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Posts tagged “Kitchen Spring Cure 2009”

Kitchen Cure Weekend Report: What Did You Cook?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

• Week 6 Assignment: Throw a dinner party • Cure Clock: Done! • Cure Takers: 831 Hello, Cure-takers! Congratulations to all of you who did at least one or two things to make your kitc...

Planning Dinner? Popular Recipes for Every Course

Are you putting together a big meal for this weekend? Are you planning an end-of-Cure party, a holiday weekend brunch, or perhaps a raucous Sunday afternoon cookout? Are you perhaps looking for one mo...

Kitchen Cure Check-In: Setting the Table
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009 - Week 6

• Week 6 Assignment: Cook for a party! • Cure Clock: One weekend, and beyond... • Cure Takers: 831 Congratulations, Cure Takers! You have stuck with us as we cleaned out cupboards, sc...

Dinner Parties: 5 Great Tips for Newbies (Plus Lots More)

Some of you may be pros at throwing dinner parties. Others may be intimidated. But whether you are an old dog looking for new tricks or a Cure taker approaching her first big fiesta, we've got loads o...

Survey: What is the Perfect Size for a Dinner Party?

In yesterday's Cure Assignment, I got cure-takers off and running on their final project: a dinner party. I casually mentioned that I felt six was the perfect number for a sit-down dinner, a loose rul...

Kitchen Cure Week #6: Hosting a Dinner Party
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

A table we set for a small birthday party. • Cure Clock: 1 week remaining. This is it! • Cure Takers: 831 • New Flickr Group: 2009 Kitchen Cure • Submit your photos directly t...

Kitchen Cure Check-In: Meal-Planning Inspiration
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009 - Week 5

• Week 5 Assignment: Plan and cook a meal • Cure Clock: 1 week (plus a weekend) remaining • Cure Takers: 831 Hello Kitchen Cure-takers! How is your kitchen feeling these days? Are you ...

Cooking By Feel: Baked Pastas

In this week's Cure assignment, Cure-takers are planning a menu. All along I've been encouraging people to cook by feel a little more and use formal recipes a little less, so I hope these menus involv...

Meal Planning 101: What Are Your Building Blocks?

We are talking about meal planning during this week of the Kitchen Cure, and we started out with a look at sample seasonal menus. Seasonality is one thing to consider when building a meal, whether it ...

Seasonal Menu Planning from Around the U.S.

This week in the Kitchen Cure we're talking about menu planning. Yesterday I promised I'd give some suggestions for seasonal menus from around the country. Leave us your suggestions in the comments,...

Kitchen Cure Week #5: Meal Planning
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

• Cure Clock: 2 weeks remaining • Cure Takers: 831 • New Flickr Group: 2009 Kitchen Cure • Submit your photos directly to The Kitchn Two weeks to go, guys! This week we're g...

Kitchen Cure Weekend Report: What Did You Cook?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009 - Week 4

• Week 4 Assignment: Learn one new thing • Cure Clock: 2 weeks remaining • Cure Takers: 831 Good morning, Cure-takers! How was this past weekend? Did you try something new? Did you lea...

Kitchen Cure Check-In: Cook Something New This Weekend
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009 - Week 4

• Week 4 Assignment: Learn one new thing, practice the basics, and bring flowers in • Cure Clock: 2 weeks (plus a weekend) remaining • Cure Takers: 831 How's the Kitchen Cure going for...

How To Do Just About Anything in the Kitchen

This week, Cure-takers are learning one new skill. So what if you're not one of the 800+ participants, why not make a spring resolution to learn a few new tricks in the kitchen? Mining the site for h...

Kitchen Cure: What Help Do You Need to Get Cooking?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

Mama Ark says: "It was time to pitch useless items, like these bottle openers. Do I really need 5? Our standby beer in the house is now a twist-off. I kept one for craft beers, but these all went to...

Kitchen Cure Survey: How's It Going?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

From Kitchen Cure-taker jkdmb03, via our Kitchen Cure Flickr pool: "I wanted something fresh and colorful and food related for the kitchen." Hello, Cure-takers! After a flood of emails and photos in...

How To Sharpen a Knife

Taking part in the Kitchen Cure? This would be a great week to learn how to sharpen your knives, especially given all the cooking you'll be doing in the final three weeks. Even if you're not one of th...

What Is the Latest and Greatest Thing You've Learned?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

The assignment for Week 4 of the Kitchen Cure is to get back into your freshly cleaned, newly organized kitchen, and learn something new. So we're curious about all your latest kitchen discoveries, Cu...

How To Carve a Chicken (or a Turkey or a Duck)

This week's assignment in the Kitchen Cure is to learn one new skill. I've heard from many people that they'd like to know how to carve a chicken, so I dug up a video of Marc Bauer of the French Culin...

Kitchen Cure Week #4: Cooking Basics & One New Technique
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

• Cure Clock: 3 weeks remaining • Cure Takers: 831 • New Flickr Group: 2009 Kitchen Cure • Submit your photos directly to The Kitchn By now your kitchen is clean, well-stock...

Recycled Beauty: Boylan Soda Bottles as Bud Vases

In Week Three of the Kitchen Cure, part of your assignment was to do something beautiful for your kitchen. Here's a shot of our dining table over the weekend—not exactly the kitchen, but close. And ...

Kitchen Cure Weekend Report: How Did It Go?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009 - Week 3

• Week 3 Assignment: Deep cleaning, special projects, and beautify! • Cure Clock: 3 weeks remaining (halfway done!) • Cure Takers: 831 Good morning, Cure-takers! How was this past week...

Kitchen Cure Download: Food Storage Safety
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

Here's one more Kitchen Cure download for you as you restock your fridge and think about cooking for the coming week. We swiped some basic, very conservative food safety guidelines off the FDA's websi...

Kitchen Cure Check-In: Is Your Kitchen Clean Yet?
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009 - Week 3

• Week 3 Assignment: Deep-clean your kitchen, restock pantry and tools, finish up any little projects you've been meaning to do, and do one thing to beautify • Cure Clock: 3 weeks (plus a we...

It's Cleaning Time! Kitchen Cleaning Tips and Inspiration
The Kitchen Cure Spring 2009

Your Kitchen Cure assignment this week is to clean up the kitchen and finish restocking, reorganizing, and doing whatever your kitchen needs to be ready to get cooking next week. Cleaning isn't the se...