The Invincibles in "So... you want to be a foodie?" [ audio ]

hey! we're back with another episode from our gypsy-esque meanderings around the country. we went on the road to the midwest to hang out with frunkle paul as he whips up some super-simple and simply delicious guacamole in about five minutes with just five ingredients. awhile back when we lived in minnesota, we played match-maker between our friend, paul, and rin's auntie, and they'll soon be celebrating their 7th anniversary! wooohoooo! paul has introduced us to more recipes that we love than anyone else. he's our inspiration towards experimentation. the guac recipe is allowed on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), which is a diet frunkle paul is using to treat his crohn's disease with great results. if you have crohn's or any other type of bowel disorder or imbalance of your intestinal tract, you may want to check out this special diet. we might not want to think about that end of things, but hey, that's where the food ends up, right? for more information on this diet see the official websitehttp://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/index.htm . by the way, while the guac is allowed on the diet, the chips are not. so whip up some guac and get yourself a spoon if you're on the SCD diet. shoutouts to paul and liz (and the whole brood) over the pond for contributing to our bandwidth fund and congrats on the new baby girl! we were tickled to hear that at least one pregnant woman got to watch the shows featuring our favorite midwife, melanie (14 and 15). another big thank you goes out to kathy for her continued support. and last, but certainly not least, our sincere thanks to nathan for the surprise package from amazon. you are all so encouraging, that we plan to keep making movies about once a month for as long as we possibly can. thanks!!! if anyone else would like to donate or promote the show, check out the links on your right...no, your other right...and leave us some feedback at podcastalley or itunes. also, we'd be happy to send you the invincibles t-shirt logo if you want a DIY shirt. otherwise, consider picking one up at our store. and as always, don't forget to show us the whites of your eyes on our frappr map.

it's time! the wait is finally over. prepare yourselves, gentle viewers, for the chilling conclusion of our annual winter solstice midwestern culinary romp. melanie and chris are back with their baking brood, and you may even spot a few surprise guests. wait no more for the divine secrets of the mysterious citron - it's all right here in the second chapter of our Many Hands House adventure. big bunches of invincible thanks to jeff and sharyl for their most recent gift to our bandwidth fund, and to dawn and drew for being themselves and occupying the younglings. it's hard not to be super excited about our growing frappr family - show your face and add yourself to the map. by the way, if you're feeling neighborly, feel free to leave positive feedback at podcastalley or at the itunes music store. it's ritualized food prep at it's finest - we love you Many Hands House! send comments to foodie@theinvincibles.org

every winter solstice we chill with our old friends in the midwest (and we do mean chill-brrrr!). they have five kids, two dogs, numerous cats (of the farm persuasion) fish, rats, a frog - and now bunnies, which more than makes up for a lack of cat-boxing in this next two-part feature. we had a lot of fun making lebkuchen with melanie "the midwife" and her clan (stars of the Devil Duck movies featured in our halloween two-parter last year). she makes this traditional german recipe every winter to please her grandma betty, and coincidentally, it is an old betty crocker recipe. and even though they are difficult to make (there aren't many cookies that you can break a wooden spoon while stirring, are there?), they are well worth it. thanks for another fantastic yule, Many Hands House. next year we'll do another Devil Duck movie for sure! the invincibles wish to thank one tryck pony, paul over the big pond, and nikko down south for their generous donations. thanks to you all there will be more shows coming! for those of you that have donated to our bandwidth fund we are still planning to put magnets in the mail. sorry for the delay-life got in the way. we'd love to see your faces and places on our frappr map, and if you like the show, please feel free to leave us some positive feedback at podcastalley or at itunes. or hey, give us a call!

greetings gentle viewers, our unintentional hiatus is over and we've been working hard at producing more video of the caliber which you've come to expect from the Invincibles, and we're sending it straight to you, our pals. this video features super special guest chef: my Mom, presenting an old family recipe specifically requested by my pops: bubbleDad (we affectionately refer to him as such because of his multple stints in john-travolta-boy-in-the-bubble-like isolation during transplant recovery) zucchini and tomato casserole is an all time favorite with my family, and the preparations for it are captured on tape for the first time here. we shot it while we were visiting over the holidays, and managed to edit it while we were visiting again this past week. unfortunately, the fates have been doing their best to kick out the rest of the Invincibles teeth lately, and we're doing our best to choke them down gracefully... since this footage was obtained, bubbleDad has spent five times as much time in the hospital as he has at home, due to myriad complications. you can get hip to all the gorey details, if you are so inclined. anyway, for those of you who may not be aware, visiting your sick father in the hospital is not exactly condusive to an expedient post-production schedule; as a result, this video is just about one day too late, and is now presented in dedication to the ever loving memory of bubbleDad - he died, peacefully and quietly at home, in my Mom's arms, with his children and grandchildren nearby. He will be missed. in memorium bubbleDad James Marshall Retterer 1945 - 2006 Rock on through to the other side, pops! so once again, many many huge thanks to all of you who have taken the time to write to express your sympathies and condolances for all of our recent difficult times... we feel lucky to have such a wonderful extended internet family. if you wish there was something more you could do, you can always donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org) in memory of bubbleDad. we'd also like to take a new york minute (one tryck pony style) to thank ward and diane and the rest of the Sojos crew for the completely awesome kitty care package - food, catnip and treats has really helped to snap the kits out of their missin' grim blues. we also wanted to mention that you can now visit our new cafe press store (http://www.cafepress.com/theinvincibles) for all your Invincibles needs. i almost forgot - if it weren't for the pesky prerequisite of being dead, I would be trying to nominate my sister Jori for sainthood. she put the rest of her life on hold to be here and serve as our father's hospice nurse. she is generous and wonderful and posesses a quiet strength, the likes of which i very rarely see. i love her dearly and our whole family is lucky to have her. it's ridiculously sad - we love our bubbleDad! send comments to foodie@theinvincibles.org

hey everybody. i had oodles of fun at the expo (sorry, james - you were missed!), hanging out with some terrific folks and i managed to distribute all 20 of my homemade "invincibles" magnets. if you make a donation to our bandwidth fund and include a mailing address, i'll send you a magnet. if you've already donated and would like one, let me know. and oh memories... i met up with bunches of fellow podcasters, snuck into several podcasts, and managed to spank both nick starr and nlinus. all in all, an eventful event. here are some of the shows i found my way into either as myself or "moongirl", from the dawn and drew show: yeast radio - http://yeastradio.podshow.com/?p=490 dawn and drew show - http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/dnds-186 http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/dnds-187 http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/dnds-189 http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/dnds-191 cush rocks - http://www.cushrocks.com/tis/?p=32 pizzababe goes global - http://pizzababegg.blogspot.com/2005/11/time-to-lick-some-ass.html somehow i did NOT bring my video camera, which is a shame, because spontaneous cooking on the expo floor would have been a welcome diversion from all the geekspeak. if you have a flickr account, check out the "caption this" string going on a horrific photo of me, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/63304318/in/photostream/ - courtesy of eric rice... funny, i don't remember being jaundiced that day... i also want to thank jessica for kicking in some bandwidth cash and thanks to mark for including our butternut squash and pear soup recipe in the westside community market newsletter in madison, wisconsin. it's a perfect recipe for this time of year - just made it again for an early thanksgiving. oh - and i stored it in my new tupperware bowls courtesy of cat at creepycast. she's offering free shipping on her tupperware stuff to any of our fans who write her. thanks, cat! in this video we answer the oft asked question: how do you make your own cat food? we have made food for our four cats since 1996, using a grain and vitamin mix from sojourner farms, http://www.sojos.com, as a base. join us for the unpleasant realities of watching vegetarians handle raw meat, and stay for pure cat wackiness, as dawn miceli displays her special talent for winding us all up. it's a feeding frenzy! send comments to the invincibles

well, it's time for the podcast and portable media expo - and the invincibles are there, just not in stereo. last week grim, our old man cat, started acting quite ill... and the diagnosis is bad news: metastatic liver cancer. he's comfortable for the time being, but we didn't want to leave him with a sitter this weekend. the solution? james is staying home to play mamma cat, and rin is off to the expo to represent. accompany us on an anecdotally augmented adventure through grim's world; a chill episode in which we tour our back yard and serve up some kitty comfort food. it's grilled salmon, grimmy style! we're beaming bunches of appreciation out to wendy for pitching in to our bandwidth fund. additional thank-rays are aimed everyone who has sent comments - we value the insight, please keep 'em coming. long distance greetings and salutations to all my expo-bound compatriots. we love you grimoire! send comments to the invincibles

it's samhain, and the unseen world is so close you can almost taste it - try to contain yourselves for the second half of our spookiest show ever! MWA-HA-HA-HA! join us, if you dare, for the terrifying conclusion of Vamp-Apple Pie, err... a recipe that will make your wounds ooze... and the inkernet™ debut of "Foie Gras' Revenge: The Devil Wears Yellow", the second in our two-part series of bone-chilling documentaries, on loan from the moore family and dawn mcsmelly archive, for your eerie edumatainment. we also wish to heap hordes of horrific honors upon kathy for kicking in to our bandwidth fund. now, gentle guests, are you going to let these folks continue to make you look like chumps? (cough*cough*donate*cough) come play with us in person, november 11 and 12th at the podcast expo - it will be a monstrously good time! remember to honor your ancestors - or else they may come back as zombies and try to eat your brains, and by "brains" we mean pie, and by "pie" we mean brains. it's spooky! send comments to foodie@theinvincibles.org

it's time for our extra special spooky show - so scary, in fact, that we had to break it in to two... two terrifying parts! MWA-HA-HA-HA! so join us, if you dare, for Vamp-Apple Pie, err... a recipe that will make your flesh crawl... and the world premiere of "The Devil's Poultry: Foie Gras", a bone-chilling documentary, on loan from the moore family and dawn mcsmelly archive, for your edumatainment. we also want to spatter gobs of gruesome gratitude on jeff and sharyl for being the very first donors to our bandwidth fund - they rock, monster-style! are the rest of you going to let them show you up like that? (hint hint) and play with us in person, november 11 and 12th at the podcast and portable media expo in ontario, california. don't forget to catch the intensely terrifying conclusion of Vamp-Apple Pie, err... coming horrifyingly soon... same cat time, same cat channel.

yo yo yo! the invincibles are in the store! actually... FEATURED in the apple itunes music store's podcast page under video podcasts. how crazy is that? if you haven't considered subscribing to us through itunes, we should give you the heads up that our videos (as well as audio - only) do play in itunes and are perfectly formatted for the new video-enabled ipods. just wish we had one. seriously. ipods for everyone! dream enormous... that's our motto. meanwhile, we've been in new york city, soaking it up with some of our friends - one tryck pony, dawn and drew, and sugar rush. we had a wonderful time in times square. thanks to everyone who welcomed us to the city and hung out with us while we visited. circus contraption is back in seattle, but you can still get their music, and have your own circus at home. when we returned, we tackled a challenge issued by our buddy wombat from australia: make brussels sprouts delicious... or at least edible. the challenge mentioned something about broccoli... but c'mon, who can make them edible? kidding... we love 'em. it was awesome meeting sayyum's authors at a podcasting gathering last year - we were able to do this recipe partly thanks to them. this year we're off to the podcast expo. hope to see y'all there. by the way, if you're really enjoying the episodes and have any extra change, please kick it our way through paypal. we are fortunate to be exceeding our bandwidth. yay... right? stay tuned for a very spooky special edition... coming soon. (mwahahaha!)

imbb19: 'i can't believe i ate vegan?!' - the irish root soup experiment welcome to the first ever "the invincibles do 'is my blog burning'". imbb is a monthly food blogging event hosted by a different food blogger every month with varying themes. This month is hosted by Becks & Posh, who wanted to trick people into eating vegan. so, we kick our penchant for dairy and sea creatures aside to embrace a life-style of self denial. we attempt to modify a cream-heavy recipe for irish root soup - with tasty results! groove to our new musical blender, grinding out tunes fresh from circus contraption's grand american traveling dime museum! join us for a new season of cat boxing, as we blur the line into a no-holds-barred ultimate cat fighting league. witness the badness of grim, the primal ferocity of mei and the quiet majesty of thomas. eat vegan! send comments to the invincibles

hey! welcome to a mini-installment of our foodie show. not sure we can call this a "foodie" show anymore, but this is a delicious treat which involves fire in the making-always a good thing, right? many thanks to lara from circus contraption for this deeelightful dessert: "s'mortzels". if you're in the new york city area, come see the circus with us on thursday, september 29. for those of you who groove on wacky, dark cabaret music, let your ears delight to the supreme stylings of the circus contraption band, as featured on their most recent release, circus contraption's grand american traveling dime museum! and a thousand thanks to the cat dvd folks for sending our cat-stars their very own cat dvd. the introduction of cat dvd into our household has led to fights for control over the remote, but it keeps the kits extremely happy when we're away. is "like crack for kitties" an inappropriate motto? nuh-uh. totally on target. eat circus! send comments to the invincibles

hey yo! we're back after an intense month of dieting. just kidding. but we are back, spewing another cooking adventure. our conundrum: how do you make a old family recipe for a satisfying stew with no meat? simple... call on the power of SEITAN! after years of experimenting (with food, silly!), i think we've finally nailed this one (recipe). join us, if you dare, in our video where our cats train rocky-style for future cat-boxing matches, or delight your ears with our podcast alternative - it really brings out rin's snake-like enunciation. hehe-lovely. eat it! send comments to the invincibles

our attempt at an audio comment line intro for • the dawn and drew show! • [ www.dawnanddrew.com ] rin thought it would be fun to do this one in naked shower vision, but our old man cat had something to say about that. things went horribly amiss here... and more than just james' singing in the shower. no food was harmed, or used inappropriately, in the making of this video.

we're back! after managing a safe re-entry to the us of a, we find ourselves in a jet-lagged quandary: what do you make for supper when you have a huge box of organic produce and no clue of what you're hungry for? why, • veggie shepherd's pie with roast beets •, of course. we discuss 14th century freehouses , delve into the forbidden realm of diapausal prehistoric brachiopods, explore our numismatismic tendencies, and pay tribute to our wheat-gluten dark lord. the cats are up to their usual antics, and before any of you even ask... no, none of them lifted a paw to help clean up after their wild week alone. they are very naughty. veggie shepherd's pie with... SATAN!?! it's delicious!

• ravioli and cream dream salad • - our third installment of foodifying goodness. we get saucy with some solid gold dance moves to patricia paay's fantastic rendition of "mambo italiano" (courtesy of adam curry)... without actually making sauce for the ravioli. a weird combo of dawn's memaw's manicott recipe shoved into our circus friend lara's ravioli recipe and uncle/friend paul's orange salad sauce on mixed greens make for a delicious meal made with the help of our delightful assitant who disappears midway through the action. note to viewers: do not lick your fingers after touching eggshells! hope you enjoy!