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Posts tagged “Winter”

Pumpkin Ales and Winter Lagers: Best Beers for Right Now

Whether you're coming in from raking leaves or picking apples at your local farm, it's nice to have a good beer in your fridge to look forward to! This time of year, we want beers that are complex, pl...

Winter Woes: Four Soothing Solutions for Dry Hands

If cooler weather means the more time doing cozy activities in the kitchen, it also heralds our annual nemesis: chapped hands. We use our hands constantly while we cook and wash them just as often. Ad...

Autumn Dinner Party Menu: A Polenta Bar!

We're drawing our unofficial Polenta Day to a close with a look at our new favorite menu for a delicious and easy dinner party: a polenta bar! ...

Curious Candies: Have You Ever Made Nougat?

Imagine a cross between a marshmallow and a meringue, fragrant with honey and studded with tender nuts, and you've got nougat! We love to nibble it on its own and crumble it into desserts, but we've n...

Fall Cooking: Braised and Spicy Collard Greens

We just kicked off the fall cooking season with a big pot of smoky, spicy collard greens. Boy are they good! There's nothing quite like tender, juicy collard greens to get us in the mood for winter co...

Fall Favorite: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Tomato Soup

Doesn't grilled cheese and tomato soup sound exactly perfect for the kind of blustery fall weather we've been having? Not too heavy, but still warm and deeply satisfying. We made a big pot of tomato s...

Autumn Recipe: Mélange of Squash Braised in Cream

We usually roast our butternut, acorn, and delicata squash. We like the flavor of winter squash roasted slowly in the oven. The only problem is that word: slow. It takes a while to roast a whole squas...

Five Ways to Warm Up this Weekend

In the past two days in New York, we've skipped right over the cool, comfortable days of Fall and gone straight to winter. It's freezing outside (and intermittently raining, just to add insult to in...

Apples Galore! How to Make Apple Butter

Have you ever had apple butter? Personally, we can't get enough of it! Apple butter is applesauce that gets slowly cooked down until it becomes a thick, glossy, caramelized spread. So good on toast an...

Hot and Milky: Malted Cocoa Mix from Alton Brown
Recipe Reviews

Oh autumn. You're here. It's time for hot cocoa. Here's our new favorite hot cocoa recipe: a milky, comforting mix of cocoa and malted milk powder from Alton Brown. Notice we didn't say hot chocola...

Lunch On-the-Go: Cool Thermoses to Keep Food Hot

A good thermos makes practical sense if your office or cafeteria doesn't have a microwave, but we also find them handy for warming up spontaneous fall picnics, afternoon soccer practice, and weekend...

Juicy Plums: Eight Lovely Dishes To Make With Plums

Dripping juicy, sweet and black, red and purple, small and fragrant — plums are one of our favorite things about late summer. They're cheap and sweet, and they're wonderful to eat out of hand....

The Strangest Food I Ever Ate: Shirako

I consider myself a pretty adventurous eater. I'm nowhere near the level of Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, but I'm willing to experience strange new culinary delicacies more than most people I ...

Cold Weather Recipes for Our Friends Down Under

Cold weather recipes? What? It's June, isn't it? Well, we had an email from a faithful reader named Ivy who lives in New Zealand. Right now she's living through the Southern Hemisphere's opposite seas...

Citrus Spotlight: Limequats

Just when we thought we knew all there was to know about kumquat varieties, we discovered limequats at our local farmers' market. ...

Tools for Eating Locally

One thing we start nudging you toward in the second half of the Kitchen Cure when we actually start cooking is eating seasonally and locally. It should be a no-brainer and you shouldn't feel like you'...

The Turnip Problem: Using Up the Last Winter Vegetables

Do you have a CSA? Do you run into the "turnip problem" in late winter and early spring? Early spring is especially maddening, when green things are coming up all around, but there are still a few wee...

Beer Guide: What is Double Bock?

Double bock (or doppelbock) beers have became one of our new favorites this winter! And with cold weather lingering in many parts of the country, there's definitely still time to enjoy this warming ma...

Recipe: Quick Celery Root Salad with Capers and Lemon

You know we love winter salads; we talk about them all the time. Here's one final salad to usher winter out — a tangy, crispy, lemony shredded slaw with the delicate flavor of spring celery. Exc...

What Vegetables Are You Eating Right Now?

Let me interpose, for a moment, some green leafy vegetables between our carnivorous sausage-making and pork-stewing. This is a hard time of year for vegetables. Spring is in the air, green things are ...

Late Winter Eating: Celeriac and Carrot Salad

We have been pondering celeriac, or celery root. This distinctly unfriendly-looking vegetable tends to lurk off to the side of the produce section or farmer's stand, its knobbly and hairy ridges a det...

Classic Combo: Cocoa and Toast

While we're definitely ready for warmer weather, we have to admit that winter has its perks. Like cocoa and toast! We've been re-discovering our love for this childhood treat in the past few weeks, th...

Late Winter Combination: 5 Recipes for Chicken with Citrus

As we get deeper into Meat/Un-Meat Month, we're going to devote some time to poultry tips and recipes. But in our opinion, you can never have enough ideas for chicken. It's affordable and adaptable to...

Late Winter Sweetness: The Pleasures of Stewed Fruit

Late in the winter, before the first ripe berries appear, and way before the peaches and plums of summer, sweet fruit seems far off. Even oranges' best time has passed. But it's an opportunity in disg...

Late Winter Inspiration: 20 Things On the To-Cook List

Joanna's post earlier today on finding inspiration in the home stretch of winter rings true for most of us here at The Kitchn. It's too early for the excitement of spring produce, but Soup Month is de...