Skull Candy Roundup

It's Halloween people - and you know what that means...mini candy bars and lots of Lady Gaga costumes.  We've been on the search for skulls this year - and we bring you our etsy round up of Skull treats to satisfy your sweet tooth!

Sparkling Skull Sugar Cookies by Sugar Sanctuary - $29.50

Crystal Head Vodka $45 (ok, this one isn't from etsy, but it's awesome)
Photo by Mark VP

Glitter Skull Lollipops by Sweetniks - $10

Sugar Cube Skulls by Dembones - $2

Sugar Cube Skulls by Dembones - $2

Chocolate Day of the Dead Skulls by Pazinktum - $18 

Candy Skull by Sunnybuick - $15

Candy Jar Print by Sunnybuick - $12

Chocolate Skulls with Bacon Brains by Oralgasm - $14

Bacon-abet

We've always had a soft spot for Gothic typefaces, and now we have even more reason to love them!  Henry Hargreaves' Bacon-abet.  Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.  Bacon.  Gothic fonts.  Heaven.

Enjoy.

xxG

Pornocrates - Félicien Rops

Every once in a while we like to check out some of the old stuff - the masters as it were.. This gorgeous number we found while doing some research on engraving techniques.

Félicien Rops, Pornocrates 1896

Mr Rops was born in 1833 in Namur and was educated at the University of Brussels. He is often associated with the symbolists, who were acting against the naturalist movement.

All art history aside, we like the dreamy nature of this etching, and we're curious where that delicious looking swine is leading our heroine.

Perhaps to the kitchen.


check out more tasty nibbles here

Ton Pie Est Excellent

Il me laisse par ailleurs languissant,

d'aller savourer un jour en bonne companie,

ces delicieuses tartes, sources d'extasie...

Peu importent qu'elles soient salees ou sucrees,

Car toutes sont pour moi sources d'intensite...

Your Pie Is Excellent

It also leaves me yearning,

go enjoy a day in good company,
these delicious pies, sources of ecstasy ...
Regardless of whether savory or sweet,
For me all are sources of intensity

- Boubazine Abdelhakim

This Sunday, get ready to get your pie on at the Fourth Annual Prospect Park "Pie in the Park" - a community pie tasting party - sort of the perfect event for the end of the summer. If last year's competition is any indicator what is to come this year, we're all in for a treat.


Follow your nose to the Tennis House South at the Southern part of the Long Meadow by the 9th Street entrance to Prospect Park.



Pie check-in is from 1-2 pm. Eating starts promptly at 2. They're expecting a lot of pies.


Winners will be named for Best Crust, Best Filling and Best Presentation. Last year's highlights included miniature lemon-curd basil crust pie pops, the "Rock of Love" amaretto cherry pie, and (wait for it, wait for it) a candied bacon pie with bacon ice cream.

$20 by nicodemusgreen on Etsy

Real Men Eat Cupcakes

Today we were reminded of our very first post at Gastronomista profiling Lynn Bianchi's amazing portraits of real women eating cupcakes.

Lynn Bianchi's Ulah Crossing the Delaware

Apparently we are in good company.

Introducing Butch Bakery, a manly baked goods delivery service in New York City. Founded by former asset backet securities attorney, David Arrick, the company is "Butching it Up", eschewing all things pink, sweet, cute or magical.

You've got to admit, though, these things are damn cute and pretty sweet too.

The cupcakes come in 12 flavors, including many that are really rather boozy. (Three times = a trend: booze and cupcakes officially pair, via our friends at the Red Velvet Lounge and Sweet Revenge.)

• B-52 Kahlua-soaked madagascar vanilla cake with Baileys Bavarian filling.


• Rum & Coke Rum-soaked madagascar vanilla cake with cola Bavarian cream filling.


• Sidecar Brandy-soaked lemon cake with orange-infused white chocolate ganache filling.


• Old-Fashioned Orange-soaked whisky cake with a lemon curd filling.


• Mojito Rum-soaked lime cake with mint white chocolate ganache.


• Beer Run Chocolate and beer-infused cake and with a beer buttercream, topped with crushed pretzels.


• Driller Maple cake with milk chocolate ganache and bacon bits.


• Home Run Peanut butter cake with banana Bavarian creme and bacon bits.


• Camp Out Graham cracker cake with a filling of marshmallow and chocolate ganache.


• Jackhammer Chocolate cake with hazelnut filling.


• Big Papi Cinnamon spice cake with a dulce de leche filling.


• Tailgate Caramel cake with a salted caramel filling.

They're styled out in Woodland Camo, Wood Grain, Houndstooth, Plaid, Checkerboard and Marble.

Clockwise from top left:

Houndstooth, Checkerboard, Plaid and Marble

Now we're just waiting for a portrait of gorgeous naked men eating these things. Yum.

In Bacon And In Health, Til Bacon Do Us Part

Dear readers,

Did you know bacon was used to promote matrimonial harmony in medieval England? Nothing like a little pork to put the snap crackle and pop back into a relationship, right? Sizzle! That's the kind of couples counseling we hostesses would like to see more of.

For more fun facts about bacon, check out Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon: Stories of Pork Bellies, Hush Puppies, Rock 'n' Roll Music and Bacon Fat Mayonnaise.

How James Beard award-winner and author Ari Weinzweig managed to compile so many of our favorite things into one beautiful hardcover is beyond us. He follows the history of bacon in the United States and believes bacon is to the U.S. what olive oil is to Italy. In short, a national treasure.


The fatty tome includes interviews with celebrated bacon makers from all over the US of A, as well as singer Andre Williams whose penchant for bacon is almost as strong as his love for the blues.


And if that isn't enough, it's got these strange R. Crumb-like illustrations, a bacon glossary (pancetta versus rasher?) and over 40 recipes, including ones for Grits and Bits Waffles and Bacon Fat mayonnaise. If that doesn't kindle your heart-fire - and your marital bed - then we don't know what will.