Jul
12
One of the biggest reasons why people don’t branch out and buy more different types of fruits and vegetables is because they don’t know what to do with them. I didn’t let that stop me when I picked some fresh red currants at Wasem Fruit Farm. Their sour cherries is what brought me to the …
May
11
This year for Mother’s Day, I wanted to come up with a special dessert to cook for my wife. My wife’s mom recently had at s’mores pie at a restaurant. This winter, I learned how to make my own homemade marshmallows, thanks Alton Brown. So I decided I want to try to make my own …
May
02
It’s amazing how many different things you can do with flour when you combine it with some liquid, some eggs, and some dairy. One thing I had not done with this combination of ingredients yet is to make crepes. So as I do quite often I turned to Alton Brown. I followed his recipe for …
Apr
07
I have been spending a lot of time over the last 6 months, making a variety of different flavored applesauces. Applesauce is a great platform to introduce all sorts of flavors. I have been experimenting with adding different fruits to make sauce. I have used pears, peaches, pomegranates, cranberries, and more. I recently made a …
Mar
31
Chocolate. The one word brings comfort to many. One of it’s best forms is in pudding. There is a lot chocolate pudding out there, but much of it lacks in one important area – chocolate. For a true, rich, deep chocolate flavor you don’t need a box or a 4 pack. Making chocolate pudding from …
Mar
22
We made a cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. It was a chocolate cake and it didn’t come out as well as I would have liked. A couple weeks later, Alton Brown came out with a new Good Eats episode entitled “Devil of a Cake“. The show obviously featured a devil’s food cake. I was …
Mar
09
Yesterday was Paczki day!!!! In the Eat Like No One Else tradition, I didn’t spend my morning in some long line at a bakery nor did I sell out some dough for a box of fattening treats at my local supermarket. I made my own paczki. I would love to post the recipe here, however …
Jan
14
Whenever one thinks of sherbet, usually orange is the flavor they think of. There is plenty of orange sherbet to find in the grocery store. Unfornately most of it falls short of greatness. If you want the best orange sherbet, then you have to make it yourself. Orange sherbet was one of three recipes featured …
Dec
07
This is NOT an official Nestle recipe. However this is my adaptation of Alton Brown’s cookie recipe, which is an adapation itself of the Nestle recipe. Once again this year, Nestle has come out with some dark chocolate & mint morsels for Christmas time. So naturally when I bought these the first time that came …
Dec
06
I love making homemade applesauce. It is so easy to do and when you make it yourself you can customize it. The last time I made some sauce, I decided to use a pomegranate as they are in season right now. When selecting my apples I choose a lot of sweet apples so that I …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (4) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
With 200 recipes for making and using your own soda, this book is the best source I have found on making your own carbonated treats at home.