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Survey: Do You Have More than One Freezer?

As we talk about all things chilly and frozen this month, we're wondering how many of you have an extra freezer (maybe one of those big chests in the garage?) to store batches of homemade ice cream, b...

Mark Bittman and His Part-Time Vegan Diet
Good Food with Evan Kleiman

If you follow Mark Bittman's NY Times blog, The Minimalist, and you've been paying attention this past year, you maybe have noticed that Mark Bittman has been paring down on the luxuries and focusing ...

Recipe: The One Minute Brownie

You know that we usually pan box mixes; from scratch is healthier and sometimes even quicker. And yet... while some days we feel in the mood for complicated desserts with lots of steps and ingredients...

Tip: Turn Leftover Soup into a Dip

This wouldn't work for every soup in the book, but there are certain ones that could be easily thickened up and recycled, in a way, as a dip. Don't believe us? We've actually thought it through......

Essential Baking Tools: Silpat

Do you use a silpat for your baking? These flexible, reusable sheets jumped from professional kitchens to home kitchens a few years back, and now we can't imagine baking without one. They're one of th...

Camping with Aplomb and a Cooking Stove

Just got back from a camping honeymoon in Iceland, and I am here to attest to the fact that one can eat very well without a kitchen or a restaurant!...

How to Freeze Summer Fruit
Cook's Illustrated

Looking at all the peaches and berries at the farmers' market gives us a bittersweet feeling; we're delighted, but we also know that their season is short-lived. All the more reason to learn how best ...

Summer Preserving: Buy Fruit In Bulk From Local Farms

We like to shop around at farmers markets for good deals on summer berries, cucumbers, and other fruit for summer cooking and preserving. But did you know you can get even better deals if you go strai...

What Can I Do With Crushed Tortilla Chips?
Good Question

Here's a great question from Sofia on those tortilla chips left at the very bottom of the bag: I'm a big fan of Trader Joe's organic blue corn chips but not so much of the broken bits left at the bott...

Quick Vacation Tip: Pack Spice Blends

Planning on doing any cooking on your vacation this summer? Instead of messing with a lot of individual spices, one easy solution is to pack just a few of your favorite spice blends instead!...

Tips: Three Ways To Preserve Fresh Herbs

We cook with loads of fresh herbs in summer, but sometimes we find that we've snipped or bought more than we can use right away. Rather than let them go to waste, here are three ways to save herbs for...

Money-Saving Tip: Shop at Multiple Grocery Stores

For reasons of competition, store policy, or who knows what, some stores just offer better prices on certain items than other stores. Shopping strategically across several stores means that we can rea...

Good Question: Fast, Cheap and Healthy Breakfast Ideas?

Here's a great question from Nick, who asks: I eat breakfast at my desk at work. It usually consists of store-bought cereal, a cup of yogurt, or oatmeal from the cafeteria. But I'm bored with all that...

Homemade Stock: What's Your Routine?

In his latest book Ratio, Michael Ruhlman makes a very strong argument for passing on the store-bought stuff and making your own stock at home. He says (and then repeats again and again), "So much of ...

Top Five: Ways to Eat a Fried Egg

A nicely fried egg with crispy edges and a warm, runny yolk is one of life's greatest simple pleasures. We realized long ago that fried eggs are just as delicious after 9am as they are before, and we'...

Campfire Cooking: Best Easy, Frugal Foods for Camping
Guest Post from Tina and Phil of 30 Bucks a Week

When planning what to cook on your camping trip, there are a few basic considerations. First, assuming you are setting up your tent fireside rather than setting up folding chairs outside your RV, you...

What to Do With... An Old Dutch Oven?

A few weeks ago, our beloved dutch oven developed a chip in its enamel, and after much deliberation, we've decided to go ahead and replace it. (Thank you, everyone, for all your great advice!) Here's ...

Quick Tip: How to Build a Make-Shift Cooling Rack

Remember how we were gathering essential cookware for a month away from our kitchen? Well, we completely forgot about potentially needing a cooling rack and a thorough search of the cupboards in our t...

Chipped Enamel: Need to Replace This Cookware?

See that little black spot?! That is a dime-sized chip in the bottom of our enamel-coated dutch oven. We've definitely put this pot through its paces, so it's not a huge surprise that it finally chipp...

Recycle, Re-Juice: Re-Juicer from Amrom Experimental

Do you need a juicer for all those summer cocktails? Well, this one looks pretty good; it is basic and simple, and it does what you need it to do. There's a twist, though. ...

The Eternal Leftover
Guest Post from Katie Workman, Editor in Chief of Cookstr.com

When it comes to leftovers, the world splits itself into three groups (to immediately digress, there are so many things in the world that divide people into groups — mostly two groups, a.k.a. ha...

Five Ideas for Leftover Rice

As much as we adore a steaming pot of freshly cooked rice, we've always had trouble mustering much enthusiasm once it crosses into the land of leftovers. Sure, there's fried rice, which can be delicio...

How to Use Up a Little Pesto

Have you been making pesto this spring? If not with basil, maybe some kale or spinach? Or other fresh herbs? Pesto is a beautiful, early summer food—that is occasionally hard to use all in one sitti...

Tip: Use Mushroom Stems in Your Next Omelet
Gourmet

All too often we slice the caps of our mushrooms and toss the stems. It's especially tempting when working with portabellas, where the wide, meaty caps are the the main event, and the stems are an aft...

Do You Stock the Fridge for Family When You Leave Town?

We're out of town this weekend, but we left a culinarily challenged husband at home. When this happens, we try to leave a few dishes in the refrigerator that taste fine warmed up (and cost less than t...

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