Posts tagged: kitchen
How to Make Sparkling, Carbonated Fruit.
By Chrisjob
Dude! Don't you wish you'd seen this over the summer during the height of berry season!?
My fave food blog CHOW offers this fine video tutorial - carbonated fresh fruit! You add fruit and berries to a C02 powered soda bottle, and then give them the gas. After about thirty minutes, the liquid in the fruit gets all bubbly, making it a fun addition to salads, desserts, and drinks!
How-To: Edible Utensils.
By Chrisjob
This one goes into the why?-because-you-can file : Toasty pâte brisée serving utensils and ramekin. Bread bowls? Ha!
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Linking Mugs.
By ChrisjobQuick! Four friends over for hot cocoa, only two hands, and zero cocktail trays. What do you do?
Why, you opt to pour your frothy chocolatey tastiness in these: the Link mugs from Mocha.uk.
"So, inspired by the quintessential builder's mug, designer Jonathan Aspinall has developed an inspired solution to this problem - mugs that can link together. Each cup has a plus shaped plug on one side and a corresponding receptacle on the other. Thereby al » READ MORE
Make 90-Second Waffle Cookies.
By ChrisjobFrom dough to dunked in just 90 seconds.
When you've simply got to have a warm cookie right away, look to your waffle iron. The crispy/chewy results will look like waffles, taste like cookies, and last...well, about another 90 seconds. "These cookies, excerpted from the book Dessert Express, look like mini waffles, but they bake up just like oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies, with browned, toasty oats on the outside and gooey, melty chips. Once cooled, they look cute garnishing bowls of ice cream."
Stack Your Wine Bottles with Style.
By Chrisjob
I can't think of a better way to put it, so I'll let the manufacturer describe the Vineyard from Pack and Rack:
Why hide a beautiful thing? Wine speaks to all your senses, not least to the eye. So why then tuck away a beautiful bottle of deepest red with a label that probably has been designed by a well known artist? Show your wine - let friends and customers admire this piece of art!
Bold Kitchen Makeover on a Budget
By DIY Maven
In two days, this perfectly acceptable kitchen went from bland to BAM.
The Zipper Cup.
By Chrisjob
The modern interlocking zipper was perfected in 1914 by Swedish-born Gideon Sundback. "Sundbäck developed a version based on interlocking teeth, the "Hookless No. 2", which was the modern metal zipper in all its essentials. In this fastener each tooth is punched to have a dimple on its bottom and a nib or conical projection on its top. The nib atop one tooth engages in the matching dimple in the bottom of the tooth that follows it on the other s » READ MORE
How To: Make a Reversible Placemat Cover.
By Chrisjob
It's nearly 2010! If you've got placemats, they should indeed be round. And if you've got round placemats, you should create your own covers. And! If you're creating your own covers, might as well make 'em two-sided for twice the decorability.
The Lego Countertop.
By ChrisjobCurbly has seen plenty of Lego art over the years, perhaps some lego furniture, but fundamental built-in domestic structures? It's a first in my estimation...
"The Munchausen Lego Kitchen is based around an Ikea island that has been outifftted with more than 20,000 Lego pieces. Not quite and afternoon in the playroom, the entrie process took the designers more than a week to complete. The results were well worth the effort, which gave way to a v » READ MORE
Six Tips to Soften Butter on the Fly.
By Chrisjob
Whether you need it for your toast, or its time to whip up your first batch of holiday cookies, there's all sorts of occassions in which you need to bring chill-chested butter to room temp without melting it. The microwave is out, but these six ideas from TipNut will get you spreadable in a flash.
- Grate with a box grater
- Heat gently in a glass bowl with warm water
- Get a butter curler, and heat it slighty.
Homemade Candy Corn Recipe.
By Chrisjob
Candy corn's the kinda thing that divides loved one's right down the middle. Either you hate it, or you love it. And like all good things, if you love it, you should make it. And like those very all good things, the homemade version tastes even better.
Ingredients
1 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1/3 cup salted butter
2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1/3 cup powdered milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
red and yellow food coloring
What's your favorite thing to do with candy corn. Me? I combines 'em with peanuts. Tastes just like a Payday.
Halloween How-To: Vampire Blood Lollipops.
By Chrisjob
Whether or not you care about the influx of vampire art/literature/tv/films over the last few years, you can't deny the sugary excellence that is these "bloody" lollipops. Make 'em for your party, for Trick-or-Treaters, or for yourself!
Ingredients:
- 2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup light corn syrup
- red food coloring
- white lollipops stick - you can find them at your local craft store.
How To: The Meat Hand.
By Chrisjob
Wow.
Just....
Wow.
Armed with a post-it note of inspiration and an appendage-shaped gelatin mold, Megan from NotMartha has made herself a hand. Of meat. With fingernails. And a wrist bone. It's awe-quaking. And perfectly disgusting.
12 Ways to Use a Tea Towel.
By Chrisjob
Studiopatro is a San Francisco design studio that creates amazing typographic, nature, and geometric-inspired tea towel. Their work is so beautiful you'll want to do way more than simply dry dishes, and thankfully, they've offered twelve ideas to use tea towels in your life and decor.
- Easy apron
- Frame-able art
- Line your tea tray
- Protect your tender hands
- Dry fresh greens
- Create a cushion
- Give as gifts
- Wrap as gift wrap
- Line your bread basket
Meat Head.
By ChrisjobSo, it's kinda like not being able to look away from a flaming car crash, but it'll still make you giggle.
"Hubby discovered that whipped cream cheese (whip your own with a mixer) made wonderful "glue". Smear it all over a cheap skull then cover it with thin slices of meat (ham seems to look the best). The eyes are olives stuffed into martini onions." From Flickr.
Happy Halloween, hamfaces.
Would you have the courage to paint your kitchen cabinets black?
By DIY Maven
Painting kitchen cabinets is a daunting task and choosing to paint them black could make the job even more of a nail-biter for some. Not for me, however, as black is my go-to color. It would be the ONLY color that wouldn't cause a serious case of the yips. But I digress. Emily's kitchen was perfectly fine 'before', except that she didn't care for her laminate backsplash or the 'orangey-pink' stain of the cabinets. Tile took care of former, the blackest black paint she could find took care of the latter. The outcome? Well, you decide:
So, would you paint your kitchen cabinets black?
Vote now!
10+ Best Uses for Your Toaster Oven.
By Chrisjob
In my very first Curbly post EVER (almost 1,000 ago), I announced my love affair with the magical silver box that is my toaster oven. Way more effecient to run and way quicker to heat, the toaster oven is a great addition to small and large kitchens alike. The Kitchn has assembled 10 great times to opt for the tiny versions over the big dudes, and the comments are full of excellent additional options.
Plus, they're perfect for Shrinky Dinks. :)
Kitchen Redo in Detail
By DIY MavenIndianapolis-based designer Nikki Sutton pulls out all the stops in her article detailing the design choices of this kitchen redo. Although Nikki says the 'before' kitchen was a 'perfectly fine' space, it lacked 'wow' factor. » READ MORE
Food Flags.
By Chrisjob
These food flags, created by WHYBIN for the Sydney International Food Festival are not only made completely from edibles, but from produce and cooked dishes that hail from the countries whose likeliness is ablazed.
Dishtowels To Dry For.
By Chrisjob
There's nothing better than a designer dishtowel to make the dull ache of washing dishes go away. Enter To Dry For: A website devoted entirely to the art of, well, the tea towel.
And I thought Etsy was a problem...
