Category Archives: Homemade Experiments

So I was going to make paninis for today’s post but when I arrived at the grocery store to pick up my ingredients, the produce section was Completely Empty. There were all these naked shelves where the apples and celery and lemons used to be. So either I missed the memo that produce just became [...]

I’ve tucked a few road trips under my (ever-widening) belt over the years. 6 hours to Maine, 9 hours to Virginia time and time again, and the epic 15 hour trek to Mardi Gras in New Orleans back when I would drive 15 hours for a party. The endless hours in the car don’t bother [...]

I’m not sure what prompted me to make this except that I A) love apples and B) saw a huge pile of ‘em at the market that I HAD to buy. Plus, I figured it would be a nice present to bring to my sister tonight in DC (along with a bottle of wine, because [...]

Pickles?! Binny, seriously, pickles? I know that 40% of you probably don’t even like pickles (ahem, Guthrie), and another 40% of you would probably never, ever, ever go to a store to buy cucumbers to make them from scratch, but for the 20% of you who are, like me, A) total losers and B) obsessed [...]

Barefoot is always talking about “good vanilla extract”, but what she really means is expensive Nielsen-Massey vanilla extract at twenty bucks a bottle. I know, I know, it’s worth it… it lasts forever, and the intense vanilla flavor really blows that cheap stuff out of the water (a lot of the cheap stuff isn’t even [...]