A giant one that's ten feet long, of course! Banana splits are pretty good at thwarting Adultitis. But 10-foot banana splits have been known to give Adultitis the hives. If you wanna make one for your next party, they seem pretty easy to put together. This tutorial uses a carpet tube and this one uses a simple rain gutter (both were covered in heavy duty aluminum foil.) If you wanna go crazy, eat it for dinner. If you wanna go easy on the waistline, try these Banana Split Bites instead. Photo from OhHappyDay …
Food & Recipes
How to Make Crunch Berry Ice Cream
About a year ago, I made a Summer Bucket List. One of the items I was most excited about was inventing a new ice cream flavor. In this particular case, excitement didn't translate into action; summer came and went and the world went without a new ice cream flavor. (Sorry, World.) To be fair, I did come up with an idea for a flavor last summer, I just never got around to trying it. Until now. So, without further ado, I give you Crunch Berry Ice Cream! You may be thinking, "Big deal. You threw some cereal into some vanilla ice cream -- how groundbreaking." But alas, I took this task …
When Plates Tell Stories
Yep, plates tell stories. Especially fancy plates. A few months ago, a woman came up to me after one of my speaking programs to talk about her experience cleaning out her mother's home after her passing. The woman and her siblings found a box of fine china, each piece carefully wrapped just as it was when it was gifted to their parents on their wedding day. The mother was married for over fifty years. She had four kids. Thirteen grandkids. And the china was still in the box, unused. Although muffled by cardboard and packing paper, these plates told a clear story: There is no occasion …
Serving Fun as the Main Course with a Side of Crazy
Spatula City is a meal in which everyone eats dinner with unconventional utensils. Think spatulas, spaghetti forks and soup ladels. Barbarian Spaghetti is when you eat spaghetti without plates. Crazy might be when you combine them both. …
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Ugly Cake Initiative: The Results
The purpose of this post is to feature some of the repulsive results from the recent Ugly Cake Initiative (We shared our family's experience here). We heartily congratulate all the people who took up the challenge to fight Adultitis by whipping up something ugly in the kitchen. And we offer our sincere condolences to any brave souls who ingested any of the creations. (Although to be fair, most were reported to be very delicious.) Take that, Martha Stewart! Without further ado, check out the gruesome goodness! …
A Simple, Quick and Ugly Guide to Fun
It is official: making ugly treats is a foolproof way to annihilate Adultitis. Indeed, forgoing the stress that can come from trying to create a confection that might make Martha Stewart weep tears of joy is not nearly as fun as concocting something that would have her wailing and gnashing her teeth. Although we have extolled the virtues of cooking up ugly cakes and cookies for some time, we had not actually undertaken the task -- until now. We used the latest Small Rebellion, aka The Ugly Treat Initiative, as a fitting excuse to jump right in. It's easy to be intimidated by some of the …
Small Rebellion #6: The Ugly Treat Initiative
According to the Interwebs, the first week of April is Laugh at Work Week. If there’s one thing work could use more of, it’s laughter. Inspired by our most recent Champion of Childhood award winners who made an epic ugly cake for a co-worker, we are introducing a new Small Rebellion and we'd love to have you join us! It’s called The Ugly Treat Initiative, and the instructions are very simple: The MISSION: Step 1) Make a delicious dessert that also happens to be really, really UGLY. Step 2) Bring it to work to share. Step 3) Enjoy laughter and improved morale with your colleagues. (And …
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What’s The Best Part of an Oreo Cookie?
According to physicist David Neevel, it's the cookie, hands down. And this quirky machine will separate your Oreo and remove the offending substance for you. Plus it uses a hatchet. Nice touch. …
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How to Guarantee an Adultitis-Free Dinner Party
Adultitis would have us believe that it's unbecoming for an adult to play with his or her food. Apparently, Polish designer Boguslaw Sliwinski (say that three times fast) didn't get the memo. He has designed a series of plates that invite you turn your meal into an action scene. Now you tell me: what are the odds that Adultitis makes an appearance at a dinner party featuring plates of this nature? …
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Ugly Cookies
Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I’m sure you can conjure up an image of what Christmas cookies are “supposed” to look like. And although there are many different kinds of Christmas cookies, I’m guessing this is not the image that comes to mind first. Believe it or not, these are, in fact, Christmas cookies. And they were not made by a four-year-old or a victim of the Great Kitchen Catastrophe of ’73. The story of these so-called Ugly Cookies goes like this: One year, a mother was overwhelmed with all the things she had to do to get ready for a Christmas party. With a list a …