Here’s your roundup of my favorite links from food blogs and news for the week ending September 16, 2007, speed-linking style:

Rubik’s cube cake | Top 10 Basic Cooking Tricks | Dollar Store Bento Boxes | Hot Dog Cake | Food/Chef Game for Kids| Mini Mint Cheesecakes | Tarte Aux Quetches | Brooklyn Farmer| Plum and Earl Grey Preserves | How to Knit Marzipan | Toy that Makes Soba Noodles | Anthony Bourdain’s Christmas Special | Cutlery with Built-in Stands | Cake made of pure gold | Mansinthe (Marilyn Manson’s Absinthe) | Michael Ruhlman wants to know what we want in our cookbooks | How to Store Food so it lasts | What are Corn Nuts? | Ricotta Cake with Meyer Lemon Curd | Espresso Caramels | Sushi for your Cellphone | Apartment Therapy clued me in to this incredible tip at Simply Recipes about using a mason jar with a blender |

This week’s Carnival of the Recipes was hosted at This Mama Cooks! with a diet theme. I’m not a big fan of diet recipes (I’m a big butter fan), but there were some incredible posts included. Some of my favorites: Pork Tenderloin with Grilled Peach-Ginger Chutney, Pumpkin Streusel Muffins, Roasted Garlic Turkey Burgers with Portobello Mushrooms, and Portuguese Pork Tenderloin. Our Ginger-Glazed Carrot Slaw was included.

Just a quick reminder that Catch the Spoon will be hosting the Carnival of the Recipes next week! Submit your recipes, and tune in Sunday for the boozey goodness!