Old-Fashioned Birch Beer Soda
Scrape black birch and it smells like wintergreen. Boil it and you’ve got the basis for an old-fashioned Americana soda that’s somewhere in the root beer family.
Category Archives: Recipes
Apple Cider Vinegar
I go through a lot of apple cider vinegar. Like, a lot. But buying the good stuff was starting to add up, and I thought: Can’t I just make this myself? So […]
Pure Mint Extract
Extracts are one of those things where the moment you realize how simple they are to make, you kick yourself for ever thinking you needed to buy them. This example […]
Homemade Thai Chili Sauce
As easy to make as it is delicious. This raw, 3-ingredient Thai chili sauce is so good, you’ll never buy Sriracha again. Ingredients: Thai chili peppers Garlic cloves Apple Cider […]
Rhubarb Crisp
This might be like saying apple pie for millions of people, but as someone who grew up in the desert, rhubarb crisp was some seriously ethnic white-people food when I moved out east — […]
Black Currant Jam
Black currant jam is one of my favorite things, so when some friends’ currant bushes were going unpicked, I swooped in. This recipe is about as old-fashioned purist as it […]
Pumpkin Seed Horchata
Traditionally, this Central American drink is a sweetened blend of rice and almond milk with cinnamon and vanilla. (And if you’re a Salvadoran purist: morro seed.) But horchata recipes are […]
(Dairy-free) Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
I’m powerless to resist ice cream. That’s why I devised a super-simple, super-satisfying recipe for home ice cream makers that uses coconut milk and oil… instead of milk and heavy cream. […]
Winter Salad
Winter is here. And whether you garden or buy locally, cold weather means it’s harder to find quality, fresh greens. But long after the frost has wilted the basil and […]
Classic Gold Rush Recipe
Old-fashioned cocktails are making a comeback. And there’s no better cocktail for late-Summer sipping than a classic Gold Rush. Ingredients. 1 part Bourbon (roughly 4.5 ounces) 1 part fresh-squeezed lemon […]
The Crunchy Urbanite 