The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Rosie of Sweetapolita made this cake that looks like a bunch of asparagus, using fondant to cover the cake and sculpt all the asparagus spears. She made it for her sister-in-law, Mary, who was celebrating after a stint of healthy eating for a body building competition. The week before her show, during a text conversation […]
Just in time for lunch packing season, Mollie from Wild Olive teamed up with Tara at Sew Tara to make these wonderful embroidered snack bags! I’m always a serious sucker for anything that’s properly labeled, so the item-specific embroidery on each bag really makes my day. Click here to check out the snack bag tutorial, […]
It was probably a bad idea to read food blogs while waiting for dinner. It was an even worse idea to read this post from Heather’s Dish about caramelized peanut butter banana quesadillas. I’m now officially starving!
Michelle from Muffin Tin Mom has a post on her first canning experience recently (the fruits of their labor are pictured above – get it?!). She offers up some tasty ideas for plum jam, her thoughts on canning, and even some cute gift tags for finished jars. For the veteran canners out there, do we […]
If you’ve ever taken a Delta flight somewhere, you’ve likely enjoyed the super tasty Biscoff cookies they serve. I remember falling in love with them several years ago and then flipping out when I stumbled on them in my local grocery store. They’ve been a favorite special snack ever since. Turns out now they even […]
UPDATE: Upon further reflection, I don’t recommend you actually try this hack, but rather follow the Cooking Issues blog if you’re curious how it turns out. This looks like a great project for getting the most out of your electric pressure cooker. Please pay attention to the warnings, use common sense and safety precautions. This […]
We’ve been talking about making our own jam for the past few days at my house, so it’s only fitting we stocked up on Ball jars today on National Can-it-Forward Day. Check out the web site for recipes and information on how to be your own preserver. What kind of foods are folks out there […]
