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The 48 hours of Thumbs Up voting will come to an end for the first batch of Quick Weeknight Meals contestants today. Click ...
Happy weekend! What are you doing this weekend? Are you entering our Quick Weeknight Meals recipe contest? We want to see your best quick weeknight dinner recipe! Or perhaps you're looking for somethi...
Recipe: Roasted Vegetables on Creamy Polenta
How long does it take? 20 minutes prep - 30 minutes to cook
Name: Jean
Why is it a favorite meal? I love crispy roasted vegetables....
We've been meaning to show you our new favorite liqueur for quite a while. But as we sipped and sipped, the bottle level got lower and lower, and now we have hardly any left to show you! And that, I s...
Do you keep certain ingredients in your fridge or pantry, knowing that you can always rely on them to whip up a fast, healthy meal? For us, these go-to staples include miso and tahini. ...
Q: I have been told that its fine to use sterilized jars and put HOT soup in them — then turn them upside down and let them seal themselves.
Is this a good method for low risk foods?
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Forget take-out! Now that you know all about how to stir fry, take one of these recipes for a spin. They're fast, easy, and certainly more tasty than anything arriving in a white container!...
We've been seeing more and more of these dish drawers in small kitchens. Ours came with our apartment, which had recently been renovated, and now that we've been using them for more than a year, ...
I've always loved dolmas - they're such a healthy and delicious finger food to take to a picnic or to add to a collection of mezedhes spread around the table. In the past, I used to just grab ...
A few weeks ago we admitted to a crush on this new knife from Wüsthof. Well, since then they gave us a chance to try it out, and now we have to say we're fully in love. ...
Name: Heather
Recipe: Little Ribbons with Eggplant, Tomato and Blue Cheese
How long does it take? 30 minutes
Why is it a favorite meal? It’s a terrific way to use some of your late summer bou...
With Clean Food (Sterling Epicure), Terry Walters puts herself on the big green scene map. This is the latest in a string of books about eating well, close to the source, and harming the earth and bod...
Q: How do you can something when you didn't make it specifically from a canning recipe? I make all kinds of soups I would love to can but they're not from a canning recipe book.
— Question aske...
If you're trying to keep to a food budget, sometimes you have to make hard choices between what you want and what you can afford. But it can't be all about sacrificing - we need some luxury now and th...
Bright and bold potato salad with green beans, clever tongs, and a classic dish from Le Creuset....
Is your garden turning out more tomatoes than you know what to do with? How about a month's worth of new recipes? Plus, a green panini filled with spicy greens and the story of a pickle entrepreneur. ...
It's something akin to a culinary lunar eclipse that at the moment we're all immersed in the celebration of Julia Child, Sheila Lukins of Silver Palate fame died of brain cancer. Julia's gift to the k...
Q: HELP! I planted basil from seeds this year, and wound up with about 60 basil plants that are in full swing right now. I can't keep up with all the beautiful basil leaves they're producing, and my f...
We think this is an ingenious idea from Martha Stewart! It will be an especially handy trick for those times when we run out of liners in the middle of a batch of muffins. And it looks elegant, too - ...
Recipe:
How long does it take? 15 minutes
Name: Salmon with Capers and Wilted Greens
Why is it a favorite meal? This recipe is incredibly fast and equally delicious. I have prepared this for m...
Many of us would rather go for a clean, slick, necessity-only kitchen; others opt for the visual feast of paintings, photos, and prints adorning the walls. For a few inspirational suggestions, we foun...
A few months ago we mentioned that we were looking for a good oil mister. We wanted one to coat cooking pans and sliced vegetables with oil, and we also wanted to quit buying those cans of spray oil. ...
This month, we're talking about quick meals, and the time-consuming dumpling might not seem to fit the bill. But if you assemble dumplings on the weekend or a quiet evening, by the time that busy week...
Recipe: Quinoa Tabouli
How long does it take? 20-30 minutes
Name: Yael
Why is it a favorite meal? Fast, but still healthy and delicious. Quinoa cooks faster than brown rice, but is even better ...
Do you have an eating nook in your kitchen? We do, and we're currently plotting a facelift for it. So we were delighted to see this sun-drenched, colorful breakfast nook in Angelique's kitchen....
There's a nip in the air in New York today, and it's making us really excited for chilly weather. And chili weather. Chilly chili weather, if you will. Here are 14 recipes perfect for Fall, from ch...
Last week I made a list of small bite meals around the world. One item on this list was meze, which is a collection of finger foods. A meze is a big part of the dining experience in Eastern Mediterr...
For the fifth year in a row, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared that September is California Wine Month. Dozens of retailers and restaurants throughout the country are participating in the pr...
We all have at least one of these long, wicked-looking, and many-toothed knives laying around in a drawer. Unless you make or buy whole loaves of bread, chances are that knife isn't seeing too much ac...
What is it about the idea of 200 cake plates or 100 salt and pepper shakers in the same place that gets us all giddy inside? Eddie Ross recently had magnificent adventures, backstage in the prop dep...
Q: I just canned a whole bunch of food for the first time yesterday. Mostly pickles and jam, but I also canned two tomato based things: spicy salsa and crushed tomatoes. I added commercial lemon juice...
When we shared our favorite pot roast recipe yesterday, we also mentioned how much we love having the leftovers in the fridge to use for meals during the week. Our families inevitably get tired of str...
Recipe: Lamb Burgers
How long does it take? 25 minutes
Name: Lindsey
Why is it a favorite meal? Fast, delicious and healthy! This is a great late summer recipe that uses items on hand from the ...
This week's episode was all about French food and notable French chefs. There were some impressive mouths to feed, but not everyone was up to the challenge.
Note: We reveal the winner and losers belo...
A gorgeous pink sundae bar, chocolate-filled doughnuts, and more sweet treats in today's Delicious Links....
Q: I recently decided to upgrade from an ailing frying pan to a 9" All-Clad French skillet, and felt really excited about making a purchase that made me feel both grown-up and self-indulgent at the sa...
Raise your hand if you've ever been caught on a weeknight with no fresh veggies in the fridge. Or if the veggies you thought were fresh turn out to be...not so fresh. Meet your new best friend: jarred...
Every week we round up our favorite cooking and eating from our friends at Serious Eats. This week we really enjoyed this post on teff: the tiny, gluten-free grain that is made into the Ethopian flatb...
Huh?? That's what we said when we first read about these peas popsicles at Weelicious.
• Read the full post at Ohdeedoh...
We are so excited about Quick Weeknight Meals, our September contest. We all are busy this time of year, back to routines of school, work, and fall activities. Sometimes it's harder to get dinner on t...
Good cooking, cafeteria food, farmers' markets, and how to start a community garden – all this and more appears in The Nation's special food and democracy issue.
There's so much, we haven't ev...
We ate a lot of bad lentils growing up. They were so often mushy and gluey, and the faint greenish brown color didn't exactly help when it came to enticing a kid to dig in. Those memories have kept us...
Not only does pot roast make a hearty weekend supper for the whole family, it makes some mighty excellent leftovers, too. In fact, we've started making pot roast with the specific intention of having ...
Tired of rice? Bored with couscous? Need a non-vegetable side dish to liven up your plate? Try bulgur wheat.
I first had bulgur wheat when I saw a recipe card at the grocery store for bulgur cooke...
We're so excited about our September contest — Quick Weeknight Meals. We've been looking forward to this one for a long time, and we're especially excited about the great prizes we have lined up...
Or maybe we should say, All About Cow Milk and Cow Milk Cheese. (It just wasn't as catchy.) What are the properties of cow milk and to what kind of cheese does it lend itself? Herein, a brief primer o...
Often times when people talk about things being on sale, we flip over to check out the prices and they aren't exactly what we call "bargains." Just because something is 15% off, doesn't make i...
Q: Several months after canning strawberry jam, I looked at the jars and the top layer of the jam was brown and smelled and tasted bad. Any idea what I may have done? It was so disappointing!
I do t...
Stir frying is really one of the best techniques we home cooks can have up our sleeves. Because they cook so quickly, you can have a stir fry on the table in about the time it takes to chop up the veg...
A great how-to on making that lovely, swirled marble bread. Plus grilled corn and blueberry salad, and a new butter package that doesn't need a knife to spread....
We're enchanted by The Cup and Saucer Collective, a new kitchen and art project from artist Heather Smith Jones and photographer Rachel Saldana. They've just released their inaugural collection, a lo...
We've had quite a bit of focus on the kitchen floor lately, what with this gallery of painted floors and a look at painted floor cloths. Reader Jacqueline was inspired to send us her own kitchen floor...
Q: A friend just came back from Mexico with a pint of Mexican vanilla. She raved about the flavoring and split the bottle with me but I'm hesitant to use the extract. Isn't it banned in the US for hea...
Have you ever tried replacing eggs with ground flax seed in your baking? We spotted this tip on the Bitten blog last week and were instantly intrigued.
We've been known to sprinkle flax seeds over ou...
Great picks for cheap wine from Trader Joe's, a foolproof way to cook rice, a discussion of how you all clean your ovens, and how to frost a layer cake too. Read on for these posts and more from this ...
Admittedly, it might be because we're absolutely starving right now, as we find ourselves yet again skipping a meal while browsing online, but we find these set of plates by Merry Design Studio delect...
Tomorrow we're kicking off our September contest, Quick Weeknight Meals (are you ready?). Tonight, here are ten quick one-dish suppers for you to whet your appetite, and maybe to give you ideas...
Here's a pungent ingredient we recently picked up from a Thai market. Have you ever cooked with it? ...
Brussels sprouts haters and lovers alike: we have got a recipe for you both. Here's a treat of a recipe to kick off fall flavors — an easy, quick party hors d'oeuvre, a finger food featuring eve...
Fall is creeping up on us, and with it comes the prospect of braised sauces and hearty stews. Our favorite cooking pot for all these classic fall dishes is a Dutch oven. We realized that our Du...
These muffins from Gourmet are made with whole wheat pastry flour, which as we know from this post has a low protein content. That means you get a healthier muffin with a slightly richer flavor withou...
Ramadan (in Arabic: رمضان, Ramadān) is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. During the whole month, faithful observers of Islam fast from sunrise (Sahour) to sunset (Iftar). During ...
Looking for small, inexpensive ways to make a rental kitchen just a little bit nicer? Here's one tip that we always follow when we move into a new home: Replace the switch plates and outlet covers. ...
One of the first heralds of fall seems to be the arrival of Octoberfest seasonal beers! These lagers tend to have lots of warm malt flavors to help us transition into cooler weather and shorter days. ...
Bagged meals found in the frozen section at your local grocer can make for a quick weeknight meal. Unfortunately, they come with a heavy price tag and don't always leave you satisfied after a long d...
Q: I'm curious: is the process for canning meat sauces (with tomatoes, etc. in the jar also) any different from canning vegetarian sauces?
From marthag...
Sometimes the secret to quick but satisfying weeknight meals isn't finding ways to cut corners, but spreading out the work. We try to do a little extra prep work when we have the time so that meals co...
Elvis in ice cream cake, Julia Child in a reissued Gastronomica, and a cake made with Chardonnay......
Beans are a great base for weeknight meals, but while they're incredibly simple to make, there's one key ingredient we just don't have every night: time. That's why we like to make a pot over the week...
It seems like everyone is going vertical in the kitchen! We just showed you this vertical pot rack built with inexpensive materials from the hardware store. Now here's another version of a simi...
Q: Do any of you (or your reader) make homemade ketchup? With the current canning revival (and my surplus of tomatoes) I was hoping to add a great recipe to my cookbooks!
Thanks and happy canning!
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It's easy to write parsley off. Parsley is just the requisite garnish that decorates plates at fancy restaurants. In our own cooking, we tend to pass over parsley in favor of herbs with bolder, bigger...
September is Artwork, Crafts & Collections month at Apartment Therapy, and in honor of this theme, let’s talk about teapots, which I’ve always wanted to collect. Teapots are fascinating object...
Spell to Be Said Upon Departure
by Jane Hirshfield
What had come here to do
having finished,
shelves of the water lie flat.
Copper the leaves of the doorsill,
yellow and falling.
Scarlet the bird th...
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