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Hopefully everyone was able to catch our own Becky Stern on the very first episode of Make: Live last night! A gang of us here in the Mitten gathered ’round the laptop to watch the show. What goes best with Internet TV? Homemade, deep-fried Oreos and mini Twinkies topped with Make-themed food picks. Courtesy of […]
Paula Valentim’s Otchipotchi blog is a delight to read and offers delicious recipes, easy how-tos, and gorgeous ceramics. It’s like a one-stop shop of inspiration and craftiness! I’ve made chocolate trees for years as an adornment on my Halloween Graveyard Cake, and they are surprisingly simple to make. So I’m enthralled with these gorgeous looking […]
There’s a great do-it-yourself project in the new issue of MAKE (Volume 25) that shows you how to make your own Honey Cow, or beehive, to keep a swarm of honey-producing bees in. Yummy, honey! And we were happy to include the entire project online — steps, photos, notes — at Make: Projects. (Full disclosure: […]
For all our friends who are snowed in right now, warm up with some of this yummy spicy dark hot chocolate from Brett Bara of Manhattan Craft Room. I’m in Texas, so I’ve been seeing mostly sunshine, but I still want some!
Geekery never tasted so good. Autumn at Geek Six shares how she and friend, Malaki, made this awesome chocolate version of a Battlestar. A few years ago I was showing my friends the Battlestar Chocolate Emblems my friend Malaki made. They were impressed, and jokingly asked if he could make an entire Battlestar out of […]
By Katie Goodman I have two very different eaters. One is incredibly picky and always has been. The other was the baby who put everything in her mouth, but is now going through a slight picky phase. Kids don’t know that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. In fact, it seems that my […]
By Doreen D. Carlson What can we do with leftover homemade chicken noodle soup, beef stew, turkey, or deli meat that is one or two days past expiration? Do you throw away organ meats bagged inside whole poultry? And how can you prevent the garbage disposal and septic system digesting your food dollars?
