Apartment Therapy: Frugality

Try This: Newspapers as Placemats

Over at AT:LA, Abby posted 20 household uses for newspaper besides just tossing it in the recycling bin. Then, last night, we saw a food-related use that we thought we'd pass on to the Kitchn readers....

Using Cinco de Mayo Leftovers: Tortilla-Crusted Dishes

Did you have a Cinco de Mayo fiesta last night? Got leftover bags of tortilla chips? We were just reading the May issue of Southern Living, which has a recipe for pork tenderloin crusted in crushed to...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Grocery Shopping at 99-Cent Stores

Attention, bargain hunters! With all this talk of high food costs and budget crunching, have you ever thought of grocery shopping at $.99 stores? Like Evan Kleiman in her interview with Julie Makinen...

How Much Will You Pay For Crackers?

We gladly splurge on good cheese (Stichelton is our new favorite). But, when we treat ourselves to a cheese that's nearly $40 a pound, we don't want to spend too much for the crackers. Are we the on...

Look! Green Breadcrumbs in Elle Decor

Do you see them? We read Elle Decor for the home design, not Daniel Boulud's food column, but when flipping through this month's issue, we noticed these parsley and basil breadcrumbs dusted over his...

More Grocery Gloom and Doom: Organic Sticker Shock in the New York Times

Another article today on rising food prices, this time in the New York Times Business section. Sticker Shock in the Organic Aisles tells us that organic prices are rising rapidly, and the premium that...

Simple Plant Food at AT:NY

Over the weekend at AT:NY, our plant therapist, Matt, shared a tip for using discarded eggshells as plant food. For those of us who can't easily compost, this is a great read......

A Tale of Two Tax Days: Recipes for the Frugal and the Flush

It's April 15th, in case you forgot — and your accountant, spouse, parents, or every morning news anchor forgot to remind you. You may feel like crawling back into bed amidst a pile of receipts and...

DIY Tip: How To Make Dill Pickles

Photo: pickling cucumbers and fresh dill awaiting the vinegar mixture. We try to avoid using processed foods as much as possible and make our own pantry items when we can. ...

Reader Cupboard Challenge: Evaporated Milk and Oreo Cookie Crumbs

Here's another Cupboard Challenge in response to our invitation from last week. And really - this invitation always stands! Got some extra pantry staples to use up? A carton of milk about to go off? A...

Reader Cupboard Challenge: Lentils, Salmon, Barley, Clam Juice and Moonshine Jelly

Yesterday we asked you for your cupboard challenges - all that stuff left over from cleaning out your cupboards for the Spring Cure. You probably have things you don't want to get rid of but you'd lik...

Good Question: What Can I Do With Stale Tortilla Chips?

Here's a good question for those of you still cleaning out your cupboards for the Kitchn Spring Cure. I have half a bag of stale tortilla chips sitting on my counter... What would happen if i made "...

Good Question: What Should I Eat On Busy Weeknights?

Here is a great question from Chelsea that illustrates a common dilemma... I noticed that this week's Cure is about keeping less processed food in the house. Which is something great that I'm trying...

Attention Cure-Takers! Send Us Your Cupboard Challenge!

How is your Kitchen Cure going? Are you nearly finished with cleaning out your overly processed and expired foods from the fridge and cupboard? Or perhaps you're not an official Cure-taker but you hav...

Good Product: Plastic Bag Dryer

Here at The Kitchn, we're all about reusing and reducing waste. This plastic bag dryer helps us be more efficient about reusing our plastic storage bags as it makes drying them a snap....

Entertaining Tip: Easy Food Processor Dips

We've been introducing little entertaining tips over the past few weeks in an attempt to make dinner parties, large or small, even more enjoyable and less harrowing. Today, we're highlighting a genre...

Tips and Tricks: How to Avoid Wasting Food

If you're participating in the Kitchn Cure, you probably tossed a fair amount of outdated, spoiled, and just not useful food this week. Every time we clean out the fridge, we're filled with agita at a...

Cooking from the 99-Cent Store: Eric Ripert Goes Frugal
From the NY Times Dining Section 03.26.08

The lead story in the Dining section in the New York Times this week reflects the current state of gloom and doom in the financial media; are we headed for recession? Are food prices rising? Will we a...

Leftover Easter Eggs? Make Egg Salad

We're cheating a bit this morning... Because we know that if this egg salad had actually been made with leftover, dyed Easter eggs, there would be subtle pink and turquoise stains floating around on o...

Ready for Spring: Are You Planting a Kitchen Garden?

The big pots from our summer container garden are stacked next to the back door, and this morning on the way out, we noticed this little guy poking it's way toward the sun--a volunteer seed from last ...

Reader Input Needed: How to Use Porkback

All the recent talk about slow cookers and crock pot meals got us hungry for some braised, shredded pork shoulder. But when we unwrapped the meat, we found it still had the thick layer of porkback att...

Room to Improve: Do You Want to Improve Your Kitchen?

We were interested in this piece in the NY Times Home & Garden section today: "Room to Improve," where they answered a reader question on how to update his kitchen without gutting and remodeling i...

The Hungry Reader: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was a favorite book long before we moved to this fine city. Thanks to author Betty Smith's vividly descriptive prose, this coming-of-age story is the kind of book you curl up ...

Simple Pleasures: Radishes with Butter and Sea Salt

We're packing for a flight tomorrow, and of course that packing includes a snack to make the hours in the air more palatable. Inspired by Saveur's March theme of butter, we washed some radishes, spoon...

Personal Care Kitchen: How to Make Homemade Body Scrubs

March is Bathroom Month at our sister sites, and while cooking and bathrooms don't instinctively mix (although, oh, how we loved Kramer's shower drain garbage disposal on "Seinfeld"), there are some ...

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