The sweet 100

Inspired by the omnivore's 100 (found via ruth's kitchen experiments) , Cakespy has created the sweet 100!

1. Copy this list into your site, including the instructions!
2. Bold all of the sweets you've eaten--or make them a different type color.
3. Cross out any of them that you'd never ever eat.
4. Consider anything that is not bold or crossed out your "To Do" List.
5. Optional: Post a comment here linking to your results--or just post a comment letting us know how many you've tried, or what you're going to try next!

55 out of 100. Amazing for a Diabetic, no?

• Red Velvet Cake
• Princess Torte
• Whoopie Pie
• Apple Pie with sharp cheddar
• Beignet
• Baklava
• Black and white cookie
• Seven Layer Bar (also known as the Magic Bar or Hello Dolly bars)
• Fried Fruit pie (sometimes called hand pies)
• Kringle
• Just-fried (still hot) doughnut
• Scone with clotted cream
• Betty, Grunt, Slump, Buckle or Pandowdy (Brown betty, Bluebery Grunt, Blueberry Buckle)
• Halvah
• Macarons
• Banana pudding with nilla wafers
• Bubble tea (with tapioca "pearls")
• Dixie Cup
• Rice Krispie treats
• Alfajores
• Blondies
• Croquembouche
• Girl Scout cookies
• Moon cake
• Candy Apple
• Baked Alaska
• Brooklyn Egg Cream
• Nanaimo bar
• Baba au rhum
• King Cake
• Sachertorte
• Pavlova
• Tres Leches Cake
• Trifle
• Shoofly Pie
• Key Lime Pie (made with real key lime)
• Panna Cotta
• New York Cheesecake
• Napoleon / mille-fueille
• Russian Tea Cake / Mexican Wedding Cake
• Anzac biscuits
• Pizzelle
• Kolache
• Buckeyes
• Malasadas
• Moon Pie
• Dutch baby
• Boston Cream Pie
• Homemade chocolate chip cookies
• Pralines
• Gooey butter cake
• Rusks
• Daifuku
• Green tea cake or cookies
• Cupcakes from a cupcake shop
• Crème brûlée
• Some sort of deep fried fair food (twinkie, candy bar, cupcake)
• Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
• Jelly Roll
• Pop Tarts
• Charlotte Russe
• An "upside down" dessert (Pineapple upside down cake or Tarte Tatin)
• Hummingbird Cake
• Jell-O from a mold
• Black forest cake
• Mock Apple Pie (Ritz Cracker Pie)
• Kulfi
• Linzer torte
• Churro
• Stollen
• Angel Food Cake
• Mincemeat pie
• Concha
• Opera Cake
• Sfogliatelle / Lobster tail
• Pain au chocolat
• A piece of Gingerbread House
• Cassata
• Cannoli
• Rainbow cookies
• Religieuse
• Petits fours
• Chocolate Souffle
• Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)
• Rugelach
• Hamenstashen
• Homemade marshmallows
• Rigo Janci
• Pie or cake made with candy bar flavors (Snickers pie, Reeses pie, etc)
• Divinity
• Coke or Cola cake
• Gateau Basque
• S'mores
• Figgy Pudding
• Bananas foster or other flaming dessert (Cherries Jubilee)
• Joe Froggers
• Sables
• Millionaire's Shortbread
• Animal crackers
• Basbousa

Eating down the Fridge

The Washinton Post's blog A Mighty Appetite with Kim O'Donnel has announced an interesting challenge. Eating Down The Fridge starts on March 9th. The goal: Eat from your staples and your pantry rather than running out and buying fresh.

This is a problem I've struggled with for quite some time. I hate throwing away food; but due to a lack of planning (or an inability to follow the plan once made) I often do throw out food. And I often have a pantry full of small bottles of strange sauces, odd mixes, and ingredients I never eat.

Civil Eats posted today about the challenge, and Jerusha Klemperer posted about her own struggles of the leftovers in her pantry that she's not sure how to cook, or once cooked even how to serve them.

I haven't decided yet if this challenge is for me. About once a month I try to eat from my pantry; and it usually reduces my grocery bill significantly. My tools for this sort of thing include the Food Blog Search Engine, Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, and a healty dose of imagination. Some weeks I do quite well, like at the end of January where I was able to use up the last cup of couscous and three kinds of rice, tinned shrimp, and a very old bag of frozen strawberries. I didn't quite finish the bag of frozen cranberries though, and I never got to the can of chickpeas or jar of artichoke hearts. And then there's that old bag of dried chickpeas.

Maybe I should take up the challenge again.