sticking dry spaghetti through sections
of hot dogs and then boiling the whole thing.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/21/freaky-food-fun-inse.html

Maybe it would work with some kind of veggie hot dogs or boca sausage
or something, for vegetarians.


In the comments on that, there was a link to this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/forkableblog/2602280128/in/set-72157605772129444/

It's a photo of hot dogs cut into squids, kind of. Looks better than
it sounds.

Sandra

Schuyler

Simon loves the hot dogs with spaghetti. Thanks for forwarding that on. Fortunately he was hungry enough for a second dinner.

Schuyler




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From: Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, 28 April, 2009 5:53:39 PM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Monkey Platter addendum

Well!  Joyce found something wonderful and I know what Holly's having 
for lunch.  It has to do with sticking dry spaghetti through sections 
of hot dogs and then boiling the whole thing.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/21/freaky-food-fun-inse.html

Maybe it would work with some kind of veggie hot dogs or boca sausage 
or something, for vegetarians.


In the comments on that, there was a link to this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/forkableblog/2602280128/in/set-72157605772129444/

It's a photo of hot dogs cut into squids, kind of.  Looks better than 
it sounds.

Sandra


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Joyce Fetteroll

On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:

> It's a photo of hot dogs cut into squids, kind of. Looks better than
> it sounds.

Ah, well, if wandering into the territory of octopus hotdogs, no one
beats the Japanese ;-) There's a tradition to making cute food in box
lunches (bento) for kids to encourage them to eat a variety.

http://lunchinabox.net/2008/02/22/how-to-make-an-octodog-octopus-hot-
dog/

Apparently they look better fried than boiled (which will send those
who cringe at hotdogs over the edge ;-)

Then there's Apple rabbits:
http://lunchinabox.net/2007/12/13/how-to-make-apple-rabbits/

Molded eggs:
http://lunchinabox.net/2006/06/22/williams-sonoma-for-egg-molds/

And more decorative foods:
http://lunchinabox.net/recipes/decorative-food/

And to get fancy:

Octopus girl:
http://www.aibento.net/2009/04/miss-octopus-bento-344/
if you scroll down you can see some of the molds used to shape food
and cut out nori with.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears:
http://www.aibento.net/2009/03/goldilocks-and-the-three-bears-bento-330/

And to get really fancy, do a Google Image search (http://
www.google.com/imghp) on:

"oekaki bento" or oekakiben -- picture bento

kyaraben or charaben -- short for character bento
There have even contests for this. Image search on "kyaraben contest"

Here's a couple of blogs on bento making (not just the cute ones).
http://www.aibento.net/
http://justbento.com/

Joyce

Sandra Dodd

Karen Hsu made some of the mystery things and took photos. I did too
(and Karen's set is linked from mine):

http://sandradodd.com/eating/hotdogart

Sandra