It's the weekend -- what's on your menu? We are planning a quiet Valentine's dinner and a trip to our local market. It's February and it's still cold, but the sun is shining. Other ideas for weekend c...
While Sara Kate is visiting Los Angeles and finding avocados, asparagus, and strawberries (strawberries!) at the Hollywood Farmers' Market, we're looking at the same old scene in Union Square. Apples ...
Why does chocolate get all the attention on Valentine's? As much as we love chocolate, we find caramel desserts even more appealing right now. Maybe it's the interesting burnt sugar tastes or the...
We went looking for the very best Valentine's Day soup, and here you have it. A classic: French onion soup. Why? Well, we think that French onion soup may just be the sexiest soup we know. ...
Anyone planning on making a soufflé for your honey on Valentine's Day? Sweet or savory, a warm and pillowy soufflé definitely makes an impression! We also think they're a lot less fussy th...
Several months ago we posted a survey about how you clean your ovens. Many of you are self-cleaning oven fans, it turns out. We gave ours a whirl recently, after we got tired of the sticky roasted chi...
For all that it's touted as the height of snuggly luxury, we recently realized that we have never actually made or been served breakfast in bed. We'd like to give it a try, but it seems like it could ...
Full-on Valentine's, today! There are mini-pie boxes with a sweet message, polenta pizzas and more! ...
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Project: Kitchen Up-Grade
Name: Meg
Time: One afternoon
Cost: $10-$20
Meg's kitchen is the command center of her home, but it's rather bare and has little...
Mandazi [mahn-dahz-ee] noun: Fried doughnut or roll served as dessert or a warm teatime snack all over Kenya and East Africa.
We came home one evening to our guest house in Kenya to find our very kin...
Even though I recommended pot racks in these ten improvements for rental kitchens, I have to admit that I don't personally like pot racks very much. I'm rather short, and an overhead pot rack seems li...
Looking for something a little special for the 14th? A dark, luscious liqueur with an all-natural black cherry taste, Cherry Heering pairs with chocolate as beautifully as it does Champagne, making it...
Heart-shaped food is practically irresistable this time of year, and the food blogosphere has found a myriad of ways to turn ordinary food into the shape of a heart. Here are fifteen different foods s...
This is a dilemma we've faced before, and it isn't helped by the blah desserts we usually find on the menus of Mexican restaurants. Here's a question from Renee:
I'm supposed to take dessert to a ...
Like Sara Kate said in a recent Kitchn email, soup is universal. It's an essential element of nearly every world cuisine, and we love learning more about how people eat soup in their own culture. Here...
We received this cartoonish spatula as a gag gift a few months ago, but it's actually come to be one of our favorite and most-used kitchen utensils! Surprised? Read on......
Valentine's Day is Saturday, hence the descent of chocolate, sprinkles, cupcake confetti and pink whipped marshmallow frosting in great billows over the food blogosphere. Oh yeah, and steak, cheese fo...
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How do you serve your soup? Do you ladle it out into soup plates in the kitchen? Do you bring your big stockpot to the table? Or do you have an elegant soup tureen? Soup tureens always seemed ver...
Back in October, during National Fair Trade Month, Emily highlighted several foods where fair trade policies—which require sustainable farming and just labor practices for the workers—make a bi...
Soup is endlessly versatile, and we really like recipes that showcase flexibility and improvisation. So here's a great soup from Food & Wine, except it's not just one recipe. It's four! ...
Welcome to this week's Open Thread at The Kitchn! Do you have any questions, comments, or good ideas? It's Soup Month, and we're also working on kitchen DIY projects. What are you cooking, and is ther...
Chapati [chuh-pah-tee] noun: Pan-grilled unleavened flatbread eaten in India, East Africa, and most of South Asia.
Chapati is ubiquitous in Kenya; big golden wedges of this flat, chewy bread were se...
We just got back from a visit to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where we stopped in at Whisk, a comprehensive, one-stop cooking shop (with charm to boot) that opened just a few months ago......
We feel very on the fence about fruit soups like the chilled cherry soup in the image above. We want to be open to them, but have trouble getting past the idea that we're really just eating a smoothie...
Plus sweet little Valentines and a non-toxic way to clean up red wine....
February is Soup Month at The Kitchn, so I thought that I would look at some great soup and wine combinations. Traditionally, soup has been considered a difficult course to pair with wine. The reason ...
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Project: A Much-Needed Makeover
Name: Kendra
Time: 1 week
Cost: $300
Here's our first kitchen makeover in this year's February Jumpstart! Kendra took a sm...
It's all about the Valentine's Day chocolate and romantic meals in this week's jam-packed roundup. Ready? ...
Last weekend it was chilly and we all needed a warm, nourishing lunch, but save for a few scraps of speck left over from Friday's dinner party and some very floppy kale, there wasn't much food to spea...
Diet-specific recipes usually aren't our thing, but we thought this one might be worth a shot. We were intrigued to see sour cream on the ingredient list and liked the fact that this recipe didn't rel...
We frankly never thought we'd be calling a rice cooker sexy. But this design concept from Sang Jang Lee really deserves the description. In fact, it was designed to be sculptural and decorative a...
Ours would not be squab, we'll tell you that. But squab and peas is what Jacques Pépin would want for his last meal, so that's what Carla cooked. Lydia Bastianich asked for roast chicken. Wylie...
Every week we round up our favorite home cooking posts from our friends at Serious Eats. This week we bring you our top five favorite posts, including a photo essay of Japanese bladesmiths, how to deb...
This whole wheat pastry flour called to us from across the co-op and we had no choice to buy a few cups for experimentation purposes. We have a few ideas for what we might make, but what would you rec...
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It's DIY Month, and we're encouraging you to take care of all your projects around the house, even in the kitchen! We get lots of questions from renters who want to spruce up their kitchens witho...
Here's a yummy spicy soup tonight from one of our readers, Katerina of Good Life Eats. It has so many things we love in soup: rice, chilies, lime, and coconut. ...
We don't think Whole Foods deserves the moniker Whole Paycheck. In fact, there are certain products that are cheaper than at other stores, especially New York City stores, that we routinely stock up...
Well, everyone else is doing it, so we will too! Chocolate, that is. There's a requisite level of cacao trotted out at this time every year. So here are fifteen chocolate desserts and treats for ...
Sukuma wiki, noun: This Swahili word literally means "stretch the week," but it usually refers to a simple dish of cooked greens like kale or collards.
"Stretch the week!" That's what basic cooked g...
We're not sure if we can really call this a trend quite yet, but articles praising the terrine popped up in issues of both Saveur magazine and Bon Appétit in the past few months. Even the recen...
Even though the thermometer is nearing 60 degrees today in New York, we are still talking soup. And this is one of our favorites, albeit one we've never made ourselves. That's why we need your tips......
So, you want a heart cookie cutter for Valentine's Day, but you hate buying a once-a-year tool. How about a six-sided cookie cutter instead? Plus cupcakes for chefs and for Valentine's, and how to han...
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Project: Dishwasher Panel's Functional Facelift
Name: Annie
Time: 2 hours
Cost: $25
We've been telling you that even renters can improve their kitchens, ...
I stood in the rain last Sunday at the Hollywood Farmers' Market in front of a table of wooden bowls, gawking, when finally a man with artisan hands came up and introduced himself as John Talbot, the ...
If you're feeling a little tongue-in-cheek this Valentine's Day, think about making up a big dish of pasta puttanesca! This classic Italian dish is easy to prepare, delicious, and has a story that wil...
Do you use a bouquet garni to flavor your soups? If so, try tucking them into a tea ball instead of cheesecloth. ...
Last month Francis Lam, one of my favorite writers over at Gourmet.com, posted an article on how he made a simple spaghetti and tomato sauce with a very expensive ($8) box of pasta and an even more ex...
Here's a question from Melodie, and we need your help on this one.
I’m hoping the AT crowd can give me some recommendations for a home espresso machine. For years we’ve been using these two lit...
When New York's immigrants come home from a long day at work, they don't microwave a Lean Cuisine. They cook quick, Americanized versions of their native dishes. Writer Leslie Kaufman ate dinner wi...
Soup - it's the easiest way to warm up your kitchen on a cold day, and to feed yourself and your family in one delicious and healthy bowl. We realized this weekend that some of our favorite vegan and ...
Aside from the fact that we can never seem to spell it correctly, Worcestershire sauce is one of our favorite secret ingredients. It adds a punch of savory flavor to...well... just about anything we'r...
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Back in LA for two weeks, I'm having flashbacks to the work I did here a few years ago on my book, The Greyston Bakery Cookbook (Rodale).
One of the groups of recipes I added to the book that were no...
It wouldn't be Valentine's Day without something sweet. Well, in our case, it wouldn't be Tuesday (or Wednesday...or Thursday...) So, instead of a dessert that heats things up, here's one to cool you ...
Knoblauchcremesuppe! Say that eight times fast. It's actually a very simple thing, and it's quite deserving of our soup of the day. Creamy garlic soup, an Austrian favorite. ...
We're here to help you with your good questions and your recipe searches. Here's one from Jake. Can you help him?
Just recently, I just went to a local organic restaurant and they had a black bean p...
Pretty letterpressed cards, a mini-tart just right for Valentine's, and more winter color, below. ...
So, you've read our Cheesemonger's guide to making fondue, and now you're craving a pot of melted cheese, wine, and spices, served with big hunks of bread. Yep, same here. Now all you need is the...
Like Dana and her obsession with Jamie Oliver's back episodes and Nigella Lawson clips, we often turn to YouTube for a little dose of inspiration and extra time with our favorite food gurus. What abou...
Many recipes for batter foods like crêpes and our very own Big Pancakes say to let the mixture rest briefly before proceeding to cooking. This may seem like a strange step, but there's more goin...
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Project: Spoon Wall
Name: Bojo
Time: 3 hours
Cost: $10-$20
Our February Jumpstart contest is underway, and here is our first kitchen entry! Bojo created a...
Have you tried the nationwide sensation that is the Soup Swap? In short, you get a bunch of friends together, everyone brings soup, drinks some wine, and goes home with more soup. We're sold! ...
We are so inspired by this pink party spread from Summer and Alicia of Bread & Honey! Surprisingly, though, this wasn't a Valentine's event at all... it was actually a holiday party inspired by an...
There's no official legislation outlawing the presence of fish and cheese on the same plate, but for many Italians — and those of us who would wish to remain in their gastronomic good graces &md...
Ugali [oo-gahl-ee] noun: In Kenya, ugali is the name for the most common mealtime starch: a thick, stiff porridge made from white cornmeal or red millet.
In Kenya, ugali is one of the most common di...
Yesterday we showed you reader Catherine's impressive Baked Alaska, and it reminded us of bananas foster, another famous flaming dish that we made quite a bit when we were kids......
Technology is a wondrous thing. Sometimes it gives us answers to questions we wouldn't even think were possible to answer. Here's one: Is this drink really decaf, or will I be staring at the ceiling a...
Bringing Michael Pollan onto a show for people who already support good food can feel a bit like preaching to the choir! But what he says about food policy in the US and his hopes for President Obama'...
We just reviewed Anne Bramley's lovely ode to winter cooking, Eat Feed Autumn Winter, and we promised you a full recipe from this splendid book. Well, since it's Soup Month, we couldn't pass up a chan...
Writer and podcast host Anne Bramley was born in a blizzard, and her passion for winter cooking starts there. With memories of winter birthday cakes and holiday roast meats, she became, in her own wor...
We just read about this on Eat Me Daily (via Slashfood), and we're alternately overjoyed that we can type a code into a website to find out where our chicken grew up and amazed that someone hadn't tho...
While eating in the car doesn't pose quite the same set of concerns as eating on public transit, there are still some definite do's and don'ts. What are yours?...
We're not huge fans of overly sentimental Valentine's Day decor, but this is one idea we think could be cute for a tea lover in your life. It's from Martha Stewart, and it would take all of five minut...
Do you have a kitchen project that's been haunting you? Maybe it's basic: the spice cupboard really needs to be reorganized. Maybe it's more complex: you want to hang a new storage rail above your sto...
We briefly mentioned this technique in our round-up of knife skills lessons last week, and today we wanted to spend a little more time with it. The "claw" is all about being safe with knives and preve...
I'm in Los Angeles for almost three weeks and kicked it off yesterday with a visit to the venerable Hollywood Farmers' Market.
Amid chilly rain (I came here to get away from the cold) and drama...
Irio [eer-ee-o], noun: In the Kenyan tribal language of Kikuyu, irio just means food. But it usually refers to a simple, plain dish of mashed potatoes, maize, and peas or greens.
I spent last week i...
Look at this amazing, colorful backsplash from Australia. Would you want this much color in your kitchen?...
Here's a good question from Amy, who wants Indian food but needs to have it less spicy.
I like to eat Indian food on occasion but generally find it too spicy. I have acid reflux so I need to avoid s...
I don't own any of his books, probably won't subscribe to his magazine or purchase any of his products (mostly because they're too expensive to import) and highly doubt I'd go see him in person but ...
Whoa! Have you ever seen a real live flaming Baked Alaska? This retro dessert was out of the realm of our experience, until reader Catherine shared hers with us. Read on to hear more about this old-sc...
When we announced Soup Month, several of you commented that you'd like recipes and tips for Asian soups. Then we remembered an article from our Times Top 5 at the beginning of January about Southeast ...
Happy Monday, and welcome to a new week at The Kitchn. But first... what were the most popular posts published in the last week or so? Well, there was a great before-and-after with kitchen shelves. Th...
Take a look at our freshly organized shelves! We've got to say, it's such a relief not to spend five minutes riffling through miscellaneous ingredients to find what we're looking for. More pics of the...
Things have been rather ordinary in my kitchen these days. What with an extra busy work week, some much needed but persistent rain and an empty wallet, I'm left digging in the back of the cupboard in...
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