Food & Beverage

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

How-To: Emergency Breakfast Cake

Run out of milk to go with breakfast? Instructables user bongodrummer has a solution: Oh no, there’s no milk left for my cereal! No problem – begin emergency breakfast cake procedures. I have been developing this super simple, versatile little beast for many years now (well, since I left home and started tinkering with food […]

Coconut Mango Pancakes!

The A Little Yumminess blog has a mouthwatering recipe for Coconut Mango Pancakes. That actually sounds like a whole lot of yumminess to me! Simran, the author, suggests serving them with honey or syrup, or alternately as dessert with ice cream and fresh chopped mangoes. Think I might have to have pancakes for dinner!

How-To: Peeps Sushi

I happen to really like eating Peeps, so this how-to on turning them in to sushi-style snacks from Serious Eats is appealing to me. If you aren’t a Peeps fan, you’ll still like the tutorial. There’s a little … er … Peep beheading action going on. Thanks, Kris!

How-To: Turkish Borek

Here’s a great tutorial for Borek, a popular fried filled pastry: The general name of this food is “Borek” (also depending on the nationality & language, it’s called burek, byrek, boereg, pirog and some other variants on the name) is a type of baked or fried filled pastry, from Turkey, made of a thin flaky […]