Friday, July 04, 2008

Jelly Belly Recipes




If you love jelly beans but haven't tried Jelly Belly jelly beans, you don't know what you are missing. They are simply the best jelly beans in the world. There are 50 official flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans. If you buy any of the bulk mixes, jars or tins, you will only get 49 flavors though. The 5oth flavor, jalapeno, is not included in the mixes because the Jelly Belly people don't want to surprise any unsuspecting customer with a searing hot jelly bean.

While it is fun to eat Jelly Belly jelly beans one at a time, true Jelly Belly lovers also mix flavors to create gourmet "recipes". Here's a long list of recipes to start with. Got a recipe that's not listed? Let me know so I can add it!

Apple Pandowdy
2 Red Apple + 1 Honey Graham Cracker*

Apple Pie
2 Green Apple + 1 Cinnamon + 1 Honey Graham Cracker*

Banana Cream Pie
1 Top Banana + 1 Cream Soda + 1 Coconut


Banana Kiwi Pudding
2 Top Banana + 1 Kiwi + 1 French Vanilla

Banana Split
2 Chocolate Pudding + 2 Cotton Candy + 2 Top Banana + 2 Very Cherry


Berry Salad
1 Strawberry Cheesecake + 2 Raspberry + 1 Very Cherry + 1 Blueberry

Berry Smoothie
1 Strawberry Daiquiri + 1 Blueberry + 1 Raspberry

Black Cow
2 Dr. Pepper + 2 A&W Cream Soda

Black Forest Cake
2 Very Cherry + 1 Chocolate Pudding + 1 Coconut

Blue Raspberry
2 Blueberry + 2 Raspberry

Blueberry Muffin
2 Blueberry + 1 Buttered Popcorn

Bottom of Your Shoe
3 Bubble Gum + 1 Licorice + 1 Cinnamon + 1 Peanut Butter

Boston Cream Pie
1 Chocolate Pudding + 2 A&W Root Beer + 2 French Vanilla

Breakfast
2 Espresso + 1 Buttered Toast* + 1 Orange Juice

Brown Cow
2 A&W Root Beer + 2 French Vanilla

Cafe Mocha
2 Cappuccino + 1 Chocolate Pudding + 1 A&W Cream Soda

Candy Apple (1)
2 Green Apple + 1 Cinnamon

Candy Apple (2)
2 Red Apple + 1 Caramel Apple

Cherry Cola
2 Very Cherry + 1 Dr. Pepper

Chili Relleno
1 Buttered Popcorn + 2 Jalapeno


Chocolate-Covered Cherry
1 Chocolate Pudding + 1 Very Cherry

Chocolate-Dipped Banana
1 Top Banana + 1 Chocolate Pudding

Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry
2 Strawberry Daiquiri + 1 Chocolate Pudding

Chocolate Mocha
2 Chocolate Pudding + 1 Cappuccino

Cinnamon Bubble Gum
2 Cinnamon + 2 Bubble Gum


Cinnamon Popcorn Balls
2 Buttered Popcorn + 1 Sizzling Cinnamon

Citrus Cooler
1 Tangerine + 1 Lemon lime + 1 Orange Juice + 1 Pink Grapefruit

Firecracker!
1 Jalapeno + 2 Sizzling Cinnamon


French Sizzling Berry
1 Berry Blue + 1 French Vanilla + 1 Sizzling Cinnamon

French Toast
2 Butter Popcorn + 1 Caramel Apple

French Vanilla Coffee
1 French Vanilla + 1 Cappuccino

Frozen Banana
1 Top Banana + 2 Chocolate Pudding

Fruit Salad
1 Cantaloupe + 1 Crushed Pineapple + 1 Green Apple + 1 Pink Grapefruit + 1 Tangerine

Fruit Salad (2)
1 Juicy Pear + 1 Peach + 1 Raspberry + 1 Tangerine

German Chocolate Cake
1 Coconut + 1 Chocolate Pudding + 1 Peanut Butter + 1 Cappucino


Happy Hour
1 Pina Colada + 1 Margarita + 1 Strawberry Daiquiri

Honeydew Melon
1 Cantaloupe + 1 Green Apple

Hot Chocolate
1 Toasted Marshmallow + 1 Chocolate Pudding

Hot Wings
2 Roasted Garlic* + 1 Tabasco* + 1 Jalapeno

Jalapeno Poppers
1 Buttered Popcorn + 1 Jalapeno

Jelly Belly Diet
1 Pink Grapefruit

Kiwi Cheesecake
2 Kiwi + 1 Strawberry Cheesecake

Lemon Meringue Pie
2 Lemon + 2 Coconut

Macaroon
2 Coconut + 1 Very Cherry

Mango Cream
2 Mango + 1 French Vanilla + 1 Lemon Lime

Mango Tango Salsa
2 Mango + 1 Lemon Lime + 1 Jalapeno

Mellow Yellow
2 Lemon Lime + 1 Lemon

Mimosa
2 Champange Punch + Orange Juice

Mint Chocolate
3 Chocolate Pudding + 2 Peppermint Stick

Mr. Clean
1 Juicy Pear + 1 Lemon Lime

Morning Toast
2 Butter Popcorn + 1 Strawberry Jam

Movie Theater Floor
1 Bubble Gum + 1 Buttered Popcorn + 1 Root Beer

Mud Pie
2 Chocolate Pudding + 1 Cappuccino + 1 Peanut Butter

Orange Cream Soda
1 Orange Sherbet + 2 Cream Soda

Orange Dream Bar
2 Orange Sherbet + 1 Cream Soda

Orange Peach Juice
2 Orange Juice + 2 Peach

Peachberry Bubble
2 Tutti Frutti + 2 Peach

Peaches & Cream
1 Peach + 1 A&W Cream Soda

Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich
2 Top Banana + 2 Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter and [Grape] Jelly
2 Peanut Butter + 2 Grape Jelly

Peanut Butter and [Strawberry] Jelly
2 Peanut Butter + 2 Strawberry Jam

Peanut Butter Marshmellow
1 Peanut Butter + 2 Toasted Marshmellow

Pineapple Salsa
2 Crushed Pineapple + 1 Jalapeno

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
2 Crushed Pinneaple + 1 Very Cherry + 1 Coconut

Pink Lemonade
1 Cotton Candy + 1 Lemon

Plum Sorbet
2 Plum + 1 Lemon

Poached Pear in Raspberry Sauce
1 Juicy Pear + 1 Raspberry

"Primary Colour It's Just Fruity In My Mouth" Flavour
1 Blueberry + 1 Lemon + 1 Cherry

Rainbow Sherbet
1 Blueberry + 1 Watermelon + 1 Lemon-lime + 1 Raspberry + 1 Strawberry Cheesecake

Rocky Road
1 French Vanilla + 1 Chocolate Pudding + 1 Peanut Butter

Root Beer Float
2 Root Beer + 1 Cream Soda

Sachertorte
1 Apricot + 2 Chocolate Pudding

Scrumptious Surprise
1 Peanut Butter + 1 Coconut + 1 Very Cherry + 1 Licorice

Sizzlin' Caramel Watermelon French Banana Split
1 Top Banana + 1 Chocolate Pudding + 1 Crushed Pineapple + 1 Strawberry Jam + 1 Very Cherry + 1 A&W Cream Soda + 1 Caramel Corn + 1 Watermelon + 1 French Banana + 1 Sizzlin' Cinnamon

Sizzlin' Watermelon
1 Sizzling Cinnamon + 1 Watermelon

S'mores
1 Caramel Corn + 2 Marshmallow + 1 Chocolate Pudding

Spiced Tea
2 Cinnamon + 1 Orange Juice + 2 Lemon

Starbucks Mocha Valencia
2 Expresso+ 1 Orange Juice

Strawberry-Kiwi Refresher
1 Kiwi + 1 Strawberry Daiquiri

Strawberry Milkshake
2 Strawberry Daiquiri + 1 A&W Cream Soda

Strawberry Shortcake
1 Strawberry Daiquiri + 1 Coconut

Strawberry Watermelon Slush
2 Strawberry Jam + 2 Watermelon + 1 Lemon Lime

Sweet Fried Banana
1 Top Banana + 1 Cinnamon + 1 Buttered Popcorn

Tequilla Sunrise
2 Margarita + 1 Orange Juice + 1 Very Cherry

Tiramisu
2 Cappucino + 1 A&W Cream Soda + 1 Chocolate Pudding


Toasted Caramel Corn
1 Toasted Marshmallow + 1 Caramel Corn

Tropical Fruit Salad
1 Cantaloupe + 1 Coconut + 2 Crushed Pineapple + 1 Hawaiian Punch + 1 Peach + 1 Pink
Grapefruit + 1 Very Cherry

Tropical Punch
1 Pina Colada + 1 Crushed Pineapple + 1 Coconut + 1 Hawaiian Punch

Tutti-Frutti Soda
1 Top Banana + 1 Cream Soda + 1 Coconut

Twizzlers
3 Hawaiian Punch + 1 Licorice

Vanilla Cafe Au Lait
2 A&W Cream Soda + 1 Cappuccino

Wild Blackberry Peach Cobbler
1 Wild Blackberry + 2 Peach + 1 Lemon

Yukky Pie
1 Top Banana + 1 Cinnamon + 1 Buttered Popcorn + 2 Orange Juice + 2 Peach

* Roasted Garlic, Buttered Toast and Graham Cracker flavored Jelly Belly jelly beans are not official flavors and are not offer for sale from the Jelly Belly website. They are available through a few online candy stores.

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Food Reference Website

If you're looking for food trivia, food history, recipes, or almost anything about food, then visit Foodreference.com. Frankly, it is one of the worse looking and poorly designed sites that I have seen for some time. Still, there's loads of information there if you are patient enough to weed through the clutter.

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Food Timeline

If you are interested in food history surf over to the Food Timeline. You can learn anything from common foods in 16th century England to the recipe for Dr Suess' green eggs and ham to "discovery" of the new flat iron steak (see below). Have fun!

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

"Chef!" - British comedy series

Last Christmas I treated myself to a new copy of the three-season "Chef!" comedy series. I had not even heard of the series until a few weeks earlier so it was quite a surprised at how good it was. Well, at least the first two seasons were. Even with a really shaky third season, I think that it was worth the approximately $50 that I paid for it. If you are apprehensive about buying the whole series, you can purchase individual seasons for about $20 each on Amazon.com.

I was never a huge fan of British comedy, but this series may have changed my mind. The dialog, while witty and hilarious, is fast-paced and was sometimes hard for me to comprehend. After a lot of rewinding and replaying I realized that it was best to give "Chef!" my full attention while watching it. No folding clothes, decluttering, filing or whatever I usually do when watching TV.

Nonetheless, if you like food and cooking, you should not be disappointed with "Chef!"

Monday, September 18, 2006

Food Movie List

One of my favorite food-related activities is collecting and watching food movies. So far, I have a modest collection of about 10 movies. My definition of a food movie is: A movie in which the central theme is about or revolves around the consumption and/or preparation of food.

Movies that I own that satisfy my definition include the following:

Babbette's Feast (Wow, what a feast!)
Big Night (One of my favorites)
The Chinese Feast (Terrible story/plot, but good food sequences)
Dinner Rush
Eat Drink Man Woman
(Very good)
Like Water for Chocolate (A little discomforting at times)
Mostly Martha (Love it)
Supermarket Woman (By the same director of Tampopo - Most of the same actors too)
Tampopo (My absolute favorite food movie by far)
Tortilla Soup (An American remake of Eat Drink Man Woman except with Mexican cuisine)


Food Movies that I Don't Own and Haven't Yet Seen

Chocolat
No Reservations (An American remake of Mostly Martha)

Movies That I Own That May Qualify as Food Movies

American Adobo (How many "issues" can one movie deal with?)
The Scent of Green Papaya (Wonderful movie but it may be hard to find)
Sideways (A wine movie really)
Soul Food
(Not really about food although Sunday dinner plays a central role)
Spanglish (This could have been a good movie - then Adam Sandler showed up)
A Walk in the Clouds (Another wine movie. Keanu Reeves could act back then either)
What's Cooking (Another movie with too many issues. See American Adobo)

Imposters: Movies that Sound Like They Are Food Movies

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (Perhaps the worse movie I have ever seen)
Diner
Mystic Pizza

Does anyone have any movies to add? Let me know.