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The recipes and images on this site belong to Vanessa Barrington. Feel free to link here and if you’d like to use a recipe or image, please ask permission first. Thank you.Twitter Updates
- DIY Delicious and Heirloom Beans both featured on Amazon as a Kindle Big Deal until Aug 23rd http://t.co/YupbnPbB get them digitally! 2012/08/18
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Category Archives: DIY
Crazy for Curtido
My life and my kitchen have both been overtaken by fermenting cabbage lately. (Is there a support group for that?) Partially, it’s the season. I always want to make hearty, fattier foods when the weather turns cold and sauerkraut and curtido are the perfect accompaniments. Plus cabbage turns sweeter as the weather gets chillier, making [...]
Also posted in Books, Latin American, book events, classes, from the market, healthy, hearty, pantry staples Tagged cabbage salad, curtido, DIY Delicious, fermenting, Heirloom Beans, sauerkraut, vegetables, wild fermentation 6 Comments
Home-brewed Sodas Live at 18 Reasons
Though it took place last month (how is that possible?) I wanted to take a moment to blog about the home-brewed soda class my pal Nishanga taught at 18 Reasons. Nishanga showed class participants how to use ginger bug and whey to naturally ferment sodas. She discussed other starters and I brought along some homemade [...]
Also posted in Food and Drink, book events, classes, community, healthy Tagged 18 Reasons, DIY Delicious, fermenting, Gastronicity, ginger bug, homebrewing, lacto-fermented sodas, whey 6 Comments
DIY Delicious at Jimtown—ajvar, crackers, cheese, yogurt cake, sauerkraut canapés and more!
The inaugural DIY Delicious book event was held recently at Jimtown Store in Healdsburg, CA. Since working on the recipes for the Jimtown Store cookbook was my first foray into cookbookery, it only seems fitting. Plus it’s a warm, welcoming space that feels like home and Carrie Brown and her staff know how to make [...]
Also posted in Books, book events, community, entertaining, stores Tagged Ajvar, Ajvar Dip Recipe, DIY Delicious Events, Homemade Cheese, Homemade Crackers, Homemade Mustard, Homemade Sauerkraut, Jimtown Store, Yogurt Cake 2 Comments
DIY Delicious Book Giveaway with FarmCurious
What: Win a signed copy of my book, DIY Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food from Scratch. All you have to do to qualify for a random drawing is to submit a story about your catalyst for canning, preserving, or creating your own food from scratch. Your story can inspire others! Who: This contest [...]
Also posted in Books, community Tagged contest, DIYDelicious, Eat Real, Eat Real Festival, Farm Curious, giveaway 3 Comments
A Really Underground Restaurant
The term “underground” as it relates to food had come to sound ridiculous. These days it’s code for places where droves of in-the-know people in a certain age range and from certain segments of the population gather to wait hours in line for homemade, DIY, fermented, foraged, bartered, guerilla gardened, dumpster plucked, or street vended [...]
Also posted in Food and Drink, entertaining Tagged DIY, foraged food, local food, neighborhood food, underground food 2 Comments
DIY Delicious is Here!
I got the email yesterday. It said, "I'm holding advance copies of your book in my hand, it looks beautiful. Which address should I send them to?" I was excited but a little numb I guess. Or maybe nothing can really prepare a person for the feeling of opening a package and pulling out a [...]
Also posted in Books, food news 19 Comments
DIY Cheese and Fresh Pasta with Asparagus
Homemade fresh cheese recipe to celebrate the release of DIY Delicious: Recipes and Ideas for Simple Food from Scratch from Chronicle Books.
Also posted in from the market 3 Comments
Turning Sunburned Persimmons into Persimmon Butter
Blackened organic persimmons for 75 cents a pound vs. around $3 a pound? Sign me up because I’m making persimmon butter. Bought these from Kaki at the Berkeley Farmers’ Market. They told me the alarming-looking sooty skin wouldn’t affect the fruit and they were right. This and the galette I’m using it for are the [...]
Also posted in dessert, entertaining, from the market, fruit, holidays, pantry staples 5 Comments
DIY All-Purpose Red Chili Sauce, Posole, and a Little Appreciation