April Food Day

So today is April Fool’s Day and you were expecting a prank from me, huh? That would be too obvious.

Instead, I’m writing about an effort by a group of bloggers called April Food Day. Each one is asking their readers to contribute to Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest), which is a national food bank with 200 member banks across the country.

By supporting Feeding America, you can provide 175 meals to those in need for only $25. (I hope they’re serving bacon.) The food bank system served an estimated 25 million unduplicated people annually. (They better have a lot of bacon.)

Visit their site today to make a contribution.

Feeding America

April Food Day

Cubicle Warfare

April Fool's Day is this Wednesday. What have you got? OK, you’d better start preparing now. It’s not too late.

First, pick up a book called Cubicle Warfare. It gives you step by step instructions on office pranks. Find it at your local bookstore.

Second, go to the Museum of Hoaxes' top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes for added inspiration.

Now you'd better get moving. You’ve only got two days left and you don't know how long everyone else has been planning.

Cubicle Warfare
Museum of Hoaxes

Long Grove Confectionery

It's time to wrap up our week-long tribute to desserts on a stick. (I mean, what else goes with a corndog?)

Check out Long Grove Confectionery’s selection of Easter novelties. They have solid milk chocolate Hippity Hop & Lammie Pops (you've got to see them) and Silly Chicks & Bunny Crispie Pops (shown to the left).

And what to do if it’s not Easter? Check out their tulip and daisy chocolate pops. They’ll hold you over until the next holiday.

Order some pops for your chicks right away. Hop to it.

Long Grove Confectionery

Peepsicles

Y'all, Easter is ‘bout to get better.

Frozen Peeps on a stick. Dang, that’s sweeter than peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

Here’s the recipe, created by the makers of Peeps (with additional Snackworthy commentary - channeling our favorite Paula Deen)

• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1/2 cup sweetened shredded coconut or 1/2 cup peanuts (about 2 ounces), finely chopped
• 12 wooden craft sticks, available at any craft store
• 12 PEEPS® Bunnies, any color (You see, Peeps is just a metaphor for mankind – we’re all the same on the inside, hon.)

1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper. (Darlin, git to the store and buy some, don't try to make your own wax paper.)
2. Place the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of barely simmering water. Stir occasionally until melted and smooth.
3. Place the coconut or nuts on a plate. (Peanuts, baby, put the peanuts on a plate.)
4. Insert 1 craft stick about halfway into the bottom section of 1 Bunny (oh, ouch!). Dip Bunny into the chocolate, turning to coat completely. Holding the dipped Bunny over the bowl of chocolate, use a knife (or y’alls finger) to scrape the excess chocolate off the back and bottom of the Bunny, letting it fall back into the bowl (or your mouth). Hold the Bunny over the plate of coconut or nuts and sprinkle to cover all sides.
5. Place the Bunny on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining Bunnies.
Freeze until firm, about 30 minutes. Serve frozen. (Mmm, mmm, ain’t nothing wrong with that.)

PEEPSicles can be stored in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 1 week.

Peeps

Brownie Pops

A couple of years ago, we celebrated a friend’s 50th birthday by going to New York and hiring Famous Fat Dave who introduced us to chocolate covered frozen key lime pie on a stick. Yu-uu-uu-um. (So good, they get the four syllable yum. I'm sure you've heard it.)

Sadly, they don’t deliver directly to your house at 9:00 on a Monday night after you’ve had the worst day ever. Or any other time, for that matter.

Don’t despair though. I’ve found a back up plan. Brownies on a stick. A title like that sounds eerily like snakes on a plane, but way better.

Try one. Or two. Who am I to judge? I just finished an entire box of Girl Scout Cookies. (Love those Samoas!)

Browniepops

Rag and Bone

I spent the entire weekend printing photographs to put in a new album I bought on my last vacation. Now I've got to slide them all into the little plastic sleeves. The vacation was three months ago, so you can tell how excited I was to get started.

Rag and Bone make an alternative to the old sleeve option. Beautiful handcrafted book covers surround your photos, which you print on ink jet paper. No plastic sleeves.

Choose covers that are wrapped in classic dupioni silk or whimsically patterned cotton fabrics.

These books might make up for all those red-eye photographs. I said might.

Rag and Bone

Your Fonts

How’s your penmanship? I’m sure it’s just lovely. Mine? Well, let’s just say that no one will be using me to hand address their wedding invitations.

Since you’re so proud of those writing skills, you can now have a personal font made for your computer. Go to Your Fonts and download their alphabet template. Fill it out, scan it and upload the template back to their web site.

In a few short clicks, you’ve got a font of your handwriting.

What could be better than that? Wait, I know...maybe something to help decipher my boss’s chickenscratch.

Your Fonts