HR Giger Wedding Cake
Gareth @ MAKE writes, “Now that’s true love, true, chest-bursty love.” Indeed, if you have an H. R. Giger wedding cake!
Food & Beverage
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
How-To: Poached Eggs
Normally, I see poached eggs as nothing but a vehicle for Hollandaise sauce, but last night I had too many “white wine spritzers”. This morning all I want is plain poached eggs on plain wheat toast. With generous amounts of salt and pepper, of course.
How-To: Mexican Chocolate Truffles
Lisa Rezendez shares her original recipe for Mexican Chocolate Truffles on her Miss Chevious Musings blog. She’s been making these lovelies for years, but never measured anything out. This time she did, just to share the recipe with you and me. Thanks, Lisa!
iSandwich
Ok, so maybe it’s been done, but never this well! I’ll take my iSandwich on rye, please. [via the Make: Online forum]
How-To: Pickled Herring
Earlier this week I posted a Flashback to Eric Smilie’s sourdough bread tutorial that first appeared on the pages of CRAFT Volume 04. Visiting Eric’s site, Awesome Pickle, I found this great tutorial on how to make pickled herring. As a bonus, he included pictures and directions on the proper way to fillet fish. Thanks, […]
Curry Powder
I probably should have called this post Keep Calm and Curry On in light of our earlier one (see “Keep Calm and Carry Yarn“)! I absolutely love curry in all its forms (even if it is murder to get out of your clothes), but I never knew it was so varied and present in so […]
Cream of Barley Soup with Mushrooms
This is what I’m having for dinner tonight. I stayed up way too late last night working on a project for tomorrow, and overslept breakfast. To make up for it, I’m diving into hearty, creamy, comfort food wonderland. GingerBeat is a great vegetarian food blog, and while the recipe for the soup originally came from […]
