Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

Happy Bastille Day!

Bastille Day is sort of France’s equivalent of our 4th of July; the storming of the Bastille prison helped kick off the French Revolution. Martha Stewart has a great Bastille Day roundup of recipes and crafts related to France. I’ve never attempted making a French baguette (or crepes for that matter), but today would be […]

Harry Potter Homemade Butter Beer

Working Class Foodies is a a gorgeously-shot, awesome show that brings you seasonal, local, fresh, affordable recipes each week. This week celebrates the final Harry Potter movie release by making butter beer. Fun for the kids, or add a shot or bourbon for all the grown-ups in the mix. More: DIY Harry Potter Wands Harry […]

How-To: Ginger Cream Cookies

Jote of Bless Her Heart posted about these amazing-looking ginger cream cookies. Last month we ran away to the beach with one of my besties and her family for a weekend. While the kids were playing cards she whipped out a bag of cookies that her mother had made for them. They were dark and […]

How-To: Granny Square Cookies

I’ll admit it: I’m a confirmed hooker. I have an embarrassing number crochet projects running amok in my apartment, and a yarn stash that is threatening to break free from its box at any moment. So, of course, I was absolutely delighted to see this tutorial for Granny Square Cookies from Sugar & Meringue. There’s […]

How-To: Mini Cinnamon Cherry Pies

Weekend cooking project, anyone? Not only are these muffin-tin cherry pie-lets from Sew Sweet Stitches adorable, the filling sounds absolutely amazing, with a couple secret ingredients I haven’t seen in a cherry pie filling before. Bonus points to any cook who takes the time to weave all those little lattice tops!