Food & Beverage

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

Real Simple Food Calculators

Real Simple magazine has some helpful interactive tools on their site. Of my two favorites, one is the Seasonal Fruit and Vegetable Tool, which not only tells you what produce is in season, but also tells you how to buy, store, and cook each fruit and vegetable. The Food Expiration Tool helps you look up […]

Recipe: Southwestern Pumpkin Soup

Kristen Rask of Plush You! just had her second annual soup exchange with friends, and posted up one of their recipes for southwestern pumpkin soup. Now, I can safely say that’s it ‘s not pumpkin season here in the southwest, but for the rest of you this should take the edge off of that cold […]

Recipe: Viva La Crรชpe!

Recipe: Viva La Crรชpe!

I’m very, very fond of crêpes. Savory or sweet. Swedish or French. Rolled or flat. Stuffed or stacked. It doesn’t matter to me. I distinctly remember the first time I ate a crêpe. In high school, my friend Ulrika, a Swedish exchange student, made them for her host family and friends just before she went […]

Great Depression Cooking with Clara

Clara Cannucciari is a 93-year-old cook, great grandmother, and Great Depression survivor who graciously invites us into her kitchen in her Great Depression Cooking YouTube series. She is first generation Sicilian-American, and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park. In her adorable and informative cooking video series, she walks us through some of […]