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Weekend Cooking: Soup and Bread
Weekend cooking - any plans? A suggestion: take the opportunity to make some extra-nourishing food before the busyness of holidays. Hot soups, warm breads, and winter vegetables keep us going this t...
Good Eats: Grandmother's Recipe Box
Clams, cookies, and casseroles.
Family recipe boxes are a big inspiration for us, especially in the holiday season. Check out Serious Eat's photo of the day.
Pictures like this are an intersection ...
Well-Wrapped Toffee
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Give the gift of homemade candy this holiday season - it's better than, oh, lots of stuff. This photo of Aapplemint's Chocolate Almond 'N Toffee Squares kickstarted our inspiration. There are so man...
Nationwide Food Section Roundup: Holiday Cookies and More No-Knead Bread
Cookie contests, quick meals and yes, more no-knead bread rule the nationwide food sections this week.
No-knead bread! It has a life of its own, and in Washington D.C. Nancy Baggett is simplifying L...
Curious: The Aeropress
A good cup of coffee is a morning essential, and in the quest for an even better cup, we've been checking out this brew method: the Aeropress ($29.95 at Lehmans). We have never tried coffee from an Ae...
Regional Farmers Market Report: Ohio Indoor Farmers Market
Farmers, indoors. A suburb of Columbus, Ohio, decided that summer and fall farmers' markets weren't enough. Worthington, Ohio, is putting on a weekly farmers' market throughout the winter - indoors....
Design Friday: Skase Teacup
Nestle this cup in your hand because it can't stand on its own. From designer Steve Watson, the Skase Teacup. He says: Symbiosis - A close, prolonged association between two or more different organi...
Win a $500 Geneva Sound System for Your Kitchen
Big Thursday Giveaway! We're kicking off our annual Holiday Gift Bag giveaway with one heck of a prize: the Geneva Sound System.
-- Enter the Giveaway --
These speakers retail for $500, but we're...
Good Question: Cute Recipe Boxes?
Do you know of any sources for good looking recipe boxes that aren't stodgy? Something more modern...perhaps Marimekko-esque?
- Donna...
Recipe: Confetti Potatoes and Pearl Onions
Rubies and pearls - these potatoes and onions looked like jewels when we put them in the oven. The potatoes were Trader Joe's mixed confetti baby potatoes, a mix of white, yellow, and purple. The gumb...
Vino: Mulled Wine
Mulled Wine simply means heated and spiced wine. A mulled drink (Glogg in Scandinavia) can be made from nearly anything, though traditional Christmas mulled wines tend to be red wines heated with clov...
What Are You Hungry For?
It's crisp, cold, and sunny where we are, and Thanksgiving is a fading memory already. Last night we cooked a big dinner, with boneless leg of lamb rubbed with spices, herbed sweet potatoes, an apple ...
Burned! Honey-Roasted Peanuts, Take 1
Peanuts 1, Kitchen 0. We are working on a recipe for honey-roasted peanuts for you, dear readers (holiday gift, yes?). Alas, our first attempt ended in unfortunate and less than wrappable results. ...
Zimtsterne (Cinnamon Star Cookies)
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Star-shaped cookie cutters - we have a ton of them, for some reason. Maybe it's because the pointy edges are so fun to bite off one by one.
Maybe that's also why we keep coming back to this recipe f...
Recipe: Roasted Figs with Honey and Rosemary
Hardy varieties of figs are still available this time of year, but they may not be as sweet or full-bodied as the ones available in early autumn. We found a basket of organic figs from California la...
Trivets, Beads, and the Kitchen Sink
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Working to keep your house cleaner? Start With the Kitchen Sink, says AT:Los Angeles. They say that washing the dishes every day makes a real difference in cooking, cleaning, and generally feeling goo...
The Cheesemonger: Lake Erie Creamery Chèvre
Name: Lake Erie Creamery Chèvre
Producer: Lake Erie Creamery
Milk: Pasteurized Goat's Milk
Price: $28 per pound
Husband and wife Gerald Onken and Mariann Janosko worked and saved for five year...
Rolo Pretzel Turtles
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Thinking about food gifts? Jaden's Rolo Pretzel Turtles are a good place to start. All you need are Rolo candies, toasted nuts and mini pretzels. They look horribly, terribly, deliciously addictive....
Guest Post: Spicy Chickpea Stew from Herbivoracious
After we posted this tip from Herbivoracious on making fluffy couscous, several of you wanted the recipe for the delicious-looking chickpea stew served over top. We asked Michael at Herbivoracious i...
NY Times Dining Section Roundup: Hot Pot and Sugared Bacon
From the New York Times' Dining Section...
The Gift Is In the Mail, and On the Web: Marian Burros rounds up good food gifts available online, with Jeni's Ice Creams leading the way in the sweet cat...
Hot or Not: Finger Guard
This Flexible Green Finger Guard ($7.50 at Kitchenworks) is designed to protect your fingers while slicing and dicing vegetables. The shield is hinged so it can bend with finger movement.
We feel li...
Recipe: Ginger Chicken and Pasta
Here's a simple, easy homestyle meal for that brief lull between Thansgiving and Christmas. We served this to a mixed table of adults and young children last week and there wasn't a scrap left over. W...
eBay Scavenger: Vintage Christmas Cake Pans
Old World vintage Christmas - these three vintage cake pans have a different twist compared to the standard Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel offerings this holiday season. They're currently g...
Hungry For: Strata with Cipollini Onions and Arugula
Breakfast is essential, especially on cold mornings. Williams-Sonoma is featuring an indulgent brunch menu that, taken all together, would be a feast suitable for Christmas morning. But we can see ...
Good Eats: Emeril Live Goes Off the Air
Food Network canceled Emeril Live after a ten year run, reports Serious Eats.
While many food world insiders are fine with what one Epicurious reader called "canning the Clown Chef" (ouch!, that's ha...
Kitchen Magic: How to Cook Moist and Tender Chicken Breasts
Boneless skinless chicken breasts - is there anything more boring? They are difficult to cook and often served dry, chewy and tasteless. After many attempts to make exciting dishes with BSCBs, we now...
The Celluloid Pantry: Mulled Wine and It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
So this angel walks into a bar'.
In Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life (1946), the angel is the dim, but well-meaning Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers, right), and the bar is Nick's, a place full of ...
Survey: How Many Can You Entertain?
The holiday season has officially begun, and as soon as Thanksgiving food coma wears off it's time to start planning parties.
Do you hold dinner or cocktail parties at home? Given your constraints o...
How to Make Fluffy Couscous
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Couscous with spicy chickpeas sounds pretty good after last week's indulgence - simple, vegetarian grains are a great chaser to Thanksgiving. Michael at Herbivoracious offers an easy tip to make fl...
Good Question: What is a Sugarplum?
Dear Kitchen,
What is a sugar plum? I know they have something to do with Christmas. Can you tell me more?
- S.C.
image: Sugarplum Snoozin' from Wilton
(To All Good Questions)...
Good Question: Why Are All-Clad Pots and Pans So Expensive?
Why is All-Clad cookware so much more expensive than Cuisinart or other brands? Are the materials and construction far superior, or are we just paying for the All-Clad name?
- Lily
(To All Good...
Event Report: Alice Waters Book Signing
The line was literally out the door at Alice Waters' book signing this weekend. We stopped by The Gardener's Ferry Building branch to check out the Bay Area's most famous foodie and her new book The...
Mini Panettone and Cake Papers
Make your baked gifts look like they came from a high-end bakery with these gold-stamped panettone cake papers. Bake mini bread loaves in these or big cupcakes for a well-wrapped treat; this Saffron P...
Chocolate Hanukkah Doughnuts
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Hanukkah begins next week and doughnut-makers are gearing up. Sufganiyot, or jelly-filled doughnuts, are a much-loved Hanukkah tradition. Flickr user gkamin is switching it up, however, with these c...
Ribbed Recycled Glass Bowls
Vivid and colorful recycled glass makes this set of bowls a welcome antidote to the gray, dreary weather here today; the turquoise and citron pop off the table. They're the right size for soup, sala...
NYC Scavenger: Omega 1000 Juicer for $100
This top notch juicer has only been used for three months but is for sale for $100. That's half the retail price. The seller points out that the Omega 1000 doesn't take up too much counter space, a b...
Recipe: D.I.Y. Cranberry Jam
Cranberries are not just for Thanksgiving jelly and sauce; homemade cranberry jam is wonderful on toast or a sandwich too.
This is an easy homemade jam recipe that will keep in the fridge for at lea...
Oxford Word of the Year: Locavore
Locavore - that's the New Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year. Locavore was coined only two years ago at World Environment Day 2005 by Jessica Prentice, a San Francisco chef and author.
Th...
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