Play with your food
Get your
Paper Chef
Ingredient Nominations
in now!
Since we here at Belly Timber believe that you should never refrain from playing with your food, we are delighted to be once again judging one of the food blogging community’s premiere excuses for massive foodplay: Paper Chef.
Wait a sec, you ask. Didn’t the great founder and Paper Chef guru, Owen of Tomatilla! declare this month’s theme to be simplicity, health, and renewal?
Well, yeah, but that doesn’t mean you can’t play too. Think of it like creating a stunning tic tac toe board, versus spending six weeks designing your own Neverwinter Nights module. Capiche?
After all, we here at Belly Timber are all about simplicity, health, and renewal.
Okay, I lied. That’s not even remotely true.
We are all about getting the clutter out of the kitchen, losing twenty pounds, and taking those damn overdue books back to the library.
Close enough, right?
So, if your New Year’s Resolutions are anything like ours, maybe that clean kitchen, that drive toward slimness, and another six weeks with the library’s copy of The Essential Dalai Lama will lead you straight down the path toward the perfect, simple, healthy (and playful) Paper Chef entry.
Nominations for ingredients are happening over at Tomatilla! and they’re only open till Friday mid-morning. After that, we pull three out of a hat and add a fourth of our own choosing. The photo accompanying this post, I should note, contains a huge hint relating to our secret fourth ingredient.
I should also note, that the photo is of Chopper’s niece and if we have anything to say about it, it will remain on the internet for all to see until she’s old enough to date.
January 5th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
BABIES!!! You want us to cook babies?!?!?!
That is realy sick! ;-)
January 5th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Oh, shoot, I can’t find my recipe for fat little baby nipples.
January 5th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
MagicTofu guesses Belly Timber’s new theme for 2006: Cooking for Kuru.
Meanwhile, Cookiecrumb makes it extra special that we keep this picture up for a good… oh, let’s say ten years? Yeah, that’ll make her about thirteen. Perfect. :-)
January 5th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
babies, play, that all seems so far in the past now (I have teen/pre-teens now). Can’t we make it all about whining instead? Or maybe silence - the sullen rather than golden kind?
OK - just in case my family ever finds and reads this they are actually really great kids and getting to be mean cooks themselves (throwing crepe breakfast parties, etc etc)
I’m all for play - be as playful as you can be…
January 5th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Playing! Yay! I can’t wait.
January 5th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
I think 13 is too young to date. But, see, I’m old. Out of it. God, I’m glad I don’t have kids.
January 6th, 2006 at 6:06 am
In Utah, dating is not allowed until age 16! What a cute photo. And congrats on making it into the finals for the Food Blog Awards. Well deserved!
January 6th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Owen, crepe-making kids definitely = great kids! (There, does that help, just in case?)
Lady A: stand by. Playtime begins soon!
Cookie, I’m with ya. The child, though…she will be a wild one. She will be taunting boys most wickedly at age 12, I fear.
Kalyn: Age Of Consent or just plain going-to-the-movies dating? (Oh, wait, do teens still do that?) (Yikes, I’m old.) (Oh, and thanks for the congrats!)
January 6th, 2006 at 10:45 am
Miz D.
I’m ready: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1880448823/102-9127089-1023324?v=glance&n=283155
January 6th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Kevin: Hahahahahahahahaahhaha!
“How to Cook Forty Humans.”
Aaaaaaaahhhh!
D’oh!
January 6th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
One of my younger relatives was once silly enough to write the following:
“(some guy) of Boys2Men is the cutest guy in the world. He is so hot. Pshew!” and sign it with her full name.
Then a year later, I gave her a web site for her birthday — this was long enough ago that this was cool; now I have to give kids domains to be cool. Geez!
Anyway, said niece failed to use her web site for a year and it was lonely. So I posted her note. evilGrin
A number of years later, when she was 21 and heading off to Europe, I wrapped the note in a jewelery box and returned it. But I bet the image lives on in some Internet archive or another. snicker
January 6th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Nice one, Kitchenmage. Snicker, indeed!