How-To: Glow Sno Cones
These awesome glowing sno cones from Amberlee of Givers Log are deceptively simple to make and would add a lot of fun to a nighttime picnic or party.
Food & Beverage
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
How-To: Peel a Peach, Perfect for Pies
Marie at Make and Takes shares her tips for getting peaches perfectly peeled for use in pies and other recipes. So delicious!
How-To: Make Your Own Bacon
By Andrew Lewis Bacon has been an important part of our diet for hundreds of years. It is mentioned in the Forme of Curry produced by the master cooks of King Richard II, and the general method for producing bacon has remained largely unchanged since the 14th century. Although I can’t claim that our family […]
Amazing Star Wars Cupcakes
These Star Wars cupcakes from Flickr user lclllc look almost too good to eat. By far, my favorite has to be the Tusken Raider. [via Nerdstink]
Congrats to the Art of Preserving winners!
Congratulations to Summer of London, Ontario, Gloria of Norwalk, Calif., and Kristin of Ames, Iowa, who each won a copy of The Art of Preserving. Enjoy the book and let us know your favorite recipes!
Detroit Evolution Menus Made With Scavenged Materials
Yesterday the Maker Faire hosted the Can Do Camp at the Eastern Market in Detroit. The day was filled with amazing discussions about the future of creative innovation and enterprise. Young entrepreneurs connected with veterans of business, and many amazing ideas were sparked. Yet it wasn’t all business chatter, thanks to lunch and flowers from […]
How-To: the Best Borscht
Apologies for the alliterative title, but I couldn’t resist, and I think it’s true! About four years ago, my freshly affianced boyfriend and I took an old Soviet train with some friends from Helsinki to St. Petersburg at the height of the white nights (it’s true, it never really get dark there in summer). We […]
