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There are a number of recipes for paleo muffins, which are a great way to get fast paleo food in the morning. As I usually do with cooking, I created my own recipe from the ones I found online. For 24 muffins, I assembled:

• 18 eggs
• 5 small sausages (breakfast size)
• 2 large sausages
• 1 red pepper
• 1 large onion
• 1/2 cup strained yogurt (Greek style)

The odd sausage arrangement is simply because that is what I had on hand--once cooked and crumbled it was about 2 ½ cups worth of sausage.

I began by cooking the sausage, followed by sautéing the diced onion & pepper in the fat that rendered out of the sausage. After cracking all of the eggs into a a large bowl, I whisked them together with the yogurt. With all of that assembled, I combined the sausage with the pepper & onion and portioned it into a pair of muffin pans. The eggs are the last thing before the oven, filling each cup ⅔rds full. Into the oven for 15 minutes, rotate top/bottom pan, and give them another 7-10. The bottoms of mine were a bit under cooked, so I might try putting the lower rack all the way down, rather than the standard in-the-middle.

When walking through Ikea one day, I spotted the perfect bottles in which to make Skittles vodka. Starting with these, here is the process for making this infusion.

Materials

• 1300 grams of Skittles [$18 at Costco]
• 4 liters of vodka [$60 at Costco]
• Five 1 liter bottles [$25 at Ikea]

Tools

• Paper towels
• Colander
• Funnel
• 1 liter bowl
• 5 bowls

Sorting

The first tedious part of this process is sorting the Skittles into their various colors (ostensibly, flavors). I sat down in front of the Singapore Grand Prix with six plates: one for each of the five Skittles colors and an extra on which to dump packages for sorting. I bough a box of 36 normal-size (61 gram) packages of Skittles from Costco and ended up using 22 of the packs. To sort them, I poured a few packages onto one of the plates and separated the candies onto the five others.

After consulting other who had made Skittles vodka, I settled on needing 240 Skittles per liter of vodka.

Assembly

Now comes the easy part. To get the Skittles into my narrow-mouthed bottles, I made a simple paper funnel and carefully poured the candies in. Easy. Then, I just used my liquid funnel to fill each bottle with vodka.

Shake and Wait

After each of the containers was filled, I gave them a quick shake; within a few hours, much of the candies had dissolved. I left them overnight, and by the next day all that was left was a small bed of white pebbles in the bottom of each bottle.

Filter

Finally, the filtration. This step is the most difficult, because it requires a lot of patience even though you're almost done!

A lot of the mass of Skittles is binder—corn starch and the like. It leaves a significant amount of scum onthe top of your Skittles vodka mix. To strain it off, I started by using standard office coffee filters, but those clogged very quickly. I switched to normal paper towels, which made filtering take about 5 minutes per bottle. After filtering, re-bottle and enjoy your super-sweet vodka rainbow!