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What's Cooking? Good Food for Labor Day
Weekend of August 30 - September 1, 2008

Long weekend ahoy! We are in the thick of setting up a new kitchen (in a new house) so the long weekend is a welcome stretch of time to get ourselves comfortable again. Any good kitchen moving-in tips...

Weekend Project: Get to Know Your Broiler!

Do you use your broiler? It wasn't until we started doing all these batches of roasted tomatoes and peppers that we realized how rarely we use ours. Now we're addicted!...

What To Do With Not-So-Great Apples

We're still reveling in the arrival of tomatoes, and yet already we're getting apples in our CSA. Unfortunately, these late summer apples are a little mealy — not the crisp fall apples we look forwa...

Sense of Place: Food and Cuisine of the Southwest

Southwestern food is really some of our favorite. Whether it's a quick burrito with soft beans and chicken or an elaborate slow-simmered mole sauce, we love how the flavors and textures combine in eve...

Recipe Roundup: Tomato Tarts

When we finally get some summer tomatoes in our CSA here on the East Coast, this is one of the first things we're planning on doing with them. (Right after we hug them and sing them songs. Really, whe...

What's Cooking This Weekend?
Weekend of August 9-10, 2008

It's the weekend! What are you cooking this weekend? We have our eye on a couple different ice creams, what with it being ice cream month, and we're definitely enjoying the last full month of summer. ...

Learning to Love Eggplant: How to Pick 'Em, Cook 'Em, and Eat 'Em

Eggplant is a love it or hate it kind of a vegetable. Mention it in conversation and you'll either get an ode to the purple globe or stony silence. If you're in the "stony silence" camp, we'd like to...

Olympic Kickoff: Chinese Food from the Archives

The Olympics kick off today! While there has been a great deal of controversy over the Olympics this year, we'd like to sidestep that for a moment and just say how glad we are that Chinese food will (...

Summer Escape Food: Fish Tacos, Two Ways

When we think of the Pacific coast, we imagine fish taco stands lining the streets like hot dog carts do in New York City. Fish tacos, with their white, flaky chunks and fresh toppings, just seem v...

Escaping This Weekend? Bring Some Homemade Granola

This summer, most of our trips out of town have been quick, 48-hour jaunts here and there — usually as (very grateful) moochers of friends with beach houses. We try to bring a little gift, plus so...

Easy Ice Cream Topping: What About a Curd?

We had a really good triple-berry curd a few weeks ago at a friend's house but neglected to take a picture of it, so this lemon version will have to serve as inspiration. The idea: Using simple fruit ...

Sense of Place: Food and Cuisine of the Midwest

When it's not meat and potatoes, it's...well, it's still meat and potatoes, except it's disguised as casserole, soup, or meatloaf! Meals in the Midwest are a hearty mix of German and Scandinavian cui...

Ice Cream, Sorbet, & Frozen Yogurt: The Full Roundup!

Are you plotting your entry for our Best Lick! 2008 Ice Cream Contest yet? Need some inspiration? Here is pretty much every ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet recipe we've ever published, plus a few...

What's Cooking This Weekend?
Weekend of August 2-3, 2008

Welcome to August at The Kitchn! What are you cooking this weekend? Are you giving your kitchen a break and just sucking on popsicles and fresh garden tomatoes? Or are you planning backyard (or front ...

Flickr Find: A Warm Stack of Blueberry Pancakes

Good morning... Don't these look good? We know a thick pile of pancakes may sound overindulgent on a Monday, especially if you've had a weekend full of eating, but this photo reminded us of what a goo...

What's Cooking This Weekend...
Weekend of July 26-27, 2008

What's cooking this weekend? We are ready for a nice leisurely weekend with plenty to eat and drink. Here are our picks for what to eat, what to drink, and what to read off the blog while you're lazin...

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...

Recipe Roundup: Sweet Ways to Use Yellow Plums

We're going to be the bearers of bad news up front: We don't have the recipe for this beautiful plum cake. (It's from Flickr and the comments aren't in English, unfortunately.) But it served as inspir...

Sense of Place: The Food of Florida

The food of Florida is a blend of Southern comfort and spicy Latin fare, strongly influenced by Caribbean and Cuban cuisine. As we saw in the list of Forida's flavors and ingredients, it's not shy ab...

Twelve Steps To a Better Pasta Salad

Pasta salad is often the ugly stepsister at a summer cookout. Too greasy, too bland, too mushy, too limp. We spent years passing swiftly by the pasta salads at our family's cookout buffets. But Sara D...

Help! Ways to Use Lettuce Besides Salads and Sandwiches?

We wanted to bring you a Top 5 for this post, but we weren't having a lot of success finding inventive recipes for using lettuce amidst the typical ones for salads and sandwiches. So we thought we'd ...

Cake-y or Crumbly: How Do You Like Your Muffins?

We found ourselves in a fix this weekend. We had exactly one pint of blueberries, purchased at the Saturday farmer's market and carried lovingly home. Everyone in our household was agreed: we would m...

Weekend Getaways: Best Gifts for Hosts

Anyone heading to a friend's beach/lake/country house this weekend? We are. And we'd like to bring a gift — nothing extravagant, but something more unique than a bottle of wine. So we rounded up ...

Do You Own a Bread Machine?

A better question might actually be, if you own one, do you actually use it?! The shot above is our neglected bread machine (note the fine coating of dust). Since getting into artisan bread baking a ...

Sense of Place: The Food of New England

After sharing all our favorite flavors of New England, we couldn't leave you without a few recipes to tempt your taste buds! Whether you live in Boston or Santa Fe, a transplant from a different coas...

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