c/o Food and Wine

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 control the ingredients of soda makes it much more appealing and opens up  a  new realm of the recipe world.  The soda in this slide show that really caught my attention was the Ginger-Lemongrass but almost all of them look appealing and would also make for a good base to a cocktail!  Check it out:

Soda Recipe Slide Show

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.  I’ve never thought to preserve fruits this way and then have them for all year long!  I love the idea in the picture of doing pomegranate with a orange peel- can you imagine adding that to a glass of sparkling wine or a whiskey tonic?  I think I just found my weekend project!

Check out the article here.

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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!!

Once the pasta is all rolled out, you can cut it up however you’d like. I opted to stuff raviolis with ricotta, spinach and parm. Just a few minutes in boiling water and it’s done!

A Crow will never let good food go to waste-the next morning I used the leftover ravioli stuffing to make an omelet. I topped mine with fresh chives and Sriracha sauce. Yum!