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• Froyo: How to Make Homemade Frozen Yogurt

  After a few trips to some yogurt shops where four servings cost around $20 -- because let's face it, the new frozen yogurt chains are more expensive than the old ones -- I decided to try making my own concoctions. I found that if you have an ice-cream Read More... Posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 1:00 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Recipes, peanut butter, bananas, yogurt, peaches, frozen treats, frozen yogurt, food and drink, kids and family, dessert and chocolate, DIY and urban homesteading, froyo

• The Trials and Tribulations of Making Raspberry Jam

  My adventure began with a bumper crop of sweet red raspberries in my backyard. The little thornless raspberry plant I purchased four years ago has turned into 15 feet of lush vines laden with berries. There were too many to just eat out of hand (although Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:00 PM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Recipes, raspberry jam, food and drink, making jam, home canning, cooking techniques and tips, DIY and urban homesteading, removing raspberry seeds from jam, pear jam

• Homemade Yogurt & Cucumber Soup

  Perfect for even the hottest East Bay day: cold cucumber soup, swigged straight out of the fridge. Make it with your own homemade plain yogurt, and you can free yourself from adding more plastic tubs to your kitchen, too. Read More... Posted Monday, June 07, 2010 4:04 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Recipes, soup, yogurt, cucumber, food and drink, cooking techniques and tips, DIY and urban homesteading

• InDIYpendent Culture Faire and Strawberry Shortcake

  Summer is on the way, time for strawberries and cream & do-it-yourself art at the Napa InDIYdependent Culture Faire. And what to do with all the leftovers? Homemade strawberry shortcake, of course! Read More... Posted Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:38 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Recipes, whipped cream, Events, art, jam, strawberries, food and drink, kids and family, strawberry shortcake, DIY and urban homesteading, napa indiypendent culture faire

• Underground Farmers' Market

  The second Underground Farmers' Market hits a nerve as capacity crowds line up on Capp Street for jam, kombucha, and other homemade treats made by their friends and neighbors. Read More... Posted Friday, January 29, 2010 10:45 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: Events, jam, farmers markets, bay area, street food, food and drink, local food businesses, DIY and urban homesteading, underground farmers market, iso rabins, foragesf

• Fat of the Land: Adventures in 21st Century Foraging

  Could Langdon Cook be a Euell Gibbons for the urban homesteading crowd? Spearfishing for lingcod within the city limits, hand-grabbing Dungeness crab out of the Sound, dodging homeless guys to harvest choice young dandelion greens near the I-5 on-ramp...if Read More... Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 12:57 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: reviews, foraging, food and drink, books and magazines, DIY and urban homesteading, urban food foraging, fat of the land, langdon cook

• Free Farm Stand

  Set up every Sunday from 1-3pm at the Parque Niños Unidos at 23rd and Treat Streets in the Mission, the Free Farm Stand is a joyful place. Anyone can come to pick up some free, locally grown organic produce, and all different people do: determined grandmothers Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:04 AM from Bay Area Bites | 0 Comments Filed under: sustainability, farmers markets, food and drink, gardening and urban farming, community garden, DIY and urban homesteading, urban gardening, food justice, Free farmstand