#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!!!”  

[homemakinghippie]

Baking Substitutions

Baking Powder: You can replace one teaspoon of baking powder with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar. This is essentially what baking powder is made of. You can bulk prepare it and add a bit of cornstarch to keep it from clumping. Alternatively, if you don't have cream of tartar, you could also use one teaspoon of baking soda and two teaspoons of either vinegar or lemon juice.

Baking Soda: This one isn't as easy to substitute in my opinion. You can use things like baker's ammonia or potassium bicarbonate, but here in the US at least, I don't think your typical grocery store carries those. Depending on what you're making you can use self rising flour (this already has baking soda in it), egg whites, or club soda. I suggest checking for replacements that work specifically for what you're making.

Buttermilk: There are lots of things you can use to replace buttermilk. Kefir is the closest option to buttermilk you have. You can use it cup for cup. You can also use yogurt or sour cream and milk at about a 1:3 ratio cup for cup to replace buttermilk. The most popular suggestion I see (and what I use personally) is vinegar or lemon juice and milk. Just add one tablespoon of your choice of lemon juice or vinegar to one cup of milk and let it sit for a few minutes to sour. You may see small clumps with this method and that's okay.

Sugar: If you happen to be out of granulated sugar, but still have powdered sugar, you can just use powdered sugar instead. If you need powdered sugar, but only have granulated sugar, put your granulated sugar through a blender! In my experience it doesn't get quite as fine as powdered sugar, so if you're trying to make something like macarons it may not work.

Brown sugar: Just like powdered sugar, brown sugar starts as plain granulated sugar. All you have to do is add molasses! Start with one cup of granulated sugar and add one tablespoon until you get the the darkness you desire.

[disappearinginq]

7 + SG-1?

Ah, the many deaths of Daniel Jackson...and now I get to add to it :-D

"Come on, breathe, breathe, don't you dare-"

Jack didn’t want to consider how many times they’d been through this. He knew it was a lot. He knew they joked about it, after the danger had passed, and Daniel was once again fine, sitting in the mission debrief room or the infirmary complaining about getting back to work.

But it wasn’t a joke when it was happening. And every time, Jack wondered if this was the last time. If he’d run out of miracles, and Daniel ran out of luck.

Daniel jackknifed upwards, hacking up water, and Jack could breathe again.

[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!) ☘️🍞

[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.