Posts tagged: recipe
How To: Organize Your Thanksgiving.
By Chrisjob
AOL's DomestoBlog ShelterPop has created a very helpful Countdown to Thanksgiving checklist to help you spread the amount of work over the next few days and to guarantee you won't forget anything! So, sure, they presumed you started three weeks ago, and you may have - but whether you've already got your placecards set or are headed to the grocery store this weekend to plan your menu, take these tips from Judy Ketteler with you.
For Example:
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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!
Speak French? Then tell us all what this says, cause I'm sure it sounds savory: "oilà il est à présent temps de voter pour le projet qui vous semble le plus pertinent. Attention, fin des votes le lundi 9 novembre à 12h. Un grand merci à Nathalie pour avoir joué le jeu et pour sa proposition qui donne carrément envie de lécher l’écran ! » 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."
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.
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. :)
Give Local Foods a New Use with a Farmer's Market Facial.
By Chrisjob
Food. It's for eating. And local foods are for eating, too...and, if you please, taking care of your body. "The farmers’ market food doesn’t just nourish your body, it can also nourish your skin,” says Celtic Naturals founder Angela Buckley. “The skin is our largest organ and it’s important to care for it.” So, head to your farmer's market, grab a blender, and get to scrubbing. » READ MORE
Vampire Cookies and Cupcakes.
By Chrisjob
The shelves are piled high with plastic pumpkins, and it's time to start baking. Wanna try something other than witch cutouts and sugar-sprinkled jack-o-lanterns?
Home-Made Spray Starch Recipe
By DIY Maven
Show of hands...who uses spray starch when they iron? I do, depending on the fabric. My weapon of choice has been Magic Sizing (light body), and it really does make ironing easier. Next time I run out, I just might make my own spray starch, however. According to Luxury Housing Trends, the recipe couldn't be easier. Here it is:
How to Make Great Packed Lunches for Work.
By Chrisjob
A quick lunch out in the middle of the workday...it's easy, usually tasty, and a great break from your occupational worries.
'Cept, it's also rarely healthful, and those $5 a day can quickly add up week after week. The answer, of course, is to pack your own...and with these tips from DumbLittleMan, you can keep your brownbags interesting, healthful, and inexpensive.
20 Foods That Freeze Surprisingly Well...and 20 That Don't.
By Chrisjob
The fall harvest, prolific gardens, bulk discount stores, or weekend cooking frenzies. We often find ourselves with an abundance of deliciousness, but full bellies. So what to do with long-term leftovers and extra ingredients? As it turns out, your freezer is just as suited to hold fresh ingredients and homemade dishes as commercial pizza rolls and popsicles.
DIYLife lists twenty foods that freeze perfectly, and twenty that won't fare so well. » READ MORE
How To Use Up Your Tomato Tonnage.
By ChrisjobEarlier this summer, it seemed as if we'd never get any red tomatoes...the high amounts of precipitation kept the leaves limited and the fruit green.
But now...here they come, faster than any household can consume. Here's three ideas, quick "sun-dried" tomatoes, DIY ketchup, and an easy freezing technique, that uses your bounty to the fullest.
DIY Apple Chips!
By ChrisjobCome fall time, apples simply seem to just find themselves in our kitchens. From sales at the super market, to orchard picking excursions, or from the trees in your own yard and neighborhood, autumn is abundant apple time.
And, apparently, it's quite easy to use 'em in bulk by making your own apple chips, perfect for adding to granola or cereal or just munching for a healthy snack. Here's how.
Cherry Jubilee Week: Bourbon Cherries and Manhattan Floats.
By ChrisjobCherry Jubilee Week, Part III: Bourbon Cherries and Manhattan Floats.
Check out Part I: Easy Cherry Syrup and a Sparkling Cherry Cooler and Part II: Canned Fresh Cherries, Perfect Over Ice Cream.
With basic canned cherries accomplished, I thought it might be fun to try a twist on preserving the rest of the cherries. I'd seen 'bourbon cherries' in gourmet shops...fresh whole cherries swimming in bourbon, adding that smoky oakiness to the cherr » READ MORE
Cherry Jubilee Week: Canned Fresh Cherries, Perfect Over Ice Cream.
By ChrisjobCherry Jubilee Week, Part II: Canned Fresh Cherries, Perfect for Ice Cream.
Check out Part I: Easy Cherry Syrup and a Sparkling Cherry Cooler.
So....with more than five pounds of cherries left from syrup making, I realized I was gonna have to get these dudes processable so that, come winter time, I'd be to able use them in a variety of ways. Creating pie filling for freezing was an option, as well as just throwing the cherries whole into the » READ MORE
Cherry Jubilee Week: Easy Cherry Syrup and a Sparkling Cherry Cooler.
By Chrisjob
So, on Saturday, I went to pick up my weekly CSA harvest, and the wonderful young lady pointed to an enormous box of bing cherries, and said, "Also, you're welcome to take as many of those as you want, but they're super ripe, so they gotta be used today."
"Really?" I said, as I grabbed a produce bag.
"Yeah. Take the whole box if you want..."
Well, I DID want, so I took the box, and realized, as I popped my third into my mouth on the walk hom » READ MORE
Funky Lunch :: Sandwich Creations.
By ChrisjobThese are way cooler than those gnarled tomatoes with the scary eye implants.
"Funky Lunch was born out of the desire to turn an ordinary lunchtime sandwich into something a bit different to encourage children to try and eat a varied and healthy lunch."
Curbly Video Podcast: How To Make Simple, Delicious Compound Butters.
By Chrisjob
Compound butters combine the best of both worlds - the bright and bold punches of fresh herbs and seasonings with the velvety wonderfulness of whole butter. And with the grills a-blazing and the summer-fresh produce this time of year, there's every reason to create all sorts of 'em to keep on hand.
