The Homegrown Cigar
Let me preface this by saying I don’t smoke. (Militantly so.) But I do have to understand how everything is made. So when I learned that the flowering tobacco I had […]
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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.
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 […]
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 […]
Urban Farming: Vertical Tomatoes
Here in New York, a garden is a lot like a walk-in closet — most of us gave up praying for one ages ago. But for those of us hell-bent […]
Soap Rebatching
Soap rebatching: because sometimes s#!t happens. Why rebatch soap? Well, for any number of reasons. Maybe it cooled too quickly the first round and still needs a couple more hours. […]
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 […]
Coffee Soap
I’m constantly on the lookout for new and exciting ways to cover my body in coffee. If you’ve got a half-finished pot, some spent grounds, and a basic understanding of safe soap-making […]
(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. […]
Lemon & Vinegar Everything Cleaner
I know this recipe has been making the rounds online lately — and for good reason: it really works. This everything-cleaner uses just citrus peels and white vinegar, and you […]
The Crunchy Urbanite 