The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Quiche is perfect for Easter, Mother’s Day, or other spring celebrations. I especially like how versatile quiche is, because it works well for any meal – breakfast, brunch, or dinner. Serve this with a side salad, such as a strawberry spinach salad, to feature more beautiful spring produce.
Are you the innovative type? A cook who marches to a different drummer? If you are interested in the science behind what happens to food while it’s cooking, then Cooking for Geeks from the Maker Shed just might be your kind of cookbook. Author Jeff Potter has done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and […]
If you’re tracking confectionary trends, you know that cake pops are totally in right now. For those that aren’t in the know, it’s basically cake in a lollipop form factor. What could be more delicious and convenient? Anyway, Instructables editor scoochmaroo shows how you can make your own baked good on a stick. So if […]
French onion soup is my absolute favorite and I love having it for lunch at my favorite little French bistro nearby. The key to the soup to me is that tasty french bread and heavenly cheese. Smitten Kitchen shows you how to make your own french onion soup complete with lots of step-by-step drool worthy […]
Aside from being stunningly beautiful on the outside, this red velvet strawberry shortcake from i am baker is layer upon layer of deliciousness on the inside. Get the recipe on i am baker. She even promises to give a tutorial for how to complete the gorgeous frosting application soon. Related: Red Velvet Roundup
Craftster user, frenchonion, created these awesome candy coated high heel shoes using rainbow nonpareils and lots of glue and sealer. Love them! Related: Lego Stilettos
I make my own cocktail bitters, which involves steeping lots of herbs, roots, rinds, and more in high-proof alcohol for a few weeks, and then straining the mixture. The filtration of loads of teeny, tiny particles has always been a slow part of the process (using gravity and cheesecloth, for example). Until now. I grabbed my AeroPress coffee maker and started using it as the high-pressure filtration piston that it really is.
