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Posts tagged “Projects”

Weekend Project: Roasting and Storing Peppers

Between a bumper crop of hot peppers from our garden and the hoards of sweet peppers in our CSA, we've got peppers coming out our ears! This weekend, we have plans to roast the whole lot and store som...

Weekend Project: Sharpen Your Knives!

Trust us, knife sharpening is not a mystic art and it doesn't have to be a safety hazard to your finger tips! With a little practice, it's easy to do at home, and all you need is a sharpening stone an...

Weekend Cooking: What Are You Up To This Weekend?

We opened our calendar this morning and realized something incredible: we have no plans this weekend. No weddings. No barbecues. No road trips. Just one entire free summer weekend! We plan to take fu...

Mission Accomplished! The Cindy McCain (Or Is That The Food Network) Recipe Challenge

Remember when we posted the Cindy McCain recipe challenge? We said that any patriotic reader who made all seven of the recipes listed on McCain's website as "McCain Family Recipes" would receive a Dem...

Cindy McCain's Recipe Challenge

Browsing through the presidential candidates' websites last night, we came across only one website giving any time to food issues. Not exactly the Farm Bill level stuff we were after, but we have to ...

Look! Loren's Kitchen Still Life

Loren in Brooklyn sent us this lovely kitchen still life. She says: I like to try and create a still life in my little space above the sink....this month's is a cornucopia of winter; even the ched...

Birthday Baking: Chessboard Cake with Chocolate Chess Pieces

It was that time of year again. We have a small friend whose birthday comes around right before New Year's, and we have a standing commitment to create his birthday cake. This occasion is always an ...

Welcome, Cure-takers!

Many of you are here for medicine; you are partaking in The Cure on one (or more!) of our sister sites. And for those of you in Deep Treatment, part of your assignment this week is to cook at home thr...

Good Question: Help My Awkward Studio Kitchen!

Here's a question for all of you, especially those of you who are avidly following the Smallest Coolest Kitchen contest. Reader Tanya needs some help with her tiny studio kitchen: Hi! I'm hoping ...

Make a Simple Kitchen Fix This Weekend

Spring cleaning season is here and AT:Chicago shared a new way way to get going: we're casing our apartments for the Simple-but-Never-Gets-Done Fix. Of course, we're starting in the kitchen. We lived...

Introducing... The Pickle Project

What if you just erased Fruit Cake from your collective memory of Christmases past? Enter: pickling. With several well-known pickle outlets around the city, and hipsters at Murray's Cheese and t...