• Homemade/DIY

    Refreshing Soda Recipes

    by Holly • March 21, 2011 • Homemade/DIY, cocktails • 0 Comments

    I was scanning over a daily recipe email from Food and Wine Magazine and saw an interesting section on DIY Soda.  I tend to stay away from soda unless its ginger ale when my stomach is upset or a couple guilty pleasure sips of coke when I’m eating a burger and fries.  Being able to [...]

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    Boozefruit Mania

    by Vbar • September 22, 2010 • Homemade/DIY, cocktails, dessert, vegetarian, wine • 0 Comments

    Check out this amazing article in the NYT style section today on preserving fruit in alcohol rather than canning. The crows do an awful lot of booze-fruit eating in the summertime when we fancy-up our white wines and simple cocktails with a little fruit garnish to be munched on at the end of the drink.  [...]

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    Baby Garden

    by Mo • May 17, 2010 • Domestic Tips, Homemade/DIY, gardening • 1 Comment

    I’m super jealous of my sister’s creativity. For Mother’s Day, my sister Erin turned a vintage baby carriage into a planter. She decoupaged the outside with images of nature and filled the inside with soil, some flowers and a little ceramic watering stake shaped as a mushroom. Cute!!

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    Pasta making!

    by Mo • May 8, 2010 • Homemade/DIY, pasta, sauces, vegetarian • 0 Comments

    For a few years I had been slaving over a make-shift rolling pin (mason jar full of water) to get my pasta dough thin enough. For anyone without a pasta maker, you know how tedious this can be. Last year though, I was fortunate enough to be gifted a beautiful new pasta maker from fellow [...]

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