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Posts tagged “Kitchn Spring Cure 2008”

Kitchn Cure: You're a Graduate! We Need Your Feedback

Our Cure has come to an end. Eight glorious weeks of scrubbing and culling cupboards, learning new culinary skills, shopping for fresh foods and stocking the pantry. All with an eye on planning a d...

Kitchn Cure: Week Eight Finale! Check in...

Our Cure is winding down. Cure-takers are planning their dinner parties and enjoying the spaciousness and freshness that now defines their kitchens. CONGRATULATIONS! Many of you asked for tips o...

Kitchn Cure: Week Eight! It's Your Party!

A table we set for a small dinner party a few months ago. Send us your table photos! It's Week Eight of the 8 Step Spring Kitchen Cure, and that means you're just about done. This last week you lea...

Kitchn Cure: Week Seven! Checking in...

bokeh decided to learn to make pie-crust from scratch. Then she made Faith's Shaker Meyer Lemon Pie. Gorgeous. Rah, rah, rah! Week Seven is almost done, in fact, the whole sha-bang is almost over. ...

Recipe: Basic Tomato Sauce (with Optional Zing!)

For the sauce-hungry crowd, here is a basic tomato sauce, with some lemony and spicy elements for adding an optional zing. It's easy, quick, and isn't a boring old sauce. Basic sauces were one of th...

Kitchn Cure: Week Seven! Learn One New Skill, Drink and Send Invitations

RebeccaCT says "For my "menu" meal, I made a frittata with mixed greens (turnip, radish, and mustard), bread, and roasted radishes. We had it with a CT farm wine made from pears--a dry white wine. Lot...

Kitchn Cure: Week Six! Checking In...

Ether Maiden is foraging for her own mushrooms (these babies are called Dryad's Saddle Mushrooms), and cooking them up. Check out her other photos here and more tales of mushroom hunting, here. Week...

Cooking Without Recipes

Cooking without recipes was one of the biggest and loudest things we heard in your Cure requests. We've been talking about stocking your pantry well, which is the first step in cooking without your no...

Kitchn Cure: What Every Pantry Needs: Savory

With a well-stocked pantry, you'll not only be prepared to cook a wide range of dishes, you'll save time and money in the long run, because by getting accustomed to your personal set of supplies, you'...

Kitchn Cure: What Every Pantry Needs: Sweet

We're feeling listy today. As a supporting document to this week's ...

Cure Menu Inspiration: Ready to Grill?

We're excited about this week's Cure assignment - finishing stocking up the pantry and plan a menu with all those delicious vegetables quietly showing up in the markets! So many of these vegetables ne...

Kitchn Cure: Week Six! Stocking the Pantry and Planning a Whole Meal

d1g1t1ze made a beautiful dessert out of berries from Dekalb Farmers' Market in Atlanta. Check out her ...

Kitchn Cure: Week Five!... Checking In

STLcolleen, who not only roasted her first chicken, but also made bread, says "I asked for the knife skills tips and I'd still be happy to see you guys cover that!" Oh, and we will. Today we're post...

Kitchn Cure Monday Check-In: How Did the Weekend Bread (or Matzah) Baking Go?

cmcinnyc says: The focaccia was excellent. I had no idea it was that easy! I'm excited to try some more varieties. We were really pleased to see that several of you (and maybe more?) plunged into bre...

Kitchn Cure: Week Five! Bread Baking Assignment

Thanks to all of you who gave us a little feedback yesterday on the Kitchen Cure. If you haven't already, please hop over and take the quick survey and give us any comments on where you're currently a...

Kitchn Cure: Week Five! Taking Stock and Reporting Back

zarprey says, "Here are my roasted veggies for the spring kitchen cure - tomorrow they're getting turned into soup!" We say, yum!It's Week 5 of the 8 Step Spring Kitchen Cure, and we're taking a breat...

Look! Roast Chicken and Zuni Bread Salad

It looks like many of you are enjoying fresh spring meals as part of this week's Cure assignment. Look at this lovely roast chicken from Flickr member rsun78. It's not easy to make chicken and salad l...

Kitchn Cure: Week Four! Checking In... Still With Us?

I roasted this chicken, Zuni-style, with a coating of fennel pollen from Sugar Ranch Farm. Week Four for all you Cure Takers is in full swing. You should be up to your ears in roasting and soup-maki...

Kitchn Cure: Week Four! Fire Up the Stove

gardengremlin says the microplane is a kitchen essential (we agree!) and used it to grate some asiago from the back of the fridge for this salad. Welcome again. It's Week Four and I have an inkling t...

Preparing for Passover: Getting Rid of the Chametz

As we're busy here at The Kitchn spring cleaning with the Kitchn Cure, Jews all over the world are also busy preparing for Passover. This is the time to ritually clean your kitchens, and get rid of ch...

Kitchn Cure: Week Three! Checking in...

rzta made a Lemongrass Beef and Noodle Salad with part of their collection of take-out soy sauce packets, a withered chili found in the fridge, and the last dregs of a bottle of sesame oil and some ri...

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...

Kitchn Cure: Special Weekend Assignment for Over-Achievers

Boy, y'all are a tough crowd! Complaining to me that you've jumped ahead in the Kitchn Cure assignments. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, fine. If you are indeed one of the enterprisin...

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...

Kitchn Cure: Week Three! Use What Your Mama Gave You

mango's very tidy and sparkling clean kitchen.Welcome back, Cure-takers and Cure-voyeurs. I don't know about you, but I'm totally inspired by all the cleaning out, nipping and tucking going on in peo...