How-To: Homemade Pop Tarts
Deb at Smitten Kitchen shares how to whip up a batch of your own, tasty homemade Pop Tarts and includes ideas for a variety of fillings. (one word: Nutella … mmmm…) [via Stars]
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Best of the CRAFT Video: DIY Soda
In this CRAFT Video, I show you how easy it is to make your own soda at home, and it’s inexpensive, too! I use brewer’s yeast to produce carbon dioxide, and whatever flavors come to the imagination. In the video I used honey, green tea, strawberries, and grated ginger, but you can use any combination […]
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener LED Grow Box
On the last day of Bloom month, I want to share my favorite gardening blog. The Cheap Vegetable Gardener is thrifty and innovative, and all about automation. His projects include computerized grow boxes, and this neat LED project. And for the CVG, its all about the bottom line. He makes like with this screen door […]
How-To: BBQ with Uncle Pappy
One of my students, Brian Bernhard, made this really awesome tutorial video as “Uncle Pappy,” the slightly demented but good-natured clown, showing you how to set up your BBQ grill for some delicious warm-weather culinary delights. He’s also written up an Instructable to guide you through the process! I agree with his assessment of the […]
How-To: Easy Coffee Liqueur
Instructables user depotdevoid writes: Back in the day, before the hangovers started, I really loved White Russians. I had one at a party way back when and fell in love, then saw The Big Lebowski and knew that coffee liqueur and I were made for each other. Somewhere in all this I realized that buying […]
Sushi Cupcakes
Becky at Glue and Glitter writes in about her sister Amanda’s sushi cupcakes, made for a friend’s birthday. The cognitive dissonance between the appearance of fish and flavor of cake must be very disorienting, but they’re so lovely!
The Search for the Best ANZAC Biscuit Recipe
Yesterday was ANZAC day, which is the Australia and New Zealand equivalent of our Memorial Day. (ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.) ANZAC biscuits are a classic cookie that myth associates with World War I (they’re still getting over Gallipoli, and rightly so). My husband is Australian, so of course I wanted […]
