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Weekend cooking project, anyone? Not only are these muffin-tin cherry pie-lets from Sew Sweet Stitches adorable, the filling sounds absolutely amazing, with a couple secret ingredients I haven’t seen in a cherry pie filling before. Bonus points to any cook who takes the time to weave all those little lattice tops!
These homemade ice cream drumsticks from Emma of Food Coma for I Go By Katie look like a tasty treat to whip up this weekend. The recipe uses dark chocolate as opposed to Magic Shell. She mentions that it takes some time to get through the re-freezing, but the results are well worth it.
Build a simple but effective homemade ice cream machine.
Producing high-proof alcohol is possible because of two wonderful scientific truths. The first is that yeast ferments sugar; that is, the tiny yeast fungi feed on sugar and convert it carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol. The second is that alcohol and water boil at two different temperatures.
By Katie Goodman Summer has most certainly arrived here in New Mexico. Not only has the weather embraced it, but the produce section of the grocery store has too. I couldn’t be happier to see regular sales on some of my favorite produce. In my opinion, spring produce is merely a prelude to the finest […]
Our pal Quinn Dunki sent us this fix she made to her rope-start salad spinner. The nylon cord on it broke. Rather than toss it away, she used it as an opportunity to learn more about the mechanism that powers it, and experimented with different replacement chord. Eventually she ended up with a 550lb-test paracord. Yeah. That oughta hold.
Clever food-safe trick to make glow-in-the-blacklight Jell-O that is, nonetheless, edible. At least in theory. I have seen this trick in a couple places, but Instructables user cluracon has the best instructions and photography of the bunch.
