Food & Beverage

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.

How-To: the Best Borscht

Apologies for the alliterative title, but I couldn’t resist, and I think it’s true! About four years ago, my freshly affianced boyfriend and I took an old Soviet train with some friends from Helsinki to St. Petersburg at the height of the white nights (it’s true, it never really get dark there in summer). We […]

How-To: Homemade Magic Shell for Ice Cream

Sarah James at Instructables writes: Try this homemade magic shell ice cream topping recipe, and be amazed at how simple and delicious (and customizable!) it is. Using only two ingredients, you can make a marvelous crispy chocolate coating for your ice cream.   Stick with basic chocolate, or spice it up with any flavor combinations you […]

How-To: PBJ-Cream Cone

“This photo was taken sometime in the ten or twelve seconds I managed to resist eating it,” writes Steve Hoefer, creator of the peanut butter and jelly ice cream cone. It consists of a cone-shaped piece of peanut butter toast filled with strawberry ice cream cone.