Food & Beverage

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

HOW TO – Make a Strawberry Pie

The Farmer’s Markets here in LA have had some amazing berries lately, so I’m so happy to have run across Kittee’s (aka Cake Maker to the Stars) recent blog post about making this delicious-looking strawberry pie. Every recipe I’ve tried of hers has been outstanding and I’m sure this is no exception. Strawberry Pie Recipe

HOW TO – Hamentashen Purim Cookies

Phil @ MAKE posted this recipe for how to make hamentashen Purim cookies. From the site: Hamentaschen, or Hamen’s hats, are triangular cookies to celebrate Hamen’s defeat at Purim (see the Book of Esther). In Hebrew, they are called Oznei Haman – Hamen’s ears. They are eaten at Purim and included in mishloach manot, the […]

PEEPS® Meringue Tartlets

PEEPS® Meringue Tartlets

Oh we aren’t done with PEEPS yet! For those of you who are sad you didn’t win the free book giveaway for PEEPS®! Recipes and Crafts to Make with Your Favorite Marshmallow Treat by Charity Ferreira, Peter at the Chronicle Books Blog has posted up a recipe from the book to make this yummy PEEPS […]

Custom Spice Labels by Kids

Megan at My Plum Pudding has a great idea for a craft project to do with your kids that could actually lead to them eating the healthy food they should: help them make custom labels for fun seasonings and extras for their food like wheat germ, sesame seeds, and other goodies that make vegetables and […]