Food & Beverage

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

Foraging for Salad

I get a thrill out of foraging for free stuff, especially food, and I’m hoping to instill the same in my kids. I’m willing to do a bit of work for the “free” stuff, like fighting through the thorns to get to the plump, juicy blackberries, and in fact, that probably makes the treat taste […]

Muffin Top Cookies

Top of the muffin to ya! Remember that Seinfeld episode — where Elaine has the bright idea to have a bakery that sells only muffin tops? Well, get ready for your muffin top fix. Cookie Madness has a recipe to make these Apple & Oat Muffin Top Cookies. A great nutritious snack or on the […]

Flashback: Fig Wine

When folks think of wine, most often grapes come to mind. Time to expand the horizons with this week’s Flashback feature from CRAFT Volume 06: Fig Wine by Alastair Bland. Alastair has written several how-tos for CRAFT, most of them in the DIY Ferment It section. For this particular recipe, he mentions that he’s made […]