How to Make Greek Yogurt. Make your own regular or Greek yogurt at home with this easy method.
Next to salad in a jar, homemade fat-free Greek yogurt is one of my most powerful weapons in the war against extra poundage. How to Make Greek Yogurt. Easy Cheesy: 4 Super-Simple Recipes. If you’ve never tried making cheese, you’ll be amazed to learn that it can be as fast and easy as baking a pie.
Cheese making recipes are easy, quick and require few ingredients. The only equipment you need is a stainless steel pot, measuring spoons, cheesecloth and a dairy thermometer. Know Your Cheese Making Ingredients First and foremost, milk. Using fresh, whole milk from grass-fed cows (from a nearby farm) will produce the best results. Low-fat milk also can be used to make cheese, but you’ll get less cheese as a result.
Get some culture. Rennet comes from what? Although most store-bought cheeses rely on animal-based rennet, vegetable rennet also is widely available. Better not forget the salt. Clean up the water. Four Super-Simple Cheese Making Recipes These recipes are adapted from Home Cheese Making by Ricki Carroll. Recipe Details. Homemade Tempeh. When I try to explain what tempeh is to a person who isn’t familiar with it, it never ends up sounding very appetizing… well, it’s cooked, hulled soybeans that have been mixed with a special mold spore and incubated for about 24 hours until a thick layer of white mold grows throughout the beans.
Yummm…… moldy soybeans…… I swear though, tempeh is actually very delicious — a little nutty, chewy in a great way, mild but with a unique earthy flavor — I love it and eat it at least a few times a month. I used to make the mistake that I am sure many people make when first making tempeh — not steaming the tempeh before using it. Typically when I would buy tempeh, I would simply cut it into cubes, lightly fry it in a mixture of butter and oil, then serve the cubes with a flavorful dipping sauce. It was acceptable, but the texture was quite dense. Then, after seeing a mention of it on an Indonesian cooking website, I tried steaming the tempeh cubes for about 15 minutes before frying them. Tape painting. The whole family has been at it... and now we have a new piece of art in the livingroom.
DIYs I want to do / I might need to take the time to do this. DIY: Easy-Peasy Artwork. DIY Fashion-Forward Bracelets & Diy & Lifestyle & RTR On Campus. When money is tight, but fabulous fashion is a necessity, try out your crafting skills to make something new and fantastic.
These bracelets are sure to impress and look quite expensive, but all they require is some gold chain and friendship bracelet yarn, both of which you can find at a craft store like Michael’s Art Supply. Make one signature piece or stack a bunch for a layered look! BFrend Bracelets by Monika You can find the full blog post here to see more styles of these bracelets. In order to create them, check out these various friendship bracelet patterns.
Another fun and very creative bracelet is this one made out of gold or silver nuts, normally used to secure bolts. Garden. Wine Cork Crafts and Wine Cork Projects - 30 Ways to Reuse Wine Corks. HonestlyWTF - StumbleUpon. How to Update a Hand Me Down Dresser - StumbleUpon. I love gift-wrap and I also love anything and everything having to do with typefaces.
So it is no surprise to me that I have had my eye on this vintage typographer gift-wrap ever since Emily over at Jones Design Company posted about it as well as many other pretty papers she uses. I wanted to find a way I could use this gift-wrap where I could enjoy the pattern in my daily life instead of only wrapping gifts with it and giving it away. When I started to update my guest room I got an idea on how I could incorporate it into the room. The gift-wrap comes in 20” x 28” sheets that cost $4.00 each.
I needed 3 to cover the top of my dresser and the drawer pulls. Before This piece of hand me down furniture looks nice in this photo, but the top and left side have cracks in them. Supplies needed: My color scheme for the room: white, beige, tan, black, and purple. I painted the dresser white first. How to Make Thick Hemp Bracelets for Guys. DIY Friendship Bracelet. For several months now, we’ve been receiving emails requesting a friendship bracelet DIY.
Well, friends, ask and you shall receive! Today, we’ll give you a step by step tutorial on the classic chevron pattern. If you used to whip up friendship bracelets like a champ in grade school and have since forgotten how, consider this a refresher course. And if you can make these with your eyes closed and arms tied . . . umm, can we still be friends? You’ll need:embroidery threada safety pin or tapea pair of scissors Start by cutting several strands of embroidery thread at about 24 inches each. Start on the left side with the outermost color (shown here in red) and make a forward knot by creating a 4-shape over the 2nd color, loop it under and back through the opening.