Freshly made cream cheese is ridiculously easy to pull off and requires no fancy equipment or ingredients. This photo tutorial can help you solve the age old dilemma of lonely fresh bagels.

Warning! Rendering your own lard leads to making ultra flaky pie crust. Use this picture tutorial to help pull this project off without a hitch.

Assuming you live close to a non-polluted source of salt water, making your own sea salt is a surprisingly easy project which will impress even the snootiest of your foodie friends.