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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 ...

Recipe Review: Earl Grey MarTEAni
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

Another title for this post might’ve been “The Earl Grey MarTEAni Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Mix My Favorite Cocktail.” I don’t know about you, but there are plenty drinks I love t...

How To Make Individual Easter Egg Cakes

When we were growing up, my sister and I always got Easter egg cakes on Easter. They came from a bakery and had our names across the tops in delicate icing script. I insisted on chocolate frosting, wh...

Try This! Homemade Matzo

Most commercially-made matzo is about as tasty as the cardboard box it comes in. We imagine that making it ourselves has to be an improvement and we're curious to give it a try. Has anyone made homema...

Weekend Project: Introduction to Pâte à Choux

Do you like éclairs? What about profiteroles, cream puffs, and cheesy gougères? Aside from making us drool just thinking about them, the one thing all these pastries have in common is th...

D.I.Y. Recipe: Vegetarian Furikake Rice Seasoning

Furikake is a Japanese condiment typically sprinkled over or mixed into rice. There are dozens of varieties on the market – most contain seaweed, sesame seeds, sugar, and salt. Other ingredients...

Infused Vodkas (and DIY Tips!) from Sub Rosa Spirits
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

Here at The Kitchn, we’ve talked a lot about the welcome new “culinary” approach to cocktail-making. About the growing interest in cooking up homemade syrups and garnishes, in juicing fresh, sea...

DIY Girl Scout Cookies

With the prices of Girl Scout cookies rising and trans-fats still lurking in them, perhaps it makes more sense to make your own Girl Scout cookies. It is actually quite easy, and the recipes are heal...

Recipe: Spring Greens Pesto

Faith's post about watermelon got me thinking about what I'm craving: pesto. The fact that basil isn't growing anywhere near New York City, at least not directly out of the earth, is one reason why pe...

From the Spice Cupboard: Chinese Five-Spice Powder

Five spice powder is one of the essential base seasonings for much of Chinese cooking. A little of this pungent mix goes a long way, giving dishes a balanced hit of sweet, savory, bitter, and sour. Mo...

Recipe: Kenny Lao's Rickshaw Dumplings

It's the year of the ox and we're celebrating with some Chinese New Year coverage. We just ran a tour of Kenny Lao's kitchen in the East Village. Kenny, who owns Rickshaw Dumpling Bar in New York, coo...

Recipe Basics: How to Cook Beans in the Slow Cooker

If you've been following along this past month, you know that we love beans. We also love our slow-cooker. Lucky for us, it just so happens that beans and slow-cookers make excellent friends! Here's h...

Weekend Project: Make Pasta!

No time like the present to get started on Resolution #1 to make pasta in the new year! This weekend, we solemnly vow to break out that dusty pasta maker and get rolling. Who's with us? Read on for a ...

Recipe: Whole Wheat Raisin English Muffins

It's a sick day for me, so I'm working at home on some recipes. With a congested head, I made the first mistake in cooking: I didn't check to see if I had all the ingredients I needed before starting ...

The Cheesemonger: Easy Make-Them-Yourself Cheese Accompaniments
Un-Gift Guide 2008

We could spend practically the same amount of time talking about the things to serve with cheese as we could about the actual cheese. This year, why not draw inspiration from your favorite cheese shop...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Honey Roasted Peanuts

We weren't going to let one failed attempt get us down - we still think that homemade honey roasted peanuts would make a terrific homemade holiday gift. Here's the recipe we wound up with, and it's ...

DIY Peppermint Patties
Un-Gift Guide 2008

Whether you're planning on making candy for the holidays or want to make your own candy in general, it's a great idea. Candymaking is both economical and fun, and since you're choosing your own ingre...

Quince Ratafia: How To Make Fruit Liqueur

Have you ever made a fruit liqueur or cordial? I never have, but I recently came into possession of two very nice quince fruits, and I wanted to hold on to their flavor as long as possible. We have ha...

Recipe Recommendation: DIY Hot Sauce from Mark Bittman

We've been staring at our bumper crop of peppers for the past few weeks wondering what to do with all these slowly ripening spice bombs. (Remember how much trouble we had getting it to pollinate at fi...

Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Spice Mix

We've got pumpkin pie on the brain this week! Yesterday, we examined the canned pumpkin that is often used to make the pie's filling. Today, we turn our attention toward pumpkin pie spice. Click throu...

D.I.Y. Recipe: Crystallized Ginger

Spicy and sweet, crystallized ginger can add a wonderful zing to cookies, cakes, ice cream, and cranberry sauce. We also like it finely chopped and sprinkled over savory dishes like roasted acorn squa...

Recipe: Basic Cooked Buttercream Frosting

Also called mousseline buttercream, this frosting is like classic buttercream's dolled-up older sister. It requires a little more skill and finesse to pull off, but the bonus is a frosting that will h...

DIY Recipe: Toothpaste

Happy Halloween! In case your teeth and encased in sugar as you sit down to read The Kitchn today, I thought I'd offer a recipe for toothpaste. ...

How To: Make DIY Sauerkraut

In today's shaky economic times combined with a movement to eat more sustainably, we're turning more to DIY food-related projects. From making our own bacon to building root cellars, we're learning h...

Spice Mix: Baharat

Bahārāt, which simply means "spice" in Arabic, is a all-purpose seasoning used in Middle Eastern cuisine. Although the particular blend varies by region and household, it always includes bla...

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