Tag: Projects | Apartment Therapy

Weekend Project: Make Lollipops!

Looking for a slightly unusual addition to your array of holiday treats this year? Try making lollipops! Apparently, they're not as hard as they sound (no pun intended)......

Weekend Cooking: Bake Bread!

When it's dreary and cold outside, we can't think of anything better than filling the house inside with the smells of baking bread. If you've been dreaming of baking your own bread but have been nervo...

Weekend Project: Stocking the Spice Cupboard

This is a good time of year to go through your spice cupboard, replace ones that might be getting dusty, or replenish those that are running low. There's nothing worse than finding yourself out of an ...

Weekend Project: Make Macarons!

We've been dying to try our hand at homemade macarons every since we started talking about macarons being the next cupcake. We're thinking of attempting a holiday version to give as gifts this year! H...

Candy-Making Basics: How to Work with Sugar

As we mentioned in our post on crystallized sugar syrup, candy-making is a brand new culinary adventure for us. We're teaching ourselves the basics and look forward to sharing our triumphs and pitfall...

Weekend Project: Freezing Fresh Produce

If you don't have the time or energy for canning, freezing fresh produce is one of the quickest and easiest ways to stretch summer's bounty into the cold season. Here's a round-up of our tips, techniq...

Weekend Cooking: How to Make a Good Risotto

Risotto is a dish that's become associated with fancy high end restaurants, but really, it's the epitome of Italian home cooking and comfort food. Knowing how to make a good risotto is something we th...

Weekend Project: Make Your Own Mozzarella!

As I write this post, I'm having a hard time resisting the ball of mozzarella sitting next to me in a bowl of ice water. My fingers keep pinching off little pieces and popping them in my mouth while I...

Weekend Project: Roasting and Storing Peppers

Between a bumper crop of hot peppers from our garden and the hoards of sweet peppers in our CSA, we've got peppers coming out our ears! This weekend, we have plans to roast the whole lot and store som...

Weekend Project: Sharpen Your Knives!

Trust us, knife sharpening is not a mystic art and it doesn't have to be a safety hazard to your finger tips! With a little practice, it's easy to do at home, and all you need is a sharpening stone an...

Weekend Cooking: What Are You Up To This Weekend?

We opened our calendar this morning and realized something incredible: we have no plans this weekend. No weddings. No barbecues. No road trips. Just one entire free summer weekend! We plan to take fu...

Mission Accomplished! The Cindy McCain (Or Is That The Food Network) Recipe Challenge

Remember when we posted the Cindy McCain recipe challenge? We said that any patriotic reader who made all seven of the recipes listed on McCain's website as "McCain Family Recipes" would receive a Dem...

Cindy McCain's Recipe Challenge

Browsing through the presidential candidates' websites last night, we came across only one website giving any time to food issues. Not exactly the Farm Bill level stuff we were after, but we have to ...

Look! Loren's Kitchen Still Life

Loren in Brooklyn sent us this lovely kitchen still life. She says: I like to try and create a still life in my little space above the sink....this month's is a cornucopia of winter; even the ched...

Birthday Baking: Chessboard Cake with Chocolate Chess Pieces

It was that time of year again. We have a small friend whose birthday comes around right before New Year's, and we have a standing commitment to create his birthday cake. This occasion is always an ...

Welcome, Cure-takers!

Many of you are here for medicine; you are partaking in The Cure on one (or more!) of our sister sites. And for those of you in Deep Treatment, part of your assignment this week is to cook at home thr...

Good Question: Help My Awkward Studio Kitchen!

Here's a question for all of you, especially those of you who are avidly following the Smallest Coolest Kitchen contest. Reader Tanya needs some help with her tiny studio kitchen: Hi! I'm hoping ...

Make a Simple Kitchen Fix This Weekend

Spring cleaning season is here and AT:Chicago shared a new way way to get going: we're casing our apartments for the Simple-but-Never-Gets-Done Fix. Of course, we're starting in the kitchen. We lived...

Introducing... The Pickle Project

What if you just erased Fruit Cake from your collective memory of Christmases past? Enter: pickling. With several well-known pickle outlets around the city, and hipsters at Murray's Cheese and t...

apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Posts tagged “Projects”