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Better Microwave Popcorn and Awesome Rental Kitchens
Most popular posts published August 22-28, 2009

What were the most popular posts published this past week? Here's a peek — read on for the top ten. 15. Sexier Than It Sounds: Oatmeal Cake with Broiled Coconut 14. What's The Difference Betwe...

What's Cooking This Weekend?
Weekend of August 29-30, 2009

It's Friday already! How is your weekend shaping up, and what are you planning on cooking? We are plotting another corn and tomato salad, with some ideas of grilling pork chops too. Summer produce is ...

Recipe: Faloodeh (Persian Rose Water Ice)

As we learned recently, we're not the only fans of gorgeous, fragrant rose water. This is our very favorite use for it – Persian ice, or faloodeh, a splendidly refreshing combination of rose wat...

Re-Inventing a Summer Classic: Bacon, Lettuce, and...?

Looking at that BLT poster this morning made us crave the real thing. But tomatoes are mighty scarce in some parts of the country right now due to a crop blight in New England. This has forced us to b...

Classic Design: A Gallery of Subway Tiles in the Kitchen

Subway tiles are a common element in bathrooms, but we love the way they look in a kitchen. There's something about the shape and brick-like pattern that makes them look more modern than square...

Classic Recipe: Katharine Hepburn's Brownies

Here's a recipe that has been on our radar for a long time: Katherine Hepburn's brownies. Yes, apparently Katharine Hepburn baked, and this recipe for fudgy brownies has been passed down in her name. ...

How To Make Chirashi At Home

Chirashi, also called chirashizushi (ちらし寿司) is one of my favorite Japanese meals. The word "chirashi" means "scattered," so this is basically a big bowl of rice mixed with fish, vegeta...

Cool Recipe: Creamy Matcha Frozen Yoghurt
Stay Cool!

Name: Anh Location: Sydney, Australia How are you staying cool? Healthy and easy frozen yoghurt with matcha (green-tea) flavour!...

Kitchen Makeover: White Walls and Pine Cupboards
Country Living

Here's an interesting makeover for you: a kitchen that traded in white cabinets for pine cupboards — an opposite direction than we would generally go. Do you think it works? Read on for m...

Eating Simply on Vacation with Margaret Roach

We're finally on vacation... a working vacation to begin. First stop was the Berkshires, to tour the kitchen of Margaret Roach. Margaret is the head honcho in chief of the garden blog, A Way To Garden...

Pickled Sea Beans and Roasted Pork Loin
Delicious links for 8.28.09

Some great weekend cooking in today's Delicious Links......

Budget Kitchen Decor: Posters from M + E

If you've recently moved into a new apartment like we have, you might find yourself lacking the leftover funds for actually decorating your new digs (also like us!). Luckily, a friend pointed u...

Cool Inspiration: Simple and Delicious Salads
Stay Cool!

Name: Jessica Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania How are you staying cool? Creating simple and delicious salads. ...

The BLW Sandwich and Potato Chip Wine Pairings
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 8.26.09

What's that on your sandwich? Bacon, lettuce and ... watermelon? Find out more about that recipe below, plus wines to drink with your potato chips, an award-winning goat cheese and the science behind ...

Can a Julia Child-Style Peg Board Work In My Kitchen?
Good Questions

Q: Last week, Mark Bittman of the New York Times blogged about photographer Pedro Guerrero's experience shooting Julia Child's kitchen. I fell in LOVE with her peg board wall — it would be the m...

Great Summer Meal: Homemade Vietnamese Spring Rolls

Our August theme Stay Cool! is wrapping up, but we still have a few more good ways to stay cool in the kitchen coming your way. One of our favorite cool and crunchy summer meals is spring rolls, and t...

Best Sandwich Spread: Watkins Honey Mustard

We're not what you might call condimaniacs at our house, and we're usually happy with whatever jar or squeeze bottle comes to hand first. But on a recent summer trip to visit family, we became absolut...

Roundup: Disposable-Inspired Tableware

Aside from convenience, there's not much to love about disposable products. We all know that they create a lot of waste and zap resources... but is there anything to take from their design? Some seem ...

Summer Breakfast: Pattypan Squash with Eggs Inside
Sunset

We were flipping through old food magazines when we came across this brilliant idea from Sunset. It may be the best solution for two of our questions from the past month: what to do with pattypan squa...

Help Jill's Dark and Quirky Mad Men Kitchen
My Kitchen Needs a Makeover!

Name: Jill Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rent or own? Own Jill's kitchen is dark, quirky, outdated, and reminiscent of Mad Men's 1960s style. We have some suggestions and inspiration ph...

What's Your Favorite Non-Essential Liquor?

We've talked about stocking your liquor cabinet with summer essentials, and other cocktail basics. Now we're curious about the extra sorts of liquor you like to keep around. Besides the big basics of ...

It's Open! New Whole Foods (and Wine Store)
New York city

Today was opening day for the new Whole Foods on 97th Street and Columbus Avenue, and we walked through the doors at 8:30 a.m. First up: a latte from the coffee bar, followed by a long stare at the...

Cool Summer Soup: Vichyssoise

When the temperature goes up, this is one of my favorite soups to make. Easy and economical, it is wonderful when served chilled, but it has a split personality - it can also be served hot!...

Kitchen-less Cooking: The George Foreman Grill

Want to cook in your dorm? While hot plates and toaster ovens are usually big no-no's, some colleges will still allow these small George Foreman grills! Check your rules and regulations, because then ...

Sweet Wines That Are Cool With Ice Cream

August is Stay Cool! month at the Kitchn. As the temperatures have been rising, so has our frequency of serving ice cream for dessert. This always brings up the question of what are the best wines to ...

You Put A Chest Freezer Where?!

We talked awhile back about having a second freezer in the home. We've always been big believers in owning one, but after our recent move to a smaller space, we ended up putting it in a rather unusu...

Scrub Cloths Made from Recycled Peach Pits and Corn Cobs
Delicious links for 8.27.09

Unusual (and pretty) scrub cloths, even prettier cake plates, and a great new offering from King Arthur Flour. ...

Ingredient Spotlight: What Can You Do With Peanut Butter?

We are definitely not above having a big spoonful of peanut butter for a quick afternoon snack! Especially if there's a little honey or a few chocolate chips involved. As a raw ingredient, peanut butt...

Cool Inspiration: Stay Both Cool and Caffeinated!
Stay Cool!

Name: Whitney Location: Chicago, Illinois How are you staying cool? Keeping cool and caffeinated at the same time......

Top Chef Las Vegas: A Shot At Love With Tequila

Todd English stopped by to guest judge in week two of Top Chef Las Vegas. If this episode proved anything, it's that this season will likely be just as cheesy as we expected – the craps table, the b...

What Are Good Meals to Cook Together as a Group?
Good Questions

Q: I'm renting a house for a long weekend with six friends. We'll have a nice big stocked kitchen and a grocery store nearby. Some of us are foodies, others will help but are more eaters than cookers....

Back to School Reading: Jane Austen Mugs

Class is back in session, and so are the classics. If you'll permit us a bit of nostalgia for one of our own favorite authors — in and out of the classroom — we'd like to show you our new ...

More on Hot Peppers: 2 Helpful Guides

Part of being able to take the heat is knowing where the heat is coming from! We recently came across two guides to help us identify peppers and how much heat they're packing. Take a look!...

The Best-Ever Salad for Leftover Meats
Good Eats! A Weekly Roundup from Serious Eats

Every week we bring you our favorite posts on cooking and eating from our friends at Serious Eats. This week there's this glamorous yet frugal salad that uses up scraps of leftover roast chicken or ro...

Green Style: Green Mid-Century Kitchen Remodel

After 10 years of working in a cramped 1950s kitchen, the owners of this kitchen gave it a sustainable update. They reused the existing appliances, but installed a host of new updates that made this k...

Chocolate and Vanilla: Two New Favorite Cupcake Recipes
Recipe Reviews

School and work are back in session, and so cupcake season is fast upon us. We don't bake a lot of cupcakes; we usually prefer the ease of one whole cake. But when it comes to school classrooms and wo...

Kitchen Spotlight: Lorin's Luxurious Custom Studio

Tiny studio dwellers, this kitchen is for you! Lorin's kitchen is tiny — a postage-stamp of a workspace. And yet it feels so comfortable to work in — we're amazed at how well she ha...

Time for Lunch: A Campaign for Real Food

When I first heard about Time for Lunch, a national campaign to get real food in schools, it sounded like an admirable cause, but I wasn't instantly moved to action. I don't have kids, I grew up bring...

Ten Ways to Feed Ten People for Less Than $20

We've been throwing and attending a lot of cookouts and dinners this summer. It's so fun to gather with friends around a big meal — but sometimes feeding a lot of people can get expensive. There...

Individual Peach Ginger Hand Pies You Can Pack for Lunch

We're not even sure we'd risk sending this to school in our child's lunch bag, lest it get traded for an Oreo. These sweet, summery, little handheld pies we'd keep for ourselves... ...

Do You Cook Less In The Summer?

Even though summer is filled with an abundance of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables, it also brings higher temperatures. When the mercury is rising outside, do you still cook as much as you do dur...

Dinner Quick: One-Bowl Microwave Macaroni and Cheese

There was a time when a certain bunny-shaped pasta with instant cheese mix figured prominently in our weekly meal plan. Now we turn to a quick dinner solution that’s just as easy and, dare we say, m...

New Cheese Pricing at Whole Foods
The Cheesemonger

Well, it's not new pricing, exactly, but Whole Foods had made a pretty major change to their cheese signage. At first it seemed tricky, like a marketing ploy, but after giving it more thought, we thin...

Tips On Making Popularity-Winning Lunches For Kids

Taking your lunch to school has become all the rage with the recent wave of concerned moms and dads. Lunches that are dished out at school, although they meet strict standards, aren't really all that ...

If a Guest Brings Wine, Should I Open It Immediately?
Questions of Etiquette

Gentle readers, here is a question of dinner party etiquette; we hope that you can help us out and settle an ongoing household debate. We have hosted quite a few dinner parties this summer, and our ...

Simple Solutions: How to Make a Quick Sugar Icing

This is one of those cook’s tricks we keep in our back pocket. A simple sugar icing will fancy up some scones for company or add the perfect touch to a batch of cookies. It’s so easy, you don’t ...

Veggie Rainbow Wraps and Splendid Fruit Desserts
Delicious links for 8.26.09

A really wonderful and colorful idea for your lunchbox today, plus fruit desserts and a chart of calories vs. caffeine in many popular coffee drinks. ...

How to Get the Labour & Wait Vintage British Kitchen Look

Ever since Faith posted about the London-based housewares store Labour and Wait, I've been craving a nice set of enamelware ladles. But even if I could blink away the cost of international pos...

Can You Identify This Chinese Mystery Ingredient?
Good Questions

Q: Our summer subletters recently vacated our apartment to return to China and left this jar of mystery food behind. They are a little fuzzy looking. What are they? And how do I use them? Sent by M...

Cool Inspiration: Alicia's Cold Tofu Salad
Stay Cool!

Name: Alicia Location: Westchester, New York How are you staying cool? Cold salads and breakfast for dinner......

Looking at Jamie Oliver's Chicken in Milk
Anatomy of a Recipe

This recipe for cooking whole chicken is still one of our absolute favorites. Between the tender slow-cooked meat and that incredible lemon-sage sauce, there’s so much to love! Just how does this ch...

10 Things You Can Recycle You Didn't Know You Could

If you're like us you hate throwing anything in the regular garbage. It seems like such a, pardon the pun, waste. But there's some stuff you just don't know what to do with. Check out our list plus ...

Back To Work and School: 15 Great Lunchbox Snacks

School starts this week for students all over the country, and many of us are also filtering, reluctantly, back into regular work schedules after summer vacations. To make the transition back i...

Oregano: Mediterranean and Mexican
What's the Difference?

When a friend brought us a jar of intensely fragrant oregano from travels to Portugal, we became curious about the different varieties of this herb. What's the distinction between Greek, Italian, Turk...

Don't Let Watermelon Go To Waste: Drink It!

This is the time of year, replete with picnics and cook-outs, when there always seems to be a quarter of a watermelon languishing in the fridge. We adore ice-cold watermelon, but one of these ponderou...

Kitchen Gallery: 10 Recently Inspiring Rental Kitchens

Rental kitchens! The most difficult part of a rental apartment. We are mostly stuck with the kitchens that come with our rented dwellings, and yet there are ways to add pops of color and small ...

Just Like Del's? Frosty Frozen Lemonade
Martha Stewart

We should have included this in our roundup of Street Fair Food, because it reminds us of the trademark Del's Frozen Lemonade we see at every outdoor festival and beach boardwalk in the Northeast. Thi...

Recipe: Sweet Fried Plantains (Plátanos Maduros)

Here's a sweet and savory side dish that's economical and easy to make. Sweet fried plantains, or plátanos maduros in Spanish, are a staple of Latin American cuisine, and are found in a f...

Top 5 Beers We Hate to Love
Beer Sessions

Or is it that we love to hate them? In either case, in honor of all the students heading back to campus this week, we thought we'd pay homage to the pop-top beers and cheap tall boys that we called ou...

Packing a Lunch? 9 Useful and Cool Lunchboxes and Bags

It's time to go back to school and hit the office routine once again, and we're here to cheer you on in packing your lunch! Sure, an office lunch out at the corner deli is nice once in a while,...

Recipe: Brownie Bites To Go!

There's a convenience store in town that sells freshly baked brownie bites at their register. Now living in the midwest, grabbing a snack and a drink at a gas station is a daily occurrence for...

Potato Dominoes and French Toast Kebabs
Delicious links for 8.25.09

Yummy stacked potatoes and French toast on a stick (with blueberry sauce) in today's Delicious Links. ...

Kitchen Etiquette: Tips for Shared Kitchen Spaces

If you don’t currently share a kitchen, we’re guessing that at some point in time you did or you will. When it comes to sharing forks and fridge space with other people, we know that relationships...

What Are the Best Countertop or Portable Dishwashers?
Good Questions

Q: I'm in the market for a portable dishwasher and I was wondering if you have any suggestions or can ask the audience? You've featured so many small New York City kitchens, I'm sure I'm not alone in ...

College Eating: How To Make Better Microwave Popcorn

Microwave popcorn is a college dorm staple – when your kitchen is limited to a microwave and a mini fridge, what choice do you have? But did you know there's a way to make it that's healthier...

A Sweet Finish: How To Make Strawberry Chips

We are so enamored of this sweet garnish that we just spotted at Pastry Pal, a lovely and helpful blog. These strawberry chips are easy and special; read on to see how they're made! ...

Cool Recipe: Dana's Unusual Lemon Salad
Stay Cool!

Name: Dana Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom How are you staying cool? Lemon salad! I know — lemon salad?! But it's great. It's refreshing without being too sour or bitter....

Small Space Living: Portable Stove Necklace

College students, here's one way to get around the restrictions on hot plates and toaster ovens in your dorm rooms: get yourself a stove necklace! You've got to see this to believe it....

Vegan Ice Cream and Peanut Butter and Fruit "Sushi"
This Time Last Year

What were we talking about this time last year? Well, there were still lots of ice cream recipes rolling out, including a pink lemonade ice cream and a mango chili flavor too! We had tips on the best ...

Worth It or Not? Green Non-Stick Skillets

We've been curious about eco-friendly non-stick skillets for quite awhile now. So, when we saw that Cook's Illustrated was testing eight different brands, we were excited to see the results ... &bull...

Sexier Than It Sounds: Oatmeal Cake with Broiled Coconut
Recipe Review

This is one of our very, very, most very favorite cakes. And yet the photos don't quite do it justice. This is a moist, tender cake with a gooey topping of broiled coconut and sugar, and while "oatmea...

Stay Cool! Show Us How You Keep Your Cool In the Kitchen
Reader Submissions Wanted!

Our theme all August is Stay Cool! It's hot out there, and we are doing many things to stay cool: churning up ice cream, granita, and sorbet; shaking up frosty drinks, and getting out in the garden. W...

Cool and Calm: Six Foods for the Sunburnt

When it comes to sunburns, prevention is best, but sometimes you forget to pack the sunscreen or stay out a little too long. You might not feel like cooking or even eating much while recovering...

Ingredient Spotlight: Chipotle Chile Peppers

Please meet our newest ally in our on-going quest to find more ways to sneak smoky flavors into our dishes! Chipotle peppers are actually jalapeños that have been smoked and dried, giving them ...

Hot and Steamy: A Visual Tour of Hot Water Bath Canning

A couple weeks ago I attempted canning for the first time in several years. Yes, I've made refrigerator jams and pickles, but I hadn't actually canned anything in quite a while. The process was...

Steal This Idea: Paper Menus-Turned-Take-Away Bags

We're so inspired by Sunday Suppers, the Brooklyn-based cooking class that created these menus. Their table decorations are always stunning, and yet this particular idea is so simple, we're filing it ...

What's The Difference Between Jasmine and Basmati Rice?

For a long time, I thought jasmine rice and basmati rice were the same thing, and I am certain I am not alone in this misconception. It was only recently that I discovered they are two different rice...

Gourmet's Favorite Cocktails 1941-2009
Gourmet

One of our favorite holiday cooking features last winter was Gourmet's look back at seven decades of their favorite cookie recipes. Well, right now they're doing the same for cocktails, and it's one o...

The Classic Caprese Salad

Our tomatoes are blessedly blight-free and in full form right now. We've been picking candy-sweet Pink Caspians and tangy Early Cascades, and of course our favorite way to eat them is in a caprese sal...

College Eating: 5 Ways To Spice Up Cafeteria Food

We can offer suggestions about eating healthy and fresh while you're away at college all we want, but the truth of the matter is, most of us are broke as a joke during our time spent on campus. Eati...

Rental Kitchen Color: Consider Brown

We've been talking about rental kitchen makeovers, and we often hear laments about bland oak cabinets and brown tile. So here's one idea: don't fight the rental kitchen brown. Embrace it. ...

Super Epic Rainbow Cake and Lillet Marshmallows
Delicious links for 8.24.09

Wow, a Super Epic Rainbow Cake! This plus marshmallows made with aperitif wine Lillet, and better freshness labeling. ...

Basic Techniques: How to Fry an Egg

A fried egg over a simple salad or a bowl of grains and veggies is one of the best quick meals we can think of. It follows that frying a good egg is one of the best basic techniques you can know! Here...

Porkaliciousness: Letterpress Posters from 4505 Meats
San Francisco

Those of us who live in the Bay Area have the (quite decadent) opportunity to nosh on 4505 Meats' amazing chicharrones at any time. We can also check out owner Ryan Farr's butchery demos or taste som...

How Can I Make Dried Sweet Corn for Snacking?
Good Questions

Q: I'm wondering about drying corn for snacking. Years ago I was driving across rural Tennessee and picked up a snack labeled "dried sweet corn" at a farm stand. It was lovely and addictive — no...

Cool Recipe: Grated Carrot Salad with Lemon Dressing
Stay Cool!

Name: Michael Location: Copley, Ohio How are you staying cool? Grated carrot salad with lemon dressing. This recipe works great with fresh carrots from the farmers market, and the lemon dressing gives...

Obama Wants a Farmers Market at the White House
The Morning News for 8.24.09

Last Thursday the President had a chat with reporters about health care, healthy eating, and staying fit. Then he mentioned that he might like to see a farmers market right in front of the White House...

Food Science: Why Sweet Potatoes Are Sweet

Sweet potatoes are a vegetable-hater's dream: what could be better than a potato that tastes like candy? But sweet potatoes aren't that way to begin with. They need a little extra help to transform th...

Survey: Do You Use Your Wedding China?

We were talking with friends the other night about dinner parties and how even the most formal of events seemed to have gone casual in our houses. Our friend Jen talked about never ever using her wedd...

Weekend Meditation: Cooking with Lucy Ricardo

It was one of those days in the kitchen today. An awkward tumble of Lucy Ricardo moments, one slapstick event following the other. Things kept burning, or dropping, or breaking. I picked up the rip...