Dear Queer Diary: The Place Where You Journal
This may or may not be located on the street where you live, one of my all-time favorite songs in the grand tradition of musical theater.
Top Ten Ways to Survive the Summer Without Air Conditioning
How to stay chill when it’s hot hot hot.
Never Shop At Hobby Lobby Again: A List Of Alternative Craft Stores Both Chain and Indie
There are currently 628 Hobby Lobby stores in 47 states and we never, ever, ever have to shop there again. With this list, you won’t even miss it, I promise.
45 Recipes Good Enough To Grill For
From appetizers to kebabs to fish to steak to chicken to tofu to veggies to dessert, we’ve got you covered.
Wilder Hungers: Balsamic Strawberry, Rhubarb, and Chia Pudding
My recipe today is for a balsamic strawberry, rhubarb, and chia pudding! It’s adapted from this recipe from The Year in Food and it literally tastes like summer. It also tastes like you are eating big spoonfuls of jam, so how can that be bad?
Liquor In The Barrel: A Barrel-Aged Manhattan
Myself, I’ve had barrel-aged Negronis, Manhattans and Boulevardiers, but I’ve never made one until right now. My favorite of those I tasted is a Manhattan, so for my first foray into barrel-aging, that’s what we’re going to go with.
Make a Thing: Freezer Paper T-Shirt Stencils
You, too, can work at the bar from “Flashdance.” Or at least you can look like you do.
25 Berry Delicious Ways To Eat Berries
So berry excited for berry picking season!
The Autostraddle Guide to Adopting Your Furry Best Friend: Cat and Kitten Edition
We’ve covered adopting dogs. Now let’s talk about adopting kittens. Here are a few things you need to know and have when you’re taking home your very first feline fur-baby.
10 Things You Can Do to Cook Like a Champ: Not-So-Secret Secrets From America’s Best Cook
Cooking food that is delicious and beautiful isn’t really that hard. Here’s ten tips to help you out!
Fixing Your Summer Caffeination Situation With Iced Tea, Simple Syrups and Drink Recipes
No one wants to actually wake up or be productive in the summertime. But with some great DIY iced lattes and teas, soon you’ll be approaching your summer morning routine with, if not excitement, at least not abject horror.
25 Ways to Make Your Kitchen Bloom: All the Edible Flower Recipes
All floral everything.
Sober in the City: 20 Summer Mocktail Recipes to Try Now
“With summer here, I do not have to forgo the act of social drinking. But, I can forgo the hangover, the shame, the guilt, and the regret. Here are 20 summer mocktail recipes to try now, sober or not.”
32 Zucchini Recipes That Are More Exciting Than Zucchini Bread
Zucchini is delicious. It deserves a better home than in that boring zucchini bread.
An Orange is the New Black Dinner Party to Make Red Proud
The perfect meal to pair with a 13 episode marathon.
Liquor In The Netflix: Drinks for Orange Is The New Black
I tried to keep this pretty exclusively gay (though I did think about doing a “Larry,” which was just to get the saddest, plainest beer and drink it straight from the can while frowning).
Teaching an Old Appliance New Tricks: Nifty Things to do with a Slow Cooker
With the input of a meager amount of electricity and some time, a slow cooker can coax the richest and most complex flavors from the humblest of ingredients.
Stephanie Goldfarb of “America’s Best Cook” Will Make You A Steak: The Autostraddle Interview
“So what would you make me for breakfast if we had just slept together for the first time, but you already knew you loved me and wanted to impress me and feed me into becoming your wife? Hypothetically.”
Make a Thing: DIY Sparkly Flower Sunglasses Because You’re Fancy
Protect your eyes, jazz up an old pair of glasses AND gain some adorable street cred with this fun and easy project!
26 Things to Dip Your Chips In, You Wild Animal You
What even is cooking? How does it work? You heat something, and then what? Nope, too hard. Really the only food I feel confident about being able to pull together and consume is some sort of thing I can put into a bowl and mindlessly dip chips into.