Some things I learned while doing this week’s food craft: Candy making is pretty easy. Candy making is also pretty hard. My husband will eat as much melted chocolate as you give him. The actual recipe for making hot chocolate on a stick is very easy: melt the chocolate, add powdered sugar and cocoa,...
Christmas Foodie No. 3: Pie in a Jar
We’ve all seen those ubiquitous cookie mixes, cake mixes, and brownie mixes layered in jars to give as gifts, but what about pie in a jar? Well, not a whole pie. (Those are super cute, but they also look super labor-intensive.) How about just the pie filling? I was looking for a way to...
Feral Cherry Pie
I knew that Butterpowered Bike and I would be friends when she showed me where she’d found cherry trees for foraging. I mean, that’s friendship, right there. But I knew we were really truly foodie buddies when she helped me pick—and then let me take ALL—the cherries because I told her I wanted to...