The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for cooking, brewing, feasting and festing.
Cooking For Two: Perfect Meals for Pairs by Jessica Strand $19.95 at Chronicle Books I love cooking but get annoyed when I come home and realize I actually bought ingredients to make enough food for 6 people! Since it’s just Gilles and myself at home (along with our baby and dog), I love this cook […]
Joanie from Nini Makes shares her family recipe for making five-minute pizza dough. I’m guessing this beats delivery pizza any day!
My friend Peter is a professional baker by day, and one of the most excellent home cooks I’ve ever met. He gave me permission to publish his peanut sauce recipe which is good on everything from tofu to chicken to just plain rice. The way he writes recipes is very helpful, too; he uses a […]
I have a powerful sweet tooth, but I’m a much better cook than baker (I tend to throw things together and read recipes out of order, which can mean disaster for cakes and meringues). But for some reason (pregnancy hormones?), I have a newfound interest in baking and have been attempting to train myself. (Coming […]
Want to impress your science-loving loved one on Valentine’s Day? Show up with these brownies stenciled with an anatomically correct organ of your choice (scientists love accuracy and chocolate)!
Artist Kathryn Parker Almanas takes apart pastries in a scientific style, then photographs the arrangements. I’ve never seen such a clinical danish. Via Buzzfeed.
The Forkable blog has a nice recipe/tutorial for making a hot toddy to sooth your sore throat and warm your cold body. Via Instructables.
