#homemade soda

[sohannabarberaesque]

So picture your favourite Hanna-Barbera Funtastics with one of those SodaStream machines for making homemade seltzer and soda, for starters.

And further imagine one or two such making home soda making even more interesting by taking stock of such exotic flavours as rose, lavender, grenadine, violet, blue curacao and ginger.

[extrahotespresso]

[possumandpine]

Let's Make Water Kefir!

Making water kefir is simple and easy. As long as you can mix sugar and water, you can make this probiotic drink. Ingredients: grainssugar (white or brown will work)molasses (omit if using brown sugar)baking soda (optional)waterEquipment: spoonfermenterpitcherstrainerFirst, you will need to obtain water kefir grains. Yes, you can convert milk kefir grains into water kefir grains. However, this…

[twiceastasty]

Strawberry-Rhubarb Shrub

I usually find strawberries too sweet to pair with rhubarb, but the vinegar in a drinking shrub balances the combination for my taste buds. Learn to make Strawberry-Rhubarb Shrub.

If you’d walked into my kitchen late last night, you would have found me turning some of summer’s first fruit into a batch of shrub. A drinking shrub, as I share this week in my Twice as Tasty column for the Flathead Beacon, is an old DIY beverage that fans of today’s sparking water and hard seltzers should have on their radar. The combination of fruit, vinegar, and sugar into a concentrate that…

[littleapocalypsekitten]

What would you do if you opened up the refrigerator in your home and on the inside door were two strangely-colored two-liter bottles of soda with tape on them labeled “Funeral Soda, Don’t Touch!!!”  

[miracle-crown]

An experiment I didn't even realize we had going on.... was a fantastic success!!

There is a scoby in there!!!!

[strawberry-smog]

it could be literally coffee if mcgucket was from a mormon family .😭😭 possible?

I mean honestly yeah it’s possible, absolutely, although him being Mormon wouldn’t be the statistically most likely option for his background. Could be just his family being insanely strict too.

HOWever, they definitely had more than a single cup of coffee: the photo’s got an empty soda can in it (gasp!) plus a rather suggestive tower of red solo cups

[wizardnuke]

homemade bread i burnt a lil. spinch is there cause human body requires green. disaster egg that was supposed to be fried but i really fucked up when i flipped it and elected to just cover the pan and sunny side up it. not pictured: keifer

[punkbakerchristine]

wouldn’t be st. paddy’s day without a little loaf of soda bread (with some raisins, too!) ☘️🍞

[skylar56raven]

I'm making honeysuckle cordial/soda.

I've been wanting to try to make something like this for a while but I saw a post of a recipe here and decided to try it.

The measurements I did are a little off but it smells and tastes good already

The flowers are honeysuckle, a few violets, some ground ivy flowers, and I also put some lemon balm leaves in it. And a little bit of honey.

Here's the post I got it from:

[askwhatsforlunch]

Maple Rye Banana Bread

Soft, moist and delicately nutty, this delicious Maple Rye Banana Bread makes a delicious use of over-ripe bananas, and a scrumptious afternoon treat! Happy Sunday!

Ingredients (makes a loaf):

1 ½ cup plain flour

½ cup rye flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

½ teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons butter

3 over-ripe bananas

2 tablespoons demerara sugar

1/3 cup pure Canadian Maple Syrup

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon Homemade Vanilla Extract

2 tablespoons milk

1 1/2 tablespoon pure Canadian Maple Syrup

Butter a large loaf tin, and line with baking paper. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine plain flour, rye flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt. Give a good stir and set aside.

Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat once butter is melted; set aside.

Preheat oven to 175°C/345°F.

In a large bowl, mash bananas thoroughly with a fork. Stir in demerara sugar and half of the Maple Syrup, then add the eggs, one at a time, whisking well after each addition. Finally, gradually whisk in Vanilla Extract and milk.

Gently stir rye flour mixture into banana mixture with a rubber spatula until just blended. Then, stir in remaining Maple Syrup and melted butter until well-blended. Pour batter into prepared loaf tin, and drizzle with Maple Syrup, swirling it into the batter with the blade of a knife.

Place in the middle of the warm oven. Bake at 160°C/320°F, for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean. 

Let Maple Rye Banana Bread cool slightly before removing from the pan, and placing onto serving tray.

Serve Maple Rye Banana Bread with a nice cuppa.

[sohannabarberaesque]

So refreshing indeed, this Cattanooga Cheese Explosion of Pedigreed Bull (Appy Polly Loggies per usual)

[Mise en scene: At the modest apartment in Gatlinburg above Cattanooga Klatsche, the off-Parkway coffee shop of the Cattanooga Cats, whence we find the crew getting a SodaStream machine through its paces more or less.] KITTY JO, somewhat enthused at the prospect: Have you ever imagined the notion of sparkling sweet tea thanks to this little ol' carbonation machine? SCOOTS: I can hardly wait for the result--and let's just hope I don't turn into a balloon overzealously in the process! [Laughter throughout] GROOVE: Let alone the seltzer as could be produced out of this ... COUNTRY, observing things: Groove, the way you keep running all the time along the Parkway and the back streets of Gatlinburg, I can hardly wait to see you going through the seltzer we turn out from this when all is said and done....

[doulayogimama]

I remember when she was just shy of 2. I could see the “toddler twos” behavior starting (I don’t care for labeling children as terrible). Now that she’s just a couple months shy of 3, I can see the “threenager” behavior starting and holy hell. 😅

It’s funny though, because at the same time, she’s eating more like a 3yo and less like a 2yo (I’ve cared for enough kids to know the difference).

She ate truffle mushroom tagliatelle with us last night - like a real toddler serving. She eats bananas now (refused to eat them literally until a couple weeks ago). She’s willing to try whatever we eat 90% of the time and it’s like it was ~1 year ago.

So behaviorally, I may need to read a book for once lol but hooray my kid is branching out with food 🙏🏽

[timmurleyart]

I could use an old fashioned root beer today. 😋🍺🟫👏🏻🍦

[mariekavanagh]

Really really want to learn to make my own bread, especially after inheriting my grandma's bread-maker, but every recipe I come across online either has very niche ingredients that I can't seem to source or instructions that leave me baffled.

Does anyone have any easy first-timer bread recipes they'd be happy to share?

[freyaswolf]

Please stop using the word "saccharine" in your writing when you want to convey genuine sweetness. It's supposed to mean overly sweet, falsely sweet, it's chemical and phony sweet that leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Not the natural effortless sweetness of honey, but the phony performative sweetness of low calorie gum. It's someone who's only being sweet to manipulate you into thinking they're something they're not.