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Low-Fat Recipes: Homemade Refrigerator Pickles
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“Just pickles!!! These are easy to make, and are a great way to use vegetables from the garden.”
Tips from The Cocktail Snob to Help You Become Your Own Mixologist — October Maker Talk Video
Do you wish you could create your own delicious, over-the-top cocktails at home? Ben Paré, aka NYC mixologist The Cocktail Snob, has a serious roster of cocktail recipes under his belt. Luckily for you, he joined us at our October Maker Talk to show us all the tools and techniques needed to up your drink game. Fear not: his tips and tricks are easy to follow. Watch the video and then prepare to impress your guests today!
Low-Fat Recipes: Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Ricotta Cheese
Low-Fat Recipes: Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes with Ricotta Cheese
What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of November 1-2, 2014
Happy weekend fellow cooks and treat-lovers. What’s cooking this weekend? Candy corn? Marshmallow spiders? Pumpkin rice krispie treats? I hope you have something good going on. Here are a few of my favorite Halloween posts from this past week, and a reminder: we get an extra hour to cook on Sunday, thanks to the magic of Daylight Savings Time. Happy Halloween!
- Black kitchens for Halloween (but don’t worry — they’re not spooky at all).
- These last-minute costumes are so great.
- Turn your decorative gourds into candles!
- Nut-free treats for everyone.
- Halloween dinners for grownups.
What Can I Make with Apple Pie Moonshine? — Good Questions
Q: My in-laws bought us a bottle of apple pie-flavored moonshine. We are attending a pumpkin carving party this weekend and I’d like to bring a drink to share that includes the moonshine.
Any recipe ideas or suggestions?
Shrubs Are The New Best Thing to Hit Your Cocktail Glass — New Cookbook First Look
The book: Shrubs by Michael Dietsch
The angle: Everything you need to know about making old-fashioned shrubs and using them in modern sodas and cocktails.
Recipes for right now: Country Gentleman’s Brandy Shrub, Cinnamon-Apple Shrub, Pear Ginger Shrub, Pomegranate Shrub, Dr. Mike’s Celery Tonic, Lemon-Lime Rickey, Campari Soda, Shrubbed-Up Cosmo, Shrugroni
Who would enjoy this book? Foodie mad scientists and cocktail-lovers.
A Transformation for a Cramped Kitchen — Apartment Therapy
From Apartment Therapy → Before & After: A Functional Update for a Cramped Kitchen
This inspiring renovation turned an oddly-shaped kitchen into a bright and extremely functional space!
Could San Francisco Be the First U.S. City to Pass a Soda Tax? — Food News
Like many cities before them San Francisco and their neighbor across the bay, Berkley, will be voting next week on whether or not a soda tax should be put into place.
Berkley is proposing a one cent per ounce tax while San Francisco is planning a tw0 cent per ounce tax.