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Basic Technique: How to Cut Cauliflower

Cauliflower was one of the first vegetables we actually liked as kids, and we're still eating them today! Despite their rather impenetrable-seeming appearance, cauliflowers are actually pretty easy to...

Food Science: Why Mashed Potatoes and Blenders Don't Mix

When we're making a big batch of mashed potatoes, it's awfully tempting to just throw them in the blender instead of going to the trouble of mashing them by hand. If you've ever actually done this, yo...

Seasonal Spotlight: Mulberries

The majority vote on our unidentified berry last week was that it came from a mulberry tree, and we agree! Thanks for chiming in, everyone. While we wait for enough berries to ripen for us to make som...

Weekend Project: Make Granita!

No ice cream maker? No problem. Make granita instead! All you need is a little freezer space and a mound of the freshest fruit you can find. Here's how!...

Urban Foraging: Can You Identify This Berry?

We spotted this bush, heavy with dark purple berries, while on a walk near our apartment, but aren't sure what berry it actually is. Do you recognize it? More pictures below!...

In Praise of Lemon Zest

We're deep into a lemon kick right now, so we thought we'd take a moment to craft an ode to our current favorite darling. We just can't seem to get enough of that clean, tart flavor! How do you use le...

Spotted: Yellow Baby Carrots

We saw a bag of these the other day at Westside Market and did a double-take. Are we missing something? Are you eating yellow carrots?...

Basic Technique: How to Prepare Chard (Or Any Other Leafy Green!)

Facing a big pile of leafy green chard and knowing you have to somehow get it sliced it into bite-sized ribbons can feel a bit daunting. But it's really a lot easier than you might think! Here's how w...

Quick Tip: Add Fresh Fruit to Green Salads

Elizabeth's post the other week on having salad for dinner reminded us of another favorite addition to the simple salad: fresh fruit. We find that a handful of berries or a diced apple transforms an o...

How To Pick, Clean and Prepare Fava Beans

Go ahead and make your jokes about fava beans and a nice Chianti. There's no denying that these fresh, meaty beans are delicious, and they are in season right now, so grab them up! Most Americans ar...

Baking Tip: Toss Fruits in Flour to Keep Them From Sinking

We love baking with fresh fruit - especially this time of year when longed-for berries and stone fruits are finally coming into season! Since they tend to be heavier than the batter, these fruits some...

What's the Deal with Truffles?

They're a kind of dense fungus that grows underground. They can only be found by specially trained dogs and pigs. They look like...well, not something you'd necessarily think of eating. And they're wi...

Hot or Not? Disney Garden Produce

Don't be too alarmed if you see mouse ears the next time you visit the produce department. It's not a rodent infestation – it's Disney's latest marketing venture. The company's characters are now ...

Top Five Ways to Use Caramelized Onions

Ok, so you've probably gathered by now that we go a bit head-over-heels for caramelized onions here at the Kitchn. We've talked about how we make big batches, use them in everything, and then freeze t...

Quick Tip: Brighten Dishes with Lemon Juice

Do you ever taste a dish at the end of cooking and think that it tastes okay, but just kind of...blah? What you need is something to perk up the flavors, and in our kitchen, that "something" we reach ...

What's the Deal with Microgreens? (And How to Grow Your Own!)

One thing you can say for the food world - there's always something new! If it's not foams and infusions, it's some new ingredient like microgreens that has everyone excited. So what are microgreens? ...

Quick Tip: How to Clean Morel Mushrooms

Morels are one of our favorite mushrooms of all time, and they're in season right now! Since they're harvested from the wild, morels come with a fair amount of grit and all those little nooks and cran...

Quick Tip: Freeze Caramelized Onions

Did you know you can actually freeze caramelized onions? Indeed, you can! Faith mentioned this great tip in her post on using up a bunch of onions, and it's such a good one that we didn't want anyone ...

Blanching Veggies with the Lid On or Off: Does It Make a Difference?

In culinary school, it was drilled into us that the lid must be left off to avoid mushy, brown vegetables. Their explanation that acids trapped in the covered pot would turn the vegetables brown made ...

Basic Technique: How to Cook Onions

Onions are definitely the cornerstone of our cooking. Minced, diced, or simply sliced into half-moons, they show up in almost every dish that we cook! How to cook them was one of the first techniques ...

Food Science: Artichokes and Sweetness

Did you know that artichokes can make other foods taste sweet? We've never noticed this ourselves, but an article in the March issue of Saveur Magazine mentioned the fact in relation to pairing artich...

Recipe: Fruit Dumplings (or Svestkove Knedliky in Czech)

In our family, svestkove knedliky was served as a full dinner -- even though it seems more like a breakfast, lunch or side. We'd do it with plums, peaches, apricots, or cherries, and covered in lots o...

Craving: BLTs (with REAL Tomatoes!)

All the pork talk this week has us craving our favorite summer sandwich - BLTs, of course! It's not even worth making one with the out-of-season tomatoes right now (especially given the recent press a...

Top Five: Things to do with Leftover Dates

Most recipes with dates only use a handful, leaving you with half of a container sitting around. What can you do with the leftover dates? Oh, we can think of a few things......

Home Fries: How Do You Like Yours?

We've been on a home fry kick at our house lately. Just like the diner version, ours seem to turn out a little differently every time. Does anyone have a winning method?...

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