dose 5: naga fireballs, salt ponds, mexican wedding cakes/russian teacakes

Naga fireballs: The first of a set of seven "awesome acts of nature". Every October the Mekong river (a major river that runs through China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) burps up thousands of egg-sized balls of red light that shoot up hundreds of feet into the sky.Explanation - fermented sediment releases bubbles of gas that rise up to the surface of the river and combust; the river farts balls of light annually from the decomposing animals and animal waste (it hasn't been figured why this occurs at the same time every year)
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San Francisco's Salt Ponds: The San Francisco Bay boasts a beautiful bird's eyeview of multicolored patches of land. The areas are wetlands dedicated to salt production. The colors are of the different microorganisms that inhabit the salt ponds. The colors are green to orange to red that correspond to the low to mid to high salinity of the ponds.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mexican Wedding Cakes:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup confectionary sugar
1/8 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup and 2 tbsp flour
1/2 cup crushed pecans
2 tbsp and 2 tsp confectionary sugar

Directions:
Cream the butter with the 1/4 cup of sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla.
Mix in the flour, nuts, and salt. Roll 1 tbsp balls of dough out onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 15 minutes and roll in sugar. Let cool and then roll in sugar again.

Makes 30 cakes.

UPDATE: THE MEXICAN WEDDING CAKES ARE NASTY. DO NOT MAKE.
DO NOT PURCHASE. DO NOT EAT. DO NOT LOOK.

credits: cracked.com, killerdirectory.com, epicurious.com

happy camping jens,
doris spektor