The Winter Olympics begin this Friday in one of our favorite cities: Vancouver, B.C. (See our food-lover's guide to Vancouver here!) In honor of the Olympics, we're bringing you a famous regional recipe: Nanaimo Bars. We've given you a recipe for this treat before, but this one has some significant differences that makes it a little easier to replicate in your own kitchen.
Winter Olympics Recipe: Nanaimo Bars
How To Select the Best Produce: Vegetables
Home Hacks
Like selecting the best fruit, being able to choose the freshest and tastiest vegetables is a combination of seasonal knowledge, asking farmers and shop owners for advice, and using your senses. This guide has the last part covered. Get ready to use your eyes, noses, and hands!
How To Carve a Roast Chicken: The Video
Home Hacks
This was one of the most requested how tos this month: How to carve a roast chicken! This is also our first attempt at a slightly longer video; it goes quite in-depth on how to cut up a chicken.
What Would Be a Good Lunch for a Valentine's Ski Trip?
Good Questions
Q: What is a good lunch to pack for a Valentine's ski trip that requires an overnight stay in a hotel beforehand? We will have a camping cooler. I want it to be tasty since its our first trip to Tahoe together and for Valentine's.
I figure I can bring cookies, non-perishables, and make a thermos of coffee or cocoa in the hotel. I want to make sandwiches but unsure about this, in case there is no mini-fridge.
Sent by Karolyn
Freddie's Before and After Transformation
Kitchen Spotlight
We've all been in the position (some still are) where we have the opportunity or desire to renovate our kitchen. A big deterrent is budget, but it doesn't always have to be. You can still get that kitchen you want, without having to spend all of your savings. It's nice to see proof that it really can be done and Freddy did a great job proving that!
6 Things You Can Do Now to Eat Locally This Summer
In many parts of the continents, we're still in the throes of winter, so planning now for summer fare may seem far-fetched. But if you want to enjoy the full bounty of summertime, this is the time to start thinking about where your food will be coming from.
Twitter Tuesday: 12 Clever Kitchen Tips & Tutorials
In honor of Home Hacks Month today's Twitter Tuesday theme is all about clever kitchen tips and tutorials. We're taking a trip through a few recent favorite tips, like how to roll out dough without a rolling pin (or wine bottle!) and a really great tutorial for poaching an egg.
Every hour, for 12 hours, from 9am to 8pm, we're broadcasting 12 clever kitchen tips and tutorials. Follow us and tweet your own favorite kitchen tips!
How To De-Pith Citrus
Home Hacks
If you're planning to use any citrus fruit for marmalades, salads, or just plain eating, you're going to want to remove the white pith. Pith is the white spongy later between the fruit and the peel, and it has a very bitter taste. It's quite easy to remove!
Kitchen Tour: Stephen's Kitchen Improv
Stephen runs a company he founded call Protein Bakery and teaches a lot of fitness classes so it should come as no surprise that health is a top priority in his kitchen as well.
Beer Review: Leinenkugel 1888 Bock Seasonal
Beer Sessions
We're pretty sure these dark bock beers are specifically designed to get us over this last frigid hump of winter. The style tends to be heavy on the malts, robust in flavor, and have just enough alcohol to warm us up. With the stormy weather keeping us inside this past weekend, we decided to give Leinenkugel's seasonal bock a try!
Look! Disco Ball in the Kitchen
This rather muted, traditional kitchen has one really offbeat accessory. Can you see it? It's a disco ball!
Cozy Indoors: 5 Cooking Projects for Snow Days
Along with many of you, we stayed inside most of this past weekend watching the snow fall past our windows. As usually happens on such occasions, we eventually found ourselves in the kitchen flipping through cookbooks. Snow days are perfect for attempting a new recipe!
Caffeinated Bacon Lollipops and Homemade Thin Mints
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Yep, caffeinated lollipops.
Try This: Salt-Roasted Potatoes
We've come across two recipes for salt-roasted potatoes in the past few days – is that enough to call it a trend? Maybe not, but it was enough to pique our interest and give it a try. Get our verdict, and a few tips, below.
What Is the Best Way To: Wash Dishes?
Washing dishes seems like a self-evident task: Suds-up, scrub, and rinse. But there are myriads of variations in people's dishwashing habits and technique! What do you think is the very best way to wash dishes? Do you soak silverware ahead of time? Do you use a loofah, or a sponge, or a dishcloth? Do you use a plastic scrubbie, or steel wool? Extra-hot water, or lukewarm? Tell us your tricks, tips, and best ways to wash up.
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