recipes

Happy Labor Day!

Hi Crafters! For us here in the U.S. today is Labor Day — a day off of work to enjoy food with your loved ones and friends. Here are some easy recipes at Chow that I want to make for the holiday: Tropical Fruit Cooler, Honey-Mustard Chicken Skewers, Texas Caviar (a classic dip), and for […]

Backyard Garden + Recipe: Fresh Garden Salsa

A salsa garden, consisting of cilantro, tomatoes, jalapenos, and onion, is a fun themed garden for the beginning gardener. If the thought of growing onions seems daunting, consider green onion variety. They are incredibly easy to start from seed, and if you trim them above the root instead of pulling them out of the ground, they will continue to produce all spring and summer.

Make rock candy

Make rock candy

The Exploratorium site has a section on cooking science – I found some neat info there about the science of sugar and a recipe for making rock candy. The white stuff we know as sugar is sucrose, a molecule composed of 12 atoms of carbon, 22 atoms of hydrogen, and 11 atoms of oxygen (C12H22O11). […]