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Skittles Vodka Tutorial. How To Make Vodka Infusions. Lately I've gotten into creating infused Vodka.

How To Make Vodka Infusions

This basically means adding fruits, herbs, and spices to Vodka in order to create a uniquely flavored liquor. There are plenty of sites out there with tips for infusers, recipes for infusions, and cocktail recipes. However, if you're the experimental type, you can skip the lectures and get started immediately. You can make an infusion out of any liquor, but Vodka typically has the most neutral flavor, so its least likely to clash with your other ingredients. Rum is too sweet, whisky is too sour, and gin tastes too much like pine trees. You do not need sophisticated equipment to make infusions. One liter capacity air-tight Mason jarsOne liter capacity air-tight bottlesFunnelSharp pearing knifeMuddlerSharp vegetable peeler. Marinated Feta Recipe. There’s lots of feta-like cheese out there, but only cheese made in Greece is considered true feta nowadays and you can’t call it feta anymore unless it was produced there.

Marinated Feta Recipe

Like Champagne, which has to be made in Champagne or Brie de Meaux which has to be made is Meaux, it isn’t feta unless it’s made where it’s supposed to be made—in Greece. Although I’m not much of a font of knowledge about a lot of things, if it’s food-related, I’ll do in a pinch. If you want to make something that’s impressive and incredibly simple to put together, maybe I can help you out there as well. This is a favorite around here and once you make it, you’ll be rewarded in the days following with salty chunks of cheese infused in a sublime bath of fruity olive oil scented with summery herbs. Start with a clean jar of any size and add chunks of feta.

But use what’s available wherever you live, by all means. Then pour olive oil into the jar until the cheese is submerged. Vanilla sugar recipe. Really simple cranberry sauce recipe. Unbelievably easy mince pies recipe. Amazing Pickled and Marinated Vegetables Recipe : Jamie Oliver. About Sterilizing Jars: Properly handled sterilized equipment will keep canned foods in good condition for years.

Amazing Pickled and Marinated Vegetables Recipe : Jamie Oliver

Sterilizing jars is the first step of preserving foods. Tips: Jars should be made from glass and free of any chips or cracks. Preserving or canning jars are topped with a glass, plastic or metal lid, which has a rubber seal. To sterilize jars before filling with jams, pickles or preserves, wash jars and lids with hot, soapy water. Use tongs when handling hot sterilized jars, to move them from boiling water. Diy Beauty Products: 5 Simple Bath Salt Recipes. Tutorial: Make Your Own Bath Salts DIY. After the busy Holiday season, if you’re anything like me, you ate too many sweets, drank too much cider, and generally feel like it’s time for a relaxing bath and a detox program.

Tutorial: Make Your Own Bath Salts DIY

Here is a step-by-step tutorial on making your own detoxifying bath salts with items you can find at your local shops. You will need: Epsom Salts (available at most health food, pharmacies, and some bulk food stores)Bath Salts*Spice or Coffee GrinderHerbal Botanicals, optionalEssential OilsMeasuring CupsMixing SpoonSodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda), optional.Presentation Containers *Bath Salts are available in a variety of styles, colours, and origins, each with their own composition of trace minerals, colour (such as pink Himalayan Salts), and purported health benefits.

Flavored Salts. “A flavoured salt is one of the simplest and most basic ways of finishing a dish – it’s so easy and tasty, yet hardly anyone does it”– Jamie Oliver My fascination with flavoured salts began after reading about it in Jamie’s Kitchen.

Flavored Salts

And boy was I in awe of salt when I learned about the different varieties. Now I look at salt with a lot more reverence. Flavored Salt Recipes. Salt is one of those essentials in any kitchen, and it can take any dish from OK to amazing with just a quick sprinkle!

Flavored Salt Recipes

This holiday season, spend just a few hours making your very own flavored salts for an easy edible gift. The process is simple and the possibilities as to the flavorings are pretty endless. Shortbread : BBC - Food - Recipes. Christmas Jam Recipes. Pectin, strawberries, sugar and cranberries.

Christmas Jam Recipes

Jamie Oliver - Forums / Homemade Muesli - beta. Chutney recipes. Chutney recipes. Brandied Fruit Recipe - Recipe for Brandied Fruit - Brandied Fruit for an Edible Gift Basket. Easy Christmas Cake Recipe. Chocolate Butterfingers. Chocolate butterfingers are delicious rice krispie and peanut butter treats that are dipped in melted chocolate.

Chocolate Butterfingers

These chewy treats are a long time family favorite. They are perfect for those with a chocolate craving. This is probably the most requested dessert by my children, co-workers and friends. Everyone wants the recipe and everyone begs me to make them again (and again)! Ingredients for Butterfingers: 6 cups Rice Krispies 1 cup creamy peanut butter 1 cup Karo syrup 1 cup sugar 1 12 oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips 1/2 stick of parafin 1 package of wooden skewers Instructions for Butterfingers: 1. Butterfingers will freeze well. Back to the Top: Chocolate Butterfingers Satisfy Your Chocolate Addiction.