The Bento Lunch Diaries
nonlineargirl points us to the Japanese site E-Obento which is a mother’s daily bento preparation – each one a work of edible art. Just click the top nav to see her beautiful daily bento boxes by month. Link.
Food & Beverage
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Kombucha Tea on The Storque
Etsy’s newly launched DIY zine, The Storque, has us featured on the front page today with Arwen’s Kombucha Tea article! Learn how to make this tea that’s got some fermented zing to it. Take a visit to The Storque each day like we do here to keep up with the latest things happening in the […]
Rubik’s Cube Cake
Phill points us to Dream Country’s how-to on making the perfect homage to the 80’s – the Rubik’s Cube cake. Link.
Cooking with Edible Flowers
I recently snapped up some edible flowers at a Farmer’s Market, and a friend and I used them to decorate these vanilla-and-lemon cupcakes we baked together. It was my first time using edible flowers in my own cooking (though I’ve enjoyed the occasional smattering of nasturtiums thrown into a salad) and now I’m hooked. Here […]
HOW TO – Make Your Own Preserves
Chow.com shows you the art of making your own preserves with the last of this summer’s best produce. [ via] Link.
Home Carbonation System
Kevin Kelly published a tutorial on making your own carbonated beverages by Alastair Ong. In this really terrific tutorial he writes, “I drink a lot of seltzer. So much that my fiancee says I couldn’t survive without bubbles in my water. After trying a SodaClub home soda maker (picture above right) and realizing it would […]
Cooking with Trash
Known for their ingenious reusing and wasting not, the Chinese make very effective cooking fuel briquettes from waste cellulose and carbon materials, using local clay as a binder. The briquettes are cylindrical with air passages through them.
