Soapy Hollow

The store had bing cherries on sale, and we brought a couple pounds home, only to find that they needed to be used asap. So…what better use for cherries than cheesecake! Everyone loves a good cheesecake. Heck, folks love a bad cheesecake, but a good one is even better. When making cheesecake, I use a […]

Igor and I just finished making soft pretzels from a recipe that we adapted from Alton Brown. I only wish I could figure out how to make Vista work with my real camera, as this pocket camera doesn’t take great shots. But, the pretzels were fantastic, and the recipe was easy enough that Igor (who […]

I’ve put a permanent page, available at the top of the left navigation and the top of the page, that will list all the “How To” projects that I’m moving from instructables back to here. So far, the following How To projects are available: Bath and body projects: How to make bath bombs How to […]

intro – Quick Banana Bread from scratch Everyone has faced the problem of bringing home a bunch of green bananas and having them become over-ripe in what seems like minutes. While over ripe bananas are too mushy to carry around like a portable snack, there’s no reason to waste them when with just a little […]

It looks like Craftzine has picked up the bath bombs meme.  Bath bombs for everyone!

Working with small batches is often trickier than doing the huge batches I often do. But doing small batches lets you get all kinds of creative. Best of all, if you make a mistake, you’re not tossing out hundreds of dollars in materials. It’s fairly easy to “rebatch” a mistake batch when it’s a small […]

Don’t you hate those mornings when none of your clothes fit, everyone is driving you up a wall and you could crochet chain mail from the Dove wrappers scattered around your comfy chair? Yeah….PMS sucks. This morning, after threatening to sell my small child to the gypsies…and his little dog too…I realized that perhaps I […]