beer,
diy,
spice
Honey Mustard. Couldn’t be easier. Long ago since I began looking into food and questioning how what I ate was even made, I began deconstructing everything down to the level of condiments. I made Honey Mustard dressing that didn’t taste like anything I could ever buy. Why is that?
diy,
holiday,
workshop
If your childhood was anything like mine, you’ll recognize the smell of polishing silver just by the sight of a Tarn-X bottle alone. If not, let me introduce you – remember the holidays? Before you know it, they’ll be back and all that pretty silver serving ware that you never polished is still waiting for you.
diy,
economy,
seafood
Lose some of your fear of the kitchen and cooking with this, a first of 20 recipes designed to be fast, leave little to clean up, not overwhelm with technique and result in something delicious anyone would be proud to pull off in under fifteen minutes! Best of all, it’s Dinner For One.
DFO is Dinner For One which is an answer to a need out there. Would you believe that some folks are too intimidated to cook? Recipes are too big, too confusing and new cooks are too scared to mess up food, burn things or just get exhausted trying to translate what they read as kitchen jargon. More people should enjoy food that’s not processed and made at home – we’ll balance budget, time and the end result so the wage slave on the go can give cooking a try!
agriculture,
diy,
miami
It’s practically free and can get you stoned later whether it’s a super-fresh Mojito or Guarapa you’re after. It’s something of a caped crusader against dehydration, the cold, the elements, extreme poverty and rampant unemployment and all you really need is water and dirt. It’s Sugar Cane, and we’re growing some in the Miami Bureau.
Here’s something you can do with your free time in Miami, or gardening Zone 10 if that’s your stomping ground. Sugar Cane, it’s not just God’s gift to children but it seems to have a hundred and one uses for full-sized people too. Our harvest just took root about three weeks ago, so we’re still pipe dreaming what to do about it…. In the meantime, here’s some neat information about the stuff and some of what we’ve done to get it started.
agriculture,
diy,
urban-farming
Math snuck up on me when new AgNewser contributor, Lavar, got me thinking about weights and pressures; Wood too weak to support a full rain barrel was re-purposed into something else useful to hold containers. Plans for your own outdoor wood shelf are included!
Since announcing these plans on the Facebook Page, a few new folks have jumped on board and we’re thankful – Rain Barrels and do-it-yourself Ag has always been just about the strongest draw we’ve found for visits. Now that we’re actually trying to do it, enthusiasm can be met with a brutal reality: Rain Barrels require some thinking. So after the thinking, some plans for you if you’d like to create this same outdoor wood shelf for containers.
agriculture,
diy,
holiday,
sandwiches,
sauce,
spice
Believe it or not, nothing will make your leftover turkey more Colonial and fitting for Thanksgiving memories than homemade Catsup or Ketchup. It’s a stunning surprise to have a condiment come from your stove top! It’s also highly individual and deserves a slew of images.
Condiments! Where would the United States be without them? In this nearly final and certainly late issue Bringing Homemade to The Table, we’re not worried. You know what follows Thanksgiving? Leftovers. Now read this: Consider the best ever Thanksgiving Leftover Turkey Meatloaf made with Homemade Catsup. It will be positively untouchable…
dessert,
diy,
holiday,
special
We continue with our second idea of what you can bring to the table this Thanksgiving with a healthier Chocolate that will package well as a gifting sauce this later holiday season surprising everyone with next year’s sweetener too!
We discussed earlier that Thanksgiving is more about what you can bring to the table and less about just one, silly day of thanks. Most of the foods you eat will be brown-centric in color, so let’s not only add to that to avoid shocking friends and family, but let’s also introduce to them what the surprise sweetener of next year might be! Oh yes.
advertising,
dc,
deals,
diy,
philadelphia
Tech meets food as Groupon lights up the circuits having announced what just might be a feasible business model that so many start-ups find elusive and nearly impossible to define or create. So, will you buy further into it?
It’s certainly the rare story I encounter in my journey around the tech-wires that crosses over into the lives of my foodie friends, but here’s one now! Groupon, the daily email notification of buying into local offers at a discount, is just one of many daily mailer sites you can subscribe to. They’re next move is hardly revolutionary by business model standards, but that’s even more amazing, because they’re the first to do it – the Groupon storefront for vendors.
ashe,
diy,
urban-farming
The story of our garden begins quite simply. According to trusted resources, edibles in cold regions should be started in April in individual pots for warm season veggies. So I pointed eyes to Home Depot to grab some starter pots – little disposable pots for seedlings – and found none! After befriending two hanging pots with flowers, I set off to start my own starter pots and found that the story of The Garden already has a villain.
All good stories have a villain to watch out for and we have what is probably the cutest. Ashe can’t pass up a good eat which makes him the ultimate, well-meaning foodie who also benefits The Garden in ways upcoming since he swallows bugs whole. Yuck – but more than this author is willing to do.
Ignoring a roving black thumb, it was decided that hanging flower pots might help detract, in warmer weather, from the sight of the hideous bare wood shelf fashioned yesterday. It stands three feet wide by five and-a-half inches deep with each shelf ten inches high. Before its employ, seedlings can benefit…
