Apartment Therapy: D.I.Y. Recipe

Colorful Cooking: How to Make Colored Pasta

Want to add a little color to your plate?! Lovely ribbons of green, red, and yellow pasta really bring a dish to life. They're also as easy to make as they are to eat! Here's how:...

Recipe: Homemade Candy Corn (and Candy Dough!)

Candy corn is one of those Halloween treats that you either love or hate. We happen to enjoy those stratified orange triangles, and have been excited to try out hand at making them at home. But we ...

Recipe: Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)

This is one of my favorite Thai dishes - that crunchy, fresh, shrimpy salad slathered in lime, fish sauce, cilantro, and Thai basil. It's also one of those foods I never thought to make on my ow...

DIY Fall Appetizer: Fig Salami

Inside these cheesecloth packages are homemade salami, flavored with red wine, herbs and spices. But the main ingredient isn't meat – it's figs! These have some aging to do and won't be ready for an...

Recipe: Hot & Sour Soup - So Easy!

One of my favorite soups is Hot & Sour Soup, and I was flabbergasted to discover that it's really quite easy - and cheap! - to make. Who woulda thunk it? Called suan la t'ang in Chinese, it gets its...

Copycat Recipe: DIY Nutri-Grain Fruit and Nut Bars

Of all the pre-made and pre-packaged foods that we've been trying to move away from, we've found it hardest to let go of snack bars - particularly Nutri-Grain's Fruit and Nut Bars. We were devastated ...

DIY Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Latte (Just Like Starbucks!)

Many fans of Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte eagerly wait for it to show up on menus again in the Fall. It made its annual re-appearance last week. However, for those of us on a budget, those little ...

Recipe: Homemade Beef (or Turkey or Fish) Jerky

Lobel's Prime Meats on Manhattan's Upper East Side is known for their fine (expensive) cuts of meat, excellent service, and family-owned small-shop vibe. So it was with great excitement that I opened ...

How To Make Your Own Dolmas (Stuffed Grape Leaves)

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 pla...

Recipe: Homemade Potato Chips with Rosemary

When I was little, my dad and I spent Sunday mornings on the Santa Monica beach. Before heading home we'd sometime hike up to the pier and buy a newspaper cone of freshly made potato chips from a litt...

How To Make Corndogs At Home
Street Fair Food Week

You know what? I've never liked corndogs. The ones I had came from concession stands, and I just didn't like the taste. But after I made my own corndogs from scratch, I became a corndog convert. ...

She Taught Me About Mayonnaise & That's No Small Thing

This is a story that would take pages and pages to tell properly. Instead, I'll just pull out the most important points and hope to leave you with just a fraction of the feeling it leaves with me. I...

How To Make Nachos At Home
Street Fair Food Week

Fair food nachos aren't like any nachos we've had anywhere else. No fancy sauces or piles of extra toppings. No impressive presentation or attempts to win us over. We're simply handed a paper tray o...

Got Tomatoes? How To Make Tomato Paste

Rich, savory tomato paste is one of our absolute essential kitchen ingredients. Just a tablespoons adds a wonderfully deep tomato flavor to our pastas, sauces, and spreads. We always have a can or two...

Egyptian Spice Mix: Dukkah

Dukkah, an Egyptian spice blend of toasted nuts and seeds, has become a international favorite over the past few years, thanks to its popularity first in Australian restaurants and then among home coo...

Recipe: Easy Homemade Pita Bread

This month is all about escapes both big and small! Whether we're talking backyard lounging or a long mountain hike, soft pockets of pita bread are an ideal vehicle for meals that can be made ahead, s...

Weekend Project: Make Gnocchi!

We're expecting thunderstorms this weekend, and we can't think of anything we'd rather do than spend the afternoon making a big batch of gnocchi while the rain is pattering outside. These little potat...

Recipe Recommendation: Hot Boiled Peanuts

I'm originally from Georgia, and recently returned from a month-long visit with my relatives. As soon as I get my feet back on some red clay, I immediately start seeking out my favorite Southern deli...

Ketchup With a Kick: Add Curry Powder!

We recently experienced our first, glorious encounter with curry ketchup. Served with fries at a restaurant, it initially seemed like a gimmick, but with each subsequent bite, we became increasingly a...

Another Use for Leftover Rice: Filipino Style Rice 'n Eggs

The 5 Uses for Leftover Rice post from yesterday was perfectly timed, as we were whipping up some of our own version of garlic fried (leftover) rice with eggs. Although we weren't camera ready (just h...

Cooking Basics: Very Easy Pickling

We love pickles, and we especially love the variety of flavors and vegetables being used to make them these days. But we've tended to shy away from making them at home, thinking that pickling requires...

Recipe: Crunchy Granola Bars

Yesterday we reviewed Emily Franklin's Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, and 102 Recipes, a great book full of improvisational cooking and healthy, practical, delicious recipes. W...

Recipe: Sweet and Tangy Homemade BBQ Sauce

We moved on from bottled vinaigrette to our own homemade versions years ago, but for some reason, BBQ sauce still came from Kraft or K.C. Masterpiece. And there's no reason for that, when it's so easy...

From the Spice Cupboard: Za'atar Seasoning Blend

A friend gave us a homemade blend of this spice mix a while back and we just had to share! Za'atar seasoning is fragrant and tangy with just a hint of nuttiness. This sounds like a spice mix with a lo...

How to Make Onion-Skin Easter Eggs

It's Easter egg time at our house. Last year we brought you the story of Huevos Haminados, a Passover tradition of dying eggs with onion skins. This year, I decided to try it with both yellow and red ...

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