I recently placed an order for pick-up from our local supermarket, and on my list was coleslaw mix because, well, I was feeling lazy. Unfortunately it was out of stock (giving me comfort in the fact that I wasn’t the only lazy cook out there) , so I impulsively said “go ahead and replace it…
Category: Urban Homesteading
Homemade Ginger Beer
I recently found myself with a glut of ginger in my fridge, after placing an online order for pickup and forgetting that a pound of ginger is a LOT. Fortunately, one of my absolute favorite beverages to make is ginger beer! Drunk on it’s own or mixed up in to a delicious rum laced Dark…
Maple Pecan Coconut Oil Granola
Years ago, while looking through a gift catalog catering to what I can only describe as the aspirational foodie market, I came across a “Granola Making Kit”. Assuming it included ingredients other than your standard homemade granola, or came with some sort of fancy granola-specific baking sheet, I read the description…only to discover that it…
Speed O Weave And Beyond!
I was always a crafty kid. From clothespin reindeer with sequin noses to potholder looms to God’s eyes made with colorful yarn and popsicle sticks, I always had some sort of arts and crafts project going. Around the third grade, I taught myself to sew because I wanted to be Princess Leia for Halloween (though…
Rosepetal Rhubarb Cardamom Shrub
When we moved into our new apartment that is blessed with a garden (a rare luxury in New York City), I dug up a rhubarb plant from my mother’s house that she saw as a nuisance. It was very hardy, and always got huge since it was just left untended. My late father was the…
Learn To Love Your Slubs
I met my now dear friend Anna over a decade ago while we were performing with a small chamber opera company named (in retrospect, rather prophetically) Golden Fleece. We had of course chatted during rehearsals but the moment where we really connected was when we were sitting in the dressing room and she got out…
Jersey Shore Style Fudge
We weren’t a big vacationing sort of family when I was growing up, since my parents were running a small business, so there weren’t a lot of opportunities to walk the NJ boardwalk (and honestly, we were a bit too far inland for that to be an easy trip). However, on the occasions when I…