The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Tucked away in a back room on the 3rd floor of a nondescript church in NYC’s NoLita neighborhood is Trade School. An initiative of Our Goods, Trade School encourages students to “barter for instruction.” Basically you take a free class, and in exchange, you teach the teacher something they want to learn about! Classes range […]
Instructables user JamesRPatrick created a self-cooling drink bucket. This version is designed to accept three 20oz bottles of soda or three 12oz cans. If you haven’t heard about evaporative coolers, they use warm water and evaporation to cool a medium in a way similar to the human perspiration system. Apparently they were used in ancient […]
Katie of Good Life Eats shows you how to bake these nutella cupcakes and also how to create two tone frosting in a beautiful swirl. Three flavors are mixed in the swirl here: nutella cream cheese, almond butter cream cheese, and vanilla cream cheese.
Make-and-Takes offers up this easy St. Patrick’s Day recipe featuring an old standard, Chex Mix! Perfect for snacks later on tonight after a day of celebrating.
After your St. Patrick’s Day feast, consider making this Reuben-inspired panini to use up some of your corned beef leftovers.
Make molds from nuts and cast your own mechanical chocolates!
We had a massive turnout for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area’s Town Hall meeting in San Francisco Tuesday evening. The folks at TechShop SF were kind enough to lend us their space for the meeting and to give walking tours of the facility. Makers from all over the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad were able to meet with the Maker Faire Crew in-person, establish new connections, and kick the season off with a bang. Also on hand to satiate the frenzied crowd of risk-takers, doers, and makers of things were the folks from The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in South Park with monster gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and cups of smoky tomato soup. Yum!
