Get Ready to Rumble With Recipes – Psst, It’s A Giveaway!
Update: Time is up! Thank you for playing everyone. Your answers are ummm…enlightening? The winner will be posted on or about 7 pm tomorrow night.
Now if you will excuse me I must go. I’m a little nauseous after reading all your answers.
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I was going to do a huge one year bloggy-versary celebration because, one year ago today, I was sitting at my computer and thought, I’m going to post this photo of a flying squirrel, yeah that’s the ticket.
In order to celebrate, I was going to put up a Mr. McLinky where you would leave your recipes. Then I would pick three of the recipes and you would vote on the one you liked the most. Then the winner would win a $100 William and Sonoma gift card.
But then I decided – not.
I decide I didn’t want you going through all that work just for a shot at something you may never win. And I didn’t want to go through the work of getting a Mr. McLinky account, take it down, pick three recipes, have you vote, close the poll and announce the winner.
Instead, I’m doing this post and having a glass of wine.
All you have to do to win the $100 William and Sonoma gift card is leave a comment with the answer to this question.
“What is the weirdest thing you have ever eaten?”
Because I have eaten some weird stuff and I want to know if you have too.
My bloggy-versary post implied that I wanted you to cook your pets and take some photos of it in order to win. I didn’t mean that.
What I did mean is that over the past year, I have been blessed with this new medium of creative expression. That I have found myself in my photography. That the chore of cooking every night can be a discovery if you are photographing it too. That you make being on the computer fun as well as work.
I want all the people who come to LifeSignatures to have a shot at winning. That’s all five of you. I’m leaving the comments open until Saturday pm-ish. Then I’ll have the boy scientifically pick the winner at random on Sunday afternoon-ish.
Only one comment per person please.
Good luck to. You have blessed me more than you will ever know.
Love,
Puna
If I only get one post, then I can’t decide between the live octopus or the just dispatched rabbit eyeball!
I had traveled to Calgary, Canada and while I was there the had a “Testicle Festival” at one of the local bars. It seems that the “Rocky Mountain Oysters” are a big deal in the Northern Parts. So, when in Rome…we had bull testicles for an appetizer. Needless to say I was very thankful for the cold beer I had to wash them down with.
My friends ordered creatures of the sea for me during a fish festival in Sardania. The hardest creature to eat was the octopus because they didn’t change its shape. They would tell me what I ate after I ate it.
Alas…I dont eat weird things…unless…well…chitterlings…but even if I dont win I wanted to let you know…I LOVE YOUR BLOG!
Hey! Thanks for voting on my poll! Hmmm… Well, I’d have to say the weirdest thing I’ve ever eaten was a chicken heart at a Brazilian restaraunt. My husband lived in northern Brazil for a couple years and he made me try them. They were disgusting! I will never eat them again! The rest of the Brazilian food was heavenly, but those definitely were not!
Dog in China. While they are suppose to tell you when they are serving dog, that did not happen in the remote area where we were visiting.
I have to say, I’m not brave enough to put a chicken heart or slimy octopus in my mouth but there is something I eat that everyone in my family can’t understand…they call me weird…i don’t understand why. I absolutely LOVE gobs of maple syrup on everything…my eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, and oh yeah, my waffles too!
I haven’t really eaten anything weird.
I’m so glad I found your blog anyway! It’s one of my favorite places to visit!
Hmmmm, I don’t know of anything really weird. Well unless frog legs count. I love frog legs!
Well, my husband thinks I am beyond weird…but…I love biscuits and gravy topped with sugar for breakfast. He looks at me in total disgust when I put sugar on my biscuits and gravy…..I tell him it is a southern thing!!
What a great giveaway…..crossing fingers!
Hmmm… I don’t think any of it is too weird – cetainly NOT dog!
I’ve eaten frog’s gegs, and squid and octopus, venison, alligator, snails – but really in the scheme of things, none of that is that weird.
Love the photo of the clams!!
Um, mine would be Chocolate Covered Grasshoppers… a million years ago.
Hmmmmm, the weirdest thing I’ve ever eaten? I remember when I was 15 and in Switzerland and had fish stew. That seemed weird to me at the time. Since then I have had oysters, escargot, whole anchovies – lots of things that seemed really crazy to me as a teenager seem pretty good now. I’d have to say escargot is the weirdest. I love them, but,I still have to not think about them being snails while I eat them or I couldn’t do it. I guess that proves that if you put enough butter and garlic on anything you can make it taste good! By the way, those rocky mountain oysters aren’t so strange where I come from. Weird, huh?
Happy bloggy-versary!
Christi
As a young southern bride, I cooked squirrel and dumplings once to please my new father in law–barely touched it with my tongue and swore off!! I don’t eat or cook things that scamper on my lawn anymore! Congratulations on a successful year and thanks!
Turtle, lambsgreen (some plant that looks like a weed), and toasted soybeans straight from my Dad’s field. (Yeah, those weren’t too good! Dad really needed a recipe!) And mountain oysters. Yeah–some people like them, but it is hard to get past the fact that you are eating castrated bulls balls.
I am so picky so if I have eaten anything odd, it’s because I didn’t know what it was and it closely resembled something else. I’d have to say lamb was a huge stretch for me but I did it because it was at a dinner party and I felt like I had to. I’ve never had it since though!
you crack me up Puna thanks for your humor….and your very special place in blogland!
eating is an issue with me…i do not do weird so I guess some mexican concoction wrapped in a flour tortilla with very spicy sauce…or fish stew
Takin’ the easy way out, Great! It’s too hot to work so hard.
The weirdest thing I have ever eaten was a brussel sprout and I did not like it. Most other normal food is OK, I’m really not a fussy eater but I don’t do bugs and internal organs. Yuck.
Please enter me in the drawing and have a wonderful weekend.
~ ~Ahrisha~ ~
I just found your blog this morning. I’m enjoying it! The weirdest thing I can think of off the top of my head was sushi made with some kind of roe. I didn’t enjoy it at all – the texture was not something I appreciated.
When I was a kid my parents got served a sheep’s head. A whole sheep’s head. I think it was boiled. They ate it (or from it anyway) but my brothers and I didn’t. We got to eat the world’s worst pasta – it was tasteless and pasty and artificially coloured. We still thought it was better than sheep head.
The weirdest thing I’ve eaten is escargot – they are delicious!! Especially at Old Field Inn in Prince Frederick, MD.
The strangest thing I have ever eaten would have to be pork rinds. Yeah, I know, I’m not a very adventurous eater. That’s ok, my sensitive tummy couldn’t handle the stranger stuff.
The weirdest thing I have ever eaten is elephant. When I was little (like 15years ago) I asked my Grand-pa what I was eating for dinner and ELEPHANT is what he told me. No one seems to believe that that’s the truth BUT that’s what he told me that’s what I have always believed!! Since he is no longer around to tell me otherwise I’m going with it!!
Wow! Puna you amaze me! Hmmmm – weird – hmmmmm. I would have to say among the escargot, frog legs, deep fried chicken feet (yeah – true) and smoked snake that I have had, the weirdest one was Sweetbread. Yeah you would think a dessert? uh huh. I was at my ex-mother-inlaws house and she served it at a dinner party. You know how that goes
. She knew that I more than likely would get sick before taking a bite so she told me it was veal. Once the bite went in and then a few more (just to be nice) someone told me what it was and I politely said “I’m full!”. For all of you who don’t know what that is – it is the pancreas of a cow. I don’t do organs anymore…..
Happy Bloger-versary!!!!
My mom says I ate a garden snail when I was a toddler. Does that count?
Escargot, calamari, beef tongue, chocolate ants & snake.
I like most foods but when I was growing up my parents would fix liver and tell us it was beef. There was no fooling me though, the smell to this day makes me sick. I swallow fast snails and stay away from oysters. Congratulations on your bloggerversary. Mine is coming up soon.
I ate a bug once but it was by accident.
Chocolate covered ants. I’m so glad I’m old enough to not take “dares” anymore.
Chocolate covered grasshoppers at a party one time. I only tasted a tiny bit but it actually wasn’t that bad.
Well, I am not a risk taker when it comes to food. The worst thing I ever had was calamari. Which doesn’t sound bad, but i hated it and I was on the worst date of my life…I was really sick, so probably there was something not right with that:)
Uni, I guess. I’m a fairly bold eater, so there are things I eat that others think is weird, but I don’t even give it a second thought. The only reason uni came to mind is because I didn’t really enjoy it as much as I thought I would. But I’ll try just about anything!
Rattlesnake. Yep, tastes like chicken!
That’s what my hubby says too!
I forgot to mention Sea urchin, sheep’s liver, fried goat blood (don’t ask), haggis, alligator… none of these taste like chicken!
Hmmmm. I’ve eaten chocolate covered fried earthworms….a school project…but the worst thing I have ever eaten was raccoon. There’s a politcal rally in our state called the Gillett Coon Supper. I went, ate and was REALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY SICK all the way home and the next day. I get sick just thinking about it. Funny idea. Thanks for sharing. We’re sharing peanut butter ideas and Elvis stories at diningwithdebbie.blogspot.com. I hope you will come join us. Or, join us for Crock Pot Wednesdays. Mister Linky will be ready for that on Tuesday.
I must say and am pretty safe in my eating habits – strangest thing would have been frog legs back in school – they were actually pretty tasty – went to a restaurant last week and split a seafood dish with my husband that had baby octopus in it – looked like the whole thing too – I couldn’t handle that one – stuck with the shrimp and scallops!
I was served what turned out to be a rather large grilled octopus in Italy when I thought I was ordering seafood pasta. I didn’t really eat it – I just moved it around my plate so I didn’t look rude (: It was nasty.
Frogs Legs, Chicken Feet (Chinatown, NY) and Conch
None of which were offensive but not really worth the effort to do again.
When I met Andy he had squirrel in his freezer but never convinced me to try it.