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What are you doing with your leftover turkey? Any big weekend food plans?
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Design Friday: Holiday Collection from Lorrena Barrezueta
Lorena Barrezueta makes whimsical porcelain casts of take-out dishes, lined in gold trim - a cross between Grandma's best china and the Chinese takeout food you had last week. We were excited to see...
Video: Make Your Own Cocktail Onions with Art
Kitchen reader Art won the Waring Pro Electric Martini Machine. Last night Art sent us this video showing his cocktail onion recipe and the martini machine hard at work. "Advantage: no hands shaking,"...
Thanksgiving 2007: Side Dish Leftovers
Most of the literature on dealing with post-Thanksgiving leftovers addresses the turkey: what do you do with all that meat?
But less attention is paid to the dilemma of leftover stuffing or yams. To...
Thanksgiving 2007: Breaking the Wishbone
Did you find your turkey wishbone yesterday? Who got to crack it? If you missed out on the turkey wishbone, try this longer-lasting hand-cast silver wishbone from aubergine228's Etsy shop. $60.
Mor...
Today is Black Friday ... and Buy Nothing Day
Some of us were up at 4 a.m. and saw the sun rise over Williams-Sonoma this Black Friday morning.
Others are still sleeping off the turkey to mark Buy Nothing Day.
What are you celebrating today? A...
The Case Against Thanksgiving Leftovers
Turkey dinner muffins. Turkey samosas. Strawberry-turkey spinach salad. Turkey quesadilla suiza.
Slate writer Jill Hunter Pellettieri recoils against these and other misguided attempts to use every ...
Thanksgiving 2007: So... How Did It Go?
Thanksgiving is a big holiday for cooks. We plan, shop, and gather recipes. And in the end we're left with a stuffed family and hopefully a few leftovers. How did your Thanksgiving meal go? What wer...
Special Thanksgiving Word of Mouth: Pygostyle
Photo by Flickr user Jazzmint
Pygostyle [ˈpīgəˌstīl] n. On a bird, the triangular or heart-shaped protuberance that supports the tail feathers.
Pope's nose, parson's nose, s...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at The Kitchen. We hope you have a safe, happy, and delicious Thanksgiving with friends and family. See you Friday. ...
Thanksgiving 2007: Giving Thanks
What elevates Thanksgiving from one hefty meal, sandwiched between football games, to a real holiday and celebration of all that's good in our lives? We often forget this, in the middle of our excitin...
The Last Minute Thanksgiving: Non-Traditional Menu
A last-minute Thanksgiving meal for a small group - maybe just two or three - doesn't need to strain to cover all the traditional foods. Here's a decidedly untraditional Thanksgiving menu with our f...
Serious Eats: Bacon Cheeseball and Thanksgiving Tradition
[Twice a week we're rounding up our favorite recipes and tips from our friends at Serious Eats and sharing them here. We also want to say Hi to the new readers who found us through Serious Eats and ar...
Recipe: Spice-Seared Boneless Leg of Lamb
When turkey is on everyone's minds it may seem strange to be talking about lamb. But if you're not bound to a turkey or a traditional menu, this lamb makes a fast, foolproof, and delicious holiday m...
Traditional Mason Cash Pudding Basins
Plum pudding is a hallmark of British cooking, especially at Christmas. English pottery manufacturer Mason Cash has produced a classic and widely recognizable steamed pudding basin for hundreds of y...
NY Times Dining Section Roundup: Carving the Turkey
From the New York Times' Dining Section...
Butcher's Method Takes Carving Off the Table: An efficient, step-by-step pictorial guide to dismembering your bird for maximum flavor and meat. Those int...
Bay Area Event: Alice Waters Booksigning at The Gardener
For those in the Bay Area this weekend, here's an alternative to post-holiday shopping. Alice Waters will be signing copies of her new cookbook, The Art of Simple Food on Saturday, November 24th at tw...
Bay Area Event: Alice Waters Booksigning at The Gardener
For those in the Bay Area this weekend, here's an alternative to post-holiday shopping. Alice Waters will be signing copies of her new cookbook, The Art of Simple Food on Saturday, November 24th at tw...
Recipe: Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust
What's Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie, and it seems like most of you agree. Here's our gingery, creamy take on classic pumpkin pie - with one twist: a graham cracker pie crust. We love the nutty, bu...
The Last Minute Thanksgiving: Traditional Menu
In case you are still looking for Thanksgiving inspiration, we have two last-minute Thanksgiving meal menus. Today's draws on traditional Thanksgiving flavors and dishes; tomorrow's will be less tradi...
Perforated Pie Pans
Pie crust seems so simple and yet it shrinks, burns, is heavy as lead or crumbly like a cookie. We are always looking for ways to make our pie crust more foolproof, and these perforated pie pans pr...
Thanksgiving 2007: Sweet Potato Survey
Sweet potatoes - we love them now, but for a long time we avoided them due to bad experiences with too-sweet Thanksgiving casseroles topped with marshmallows.
Well, this year we're on sweet potato d...
The Celluloid Pantry: White Russians and The Big Lebowski
A rich and satisfying after-dinner drink blended from vodka, coffee liqueur, and light cream, the White Russian could almost be said to have it all. A one-stop source of alcohol, sugar, caffeine, and...
eBay Scavenger: Pop-O-Matic Cream Whipper
Uni-tasker! But with Super Speed Planetary Action, who could resist? The Whip-O-Matic cream whipper is good for topping pumpkin pies with fresh whipped cream or shaking up a salad dressing, and it's...
Recipe: D.I.Y. Graham Cracker Crust
Graham cracker crusts are considered much more foolproof than the elusively flaky pastry crust. There is no longstanding debate over lard versus shortening versus butter, or what temperature your marb...
The British Are Here: Fresh & Easy Opens
Trader Joe's meets Ralphs is how the LA Times describes the new Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets now open in California and Nevada. They will open in Arizona on December 5.
The markets, run by Brit...
Jamie Oliver Will Return to Food Network in January
The Naked Chef will return to Food Network with a new series, Jamie At Home. The show will premiere on 1/12 at 9:30am ET/PT.
We hear the show will focus on quick, fresh recipes and Jamie Oliver's re...
Slate on Thanksgiving: Manageable Meal?
"Thanksgiving is the most manageable meal of the year" says Regina Schrambling at Slate, and she offers up a plateful of hints, tips, and suggestions for making this startling assertion a reality. (W...
Cornucopia Centerpieces Inspired by The Carlyle
If you're walking down Madison Avenue this fall, look up! The front of the Carlyle Hotel (76th Street and Madison Avenue) is lined with huge cornucopia-style arrangements sitting in brassy cones about...
WAGS: Cookware Collectors
Speaking of aebleskiver pans... They are just one of the many unique pans you will find at the Wagner & Griswold Society, an entire community of cast iron and aluminum cookware collectors. They ha...
Cinnamon Chips from Prepared Pantry
A friend gave us a loaf of the Cinnamon Chip bread from Great Harvest Bread, and is it good. We were wondering how they get those tiny, gooey bits of cinnamon inside, and we think we may have found th...
Word of Mouth: Aebleskiver
Aebleskiver n. Danish spherical pancake cooked in a special cast-iron pan, also sometimes called an aebleskiver.
Aebleskivers are little balls of golden pancake, cooked in these heavy cast-iron p...
Thanksgiving 2007: Potatoes with Roasted Garlic and Dill
Carrots in the mashed potatoes - beautiful and hearty. This recipe for Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes with Carrot Flecks and Dill from blogger Figs with Bri is one of the best mashed potato recipes ...
Cookies for Kids Cancer
Like to bake cookies? Like to eat cookies? You can help Band of Parents in their fight against childhood neuroblastoma and other cancers that affect infants and children.
This holiday season Band of...
Setting the Table
Slinks n. (slingks) Surreptitious web links to other good sites
Splendid tables - AT: San Francisco shows us a few beautiful table settings from the homes of regular people like us. We love the Martha Stewart spreads, but these feel a little more accessible. Als...
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