Chard with Double Garlic

post from Make It on 28 November 2009 01:18:00 PM. © Make It

Matt and I hosted Thanksgiving this year for my mom, dad, brother and our friend, Olivia. It was a collaborative effort with all of us contributing in some way to the meal. My contribution was a triple batch of garlicky chard, which I'd purchased the day before, at the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market. This is the best time of year to get local greens because the cool temperatures bring out the sugars in the veggies, making the very flavorful. This recipe (modified from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, a great all-around cookbook) is dead easy, fast, and I got lots of raves, even from some eaters who usually don't care for chard.

3 bunches of chard (stems removed and chopped into 1" pieces, leaves chopped coarsely)
1/4 cup olive oil
5 cloves of thinly sliced garlic
1 clove of minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
salt and pepper
1/2 cup of chicken or veggie stock
lemon wedges (optional)

Place oil in deep saucepan, add sliced garlic, pepper flakes, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute over medium-high heat. Add stems, cook for five minutes. Add leaves and stock, stir, cover, and cook for an additional 5 mins or until wilted, remove cover and cook until liquid has mostly evaporated and greens are tender. Sprinkle with minced garlic and additional salt/pepper/hot pepper flakes to taste. Cook for an additional minute. Serve with lemon wedges. (If you have leftovers, throw them in a breakfast burrito with black beans, scrambled eggs, some sausage or bacon and a squirt of hot sauce.) Photo credit.

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Easy Hot Chocolate

post from Daily DIY on 28 November 2009 01:12:19 PM. © Daily DIY

In this instructable I will show you how to make delicious hot chocolate. Ingredients These are the things you will need:- 2 teaspoons unsweeted cocoa- 2-3 teaspoons suggar- boiling water- cupoptionally:- milk- irish cream liqueur or similar[...]

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The Magic Clock: an awesome Whereabout Clock

post from Daily DIY on 28 November 2009 01:00:00 PM. © Daily DIY

MAKE subscriber bumpercrop writes in to share this excellent Harry Potter-inspired whereabout clock, The Magic Clock. In the story, the clock is a magical item with hands that show the location of each family member. This beautifully constructed remake[...]

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5 Years of CDM NYC Party: Beats + Baile + Open
Bar + Laptops + Twitter Twister

post from Create Digital Music on 28 November 2009 12:58:33 PM. © Create Digital Music

Design: onetonnemusic. Link love, chip love, software love, music love ? Create Digital Music is celebrating five years, and it?s time to spread some of the love back to you here in New York City. Wednesday night, we?ll be celebrating five years made possible by our incredible readers with a big party at Love Nightclub [...]

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Christmas Tree Stand Cover

post from The DIY Show Off on 28 November 2009 12:46:00 PM. © The DIY Show Off

The DIY Holiday Highlights party starts Monday but I managed to put up the tree today. It's not decorated yet. I do prefer a real tree (love the smell) but with the hardwood floors and potential water damage and the fact that Mr. DIY prefers not to search for and transport a real one, we have a really nice artificial tree. It's older, before the time of pre-lit but we do have another pre-lit one for the family room. Anyway...back to why I'm writing. I wanted to share this incase you're putting your artificial tree up this weekend and like this look. Oh - and if you ever need to know where your artificial tree needs 'fluffed'...take some pictures. All of the "holes" between branches really shows up!

This may not work for everyone's taste and style, but I don't like the look of the artificial tree stand and don't want to argue with the dog over the tree skirt. So this year, I decided to attempt something different. A 'faux root-ball look'. Mr. DIY thinks I've created more of a 'cupcake look' but I really love how it turned out. It also gives the tree more height. Luckily we have 9' ceilings.

This is all from things I had around the house. I love when a new look is free!

Edit: I swapped out the table cloth for a burlap cover by using sewing 2 half circles together (using the table cloth as a pattern). Now it looks less like a cupcake.

Materials: Round table cloth, 2 pieces of twine, beverage tub and a few twist ties.

First I laid out the table cloth. I may pick up some burlap this week and sew a big enough circle to swap out for the table cloth.
Then I set the beverage tub in the middle and put the tree stand on top.
I secured two of the tree stand "legs" to the beverage tub handles with twist ties (I twisted around the handle first, then up through the hole on the "leg").
Next, I gathered the table cloth up and Mr. DIY held it while I tied a piece of twine around it, just below the "eye screws" for tightening/straightening the tree 'trunk'.

Then I put in the bottom of the tree and the other pieces and straightened out the branches. Once I could tell that the tree was straight (after some adjusting of the 'eye screws' in the bottom), I used another piece of string to tie above the 'eye screws'. Fluff the excess table cloth around.I added some burlap ribbon to finish it off.

You could also use any fabric or decorative round table cloth. I really love the burlap:

What do you think? Here is my tree decorated:

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Artificial Christmas Tree (Cupcake) Stand

post from The DIY Show Off on 28 November 2009 12:46:00 PM. © The DIY Show Off

The DIY Holiday Highlights party starts Monday but I managed to put up the tree today. It's not decorated yet. I do prefer a real tree (love the smell) but with the hardwood floors and potential water damage and the fact that Mr. DIY prefers not to search for and transport a real one, we have a really nice artificial tree. It's older, before the time of pre-lit but we do have another pre-lit one for the family room. Anyway...back to why I'm writing. I wanted to share this incase you're putting your artificial tree up this weekend and like this look. Oh - and if you ever need to know where your artificial tree needs 'fluffed'...take some pictures. All of the "holes" between branches really shows up!

This may not work for everyone's taste and style, but I don't like the look of the artificial tree stand and feel like arguing with the dog over the tree skirt. So this year, I decided to attempt something different. A 'faux root-ball look'. Mr. DIY thinks I've created more of a 'cupcake look' but I really love how it turned out. It also gives the tree more height. Luckily we have 9' ceilings.

This is all from things I had around the house. I love when a new look is free!

Materials: Round table cloth, 2 pieces of twine, beverage tub and a few twist ties.

First I laid out the table cloth. I may pick up some burlap this week and sew a big enough circle to swap out for the table cloth.
Then I set the beverage tub in the middle and put the tree stand on top.
I secured two of the tree stand "legs" to the beverage tub handles with twist ties (I twisted around the handle first, then up through the hole on the "leg").
Next, I gathered the table cloth up and Mr. DIY held it while I tied a piece of twine around it, just below the "eye screws" for tightening/straightening the tree 'trunk'.

Then I put in the bottom of the tree and the other pieces and straightened out the branches. Once I could tell that the tree was straight (after some adjusting of the 'eye screws' in the bottom), I used another piece of string to tie above the 'eye screws'. Fluff the excess table cloth around.I added some burlap ribbon to finish it off.

What do you think? I'll get it decorated and share on Monday! :)

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Flashing RGB LED Project

post from Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog on 28 November 2009 12:44:44 PM. © Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog

This is a simple LED project, do you know someone who wants to learn a bit about electronic? Maybe you just want to try out some of these cool Flashing RGB LEDs! With a total project cost of between $2.00 and $3.00 the time is right to try some of these things out. They can [...]

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Projects How-To's Dry Up That Horrible Spot

Have a spot you want to get rid of? Use perfume :)

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Projects Creations Matchbook Notepad

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[video] Micro wind turbine in action

Check out? gigatrike.com? for more info on small scale wind power using ametek tape motors By: doctorgig[...]

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