Whole Grains 101
Chow has a primer of 10 of their favorite grains in their whole grains 101 with descriptions of each grain and recipes for how to cook them.
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Home Canning 101
A great intro to home canning is on design*sponge by Ashley English. Ashley writes: For many, the answer for what to do with all that fruit and veg deliciousness lies in home canning. A new wave of canners, thinking outside the jar, are holding jam sessions and finding themselves in a pickle with unmatched enthusiasm. […]
Grocery getter bike project
Via Mister Jalopy and Dinosaurs and Robots (by way of Lenore Edman’s Twitter feed) comes this amazing bike project to create a cargo bike that actually comes apart so you can take the front assembly and basket into the store. Ingenious. And the build is well documented. Grocery Getter Contest Submission
The Rubix coronary
Introducing the Rubix Cubewich. It contains cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar. What? No bacon? Found on the appropriately named Insanewiches site. The Rubix Cubewich
The Brie that ate Sheboygan
How could I resist something called “Blowing Up Cheese With Nitrous Oxide”? It’s a piece, in PopSci’s “Kitchen Alchemy” column (which, as an on-again/off-again geek foodied, I’ve started following), on aerating Brie with Nitrous to create delicious cheese foam (and you thought aerosol cheese was fun before!). I’m surprised there aren’t more of these sorts […]
Garlic scapes – What to do?
For the past few years our two 4′ x 8′ raised beds have been fully dedicated to garlic production. The ultimate lazy crop, you plant garlic in the Fall, let it do its thing over the Winter, weed it a few times, cut the scapes in early July, then harvest it in late July. After […]
iPod birthday cake
Looking for the perfect birthday cake for an Applephile? You couldn’t go too far wrong with a cake like this cake from April Julian. No screen polishing needed here.
