15-Minute Tilapia With Spinach Salad
When I see “15 minutes” and “favorite dinners” in the same sentence, I know I’ve found a winner of a meal. Rachel of Small Notebook for a Simple Home shares this tasty (and healthy!) recipe.
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Matsutake Sake
I recently had the pleasure of drinks with Maker Faire’s Sherry Huss and Joe Szuecs of Renga. They served me the most wonderful hot sake with sliced Matsutake. Joe hunted for the fungus and brought them home that very day. The mushrooms were sliced thin and simmered in the pot while the sake was heated, […]
How-To: Pie Crust Cookies
The baking bug has hit me in a big way in the last few weeks. With Thanksgiving, a gingerbread house adventure (which I’ll share here soon) and preparation for Christmas, I find myself wanting to bake all the time. Today was no exception. I had a hankering for something baked, but not for major preparation […]
How-To: Mount a video camera in a model rocket
James Yawn’s site Recrystallized Rocketry has lots of great information about DIY rocketry, including this great tutorial about mounting a video camera. This hot pink rocket is called the “sugar rush,” because it is powered by Yawn’s homemade potassium nitrate/sugar rocket fuel. [Thanks, Kenneth!]
Non Dairy Diary’s Advent Calendar
Delphine at Non Dairy Diary has a new advent calendar in PDF form she’s sharing each week for 2009. The first week features this cute house with rabbit in her signature illustration style I love. You can also download last year’s calendar which featured twenty-five cute house ornaments to cut and fold.
How-To: Rūpjmaizes kārtojums
Rūpjmaizes kārtojums means layers of bread, in Latvian. I think that I might also incorrectly translate it to super yum. Crumbled rye bread, whipped cream and mashed cranberries combine for a dessert with a look that is perfect for serving during the winter holidays. This spectacular recipe comes from Russian Season, an Eastern European food […]
How-To: Chemistry-themed Xmas ornaments
Bethany Halford’s column in this week’s Chemical & Engineering News drew my attention to BEYONDbones, an official blog from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, and particularly to a couple of chemistry-related holiday projects. This page teaches how to make a crystalline ornament from pipe cleaners and saturated borax, and this one, how to use washable markers and a coffee filter to make tie-dye-like paper ornaments based on the principle of paper chromatography.