How-To: Dry Fruit in your Car
Dried fruit makes a great nutritious snack, and did you know you can make it in your hot car? (Thanks, Terrie Miller!)
Food & Beverage
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Home Canning 101
A great intro to home canning is on design*sponge by Ashley English. Ashley writes: For many, the answer for what to do with all that fruit and veg deliciousness lies in home canning. A new wave of canners, thinking outside the jar, are holding jam sessions and finding themselves in a pickle with unmatched enthusiasm. […]
Recipe: Banana Walnut Cookies
Make these delicious banana walnut cookies by Kristin of Craft Leftovers.
How-To: Basic Bar Essentials
Once you start collecting cocktail recipes, you’ll find yourself with a shopping list a mile long. Are all these rare, handcrafted spirits and obscure liqueurs really necessary? Is it worth investing $60 on a drink I may not like? It’s fun to try everything, but in the end, from the spectrum of spirits and mixers there are only a relative handful that I find myself using over and over. If I were stranded on a desert island, these are the ingredients and mixing tools I’d choose.
Panda Bread
Perfect Pandas has a clever recipe for Panda Bread, using cocoa powder and green tea powder for coloring the brown and green parts of the bread. The recipe was translated from the original Japanese post. Freakin adorable! (via Cherry Dot).
How-To: Gourmet Breakfast Tarts
Lisa from Little Acorn shares how she makes these “grown-up Pop Tarts” that look fancy, but take just minutes to assemble and bake. They look divine!
How-To: Food Branding Iron
Put a personal touch on your summer BBQ steaks with Instructables user mikeasaurus’ tutorial for a food branding iron.
