Hamburgers and Sausages from Scratch

The best home meat grinders.

Artificial lures or natural bait? Anglers line up on both sides.

Now, the Archie McPhee part of it I completely agree with. Where else are you going to find a rubber chicken?! Glow in the dark roaches? Little snakes you can weave into your hair when you decide to be Medusa for Halloween?

My favorite Martha Halloween Idea — punch (something red is best.) Take one of those generic plastic masks and coat the inside lightly with oil. Fill with water and freeze. Fill two rubber gloves with water and freeze. Place...

A $6 waiter’s corkscrew is really all you need. Make sure the worm (the coily bit that goes into the cork) is an actual wire coil rather than resembling a wood screw.

to pressure cook the darn thingd and they remained as lethal as rubber bullets.

. Not rock hard, but firm to the touch. Stick the worm of the grinder in the freezer too. It works much better to have everything cold. The grinder can get a better hold on non-squishy meat I think, and the friction of the...

That “dirt” dessert (really chocolate pudding) with oreos on top and gummy worms. Not very chowhoundish, but it does fit your theme. And kids love it...

. They are light brown. Saw no larve or worm things. Had these another time from a Ristra (those red peppers that hang) and it was loaded with tiny moths that infested everything. Don’t hang them outdoors and then bring...

So last week I grabbed a bottle of inexpensive Gewürztraminer at the grocery store to go with a week night supper. It’s a recent vintage, nothing fancy, in the usual Gewurzt style bottle. The rubber cork will NOT come out....

My son’s school put gummy worms in the punch cauldron. For grown ups, maybe not.

I buy slices of it to wrap around my dog’s monthly heart worm pill. It’s no longer called Old English, however. I think it’s Sharp Cheddar. They call it that, but of course it isn’t. My dog likes it,...

I’ve had Kangaroo meat, gator meat, shark’s fin soup, Bird’s nest soup, durian, ostrich, whale, pigeon, frogs, silk worms, live octopus, and one of the most disgusting stuff was vegemite from...

cold cereals or crackers, oddly enough) that we keep in our cupboard. In larval state, they are about one inch long, white, segmented worm-type things. Yuk. I live in Los angeles and don’t know if they are unique to our...

We just got back from Seoul; raw sea cucumbers, raw sea slugs, tiny sea shells, silk worm larvae and lady’s slipper shell meat. Giant clam too.