Name: Cheerful Face
City: Houghton
Resolution: To Cook More Whole Foods Daily For My Family!

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Name: Morgan
City: Denver
Resolution: Learn Three New Kitchen Recipes a Month

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Name: theseattlecook
City: Seattle Midtown, WA
Resolution: Use the KitchenAid Mixer

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Name: Reddy
City: Boston
Resolution: Cook Balanced Meals.

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Name: Margi H.
City: Olympia, WA
Resolution: Eat Dinner Out Only Once a Month!

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Name: mbd
City: Austin, TX
Resolution: Read the ENTIRE Recipe

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Name: Brandi
City: Washington DC
Resolution: Invite Someone New Over for Dinner At Least Once a Month

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Name: Christina @ My Homespun Home
City: Chicago
2013 Kitchen Resolution: Make More Recipes From Actual Cookbooks

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We talked earlier this week about setting our own kitchen goals for 2013. We love to think of resolutions in the new year as opportunities to look forward to, not obligations to be tackled. By the end of this year I anticipate having made a habit of eating lots more vegetables, for instance. Maybe you're looking forward to learning to bake gluten-free bread. Or you would enjoy having a clean freezer, homemade cheese, or a garden. Maybe you'd love to fix that dripping faucet this week. What's your first kitchen goal or resolution of 2013?

We are inviting you, our readers, to share one short and sweet kitchen goal with us. Send us a photo and a quick description, and we'll publish all of them that we can next week! That way we can all help one another accomplish something fresh and new — maybe even before the week is out! Read on to submit your own goal... More

When you're remodeling a kitchen, how do you pick appliances? If you're Kitchn reader Piper, you take two raw chickens to your local appliance store, cook them in two different ovens, and the oven that presents the best cooked chicken wins! (First of all, we'd like to know what appliance store agreed to that!) But this was just one of the tasks Piper tackled while updating her Napa Valley kitchen. Read more about her project and see 'After' photos below: More