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Recipe: Crunchy Peanut Slaw

A crunchy cabbage slaw is one of my favorite salads throughout the winter and early spring, and a restaurant here in town makes what is perhaps my favorite slaw: a deceptively simple mix of cabbage, p...

How To Cook (and Shred) a Pork Shoulder

This may be our very favorite meal. It is incredibly hard to screw up, and yet turning a big hunk of pork shoulder into tender shreds of juicy meat still feels like a noteworthy accomplishment every t...

Recipe: Wheat Berry Salad with Blood Oranges, Feta, and Red Onion Vinaigrette

In our recent pantry reorganization, we found a bag of wheat berries we'd been meaning to use. A simple salad with some winter citrus and salty feta seemed like a good idea, and it all turned out very...

Recipe: Chili Con Carne

Probably like many of you, we were raised on chili made with ground beef and didn't know there was anything else until after we left home! Now, we're converts to chili made with tender cubes of whole ...

Recipe: Lemon Frittata with Leeks and Goat Cheese

Lemon? In a savory egg dish? Why yes - it works beautifully here. In fact, we find the flavor of the lemon to be so nice that we didn't mind the absence of butter and meat in this quick frittata. ...

Recipe: Fresh Fennel and Lemon Slaw

I don't stop eating salad just because it's winter. In fact, I look forward to winter salads. No wilting, delicate lettuces here; no tender baby vegetables to be coddled with understated vinaigrettes....

Recipe: Creamy Leek and Yogurt Soup

Here's a light, easy soup we recently enjoyed. It has all the fresh, delicate flavor of green leeks, with some garlic to punch it up. We added yogurt at the end and blended the soup smooth - the yogur...

Recipe: Easy Turkey Chili with Kale

This turkey chili is one of our favorite recipes, not just because we've made it a hundred times (at least). It was one of the first things we created on our own, starting with a version we made in ou...

Recipe: Florida Butter Beans with Caramelized Onions and Bacon

We have one last recipe for you from the Rancho Gordo cookbook, Heirloom Beans (reviewed here). This one didn't have an accompanying photo in the book, and we really wanted to try it ourselves. So we ...

Recipe for Winter Citrus: Tangerine Curd

Last winter we started a little love affair with lemon curd. It was something we thought was hard to make but turned out not to be, and it is a bright, sweet addition to so many things (scones, toast,...

Recipe: Oven-Roasted Tomato Jam

Sometimes a recipe arises from a confluence of ideas and inspiration -- a convergence of influence, flavor, and downright craving. This recipe is one of those. It was inspired by Laurie Colwin's raptu...

Recipe: Lemon-Marinated Brussels Sprouts With Parsley and Shallots

Yesterday we gave you a tip on keeping your Brussels sprouts bright green, and now here is a recipe that will show off that bright, fresh color -- even in the dead of winter. ...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Honey Roasted Peanuts

We weren't going to let one failed attempt get us down - we still think that homemade honey roasted peanuts would make a terrific homemade holiday gift. Here's the recipe we wound up with, and it's ...

Recipe: Cream of Celery Soup with Bacon

Celery is one of those things that can languish in the back of our fridge for a long time. It's hard to use an entire bunch. We chopped three or four stalks into our Thanksgiving stuffing, and this is...

Recipe: Fresh Cranberry Relish

This is cranberry relish to us. No wiggling cylinder from a can, no whole berries that are cooked down with sugar. Our cranberry side dish is always fresh, chunky, sweet, and full of fruit. We think w...

Recipe: Mushroom Soup

Earthy mushroom soup is one of our favorite fall meals. After trying several recipes, we settled on this one as a favorite and we come back to it again and again. It's adapted from a recipe by Anthony...

Recipe: Sweet Potatoes and Caramelized Onions

We tore through these sweet potatoes before we had the chance to take much of a picture, so we'll have to describe them instead. These are the easiest things. So much flavor for so little work. We c...

Confetti Quiche with Curry Crust
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #8

Recipe: Melissa's Confetti Quiche with Curry Crust Category: Original We were hoping to get a few good recipes for savory pies in this Bakeoff, and here's the first. It's an egg pie with zucchini, re...

Recipe: Greek Chicken Pasta with Olives and Feta

There's more to this pasta dish than just chicken, olives, and feta. There are some artichoke hearts, fresh oregano, and a lemon vinaigrette — a whole mess of salty, tangy flavors......

Recipe: Herbed Lentils with Bacon

Lentils and bacon are made to go together, we think. Lentils have an earthy, rich taste that complements bacon perfectly. For this recipe we used a bag of mixed lentils that we bought at an Indian gro...

DIY Recipe: Toothpaste

Happy Halloween! In case your teeth and encased in sugar as you sit down to read The Kitchn today, I thought I'd offer a recipe for toothpaste. ...

Recipe: Sweet Butternut Squash and Coconut Jam

Remember the doce de abóbora - sweet pumpkin compote - that we showed you earlier this week? Well, we were so inspired by that and the butternut squash version from Patricia that we had to try it our...

How To: Make DIY Sauerkraut

In today's shaky economic times combined with a movement to eat more sustainably, we're turning more to DIY food-related projects. From making our own bacon to building root cellars, we're learning h...

Recipe: Sticky Spiked Double-Apple Cake with a Brown Sugar-Brandy Sauce

It's harvest time, which means apples, which means that we've already made our harvest apple traditional recipe once - and we'll make it again. What's this recipe? An outrageously amazing apple cake, ...

Recipe: Cabbage Beet Coleslaw

This is the last post that will reference anything about my recent wedding, I promise. (I think.) But after the wedding cakes, the ice cream, and the butternut pasta, I do believe I saved the best for...

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