Bittersweet Baking Contest
Welcome to Bittersweet Baking, The Kitchn's first ever baking contest!
What is Bittersweet Baking? The holidays are over and we're through with all that sweetness. But that doesn't mean we are forgoi...
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Super Bowl & Super Tuesday: Appetizers and Snacks
Having a party this weekend or next Tuesday? Chris already gave us a super salmon burger entree for a football party. Here are a few more appetizers and snacks that are fun and delicious without in...
Tip: How to Choose Decaf Coffee
Do you drink decaf coffee? It's really a necessary evil in the evenings and for those of us trying to watch our caffeine.
The process of decaffeinating creates imbalances of taste and sometimes flat...
Book Club: My Life In France Reading Schedule
By now you should have gotten your copy of My Life in France for our book club. In case you haven't, we're giving you a nice long leash this week. All you have to read is the introduction and the fi...
Coffee Terroir: Indonesia and the Pacific
The third major coffee-producing region includes Indonesia, parts of southeast Asia, and certain Pacific islands. Like the other two major coffee regions, beans from this part of the world have a di...
NYC Event: Chocolate + Beer at Whole Foods Tonight
Two of our favorite things!
The Bowery Whole Foods Market (95 East Houston St.) is hosting a class on pairing chocolate and beer at 7 p.m. tonight Bowery Store.
Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery a...
Bittersweet Baking Finalist #4: Spicy Bittersweet Chocolate Bread Puddings
The fourth finalist in our Bittersweet Baking contest is Emily with her Spicy Bittersweet Chocolate Bread Puddings.
We adore bread pudding, and we really liked how easy this recipe is. Emily exp...
Goes Well With Coffee: Five Sweet Things
As we thought about what we like best with coffee, we realized that we've blogged most of them. Here are five recipes from our archives that go really, really well with coffee.
• Spicy Sticky...
Design Friday: Espresso Machines from Room69
We don't speak German, unfortunately, so we can't give you the full scoop on these gorgeous espresso machine prototypes from Pierre Ittner and Room 69. Pictured above is his Café Macchina - R...
Lunchtime Survey: How Many Cups of Coffee Do You Drink Every Day?
OK, truth time. How many cups of coffee do you drink every day? We used to think that 2-3 cups was barely enough, but then we switched to just one really good cup. When it's cold outside, though, we t...
Super Bowl or Super Tuesday Party? Serve Salmon Burgers
If you're hosting a party for the Super Bowl (or Super Tuesday), we suggest serving up salmon burgers. They're a little unexpected, but total finger food -- and best of all, they come together in le...
Quick Bites from Spices of Life: Chili Peppers
Over the next several weeks we are featuring videos from Nina Simonds of Spices of Life. This week we've got chili peppers! As seen in our last Bittersweet Baking finalist hot peppers and chocolate ...
Good Question: How's the Illy Espresso Delivery Program?
Here's a good question from Mary on coffee home delivery. She asks:
Since it's coffee week, I thought I'd ask about the Illy coffee home delivery program. I've tasted Illy espresso in restaurants a...
Coffee Extracts from The Baker's Catalogue
Have you ever used coffee extract in your baking? We're never have, but we're curious about the possibilities.
We just noticed that The Baker's Catalogue has two different kinds of coffee extracts l...
Coffee Methods: The Vacuum Brewer
The headlining piece of last week's New York Times dining section brought new awareness to an old method of making coffee: the vacuum, or siphon brewer. (They are sometimes also called glass brewers...
Coffee Cup of the Day: Alada Cup from Estudio Manus
For those of us who really, really need our coffee, this cup expresses it all. Coffee from this cup is clearly a big deal - wings to fly, and touched with 18K gold. This Alada Coffee Cup is made by ...
Best Product: UtiliTea Electric Kettle
Remember when we asked about the best electric kettles? Well, it took us over a year to decide, but we finally made our choice and now we're in love. Deep, deep in love. Click through for more photo...
Thursday Giveaway: Two Pounds of Ugly Mug Coffee Beans
Gift: Two pounds of Fair Trade, freshly roasted Ugly Mug coffee beans
Shop: Saving Grace and Hardy Passion available from Ugly Mug's website for $9.25/pound
There are many coffee roasters out there...
Bittersweet Baking Finalist #3: Brownie Cookies
The third finalist in our Bittersweet Baking contest is Shelly with her Brownie Cookies.
Shelly came out as a strong finalist because of the work she put into this recipe. Shelly had a specific ...
Coffee Terroir: Africa and Arabia
Africa is the birthplace of coffee and it's been cultivated and brewed here far longer than anywhere else in the world. It's fitting, then, that African coffees have a depth and wine-like sophisticati...
Goes Well With Coffee: Homemade Pop-Tarts
Pop-Tarts - guilty supermarket pleasure, or home-baked treat? You can have it both ways with this recipe from Tarah at Genesis of a Cook - fresh Pop-Tarts complete with glaze and sprinkles... ...
Coffee Methods: The Turkish Ibrik
The Turkish ibrik is less commonly used for making coffee than the previously discussed drip, Chemex, and French press methods. And that's a shame, because Turkish coffee is a rich and intense pleas...
Vino: Pedro Ximenez
The color of coffee, with a distinct smell of molasses and raisins. This thick, unctuous wine is dessert in a glass.
Produced throughout Spain's Andalucia, Pedro Ximenez, or PX as it is often called...
Good Question: Can I Replace Espresso Powder With Espresso?
All of the (wonderful) coffee coverage this week has reminded me of a question that's been at the back of my mind. I run across a number of baking recipes that call for espresso powder, and I've yet t...
Pure by Chantal: Perfect For Baking and Coffee Making
Just in time for Bittersweet Month, a line of green bakeware and coffee accessories. The green trend doesn't end, does it? (There are worse things to complain about.)
Something I never thought to...
Good Eats: The Ultimate Coffee Cup
Since coffee is our big thing this week, we reached back into the archives over at Serious Eats to see what our friends there had to say about coffee. We found good stuff - it looks like they need t...
The New Gourmet: Recipes for Varmint
We break from our regularly scheduled programming to let you know that the new Gourmet website is reaching further back into the magazine's fabled archives and bringing forth... varmints? ...
Coffee Cup of the Day: Birdiebird Mug
Solid, substantial, and cheery: that's what this Birdiebird Mug looks like to us. ...
Coffee Methods: The French Press
French press - the bold, dark choice! We did a survey last fall on how you make your coffee, and at least a quarter of you said you use a French press. We love ours, and it's an economical and fair...
Coffee Terroir: Latin America
Good coffee and wine have many things in common, and one of them is the concept of terroir. Terroir in coffee, as in wine, is a word that expresses everything about the geographic region of that par...
Bittersweet Baking Finalist #2: Yummy-Nib Brownies
Our second finalist! This was a no-brainer from the huge set of entries in our Bittersweet Baking contest.
The sheer amount and variety of chocolate in these brownies (plus our weakness for cocoa...
Five Yummy Finger Foods from Martha Stewart
Are you still looking for some party foods for this weekend's big game? Or maybe you're ignoring the game completely and spending time reading books instead. Either way, how about a weekend snack...
NYC: Where Do You Buy Your Coffee Beans?
Gorilla Coffee and Ninth Street Espresso are two of our favorites in New York City. Where do you buy your beans?...
Equal Exchange: Online
What if you could buy all the organic goods you loved in one spot, and you knew the profits were going to a good cause? Welcome to Equal Exchange, one of our favorite web shops. Organic coffee, tea,...
Lunchtime Survey: What Do You Cook With Coffee?
We're curious about your coffee habits - coffee cooking, that is. Most of us drink coffee in some form, whether it's at home or at our favorite coffeeshop.
But cooking and baking with coffee is anot...
Recipe: Coffee Cake with Coffee Glaze
Not to be confused with breakfast coffee cake, our Coffee Cake with Coffee Glaze is a fluffy, moist, and coffee-scented dessert with a sweet, creamy glaze icing. ...
Testing for Mercury and Double-Dipping: NY Times Dining Section
From the New York Times' Dining Section...
• Taking Worry Off the Plate: The Times follows up last week's article on mercury in tuna with not one but two pieces on choosing healthy seafood. S...
Pantry Basics: What Is Espresso Powder?
If you've baked a chocolate or mocha-flavored cake or dessert, the recipe probably called for espresso powder or instant espresso. What's espresso powder, and can you substitute something else?
Espr...
Goes Well With Coffee: Bacon and Eggs
Why does coffee go so well with bacon and eggs? We most often think of coffee as a drink to be paired with something sweet, but then we have a cup with a hearty breakfast, like this recipe from Bon ...
Organizing Pots and Pans
Kitchen-related design from our network
AT: Los Angeles has a great thread going right now with lots of reader tips and ideas on this topic: How Do You Organize Your Pots and Pans?. Check out links to other readers' Flickr kitchen photos ...
Krups Grinder and Irish Coffee: Best Coffee Posts
We don't save our coffee coverage for Coffee Week - we like to talk about our favorite beverage quite a lot. Here are some of our best posts on coffee.
• Survey: How Do You Make Your Coffee?
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Good Product: Lift & Serve Pans
Have you ever tried to bake little cakes or bite-sized hors d'oeuvres and had your hard work crumble to bits as they came out of the pan? We have, and so we are very interested in these pans from...
Coffee Cup of the Day: The Onion Travel Mug
Do you use a travel mug for your coffee? For a long time we had a very systematic setup: coffee pot, favorite travel mug, out the door to work. Our favorite travel mugs are dripless and handle-free,...
Bittersweet Baking Finalist #1: Candied Kumquat & Bittersweet Chocolate Cherry Mini Galettes
Our first finalist is in, and it was a unanimous choice from the large, diverse set of entries we received in our Bittersweet Baking contest.
Our editorial team was won over by Helen's simple and...
Open Thread #134
What are you cooking this week? Got a question for the crowd?
(To All Open Threads)...
Coffee Tip: Don't Use Hot Water From the Tap
Need hot water fast? Are you ever tempted to hurry your kettle or coffee pot by starting it off with the hottest water from the tap? Sorry - you shouldn't.
We had often heard that it was bad to use ...
eBay Scavenger: Arcade Coffee Grinder
Maxwell's Apartment Therapy Daily Email was all about coffee grinders yesterday - specifically, the best coffee grinder you don't know about. There's one of these rare coffee grinders available on e...
Coffee Methods: The Chemex Carafe
Among many coffee purists the Chemex brewer is the gold standard. Its elegant shape is perfectly melded to function, and it's a design classic that resides in the permanent collections of the Museum...
Goes Well With Coffee: Coffee Cake
No - really! Well, we felt there's no harm in stating the obvious. Coffee cake - it goes well with coffee. But we couldn't decide on just one... ...
Coffee and Health: Pregnancy and Diabetes
Is coffee inherently a dangerous substance, and should caffeine be stripped from our diets? There are some who say yes, and others who ignore all that. We are true coffee addicts and would be hard-pre...
Recipe: Coffee Fluff
This luscious creamy dessert is not for the faint of heart. That's not because it's difficult - a child could put it together. It's not exotic either - it's the grown-up version of a nursery dessert...
Good Product: Coffee Grinder Brush
We've given you tips on how to clean a coffee grinder, but another really useful tool specifically for this purpose is the coffee grinder brush. ...
Java Word of Mouth: Acidity
Acidity n. Term for the bright, dry taste notes in coffee - not to be confused with unpleasant sourness.
Like wine, coffee has its own set of jargon and terms that may mean one thing when you're no...
Thursday Giveaway Winners: ChocolateChocolate and Scharffen Berger Baking Goodies
Congratulations to readers dolls123 and lesleychef who were both chosen at random to win a signed copy of Lisa Yockelson's ChocolateChocolate and a package of baking chocolate goodies from Scharffen B...
Coffee Cup of the Day: Teema Mug in Olive
Our ideal coffee mug is wide and squat, with a big handle for cradling, and heavy stoneware construction so hot drinks stay hot. Meet the Teema Mug. ...
Mark Bittman on Minimizing Meat
So. Did you read Mark Bittman's article in the New York Times this weekend? Bittman, who is definitely not a vegetarian, lays out the hard facts about meat, energy, and the American diet. ...
Brew Tools: Coffee Scoops
A coffee scoop is hardly an essential tool - we use a measuring tablespoon. But if you're a frequent coffee drinker, a dedicated coffee scoop can be a small daily pleasure. ...
Goes Well With Coffee: Dark Chocolate and Orange Muffins
Another tempting muffin for our morning coffee! Chocolate is a classic pairing with coffee, of course, but we go on the record for loving orange flavors with coffee too. Especially in a tender muffi...
Coffee Methods: The Drip Pot
We'll talk about several ways of making coffee this week, so let's start with the most basic, ubiquitous method of coffee-making: the drip brew pot. ...
Lunchtime Survey: Are You a Coffee Geek?
Truth time - how picky are you about your coffee? Is it all about the taste, the experience, or the caffeine?...
Recipe: Strozzapretti with Pecorino, Prosciutto and Something Green
Zipping through the neighborhood with minutes to spare before friends arrived for an impromptu dinner Friday night, I had only a loose inspiration for a pasta with Cacio e Pepe (cheese and pepper), an...
Green to Dark: Grades of Coffee Roasting
From the green bean to the darkest roast, here's a scale of coffee roasting and a guide to those different roasts you see marked on your coffee beans: ...
Save Our Smell! Local Roaster Cited
In Rockland, Maine, a small local coffee roaster is in jeopardy after complaints that the smell of their roasting coffee is too strong. Rock City Coffee Roasters has been in business for over 16 year...
Coffee In a Muffin: Three Recipes
It's hard to see exactly why these mocha muffins are called muffins and not cupcakes, but whatever - we'll go with it. Here are three ways to put coffee in your baked morning muffins... ...
It's Coffee Week - Where's Your Mug?
It's coffee week here at The Kitchn, and we need another cup. It's Monday morning - where's your coffee?
Coffee has so many uses in the kitchen - a teaspoon adds depth to chocolate goodies, and we'...
Hot Posts: January 28, 2008
Here are the top posts published here last week, judging by Google Analytics. Top posts from our archives, viewed last week, are below - that No-Knead Bread just keeps going and going and going...
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Recipe: Chocolate Coffee Tart
This recipe and and review come from AT:SF editor Shayna - welcome Shayna!
With all of the chocolate talk during bittersweet baking week, we couldn't hold out any longer and had to jump in on the ...
Coffee Cup of the Day: Color Wheel Mugs
These mugs from Anthropologie have one feature that would usually disqualify them from our household collection of coffee cups, but they redeem themselves so well in other ways that they've become o...
Survey: What Is Your Favorite Chocolate?
All right, we saved this question for last, at the very end of Chocolate Week. What kind of chocolate do you reach for when you want your pure chocolate fix? ...
Open Thread #133
We're blogging this weekend! Any tips or questions?
(To All Open Threads)...
Bean to Bar: Refining and Conching
One of the most crucial steps in the in the process of making chocolate is defined by this measurement: 30 microns. ...
Chocolate Artisan Profile: The Do-Gooders
Cacao growing is a brutal and harsh endeavor. It can only happen near the equator in some of the most challenging climates on earth, and most of the small farmers who grow it live in poverty, subjec...
Burned! Chocolate Cranberry Tart
Oh dear. Sometimes things don't turn out quite as we imagine... ...
Bittersweet Baking Marathon
This is the last weekend of Bittersweet Baking, The Kitchn's first ever baking contest! We have so much chocolate coverage that we didn't get to, what with the short week, that we're blogging through...
Chocolate Artisan Profile: The Ex-Hobbyist
Steve DeVries' company tagline reads: One hundred years behind the times, and that is where he firmly believes chocolate-making should be. DeVries is a former glassblower who found his way into choc...
Chocolate Fun and Games: Chocolatier and Chocolatier 2
When we heard that there was a computer game - two, actually! - designed around the labyrinthine story of chocolate and getting it from the jungle to the confectioners' shop, we were intrigued. We'r...
Home-Baked Chocolate: Dorie Greenspan's Boca Negra Tart
We are big fans of Dorie Greenspan and her many marvelous baking books. We have always admired her way with chocolate, and then this recipe, posted on her own blog, made us admire her even more. It ...
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