Posts in: Cooking

Being that one of the few things that didn’t die in the garden last year was spearmint, and the fact that Buffalo Trace was on sale at the store I decided to try and make a mint julep. …

This is my version of the classic Old-Fashioned cocktail.

At home it's …

This article over at Serious eats blew my mind.  Not only did it teach me a bunch about how sugar melts (or doesn’t) but the flavor described made me thing of cotton candy.  It’s so easy …

This is just a quick note to remember that I had to scale down the Chef Steps cold brew recipe for my 0.5L whipping siphon.

The recipe is:

Tried my hand at making the insta-gin again but this time added angelica root. I followed the same procedure as before so go check it out.  The recipe is as follows.

After trying all the previous fermentation experiments I thought I’d go back what what most people call the easiest fermentation, sauerkraut.  Of course I had to make it hard for myself so I …

Being that I had some extra time on my hands I finally had time to try my hand at making some ketchup at home.  I was going to delay trying this out as I needed some soy sauce to make the …

I ran an experiment over the memorial day weekend to see if I could make some really easy, fake sourdough pizza crust.  I think I might have hit on a winner.  I know the instructions look complicated …

Being that I had extra soy beans from both Miso experiment #1 and #2 I decided to try and also make soy sauce.  Partly because I’d need to make Worcestershire sauce if I wanted to make some …

With lessons learned from Miso experiment #1, I’m making another batch but this time I’m going to try the recipe from the book instead of from the package.