Tru Blood Beverage - 24 Pack

Sink your fangs into a bottle of Tru Blood, a delicious blood orange carbonated drink inspired by Bill's favorite synthetic blood nourishment beverage. Tart and slightly sweet, Tru Blood pours like a regular soda but appears stormy and mysterious when poured into a glass. Bottoms up - and vampires, remember to drink responsibly!

The Tru Blood beverage features:

* Stunning bottle design is exact replica of bottles featured on show: stained in rich red with raised English lettering and matching Japanese Kanji!
* 14 ounce per bottle
* Case pack includes 24 bottles

» Check it out at the HBO shop

True Blood dessert - Cherry cobbler

More True Blood inspired dessert ideas.

Today: Cherry cobbler.

Ingredients
* 1/2 cup butter
* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 cup white sugar
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 cup milk

* 2 cups pitted sour cherries
* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour


Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Place the butter in a 9x13 inch baking dish, and place in the oven to melt while the oven is preheating. Remove as soon as butter has melted, about 5 minutes.

2. In a medium bowl, stir together 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of sugar, and baking powder. Mix in the milk until well blended, then pour the batter into the pan over the butter. Do not stir.

3. Rinse out the bowl from the batter, and dry. Place cherries into the bowl, and toss with the remaining 3/4 cup of sugar and 1 tablespoon of flour. Distribute the cherry mixture evenly over the batter. Do not stir.

4. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown. A toothpick inserted into the cobber should come out clean.

Idea and photo by lateshoes
Recipe by allrecipes.com

Real Blood Is For Suckers

Great True Blood t-shirts with the text "Real Blood Is For Suckers".
» More info

Photos by sookiebontemps

True Blood dessert - Jelly blood shots

No dinner without dessert. Surprise your friends with these True jelly blood shots. Fits perfect after the delicious "True Blood heart dinner". Perfect for Halloween!

Photo by letocarri

Deborah Ann Woll and Joe Manganiello interviews

Backstage has interviews with Deborah Ann Woll and Joe Manganiello.

Deborah:
Getting “True Blood”: “It was a huge room with 10 to 15 [people] sitting in the room watching me,” Woll says. “So in a way it felt a little bit like an intimate theater space, and it was probably one of the most theatrical auditions I have done, because most auditions you’re sitting in a chair. But for this, I asked if I could be physical, and they said, ‘Sure, go ahead.’ I remember rolling on the floor because the first scene was this very traumatic ‘turning’ scene.” The only catch was that she did not have a great Southern accent in her arsenal and had only a couple days to come up with one before showing up on set. “Once I heard they wanted me back as a regular,” she says, “I spent the whole hiatus really working on it.”

Joe:
Sounds like a dream come true, but Manganiello found himself disillusioned by Hollywood: “It happened really fast and there were a lot of lessons to learn. I think actingwise, businesswise, I was ready to work, but I don’t think on a personal level I was mature enough to handle a lot of what came with that. So I kind of went away.” He took four years off and went to work in home construction. “I had to shovel literal tons of sand and gravel every day, mix cement, jackhammer, and do this really tough job,” he says. “Today I know that anything I do is better than shoveling.” He now takes a more “blue-collar” approach to the business: It’s all about the work and working as hard as he can.

» Read the full interview

True Blood dinner ideas

Need some dinner ideas? How about this True Blood inspired recipe?

Take a heart, cut it in pieces and fry with some vegetables. Bon apetitt!

Photo by of Scotland