The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Instructables user shellberry made this how to on urban gardening. From the site: We’re turning the concrete jungle backyard of our townhome into an experiment in sustainable urban homesteading. Here’s how you can add some OCD (i.e. easy to maintain) gardening space using an adaption on Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening practices (build up, don’t […]
If you’ve ever struggled with how to cook rice, try the method described by Amy Karol on Angry Chicken–it involves boiling the rice like pasta, then steaming it the rest of the way until it’s perfectly done. Check out her blog for more info and some great cookbook recommendations.
Shelly points us to a great tortilla tutorial by Melissa Astle. It’s funny and has lots of detail photographs, and made me very hungry.
Mary Ellen points us to a lovely article in the New York Times about food sculpture, which has become so popular in the last few years that the Salon of Culinary Art has made a special category just for “produce art.” Check out the incredible slideshow including this scene of rats carved from taro root […]
She’s a Betty blogged about The Encyclopedia of Sushi Rolls. It explains the basics of making sushi rolls and has instructions for making amazing rolls like the turtle, car and cherry tree. Apparently the explanations also include step-by-step photo tutorials.
Heavy Petal has a great tutorial showing how to drill an alder log and fill it with mushroom spawn-laced wooden plugs to create a super-cool log that will eventually sprout shiitake mushrooms galore.
Cindy at Skip to my Lou made this tutorial for sewing a reusable oilcloth lunch sack. She’s included a pattern, detailed instructions, and excellent photographs.
