Hello everyone.

 I am planning on restarting this blog because I do miss going out and trying new foods. I am currently at Universal Studios Hollywood who have their Christmas/Grinchmas theme going so I will be exploring all of the different Grinchmas food items and also the Wicked themed food and drinks. So be on the look out for all the exciting up and coming food related blog posts. 

Happy Holidays, 

Bunny

List of Baby Shower Food and Drink Ideas

1. Fresh fruit.
2. Vegetables.
3. Finger sandwiches
4. Chips and Dips
5. Cheese and Crackers
6. Chicken (teriyaki is good)
7. Baby Shrimp
8. Chicken Wings
9. Meat balls


Drinks:
1. Drinking from baby bottles
2. Strawberry Hibiscus Tea Lemonade (From Martha Stewart.)
3. Pink Grapefruit "Margaritas" (Martha Stewart)
4. Cucumber Limeade (Martha Stewart)
5. Raspberry-Lemonade Punch
6. Mulled White-Wine Sangria

Disney recipes

I have found a website that has all the recipes from various parks in Walt Disney World and the Disney Cruise Line. So I will be posting various recipes from WDW and Disney Cruise Line. I personally have not tried any of the recipes because I don't live in Florida but those that I know in Florida rave about the food at the parks. I will find photos of the food and place it in the blog along with the recipe.

How to find the latest food places

1. Ask your friends. They will know all the latest places that are hip.
2. Watch the food network. They have awesome shows like Diners, Drive ins and Dives that will show all the small little places that deserve at least one trip there.
3. Find meet up websites or Facebook pages.

August Food Days

National Catfish Month
National Peach Month
National Brownies at Brunch Month
National Apple Week Second week of the month

National Mustard Day First Saturday

August 1st
National Raspberry Cream Pie Day

August 2nd
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

August 3rd
National Watermelon Day
Grab some Nuts Day

August 4th
National Lasagne Day

August 5th
National Waffle Day
National Oyster Day

August 6th
National Root Beer Float Day

August 7th
National Raspberries in Cram Day

August 8th
National Zucchini Day
National Frozen Custard Day

August 9th
National Rice Pudding Day

August 10th
National Banana Split Day
National S'mores Day

August 11th
National Raspberry Tart Day

August 12th
Julliene Fries Day

August 13th
National Filet Mignon Day

August 14th
National Creamsicle Day

August 15th
Lemon Meringue Pie Day

August 16th
Bratwurst Day
National Rum Day

August 17th
National Vanilla Custard Day

August 18th
National Soft Ice Cream Day

August 19th
Potato Day
Hot & Spicy Food Day

August 20
Lemonad Day
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day

August 21
National Pecan Torte Day

August 22nd
National Spumoni Day
Eat a Peach Day

August 23rd
National Sponge Cake Day

August 24th
National Peach Pie Day

August 25th
Whiskey Sour Day

August 26th
National Cherry Popsicle Day

August 27th
National Pots de Creme Day
Banana Lover's Day

August 28th
National Cherry Turnover Day

August 29th
More Herbs, Less Salt Day
Whiskey Sour Day
Swiss Winegrowers Day
Chop Suey Day
Lemon Juice Day

August 30th
National Toasted Marshmallow Day

August 31st
Eat Outside Day
National Trail Mix Day.

July Food Days

National Baked Bean Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Hot Dog Month.
National Ice Cream Month
National July Belongs to Blueberries Month
First Week of July: National Canned luncheon Meat Week
Third Sunday: Sundae Sunday
Third Wednesday: National Hot Dog Day
1st: Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day
1st: National Gingersnap Day
2nd:
National Anisette Day
National Chocolate Wafer Day

3rd:
National Chocolate Wafer Day
National Eat Beans Day

4th:
National Barbecued Spareribs Day
Caesar Salad Day

5th:
National Apple Turnover Day

6th:
National Fried Chicken Day

7th
National Strawberry Sundae Day

8th
National Chocolate with Almonds Day

9th:
National Sugar cookie Day
Don't Put all your eggs in one omelette Day

10th:
National Pina Colada Day

11th:
National Blueberry Muffin Day

12th:
National Pecan Pie Day

13th:
National French Fries Day
Beans 'n' Franks Day

14th:
Macaroni Day
National Grand Marnier Day
Pick Blueberries Day

15th:
National Tapioca Pudding Day

16th:
National Corn Fritters Day

17th:
National Peach Ice Cream Day

18th:
National Caviar Day

19th
National Daiquiri Day
National Ice Cream Day

20th:
National Lollipop Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
Fortune Cookie Day

21st:
National Junk Food Day

22nd:
National Penuche Fudge Day

23rd:
National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

24th:
National Tequila Day

25th:
National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

26th:
National Coffee Milkshake Day

27th:
National Creme Brûlée Day
National Scotch Day

28th:
National Milk Chocolate Day

29th:
Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day

30th:
National Cheesecake day

31st:
National Raspberry Cake Day
Cotton Candy Day
Jump for Jelly Beans day

June Food holidays

June 1st: National Doughnut Day
June 1st: National Hazelnut Cake Day
June 2nd: National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day
June 3rd: National Egg day
June 4th: National Cheese Day
June 4th: National Frozen Yogurt Day
June 4th: National Cognac Day
June 5th: National Gingerbread Day
June 6th: National Applesauce Cake Day
June 7th: National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
June 8th: National Jelly Filled Doughnut day
June 8th: National WOrld Oceans Day (Sustainable Seafood)
June 9th: National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day
June 10th: Herbs & Spices Day
June 10th: National Iced Tea
June 10th: National Black Cow Day (Root Beer Float)
June 11th: National German Chocolate Cake Day
June 12th: International Cachaca Day
June 12th: National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
June 13th: Nation Kitchen Klutz Day
June 14th: National Strawberry Shortcake Day
June 15th National Lobster Day
June 16th: National Fudge Day
June 17th: National Eat All Your Veggies Day
June 17th: National Apple Strudel Day
June 18th: National Cherry Tart Day
June 18th: International Picnic Day
June 19th: National Dry Martini Day
June 20th: National Vanilla Milkshake Day
June 21st: National Peaches and Cream Day
June 22nd: National Chocolate Eclair Day
June 22nd: National Onion Rings Day
June 23rd: National Pecan Sandy Day
June 24th: National Pralines Day
June 25th: National Strawberry Parfait Day
June 26th: National Chocolate Pudding Day
June 27th: National Orange Blossom Day
June 27th: National Indian Pudding Day
June 28th: National Tapioca Day
June 29th: National Almond Buttercrunch Day
June 30th: National Ice Cream Soda Day

Fun Food Facts.

Did you know a packet of crisps takes 3 days to digest?

If you put a tooth in a glass of coke overnight, the sugar in the drink will make the tooth completely dissolve.

Carrots taste sweeter after they’ve been cooked.

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

The first breakfast cereal ever produced was Shredded Wheat.

If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.

70% of your body is water.

It takes 3500 calories to make a pound of fat.

The smaller the berry the sweeter the taste.

Popcorn has been around for 6000 years.

There are 1200 varieties of watermelon.

50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.

In New Zealand there are approximately 40 million sheep and only 4 million people meaning sheep outnumber people 10 to 1!

Ketchup and Tomato Sauce account for approximately half of all tomatoes eaten.

Taiwan's top selling pizza is a seafood delight with onions, peas, squid, shrimp and crab topping the pizza pie.

The average person could go without food for a month, but only for a week without water.

The first fruit to be eaten on the moon was a peach.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Apples are made up of 25% air, that is why they float. 

Apple seed contains cyanide. 

Avocado has the highest protein and oil content of all fruits, but most of this is the healthier unsaturated type.

Black-eyed peas are really beans.

Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world. 

Butter and margarine are similar in calories, the difference is that butter is higher in saturated fats, while margarine generally has more unsaturated fats. 

Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.

Chili heat is measured in Scoville units, named after the pharmacist Thomas Scoville.

Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties. 

Celery requires more calories to eat and digest than it contains. 

Cherries are a member of the rose family. 

Chocolate is a particularly good source of magnesium, potassium and calcium. It also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. 

On the down side chocolate contains caffeine and has a high fat level. 

Coffee is the most recognized smell in the world. 

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. 

Doughnuts were orginally made of raised dough with a nut in the centre.

Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C.

Eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries.

Fish consumption may be more than brain food but also help protect your eyes from age-related macular degeneration, a potential cause of blindness. 

The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more Vitamin C than oranges.

Honey is the only edible food for humans that will never go bad.

Margarine was first called Butterine in England when it was introduced.

Orange does not rhyme with any other word.

Peanuts caqn be one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Pear is a fruit that ripens from the inside out.

Pizza toppings of squid are the most popular variety in Japan.

Sandwiches are named after John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), for whom beef was placed between 2 sliced pieces of bread so that he could stay at the gambling table without interruptions for meals.

Soup has its origin as a word from 'sop' or 'sup', meaning the slice of bread on which the broth was poured.

Soy flour and soya flour are richer in calcium and iron than wheat flour, gluten-free and high in protein.

Soy flour is ground from raw soybeans; soya flour from lightly toasted soybeans.

Strawberries are the only fruit which has its seeds on its outer skin.

Swiss cheese ferments with bacteria generating gas which bubbles through the cheese leaving holes; cheese-makers call them "eyes."

The herb Thyme's most active ingredient is thymol, the antibacterial ingredient found in mouthwashes and Vicks Vaporub.

White chocolate is not a true chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor, instead its made of sugar, cocoa butter, milk solids, lecithin and vanilla. 

White shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and earlobes while brown eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and earlobes; the colour has no relationship to the nutritional quality or taste of the eggs.

There are more chickens in the world than people!

Over the last half a century food production actually increased faster than population.

The onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl.

During a lifetime the average person eats about 35 tons of food.

In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails per year.

Within 2 hours of standing in daylight, milk loses between half and two-thirds of its vitamin B content. 

Watermelons are 97% water, whilst lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.

Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, a substance our bodies convert into vitamin A.

When an egg floats in water, it is “off” and should not be eaten. As eggs age, gases build up inside the shell making it more buoyant. This is the best way to test whether an egg has gone rotten without having to break open the shell, risking the foul odor escaping.

Approximately 44 million tons of bananas are produced annually, compared to more than 60 million tomatoes. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34 million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).

Coca-cola was originally green in colour. 

Eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries. 

Fish consumption may be brain food, but also help protect your eyes from age-related macular degeneration, a potential cause of blindness.

Flamingos owe their pink or reddish colour to the rich sources of carotenoid pigments in the algae and small crustaceans that they eat. 

Fortune cookies are not Chinese, they were invented in Los Angeles around 1920.

Lettuce is the only vegetable or fruit which is not sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh.

Pineapple is the international symbol of hospitality.

Pizza originated in the early 1700's in Naples, Italy.

A raisin in a glass of champagne will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Tomatoes used to be considered poisonous.

Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code.

An ounce of chocolate contains about 20 mg of caffeine.

Chocolate is the number one flavour in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.

Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere. 

Weird food holidays for 2012

May 27: Grape Popsicle Day
This is the one day that you can rejoice in the fact that you adore grape popsicles. For those of you that have never had a grape popsicle TRY IT. Don't just leave it in the box for it to get freezer burn.

June 13: Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
For those that are a klutz in the kitchen this is the day to celebrate you. We honor you and say "You did your best."

June 29: Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
Yeah it is always nice to make a super cheesy meal but don't you normally just want to keep it to yourself but today is the one day that you really have to decide to share or to keep it to yourself.

July 9: Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Omelet Day.
Just remember to not put all of the eggs into one omelet today.

August 12: Julienne Fries day
This is not the day to eat wedge fries or crinkle cut fries. This is the day to eat straight fries.

August 30: Toasted Marshmallow Day
This is the day to just have toasted Marshmallows by themselves with out the graham crackers and chocolate.

September 2: Blueberry Popsicle Day
Blueberry popsicles all day today. Now how awesome is that?

September 9: Wiener Schnizel Day
No this is not the day to eat at the hot dog place but to actually have breaded and friend meat.

September 10: TV dinner day
Forget making a actual meal (who really has time for that?) but actually sit down in front of the tv and just eat a good ole' tv dinner.

October 8: Fluffernutter Day
This one stumbled me. But with some good research so here is what Fluffernutter is: take two pieces of bread (any kind of bread), put peanut butter on one piece and marshmallow fluff on the other one. After spreading place the two pieces together and enjoy.

October 15: Chocolate Covered Insects day
This is the day where you get to live like a wild person and eat a insect best do it this day.

October 28: Wild Foods day
See those wild berries and other fruits on the side of the road? Be a dare devil and try them today

December 13: Ice Cream and violins day
Just sit back and listen to violin music while eating your favorite ice cream or while trying a new one.

Apple and Onion Salad Endive Spears

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 5 minutes
Ready in: 35 minutes

Serves: 30 servings

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup walnut pieces, minced
• 2 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored, and minced
• 1 large sweet onion, minced
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh chives
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 1/4 cup raw apple cider vinegar (such as Bragg®)
• 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese
• 6 Belgian endives, separated into individual leaves

Directions

1. Toast walnut pieces in a dry skillet over medium-high heat until aromatic and lightly browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Let cool to room temperature.
2. Combine apples, onion, chives, and parsley in a bowl and toss well.
3. Pour vinegar into a small bowl; drizzle and whisk olive oil into vinegar until emulsified. Pour dressing into apple mixture and toss to coat.
4. Gently fold walnuts and blue cheese into apple mixture just before serving. Spoon filling onto each endive leaf.

(From allrecipes.com)