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​In the haze that was our drunken weekend, there may have been discussions on the merits of chicken nuggets. This, of course, turned to delusions of grandeur in which we envisioned how a chicken nugget (preferably from McDonald's) would possibly translate into the perfect pizza topping. While we never fulfilled our chicken nugget pizza fantasy, we were slightly surprised to find an array of chicken nugget pizza experiments peppered throughout the web. Here's our favorite: Chicken Nugget Macizza Recipe. You're welcome.

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​Today has been deemed National Margarita Day by, well, someone... So, to celebrate this possibly cold, blustery day (depending on your location of course), grab a blender, some tequila and a few other ingredients and shiver outside on the patio in honor of the occasion.

Since most of the country is a bit chilly today, we're providing you with a recipe for a margarita that will actually heat things up. Cheers! Recipe after the jump.

​Imagine our excitement when we discovered the existence of a Buffalo chicken wing dip. We were blown away with excitement because, a) we are really lazy and would prefer to eat our wings with a spoon as opposed to actually putting forth effort to tear the flesh off an actual chicken wing and b) it's p.e.r.f.e.c.t. for a typically boring and cliché Super Bowl party. We're just depressed we lived well into our 20's before uncovering this elusive recipe.

Warning, if canned chicken makes you nervous, you might want to stop reading at this point.

Recipe as follows (courtesy of cooks.com):

1 can chicken (large size)
1 8 oz. brick cream cheese
1/2 c blue cheese dressing
1/4 c cayenne pepper sauce
1 pkg. shredded Monterrey Jack cheese

Melt cream cheese over medium heat and add blue cheese dressing, chicken and hot sauce. After removing from heat, stir in cheese, pour into a glass baking dish and bake at 350 degrees until bubbly. Serve with celery sticks and crackers.

Jane Catherine Collins

​As the temperatures dip, the desire for a warm batch of your favorite holiday beverage begins to rise. Even though our recent list of seasonal libations covered most of the essentials, our sister blog Eating Our Words has just published the perfect recipe for mulled wine. The directions are reasonably simple, and the result is a drink perfect for holiday parties, a quiet night with a loved one or even just sitting on the couch wrapped in blankets watching TBS' one-millionth airing of A Christmas Story. No matter what the occasion, it's hard to go wrong with spiced wine.

Buying pesto in a store is all well and good, but if you want the perfect pesto you're going to need to expend a little more effort. No off-the-shelf pesto can compete with homemade, and this simple recipe from Chef Paolo Laboa has been dubbed "transcendent." Just listen to the way Marcia Gagliardi fawns all over it in the video's introduction and try to deny you're not just a little curious about whether any recipe can live up to that kind of hype.

We're still a little skeptical, but the end result does look pretty spectacular.

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​If you're looking for the perfect Halloween party punch recipe, you could certainly do worse than making a giant bowl of zombie punch. This high-powered rum drink packs enough power to make even the most sturdy legged partygoers a bit wobbly, and, to top it all off, the punch has a kick-ass name. Here's how you make it:

Ingredients:

2 cups curaçao or triple sec
2 750-ml. bottle gold rum or white rum
2 cups lime juice
2 cups orange juice
2 cups Over proof rum
2 oz. Pernod
1/2 cup grenadine
1 750-ml. bottle dark rum
1 cup lemon juice
1 cup papaya juice or pineapple juice
1 cup passion fruit juice or La Grande Passion
Pineapple slices

Mix the ingredients together in a punch bowl, add copious amounts of ice and chill in your refrigerator for several hours. Garnish the punch with thin pineapple slices, and you've got yourself a perfect Halloween punch.

​Fans of both Harry Potter and ludicrously sweet beverages alike should be shaking with anticipation at the prospect of crafting their very own butterbeer. The blog, Channel 4, has posted a recipe for the incredibly caloric brew, and points out that butterbeer, "is not just Harry Potter's favourite tipple, it's also a bona fide Tudor recipe made from ale, sugar, egg yolks, nutmeg and butter." For those interested, the recipe can be found here. Just make sure your dental insurance is up to date.

Bacon may have jumped the shark as far as fads go, but when you remove it from all the hype it still packs a pretty mean punch when you need to enhance a dish. The following video walks you through an easy to replicate recipe for bacon wrapped scallops, which are great for either hosting events or trying to eat your way into a food coma. You really can't go wrong with bacon wrapped scallops, and these ones look pretty damn good.

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Item #3: Coffee Jelly

 A recent article from FlavoredDelights.com offered up the 10 most unusual and strange recipes from around the world. However, unlike many lists of unusual or bizarre food items, the majority of these don't seem entirely unpleasant. Unfortunately the specific recipes aren't actually provided on the site, only a list of the ingredients contained in each item. Still, with a little bit of sleuthing, you can easily track down the recipe for any of the unusual foodstuffs that happen to strike your fancy.

Of the 10 items, the only one that gets our stomach churning just reading about it is the Bloody Leroy. We love coffee way too much to put that much crap in it before drinking a cup. Irish is one thing, but adding any sort of smoky or vinegary flavors is where we draw the line.

Bahama Breeze, the laid back "Caribbean-inspired" restaurant from the people who brought you The Olive Garden and Red Lobster might not be the pinnacle of gourmet dining, but more than a few of their appetizers have "group party-platter" written all over them. So, if you're planning on having some friends over for a summer cookout, you could do a lot worse than making a heaping portion of their Jamaican jerk grilled chicken wings. The recipe is available on Bahama Breeze's website, and unless they're holding back a secret ingredient in order to keep people coming through the doors, your homemade batch should taste practically identical. Maybe it's time to put on some Bob Marley tunes and cook up 5 pounds of wings.