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Skittles Vodka Tutorial. How To Make Vodka Infusions | Bex Huff. Lately I've gotten into creating infused Vodka. 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. 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 UPDATE: If you want to make infusions with Espresso or other small-grained food, you'll also want a French press...

Anyway, place the ingredients into the mason jar, and fill it with 1/2 to 1 liters of vodka. The first step is to choose what kind of infusion to make. Lemon Infusion Strawberry Infusion. 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. 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. I like to keep them large, around 2-inches (6cm) max is good. But use what’s available wherever you live, by all means. Related Recipes and Links. 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. 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. Two-piece lids are best for canning, as they vacuum-seal when processed. 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. As a rule, hot preserves go into hot jars and cold preserves go into cold jars. After the jars are sterilized, you can preserve the food. Recipe Excerpted from JAMIE AT HOME by Jamie Oliver. 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. 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.

If you are unable to find Bath Salts, you can use a coarse sea salt. To make your Bath Salts, combine: 1 cup Epsom Salts½ cup sea salt, ground in a clean, dry spice or coffee grinder.1/8 – ¼ cup botanical additive. Feeling sluggish? Have fun! 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. 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. Many of these expensive flavoured salts that are all the rage right now can easily be mixed up at home at a much lower cost and they are so much fun to play around with! Onion, garlic and celery are the most common flavoured salts but you can make some very wonderfully fragrant, wicked salt flavours with a little experimentation. I got myself some pretty bottles, flavoured some sea salt, and now I have a year’s supply to sprinkle on every other thing!

Jamie Oliver’s Flavoured SaltsFrom Jamie’s Kitchen Herb SaltsFinishing salts works well when wetter sea salt is mixed with dried herbs. OrangeTangerineLemonLime or Keffir Lime. 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! 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. I made three different varieties including roasted garlic salt, meyer lemon salt, and shiitake salt. The roasted garlic and meyer lemon salts both took a little longer to make, but the shiitake one's incredibly simple and would work with just about any dried herb, from dried mushrooms to chili flakes to rosemary. I must admit out of my three, I fell in love with my roasted garlic salt; the flavor is more complex than your average garlic salt and is epic on french fries.

Get these incredibly easy recipes when you read more. Ingredients 1 head of garlic 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 cup of kosher salt Directions Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Makes about one cup of garlic salt. Information Category. Shortbread : BBC - Food - Recipes. Christmas Jam Recipes. Pectin, strawberries, sugar and cranberries B 40 mins, 4 ingredients confectioners sugar, preserves, unsalted butter, pure vanilla extract, salt and 3 MORE B 105 mins, 8 ingredients butter, crystallized ginger, fresh cranberries, pectin, dried cranberries, sugar and 1 MORE B 50 mins, 7 ingredients fresh lemon juice, crushed pineapple juice, sugar, water, cranberries and apples B 35 mins, 6 ingredients butter, fresh cranberries, ruby port, pectin, dried cranberries and 1 MORE B 6 ingredients juice, butter, brown sugar, frozen strawberries, kosher salt, cranberries and 1 MORE B 7 ingredients margarine, pectin, strawberries, cranberries and white sugar B 50 mins, 5 ingredients butter, egg yolks, flour, chopped pecans, salt, sugar, jam and vanilla B 25 mins, 8 ingredients raspberry jam, confectioners sugar and dough B 50 mins, 3 ingredients flour, kosher salt, unsalted butter, pure vanilla extract, sugar and jam B 85 mins, 6 ingredients B 85 mins, 11 ingredients B 20 mins, 9 ingredients B 80 mins, 5 ingredients.

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. 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. Add peanut butter, Karo syrup, and sugar to a large pan. Butterfingers will freeze well. Back to the Top: Chocolate Butterfingers Satisfy Your Chocolate Addiction.