Minimalism. Mindfulness. Munchies.
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,...
These easy consumable gifts are about as simple as food gifts get. In the foreground, Christmas spice salt, adapted from a recipe in Nigella Christmas. Christmas Spice Salt 2 cups sea salt 2 tsp peppercorns (I used smoked) 2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes 2 tsp anise seed (or whole star anise) This blend...
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...
Before I had ever made plum jam, I thought it was hard. That was way back when I assumed that if a product was something people routinely bought prepared at the store, it must be hard to do. HA! Then I saw this recipe for raspberry basil jam in an issue of O Magazine. ...
Christmas is only 12 weeks away. Depending on your personality, that either made you say, “Yeah, and?” or made you faint from the sudden onset of holiday stress. Personally, I fall somewhere in between. Since marrying my awesome husband who has the “save money” gene (which I might have, but it’s dormant and recessive...