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Happy Saturday morning! Are you eating sugared cereal and watching cartoons? OK, so maybe those times have passed, but we hope that you are still snuggled up somewhere warm, with a good breakfast and ...
It's quite appropriate that Top Chef filmed its finale in New Orleans, because we've got Mardi Gras on the brain (it's this Tuesday). So do many of you, it turns out. We've had a few requests for F...
We've talked about our ambivalence towards fruit soups, but this is one that may make us give sweet soups a chance. Just look at all the good things here: apple cider (we love it), sweet potatoes (yes...
Welcome to this week's Open Thread. How can we help you cook more this week? We're still talking soups and DIY projects this month. Join in the conversation!
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Project: Coffee Cup Cabinet with Recycled Wine Crates
Name: Daniel
Time: 8 hours
Cost: $10
Here's a great project from Daniel, who couldn't find a storag...
If one of your New Year's resolutions was to do more cooking without following a specific recipe, soups are a great place to start. They're relatively easy to make and very forgiving of mistakes. Here...
Here's a weird "green" dilemma for you: have you accumulated too many canvas grocery totes? ...
Brown butter is one of those magical secret ingredients that just seems to enhance the flavor of just about anything - sweet or savory. It has a rich nutty taste and the aroma is out of this world. Ev...
We've covered the vegan and vegetarian soups -- now here's a turn for the meat-lovers. Well, not just the meat-lovers - there are still a few veg-friendly soups in here. But the focus today is on...
A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers yesterday. To receive Sara Kate's weekly email, sign up in the column to the left or click here. Something tasty will arrive in...
Here's a question from Amy. Can you help her?
My husband and I are deciding to stay put in our small home because of the horrible housing market, and we're trying to make it feel a little more ...
A recent meal at an Armenian restaurant inspired this recipe for yogurt barley soup. Creamy without being heavy, the zesty yogurt provides a nice balance to nutty and chewy barley. When the barley is ...
OK, everyone. It's the last weekend of the February Jumpstart project. You've got one more weekend to send us your kitchen reorganizations, hacks, new projects, and whatever else you needed to get don...
Fruit or no fruit? That is the question (or one of them, anyway). Like Martinis, Old-Fashioneds are one of those drinks that’ve been around long enough to have developed more than a few variations. ...
Yesterday the New York Times ran a piece on urban composting: an activity of intrepid city folks who refuse to let their waste go to waste. They find hideaway spots for their trays of worms and decomp...
If you are thinking about signing up for a summer CSA share, now's the time. Just Food, a nonprofit organization that's leading the charge for a more sustainable, healthy food system in New York City,...
We love it when we get emails like this. Reader Patricia from Montreal wrote us saying that she loves the site, and it inspires her cooking. She took Emma's January weekend project challenge to make h...
Once we resolved to master the frittata this year, it was very tempting to quietly work on it behind the scenes and then reveal our new skill down the road with a big TA DA! Instead, we decided to tak...
This soup from blog Veggie Belly looks so good right now. We've never used parsnips in soup, but we like the addition here of chimichurri, which probably helps balance the natural sweetness of this pa...
Grand Central Market is a long, often very crowded arcade of food stalls on one end of Grand Central Terminal. We think of it as a pit stop for commuters, a mecca of prepared foods and last-minute din...
This question seemed like a good companion to yesterday's Good Question on a neater way to store onions and garlic. Adam has a similar problem, but it's all in his fridge.
I have been having the wor...
If you're fortunate to live in a citrus growing area or have your very own kumquat tree, now might be the season to enjoy these little winter jewels. While harvest may range between December and June,...
You may think that winter is a down time for ice cream. Not so. Jeni's Ice Creams here in Columbus is busily churning out seasonal flavors like Smoked Dark Chocolate with Marshmallows (tastes like cho...
Although other kinds of chowder certainly exist, it's really clam chowder that we're most interested in. Since moving to New England, we've discovered that "clam chowder" can mean very different thing...
We were very interested today to see a spread of accessible home design in the New York Times -- and of course we were most interested in the kitchens. Accessible in this case means accessible to...
I had the absolute thrill of spending yesterday morning at KCRW in Santa Monica, hanging with the crew and talent of KCRW's Good Food as they taped an upcoming segment. It is such a pleasure to watch ...
This recipe immediately grabbed our attention as we flipped through Picture Yourself Cooking with Kids by Beth Sheresh. A warm, fluffy cake has appeal for both kids and adults, and the directions are ...
We are so smitten by this baby blue Scandinavian storage cabinet. We spotted it over at Living Etc., and after some sleuthing discovered its source. ...
What's your idea of a perfect pancake? Dorie Greenspan shares hers with the Chicago Tribune and offers several tips to achieve the ideal stack at home. To start? Lose the boxed mix. But making your ow...
Obama sushi! Whoa! The page is in Japanese -- anyone up for translating?...
Don't want to finish the bottle, but don't want to waste the wine?? We have all experienced disappointment when the half bottle of yummy wine enjoyed last night tastes awful the next day. Indeed lots ...
The Times Online just came out with their list of the "Top 50 Food Blogs." The Kitchn is on the list, as well as a lot of our favorite reading. Serious Eats, 101 Cookbooks, Bitten, Orangette are all t...
The final four have moved down to New Orleans for the finale (Hello, Emeril!), and we would have eaten just about anything that came out of the kitchen in last night's episode. Beignets, check. Gri...
Every week we round up our favorite posts from our friends at Serious Eats. This week: a juicy citrus salad, a Lego kitchen appliance, a homemade pizza hack, and a seriously in-the-wild seafood displa...
A few of you were curious how these glazed pear muffins would taste a few days after the fact, given the lack of sugar, fat, and other ingredients that help delay staling. We froze half of our batch a...
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Kate Winslet should look happy; she seems to be a lock for Best Actress at the Academy Awards on Sunday. As for us, we'll be smiling, too, because we've got all kinds of food ideas for a smashing Os...
When we think of Soup, with a capital S, this is the kind of soup that Soup should be. ...
The beautiful canisters in the photos from our most recent Jumpstart entry, How To Paint Laminate Countertops, reminded us to tell you about their source: a simply beautiful collection of items f...
Ever since we wrote about freezing bread remainders, we've been on a bread pudding kick. A warm, sweet dish of sweet potato or apple walnut bread pudding is so satisfying this time of year (or any tim...
Do your kids help out with the cooking in your house? Whether they're toddlers or teenagers, Beth Sheresh thinks that there are lots of ways that kids can contribute in the kitchen - not to mention th...
I don't stop eating salad just because it's winter. In fact, I look forward to winter salads. No wilting, delicate lettuces here; no tender baby vegetables to be coddled with understated vinaigrettes....
It looks like we spoke too soon when we said major networks weren't posting food shows online! Given all the time we spend looking up recipes on their website, you think we'd have noticed that the Foo...
We've published a lot of tips and ideas on soup preparation over the years; we are definitely a bunch of avid stew-makers and soup-stirrers! Here are some of our favorite tips on making soup a little ...
I picked up these crazy heirloom Pineapple tomatoes this Sunday at the farmers' market. The woman who sold them to me thought I was nuts for picking them.
Question is, what to do with three small cr...
Last week's post on 10 kitchen improvements for renters was a hit; lots of you are in rental kitchens! But that was just a start: there are plenty of other good ideas on brightening a rental kitc...
The Oscars are this Sunday, and later on we'll be bringing you recipe ideas that celebrate some of the nominated films. But first, we thought we'd take a look back at some of the year's most memorab...
As we waited for our leftover white rice to reheat in the microwave yesterday, we started to ponder the question of reheated rice. We almost always use the microwave to warm up leftovers, but it often...
Two ingredients. That's it. Well, if you want to be a stickler and count salt and pepper and a touch of olive oil, it's five. OK, and water makes six. But the oil method is optional, so we're back t...
Ready for some sweet and hearty winter eating? Read on for chocolate cake decorated in a lovely way, and two soups worth making tonight....
This would make a beautiful presentation for a weekend brunch. Bittman writes the lead article in today's New York Times Dining section, arguing for savory whole grain dishes to start the day. Otherwi...
Lyla is neatening up her kitchen, and she is annoyed by garlic and onion skins falling all over the counter. Can you suggest a better storage option for garlic and onions?
I'm looking for suggestions...
We love this apron idea from the US-based company Just Perfect, which adds a zip-off towel along the bottom of a regular apron bib. What do you think?...
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Sweet potato soup is a great way to start a meal. It fills you up, and its sweet warmth complements many winter dishes. We love these little soup shooters from Domino; we'd love a shot of this right n...
Many of our favorite soups are pureed -- blended into smooth, silky creaminess with a blender or food processor. We have to admit that pureeing soups is one of our least favorite parts of soup-making,...
We had two encounters with mascarpone cheese in pasta recently. One was seeing this Tagliatelle with Spinach, Mascarpone, and Parmesan over on Jamie Oliver's website. The other was catching the tail e...
Look! It's a pasta noodle. Get it? Haha. But that's not all it is -- it actually has one more very useful purpose....
I visited Albuquerque last week and although I wasn't in town at the right time for farmers' markets or the annual chile harvest, I did get to experience some of the local cuisine. Just about every ot...
Or maybe a better question is have you ever done it? Everyone's looking for ways to save money and trim down the food budget these days. Maybe it's time to return to the barter system......
Ever wonder how professional bakers get those beautifully domed loaves a bread with glossy brown crusts? The secret - at least one of them - is steam......
On the heels of Emma's post on imitation vanilla vs. the real stuff comes this rejection of vanilla entirely. Why do so many recipes call for up to a tablespoon of vanilla when there are many other op...
Last week I showed you some baby cabbages I bought at the Hollywood Farmers' Market in my post about dropping in on other cities' farmers markets. These little fist-sized gems called out to me so I bo...
This Old House is not usually the first resource we turn to for small-space tips and ideas. We usually associate it with big rambling houses and expensive renovations. But this may be a mistake; ...
We're big tea drinkers, so yesterday's Chicago Tribune got our attention with a list of nine things to "unlearn" about the stuff. For instance, there might be some good news for those of you who like ...
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Project: Refinishing Ugly Laminate Countertops
Name: Cheri
Time: 4 days
Cost: $60
Here's another February Jumpstart kitchen project, and it's one we didn'...
Shayna is trying to save money and explore a new recipe by cracking the code on these crisps. Can you help?
I need some help figuring out how to work backwards from the super tasty (and way out of my...
Mandazi to sukuma wiki: Last week I shared five foods we ate while traveling in Kenya earlier this month. Here is one last stop for Kenyan food -- a popular Kenyan eatery in Nairobi that serves c...
Around this time last year, we asked what food magazines you were reading. Only one person commented about Fine Cooking, a title that doesn't get nearly as much attention as Gourmet or Cook's Illu...
We eat salads straight through the winter, turning to cabbage, fennel, and other winter greens to satisfy our cravings. So the challenge of washing, drying, and storing a variety of greens for salad i...
Can you tell the difference between imitation vanilla and the real stuff in your baked goods? The chefs at Cook's Illustrated decided to put this to the test, and their results may surprise you. Get t...
We mostly focus on the practical, here at The Kitchn. We like good ideas for everyday cooking and recipes that anyone can make. But we also like to keep an eye on the fanciful and the creative! T...
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Have you seen all four of the February Jumpstart kitchen projects? This February we teamed up with Etsy to hold our second DIY small project contest. We invited entries from across our whole network, ...
All of the above and more, in last week's most popular posts. We have mouthwatering galleries of caramel and chocolate desserts, a frilly pink party table for Valentine's, a perplexing story about ove...
We love DIY recipes. Every recipe is to some extent DIY, of course, but what we mean is that we love to take packaged products or restaurant dishes and recreate them in our own kitchens. These recipes...
Happy Presidents' Day from The Kitchn! We're taking today to look over some DIY posts in honor of our February Jumpstart Project. (Have you entered a kitchen project yet? You have just a few more days...
A San Francisco magazine has just put out their local version of the '100 things you should do (eat and drink-wise) before you die' list. Sigh. I guess I understand the appeal of these kinds of list...
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