Drinks

 I have been wanting to learn how to make cider for a long time. I still have fond memories of making apple cider with my grandparents on their farm when I was a kid. Every year they would pick up all the apples that had fallen on the ground at their small apple orchard and…

I first tasted kombucha a couple of years ago. I was skeptical about it at first, but wanted to see what all the hype was about. I was surprised how sour it was, almost like drinking vinegar! But after I gave it a couple of tries, it started to grow on me. I decided to…

The past couple of years I have had a lot of fun foraging for wild fruits and different kinds of wild herbs and flowers. This year there was an abundance of wild roses growing near where we live, so I decided to try to find some different recipes using rose petals. I came up with…

Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup   There are several recipes for homemade Hershey’s chocolate syrup floating around on the Internet. Some of them said that they turned out runnier then the store-bought version, so I kept looking for a recipe that would result in a comparable if not better version of the store bought favorite.   Have…