Things no one thinks of making at home:

I'm beans about vanilla beans - known as vanilla sticks in Hebrew.Here is an amazing video about where they come from and what it takes to get a vanilla bean ready for market. Do not be put off by the flaky beginning you can a fast forward to the part were you see a lady in the jungle growing vanilla orchards.

 

 How to make your own
Vanilla extract:

30 ml of drinking alcohol

30 ml of pure water - boiled or mineral water

(or 60 ml of vodka)

2 cm vanilla bean chopped up into small pieces. 

one small opaque glass bottle

mix water and alcohol in the bottle (or just add the vodka to the bottle). 

Add the vanilla been.

let sit in a cool place for about two months.