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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
- Chickpea and Salmon salad with spring vegetables...portable, easy, #healthy, and fast http://t.co/DlOlj7Rm 2012/05/15
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Category Archives: DIY
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 [...]
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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.
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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
Brisket Success!
This was a difficult recipe for the book that I finally had great success with. If you’re thinking it sounds strange for someone who rarely cooks meat to make a big ‘ole brisket, you’re right. All I can say is the book has a recipe for killer ketchup. One makes barbecue sauce with ketchup and [...]
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Curtido & Raita from the Eat Real Festival
Thanks to everyone who attended my fermentation demo on Friday at Eat Real. I had a blast and it was great to see so many enthusiastic fermenters out there. As promised, here is the curtido recipe for those who did not get one and following that, a link to Nishanga Bliss' blog post about fermenting [...]
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Home-brewed Sodas Live at 18 Reasons