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How To Make Your Own Home-Made Vanilla Extract Please Share This Page: Google + stumbleupon tumblr reddit If you are a first-time visitor, please be sure to like us on Facebook and receive our exciting and innovative tutorials on herbs and natural health topics! Today’s post is a super-easy and fun way to make a vanilla extract. You will need – 8oz vodka 6 vanilla pods (organic is best of course) Put the pods in the vodka and leave in a closed, labeled bottle / jar for six weeks. That’s it! Notes – 1) Making this extract should of course be done by an adult or with adult supervision as there is alcohol involved. 2) Important – this is not “Vanilla Vodka”. 3) To make sure no-one else attempts to take a swig, please don’t use the original vodka bottle for your extract! 4) As this is a natural home-made herbal product, the final strength will not be “standardized” and so the amount needed may be different from that called for by recipes.

honey lavender soda For the honeycomb baby shower I served a lavender honey soda. It was my first attempt at herbal soda making and it was amazing! I made a second batch this week to drink myself, it is incredibly refreshing on a hot afternoon. To make the soda; combine 1 cup of honey with 1 cup of water and 1 tablespoon of lavender florets (find these in the spice section). Simmer until combined, about three minutes. Strain most of the lavender out and let chill until ready to use. PS. How To Make A Milkshake Without Ice Cream 6 Ways My children love milkshakes and are quite picky about them. There is nothing wrong with that, except I often find myself trying to figure out how to make a milkshake without ice cream as we don’t normally have a container of vanilla ice cream sitting in our freezer. I would typically go and buy ice cream when I know I would be making milkshakes. I suspect this is the case with many people. Necessity is the mother of invention as they say. For quick and easy milkshakes without ice cream you need the following three basic ingredients: ice cubesmilksugar This is what the majority of no ice cream milkshake recipes you will find use as a base. Tools And if you are also into smoothies, this blender can’t be beat. That said, any inexpensive blender or even a Stick Hand Blender will suffice. I think the statements above are a little bit of an exaggeration, though. Basic Milkshakes The basic milkshake without ice cream requires milk, sugar and ice cubes. Basic Milkshake Without Ice Cream Prep time:

How to Make Homemade Mayonnaise and 30 Ways to Use it Mayo is one of those condiments in my house that we can never run out of. If we do it's an emergency. My boys and my husband love the stuff. My kids however.... they like mayonnaise sandwiches.... The mayo sandwich started about 4 years ago when my oldest was a picky toddler. As he got older he started to request them. Now that Owen and Chase are a bit older they do eat their Mayo sandwiches with turkey, ham and cheese. I never realized how easy it was to make mayonnaise at home. The thing that makes most people nervous about making it, is the fact that you use raw egg yolks. Cumin and Lime Mayonnaise Ingredients: 3 raw Safest Choice egg yolks 1 tbs vinegar (I used white wine) 1 pint of your favorite oil (I used vegetable) 3 tbs lime juice (fresh squeezed) 1 ts lime zest 1/2 tsp smoked cumin Salt to taste Directions: In the bowl of an electric mixer whisk egg yolks on high speed until whipped and combined. Turn mixer back to high and add about 1/4 of a cup of your oil one drop at a time.

Lavender Lemonade with Honey 1134StumbleUpon Lavender is beginning to bloom now in my garden, not only looking and smelling beautiful, but attracting bees and other pollinators to the rest of my plants. I harvest it for its beauty, and dry it for use as food and medicine. Growing Lavender Lavender is easy to grow in full sun and any well-drained soil, and is a relatively drought tolerant, perennial plant that adds interest to any garden with its grey leaves and tall, purple blooms. Like many plants grown for their essential oils, a lean soil will encourage a higher concentration of oils. While you can grow lavender in USDA Zone 5, it is unlikely you will ever have a lavender hedge. It is dampness more than cold, that is responsible for killing lavender plants. Lavender planted where the ground routinely freezes and thaws throughout the winter will need a thick layer of mulch applied after the ground initially freezes. Using Lavender Lavender Lemonade with Honey Ingredients Directions

How to Brew Beer - Home Brewing Getting Started Serious about making large batches of beer? Splurge for a propane-powered rig with a three-tiered brew stand. This setup, by Indiana-based Blichmann Engineering, costs about $2000 and features a trio of 20- to 30-gallon pots and gas burners that put out 216,000 Btu per hour. (The high heat quickly boils large amounts of liquid, shaving hours off the brewing process.) More casual or budget brewers can make do with one big pot, heated on a common kitchen stove. Sanitize Yeast and sugar are beer's building blocks—but they're dinner for flavor-spoiling bacteria. TIP: Use a large container (a wallpaper tray will do) filled with sanitizer to douse hard-to-wash items, such as tubing.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Bowls The kitchen is a place where you can surprise even yourself, not only guests at your dinner party. What in the world is this about? Thinking out of the box for a change! It’s important to be creative when making meals and improving recipes. This article will point out that you can use and ordinary muffin pan to bake some Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Bowls. Yes, that’s no mistake in writing – bowls. • non-stick muffin pan; • dough; • chocolate chips; • ice cream; Maybe you’ve seen those mini-tarts at a baker’s window-shop and drooled a bit, before being struck by the thought you could do that at home.

DIY Healthy Soda - Simple Life Abundant LifeSimple Life Abundant Life Once upon a time I was addicted to Coca Cola. When my eyes were opened to the world of real food, I learned to start reading ingredients instead of calories, and here is what I found: Carbonated waterHigh fructose corn syrup (A probable GMO)Caramel color (A probable GMO and linked to cancer)Phosphoric acid (derived from a rock. Seriously! But don’t worry, they remove the arsenic compounds before they put it in your drink.)Natural Flavors (A probable GMO/excitoxin/addictive element from “natural” sources including bugs, beaver butts, and other deliciously savory things.)Caffeine Ya’ll, there is not one redeemable quality about drinking conventional soda. But don’t despair my friends. Score! Water Kefir This homemade soda is made with water kefir grains (not to be confused with milk kefir grains). They are clear, gummy-like “grains” that when placed in a sugary solution like sugar water or juice, eat away at the sugars creating a probiotic-rich, lacto-fermented beverage that is carbonated.

Watermelonade Recipe at Epicurious.com - StumbleUpon photo by Roland Bello yield Makes 1 gallon (serves 16) active time 30 min total time 30 min You would be hard-pressed to find something more refreshing than watermelon. Garnish: lemon slices; mint sprigs Preparation Cut watermelon flesh into 2-inch chunks and discard rind. Cooks' note: Watermelonade can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. .facebook_-452876612 Lacto-femented Sparkling Apple Cider - Nourishing Simplicity Nothing says the holidays like a glass of sparkling apple cider. It’s the favorite of kids and many adults for Thanksgiving, Christmas, weddings and toasting in the New Year. You would not belive how easy it is to make your own sparkling apple cider that is full of millions of healthy bacteria, enzymes and probiotics! Learn how to make this tasty cider at Modern Alternative Mama!

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