DIY Mochi Ice Cream Balls
Now that we've got our ice cream makers churning away this month, we're looking for fun ways to play with the results. Mochi ice cream balls have popped up everywhere from swanky restaurant dessert me...
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What's Cooking This Weekend?
Weekend of August 9-10, 2008
It's the weekend! What are you cooking this weekend? We have our eye on a couple different ice creams, what with it being ice cream month, and we're definitely enjoying the last full month of summer. ...
Daily Scoop: Matcha Green Tea Ice Cream
Do you drink much green tea? How about matcha - powdered green tea? We've seen a lot of matcha-flavored baked goods lately, but this ice cream looks even more appealing. ...
Cilantro: Why Is Its Taste So Polarizing?
Personally, I love cilantro and can't get enough of it - I add heaps of it to my guacamole and salsa. It tastes fresh and citrus-like to me. However, supposedly there's a genetic trait that makes ci...
Simple Escapes: A Drink in the Park
Escape.
That word can mean a lot of different things. We're exploring all angles, inspiring you to cook foods from far-off countries and celebrating gear that streamlines your getaway. But we also l...
FoodCamp
BarCamp, according to Wikipedia, is “an international network of user generated conferences." Now, there's a FoodCamp, which focuses on - yup, you guessed it - food....
Weekend Entertaining: Ideas for Themed Dinner Parties
We're throwing a dinner party in a few weeks, but are still stuck on a theme. Tapas? Breakfast for Dinner? Down-Home Southern? Classic French? Ack!
As a guest or a host, what has been your most memor...
Readers' Favorite Sounds of the Kitchen
Last week we asked What Are Your Favorite Sounds of the Kitchen?, and the answers came rumbling in.
This was my original list of ten melodic kitchen sounds:
The pop of a bottle of wine being opened...
Learning to Love Eggplant: How to Pick 'Em, Cook 'Em, and Eat 'Em
Eggplant is a love it or hate it kind of a vegetable. Mention it in conversation and you'll either get an ode to the purple globe or stony silence.
If you're in the "stony silence" camp, we'd like to...
Cool Treats: How Do You Like Your Ice Cream Floats?
We sometimes forget how good ice cream floats are. A big, creamy scoop of vanilla ice cream floating in a cold, foamy mug of Coca-Cola.
Wait, Coca-Cola? Not root beer? Exactly. Our ice cream floats ...
Ice Cream Sandwich Makers Reviewed
Delicious links for 08.08.08
Ice cream sandwich gadgets, a unique barley drink, playful coasters and more in today's Delicious Links.......
Culinary Cocktails: The Spicy/Cool Flavors of India
Straight Up Cocktails
Cool slabs of watermelon and cucumber. Fiery slivers of hot pepper. Dark dollops of sour tamarind. Bright dashes of orange juice and muddled cilantro. These are some of the unexpected flavors and text...
Olympic Kickoff: Chinese Food from the Archives
The Olympics kick off today! While there has been a great deal of controversy over the Olympics this year, we'd like to sidestep that for a moment and just say how glad we are that Chinese food will (...
Getaway Gear: Picnic Bag with Service for Two
We recently saw some classic English picnic baskets, which make us feel all warm and fuzzy and nostalgic. But we're also drawn to this very practical updated bag from Sur La Table. Take a closer look ...
Summer Escape Food: Fish Tacos, Two Ways
When we think of the Pacific coast, we imagine fish taco stands lining the streets like hot dog carts do in New York City. Fish tacos, with their white, flaky chunks and fresh toppings, just seem v...
Hot or Not? Frittata Pans from Williams-Sonoma
Our initial reaction to these nonstick frittata pans from Williams-Sonoma was that this was just another space-gobbling unitasker. Then we saw that there were actually two separate pans interlocked at...
Goat-Cheese-Stuffed Roasted Figs
France
Here's an idea for an easy, elegant summer starter, dessert or garnish for an arugula salad from Cotemaison.fr......
From The Email: On Charcuterie for Dinner
A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on June 18. To receive Sara Kate's weekly email, sign up in the column to the left or click here. Something tasty will arrive in you...
Daily Scoop: Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Uh-oh - this ice cream looks like trouble......
Good Product: Beater Blade+ for KitchenAid Stand Mixers
A little while back we told you about the BeaterBlade+, a new attachment for KitchenAid stand mixers. (They also have adjustable versions for other mixer models). We were initially rather skeptical; w...
Thursday Giveaway: Summer Ice Cream Bucket Kit
Giveaway: Three ice cream bucket kits, plus bonus recipes
Find it: Kits available through Food Flower Style for $11 each
We have an extra-fun giveaway today! Food Flower Style is a new online boutiqu...
Edible Souvenirs: Rules for Bringing Food and Drink Back Into the United States
Got a bottle of Tuscan Extra-Virgin stashed in your suitcase? Or maybe a jar of French Provencal honey up your sleeve?
Bringing home a souvenir from a great summer vacation goes back to the dawn of t...
Marin Sun Farms
One of our favorite vendors at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market is Marin Sun Farms. Marin Sun is a local family farm in Marin County, California that raises organic, grass-fed cattle, pigs, goat, lamb...
Escaping This Weekend? Bring Some Homemade Granola
This summer, most of our trips out of town have been quick, 48-hour jaunts here and there — usually as (very grateful) moochers of friends with beach houses.
We try to bring a little gift, plus so...
Behind the Scenes at Pierre Herme
Delicious links for 08.07.08
Dorie Greenspan takes us inside the kitchens of famed pastry chef Pierre Herme! ...
Recipe: Buttermilk Rosemary Ice Cream
This is the first ice cream I made from scratch this month. Consider it a warm-up, we have weeks to go.
Like many good recipes, it was born from needing to use up ingredients: a half-used container...
San Francisco Farmer's Market Report: Ferry Plaza
We stopped by the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market to pick up some heirloom tomatoes, and took these mouth-watering photos. Hope you enjoy browsing them!...
Weeknight Recipe: 30-Minute Chicken Posole
Posole is everything we love about southwestern cuisine. It's fresh and light, spicy and cool, crunchy and chewy: all in one bowl! With summer escapes on the brain, we offer this recipe as a quick wee...
NYC Event: Tomorrow! Michael Pollan at P.S. 1
MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City is hosting Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, tomorrow night. He'll be speaking outside at P.F. 1, the urban farm exhibit that'...
Wine Can Also Be Fun During Ice Cream Month!
It’s Ice Cream Month here at The Kitchn and wine certainly does not want to be left out in the cold (excuse the pun! ha-ha-ha). But truly we don’t usually associate wine with ice cream. Being so s...
Getaway Gear: WineSkin Bottle Enclosures
Are you traveling to France or Italy this summer? How about California? Or anywhere else with renowned vineyards, for that matter? You might want to take along a few of these WineSkin bottle enclosure...
Lunchtime Event: Chef Competition at Daley Plaza
Chicago
Looking for a little lunchtime cooking fun? Head over to the Daley Plaza farmer's market today to watch an Iron Chef-style competition and pick up a free tote bag....
Cold and Frosty Pint: Brooklyn Summer Ale
Here is just one more reason we're going to be sad to see summer go this year: Brooklyn Summer Ale. It's a new discovery for us, and now we are totally in love with this beer. ...
Good Product: LifeLiner Ribbed Shelf Liner
The last time we moved, we packed our used pieces of shelf liner. Every bit, from every cabinet. Then we re-cut and re-used it in our new kitchen. That's how durable this stuff is — and how much we ...
Conscientious Cook: Sustainable Seafood Through Urban Aquaculture
When we think of sustainable seafood, two images tend to come to mind. First, we have seafood that has been sustainably and ecologically caught in the wild, and then we have aquafarms like Kona Blue.
...
Stary Kleparz Farmers Market
Krakow
I was in Krakow earlier this summer, staying in a bartered studio with a little kitchenette. I made the rounds of the Krakow supermarkets, but my favorite food-shopping experience was a trip to the St...
Good Eats: Tomato and Mozzarella Salad
What's cooking over at Serious Eats this week? Well, there's a fabulous salad, a very interesting new keyboard rest that relates to one of our favorite foods, and some very good news out of Canada... ...
Kitchen Tour: Melissa Clark Writes a Recipe
I recently spent an afternoon with Melissa Clark in her Brooklyn kitchen. She had me over to talk about what it's like to be pregnant (she is, I was), working on a cookbook while pregnant (she is now...
Recipe: Kale Salad with Pecorino and Lemon
One of our favorite late summer and early autumn salads is quite simple: just kale, Pecorino Romano, and a light vinaigrette. ...
Daily Scoop: Chocolate and Pistachio Ice Cream Cake
Ooooh.... We are currently working on a birthday cake for a small friend, and while we aren't making an ice cream cake, this one here still really caught our attention. ...
Naturemill Kitchen Composter Reviewed at Unplggd
We've been curious about the Naturemill Kitchen Composter for a long time. It lets you compost indoors, and compost continually. There's supposed to be no odor and the machine can accept over a hundre...
Getaway Gear: Armetale Hot and Cold Tray
We've all heard of hot plates, right? For warming food until dinner is served, or keeping a pot of chili hot. Well, how about a cold plate? ...
What Smells Do You Like Waking Up To?
We saw this bacon alarm clock and it made us laugh; but it's so ingenious! We love waking up to the delicious smell of bacon in the morning....
Easy Ice Cream Topping: What About a Curd?
We had a really good triple-berry curd a few weeks ago at a friend's house but neglected to take a picture of it, so this lemon version will have to serve as inspiration. The idea: Using simple fruit ...
Brand New Cabinet Line from IKEA
Delicious links for 08.06.08
We've always been a little cautious about IKEA cabinetry, but this new line may make us reconsider......
Sense of Place: Food and Cuisine of the Midwest
When it's not meat and potatoes, it's...well, it's still meat and potatoes, except it's disguised as casserole, soup, or meatloaf!
Meals in the Midwest are a hearty mix of German and Scandinavian cui...
Sunscreen for Food Crops
Apparently, solar radiation destroys 20 to 40 percent of fruit and vegetable crops annually. As a result, a Bay Area company called Purfresh has developed a spray-on sunscreen for fruits and vegetabl...
Times Top 5: Cold, Cold, Cold! (Oh, Stuffed Chard Too)
From the NY Times Dining Section 08.06.08
My gracious! This week's New York Times section was a doozy. There were so many rich seasonal recipes we didn't know where to look first. We have a whole special piece on one of the recipes coming up ...
Help! Our Jam is Too Hard!
We've been in a confessional mood lately, offering up photos of our inedible cooking disasters... Here's another misstep, although the problem this time isn't with the taste. This jam is absolutely de...
Summer Refreshment: How To Make Cucumber Juice
We had an abundance of cucumbers starting to pile up in our fridge, so we thought we'd try an experiment: making cucumber juice.
We decided that cucumber juice not only makes a refreshing, slightly s...
Morning Treat: Fresh-Baked Chocolate Croissant
Recently I attended a food and writing retreat where one of the participants wrote an entire essay about the morning she baked a chocolate croissant from Trader Joe’s frozen foods section. She had ...
Farmers' Market Report: Seaweed
Los Angeles
One of the newer vendors at the Hollywood and Santa Monica farmers' markets is Carlsbad Aquafarm. Hailing from the Agua Hedionda Lagoon outside San Diego, the family-run business provides farm-raised,...
NYC Deals: Acme Smoked Fish Sells to the Public
Acme is a family-run business in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that sells nova, whitefish, and other smoked fish to stores like Russ & Daughters and Zabar's. On Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., they sell str...
Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Who Loves Cupcakes?!
Whether they're glammed up with frosting or shipped in jars, we can't seem to get enough cupcakes!
Violet Whipps of the blog Cupcake Fetish was Evan Kleiman's guest this past week on Good Food. Ms. W...
Best To-Go Picnics
London
Picnicking is an indispensable part of a British summer. If you have escaped to London, or are otherwise stranded in town and need of a little escape from making your own lunch, pick up a prepared pic...
Daily Scoop: Milk Chocolate-Wafer & Chai-Ice Cream Dots
We've had our eye on these miniature ice cream sandwiches for a long time. They're not your ordinary ice cream sandwich; there's a bit of a twist... ...
Farmer's Market Report: Novato
Organic French baguettes in various shapes
Last week we went up to Novato, a small town in Marin County that's about 40 minutes' drive from San Francisco. In the summers, downtown Novato hosts a Far...
Good Idea! Homemade Fruit Leather at Simply Recipes
We've talked about what to do if you only have a pint of berries, but what if you find yourself in the opposite predicament of having too much fruit?!
Elise Bauer over at Simply Recipes has one solut...
Giant Carrots In the Streets!
Delicious links for 08.05.08
Giant carrots have sprouted in the streets of Hood River, Oregon. How, and why?...
Recipe: Squash and Onions with Brown Sugar
This is, hands down, our favorite way to eat yellow summer squash. And we realize this might be due to a nostalgic predilection for Southern-style vegetables (i.e. cooked until they "surrender"), but ...
Dining Details: Orange Pekoe Cup & Saucer
After all our cooking and cleaning, we like to relax with an afternoon cup of tea. We are always on the lookout for teacups in just the right size and shape, and this one may fit the bill... ...
Food Science: What is Buttermilk?
In all our recent posts on buttermilk and what to do with it, we realized that there's one topic that we haven't covered.
What, exactly, is buttermilk?!...
Seasonal Spotlight: Amaranth
Amaranth is an ancient grain that was a staple of the Incan and Mesoamerican diet beginning 7,000 years ago. Today the grains and leaves continue to be cultivated, mostly by indigenous cultures, but ...
Ice Cream, Sorbet, & Frozen Yogurt: The Full Roundup!
Are you plotting your entry for our Best Lick! 2008 Ice Cream Contest yet? Need some inspiration? Here is pretty much every ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet recipe we've ever published, plus a few...
How To Write A Recipe Like A Professional
I write recipes, among other things, for a living. It may seem easy, but it isn't always. It takes practice and adherence to a few rules.
Knowing how to write a recipe is something even an amateur ...
How To: Soften Hard Brown Sugar in a Hurry
What do you do when you pull out the bag of brown sugar and it's a perfectly formed, rock-hard, square-edged brick? This doesn't happen often to us (we use a lot of brown sugar), but it did the other ...
Survey: Shopping for Bargains at Whole Foods
Whole Foods wants the name calling to stop. Yep, that's right, with the economy slipping Whole Foods just doesn't want to be known as Whole Paycheck anymore. Whole Foods insists they can be an economi...
The Cheesemonger: Cottage Cheese
Sure, we may never go as far as describing cottage cheese as refined, or elegant, or even complex, but deserving of some air time it is. We hereby extoll its simplicity and versatility and deride its ...
Wine Escapes: Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula
Chicago
Many Chicagoans are familiar with the wineries of nearby southwest Michigan, which provide a nice day-trip destination. But Michigan’s wine country extends further north, as well, with nearly 15 win...
This Time Last Year: The Great Olive Oil Scam, Caramel Banana Cake, and Sea Beans
Ice cream and escapes were on the blog this time last year too; check out recipes, vacation discussion, and a litt...
What Are You Planning with Your Summer Tomatoes?
Those of you in California are seeing tomatoes everywhere, but we East Coasters haven't quite hit the mother lode yet. Which means we sit around dreaming of exactly what we'll do with those vine-ripe ...
Word of Mouth: Anglaise
Anglaise: noun, a coating for food that will be fried; verb, the act of coating or breading food before frying.
Coating food that's destined for the fryer with an anglaise simultaneously seals in moi...
What's The Strangest Ice Cream You've Ever Eaten?
When I lived in Eastern Europe, I encountered many inexplicable foodstuffs -- dishes I was served in restaurants and people's homes that I could not identify but felt compelled to swallow as the guest...
The Daily Scoop: Cinnamon Toast Ice Cream
Well, Ice Cream Month is officially underway, and our contest got kicked off today as well. (Did you see those Sur La Table prizes yet?) To celebrate, here's today's installment of the Daily Scoop - a...
How To: Clean the Sand Out of Clams
'Tis the season for clams! Baked, grilled, steamed, or deep-fried: we'll eat them any way we can get them.
When cooking clams at home, one thing that can pose a challenge is getting the sand out of t...
Would You Eat This? Foie Gras Ice Cream
It's Ice Cream Month at The Kitchn, and we've got a plethora of ice cream recipes to share. However, we ran across this, and we couldn't help but wonder: would you eat this? Pretend for a minute tha...
Lemon Spaghetti and Chocolate Houses
Delicious links for 08.04.08
Lemon spaghetti? Why yes! Check out this great recipe, plus a chocolate Eames house and more, below. ...
Blogging the NY Times Magazine: Perfect Apricots and How To Use Them
We love chef Daniel Patterson's description of apricots in The New York Times Sunday Magazine:
The apricot is not an instantly lovable fruit. To eat one raw is to imagine how Goldilocks must have fel...
Recipe: Marsala Simmered Peaches with Ice Cream
It's August, you're thinking about making a lot of ice cream. Maybe you're even entering our contest. Ice cream is certainly on the brain.
On those night when you want that home-made feeling and all...
Whole Foods Twitter
Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates of up to 140 characters in length. Most updates come from mobile phones, which makes Twitter an useful service for blogging ...
Cucumber Primer: Kirby, Gherkin, English, and More...
We remember the first time we heard the term "kirby" and had no idea it was a type of cucumber.
That was a while ago, and these days, we can easily find kirby cucumbers as well as shrink-wrapped see...
Farmer's Market Etiquette: How to Choose Ripe Fruit
In the grocery store, we tend to hold, squeeze, poke, and prod the fruit to see if it's going to be ripe enough to eat that week.
Try this at a farmer's market and you're likely to get glares from th...
Ice Cream Cake On a Stick and Cleaning Cast Iron
Top posts for July 28 - August 3, 2008
What were our top posts last week? Click the thumbnails above to go to some of them, and click through below to s...
Look! Chubba Bubba Tomatoes
It’s full-on tomato season in California right now and we’re starting to see all sizes and colors of heirlooms and dry-farmed Early Girls in the markets. But never before have I seen the Chubba B...
Recipes Gone Wrong: What To Do with Inedible Dishes?
It doesn't look so bad, does it? Well, trust us. It was. A little cooking by feel experiment went horribly wrong last night... ...
On Cooking With Restrictions
We threw a dinner party a while back for a vegan, a friend with nut allergies, someone who doesn't like vegetables, and several hungry omnivores. This menu required some pretty extensive juggling!
Wh...
Doesn't Everything Taste Better Outside?
This time-rusted iron table and chairs looks like it belongs in the French countryside, but it's actually a luxurious little set-up smack in the center of Paris......
Weekend Meditation: Fear of Frying
I was inspired a few weeks ago by a post over at Smitten Kitchen on what we are afraid to cook and why. What a great question! And what a great thing to take on. There’s nothing like the feeling ...
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