DIY Food Projects



Pie Crust with Rendered Bacon Fat (aka Bacon Grease Pie Crust) (aka The Best Pie Crust Ever)

November 4th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, Cheese, DIY Food Projects, Grand Grains, Meats and Sausages, Most Popular, Tomatoes, Veritable Vegetables

Pie Crust with Rendered Bacon Fat (aka Bacon Grease Pie Crust) (aka The Best Pie Crust Ever)

Oh. My. God. This is the best pie crust I have ever tasted! So flaky. So moist. And oh the hint of bacon… In preparing for our move to Germany, I have been going through the cupboards…





Homemade Greek Orange Sausage (Loukanika)

September 16th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Garlic, Honorable Herbs, Meats and Sausages, Most Popular, Orange, Sausages, Meats, Succulent Spices, Thyme, Weekend Projects

Homemade Greek Orange Sausage (Loukanika)

A while back, I got the idea in my head that I wanted to make my own sausage. Why? first and foremost, I love good sausage; secondly, I’m *very* picky about my sausage — it needs to be high quality…





Homemade Limoncello

August 29th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Lemon, Most Popular, Weekend Projects

Homemade Limoncello

I was walking back from lunch the other day with my coworker Fritz, and he (very) jokingly proclaimed, ‘If it’s not instant, it’s not gratification!”. Well, as true as that rings much of the time, this recipe…





No-Knead Wheat-y Rye Bread

July 16th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Grand Grains, Most Popular, Weekend Projects

No-Knead Wheat-y Rye Bread

I have tried to make bread from scratch many times, and I have failed miserably many times… It’s probably that I don’t knead enough, but whenever I try to make bread from scratch (quick breads excepted), they…





Danish Braid with Nectarine and Strawberry Butter

June 29th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Sweets and Desserts, Weekend Projects

Danish Braid with Nectarine and Strawberry Butter

This month I joined the Daring Bakers! After drooling over the opera cake at Sugarlaws and Feeding Maybelle last month, I decided I would throw my hat into the ring and learn to bake something new…





Hot and Spicy Pickled Eggs

June 12th, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Garlic, Ginger, Honorable Herbs, Most Popular, Peppers (Spicy & Sweet), Preserves and Pickles, Succulent Spices, Veritable Vegetables

Hot and Spicy Pickled Eggs

Pickles, pickles, pickles of every kind… that’s how the last few months have been going — pickled kohlrabi, pickled lemons, pickled cabbage, pickled onions, and now pickled eggs! Pickled peppers, pickled cucumber, and pickled okra…





Homemade Tofu

May 1st, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, Around the World, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Legumes, Most Popular, Veritable Vegetables, Weekend Projects

Homemade Tofu

I can’t say for sure what possessed me to decide to make homemade tofu. Most likely it’s because I’ve heard tofu called both ‘one of the most natural and healthful’ as well as ‘one of the most processed and adulterated’…





Quick Purple Kohlrabi Pickles

April 22nd, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, DIY Food Projects, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Kohlrabi, Most Popular, Preserves and Pickles, Veritable Vegetables

Quick Purple Kohlrabi Pickles

Ever since I bought Linda Ziedrich’s book The Joy of Pickling, I’ve had pickles on the brain… not the typical pickles one usually imagines — you know, made with cucumbers, puckering-ly salty, sour, sweet, or vinegar-y…





Coffee Companion, aka Homemade Coffee Mate

April 2nd, 2008  |  by  |  published in All, Delectable Dairy, DIY Food Projects, Most Popular

Coffee Companion, aka Homemade Coffee Mate

My last remaining vice in the high-fructose-corn-syrup-laden, partially-hydrogenated, machine-cuisine world I’ve been gradually opting out of is, believe it or not, French Vanilla Coffee Mate. Eww, gross! you’re probably thinking…





Seedlings are sprouting!

March 15th, 2008  |  by  |  published in DIY Food Projects, Fantastic Fruits, Farming, Gardening, & Food Preservation, Most Popular

Seedlings are sprouting!

After being delayed multiple weeks by ice storms, the seeds for my summer garden finally arrived! I had been waiting with baited breath, and got to planting within a day of receiving the package. All of the seeds are heirloom varieties…




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