This is a recipe for basic, ginger-flavored ginger ale that isn’t too sweet and has plenty of ginger. Made with a full-volume boil and force-carbonated.
Published 2024-11-19
Eric Makes Everything Posts
Published 2024-11-13
D to AA battery adapter
We have a train-station-style Ikea wall clock that I really like, but it chews through batteries pretty fast, at least on one side. There are actually 2 clock mechanisms back-to-back, so they were mercifully designed to be smooth and not clicky. On the other hand, that means it doesn’t fail…
Published 2024-11-02
Kitchen nook wallpaper
We’re currently remodeling the bathroom on the first floor of our house. Part of that remodel will include putting wallpaper on the upper half of the wall, which is something I had never done before. To make sure I am comfortable doing it, we decided to apply wallpaper to the…
Published 2024-07-22
Door hinge stop moulding spacer
This is a simple little shim to help mount a door hinge slightly further away from the door frame stop moulding.
Published 2024-06-04
House project blog: Kitchen floor molding
Since we have moved in to our new house, I have been putting off finishing the kitchen cabinets with trim. I finally got around to working on it and finished the floor molding. First, there is a gap between the pantry and the wall. The wall wasn’t plumb, so we…
Published 2024-03-27
King of Flavor MSG Shaker V2
Now with additional food safety! Fuiyoh!
Published 2024-03-04
House project blog: closets
When we moved into our new house, we were downsizing a bit. Until we get around to finishing the basement, the finished space will be about 60% of our old house. It is nice to have less house to work on and clean, but we were anxious about storage space…
Published 2024-02-02
House project blog: kitchen cabinets
This was a long time ago now, but we have been too busy on uninteresting repair projects for me to be able to keep up with blogging. I started writing this near the end of last year, when our kitchen was nearly done. We have been living with it at…
Published 2023-10-25
House project blog: really good contractors
This project was huge, and it required so much work that there was no way I could have gotten it done myself. We hired a general contractor to demolish the ceiling, build the new wall, and redo the electrical wiring in the kitchen, while I focused on removing the existing…
Published 2023-09-17
Door handle wall bumper
I was looking around our house for things to fix, and I saw a lot of places where there was a small hole in the drywall caused by a door handle. I was going to patch all of these with drywall, but I knew it would eventually happen again, even…