DIY – Notes From a Messy Kitchen

Homemade Fig Newtons {Leftovers Club!}

Notes from a Messy Kitchen

When I was little, I would have felt a bit ripped off if you offered me a cookie and then handed me a Fig Newton. There were enough Oreos and Chips Ahoy in my life that I knew a cookie when I saw one! Of course fruit or no fruit,...

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Homemade Date Paste, the Simplest and Most Versatile All-Natural Sweetener You Ever Will Find

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Homemade Date Paste From the Healthy Foodie I would give you an ingredient list, but there’s only one ingredient: Medjool dates. As many as you can smush into a mason jar. For a normal sized mason jar this is about 450 grams. You can also mix in other dried...

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Peanut Butter and Spent Grain Dog Biscuits… With Only Four Ingredients!

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I am quite sure that more of my friends are home brewers than are dog owners. You can blame this on the emerging craft brew scene in D.C., full work and social calendars or the lack of backyards, but the fact remains. Luckily these two little piggies are perfectly happy...

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Homemade Cheese Crackers with Gouda, Rosemary and Walnuts

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I have admittedly been a bit absent as of late. There’s no particular rhyme or reason. I guess I’ve just been busy. Wait, wait, wait, let’s take a step back. There are two types of busy in my mind. There are inherently busy people, those who work long hours or...

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Chaos Cooking and Sushi Making

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Tuesday night, Courtney and I went to our first evening of Chaos Cooking, an event I randomly stumbled upon somewhere on the Internets. It goes something like this: you sign up on the website and are given the address to a home where you’re to show up with all of...

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Meet the Juices: How to do Your Very Own DIY BluePrintCleanse

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As many of you know, last week I did a three day Do it Yourself Blue Print Cleanse, making all of my juice from scratch in my new Breville juicer (read my summaries of day 1, day 2, and day 3 here). Overall, I really enjoyed the cleanse. I felt...

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Just Keep Juicin’: Day 2 of my DIY BluePrintCleanse

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I don’t have nearly as much to say about Day 2 because, well, it wasn’t all that different from Day 1. I woke up at 6:00am grateful for generous night-time Jo, who had been kind enough to save groggy morning Jo a few sips of almond juice to drink before...

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Ode to Etsy

First Came Love

When I started planning our wedding, I had no idea how many do-it-yourself projects we’d undertake (and Courtney had no idea what a do-it-yourself project was). But like many brides I became obsessed with making our wedding beautiful and unique, in making our guests think “this is so Courtney and...

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DIY Guide: How to Make Your Own Brooch Bouquet

First Came Love

The very day that I met with our florist to discuss the beautiful sunflower bouquet I would carry down the aisle, I saw a picture of a vintage brooch bouquet and fell in love. I convinced myself that it would be too much work, that I’d never be able to...

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The Do It Yourself Aspirations of a Self-Proclaimed Pack Rat

First Came Love

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been quite the collector. I collected stamps, pogs, snow globes, stickers, zwibbledibbles, beanie babies, salt shakers, rocks, coins… the list goes on. And there are certainly times that ‘collector’ is an overly kind description of my pack rat tendencies, such as...

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