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36 Pies for Janeen and Paul: Part Two
The timeline, the spreadsheet, the recipe and the secret ingredient

In my last Weekend Meditation, I wrote about the inspiring adventure of making thirty-six pies for the wedding reception for two close friends. Inspiration is one thing, but the practical details a...

A Sweet Finish: How To Make Strawberry Chips

We are so enamored of this sweet garnish that we just spotted at Pastry Pal, a lovely and helpful blog. These strawberry chips are easy and special; read on to see how they're made! ...

Cool Recipe: Michelle's Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade
Stay Cool!

We asked you how you're staying cool this August, and your answers are already coming in! Here's our first reader Stay Cool! recipe. Name: Michelle Location: Pennsylvania How are you staying cool? Lo...

Weekend Meditation: Interdependency

Eating with the fullest pleasure--pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance--is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebr...

Good Question: Looking For a Strawberry Galette Recipe

Here's a question from reader Haivan, who asks: I've been picking a lot of strawberries fresh from the local farms. Now I've got many, many jars of jam made...but how about some galette? Does anyone h...

Recipe: Tofu and Strawberry Tart
Guest Post from Gasparzinha of No Soup For You

Using tofu in a dessert may seem a little awkward; at least, that's what I thought about the idea. But there's nothing but to give it a try! The verdict: fantastic! Nobody can guess there's tofu in it...

Recipe Review: Gourmet's Strawberry Dumplings

Summer fruit always leaves us with the same dilemma – we long for pies, cobblers and crumbles, but we hate to turn on the oven when we're already struggling to keep cool. Enter the stovetop fruit d...

Recipe: Spinach and Strawberry Salad
Fruit Slinger, Chicago

The Fruit Slinger blog, one of our favorite summertime reads, is back for another season of commentary from the front lines of the Chicago farmers' markets. But the Fruit Slinger doesn't just sell t...

Recipe Review: Strawberry Tart with Rich Mascarpone Cream, Dark Chocolate Bits, and a Toasted Oatmeal Shortbread Crust (Plus Ganache)

It's an irony that this tart has such a mouthful of a name. The name ticks off each component one by one, getting longer and longer in the process: Strawberry tart. Mascarpone cream. Dark chocolate bi...

Feast On Strawberries: Salads, Sweets, Jams and More!

Strawberries have been all over the blog these past few weeks, deliciously pink and red in all their jammy sweetness. We adore fresh summer strawberries, as you can tell, so here's a look back at the ...

National Food Roundup: The New Strawberries and Cream
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 6.3.09

Eating outdoors this weekend? This week's papers have lots of great ideas for fresh, seasonal cooking, with a bit of a twist. How about a strawberry tart with chocolate, mascarpone, and oatmeal crust?...

Recipe: Strawberry-Arugula Salad with Ricotta Topping

A couple weeks ago several of the writers and editors of The Kitchn gathered in New York for a late spring brunch. It is always wonderful to be face-to-face with the fellow writers that we usually onl...

Mother's Day Treat: Bouchon Bakery Strawberry Paddies

Remember those Rice Krispie eggs from Bouchhon Bakery that we showed you around Easter? That was a rather easy recipe for colorful crispy eggs. This is one more recipe from Bouchon Bakery. They have t...

Recipe: Hot Pink Raspberry Cake

Maya asked us how to make the fluffy pink strawberry cake she remembers from childhood. The problem with that cake is that it uses Jell-O and boxed cake mix, and now she wants to make it more naturall...

Good Question: Help Me Make a Fluffy Strawberry Cake

Spring is here, strawberries are about to arrive, and Maya has a special request. Can you help? I am about to be inundated with strawberries, and it's also about to be my birthday and I’d like to ba...

Top Five: Things To Do With One Pint of Berries

As Kathryn pointed earlier today, it's berry season! Who can resist picking up a pint of perfectly ripe berries and popping one (or three) in your mouth before you've even left the farmer's market sta...

No-Bake Desserts: Two Recipes from Domino

We're contemplating a no-bake dessert this weekend, which is not difficult considering how much gorgeous fruit is available right now. Here are two recipes from Domino that take advantage of summer fr...

Hot Day Relief: Frothy, Creamy, Refreshing Strawberry Lassis

Today and tomorrow, Jews around the world are celebrating the harvest festival of Shavuot by studying, decorating their homes with greenery, and eating holiday meals full of dairy, especially cheese b...

Strawberries in Salads

This weekend, our plans to make a strawberry pie got interrupted, and no piemaking ever happened. We were thus left with the delightful problem of too many strawberries. There weren't quite enough for...

Recipe Review: Gluten-Free Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp

We flagged this recipe from the Boston Globe a few weeks ago when the weather up here was still gloomy and cold. But now that temperatures in the 60's (the 60's!!!) and farmer's markets are opening, ...

Cooking by Feel: Strawberry Refrigerator Jam

To answer Elizabeth’s question, here in California we are blissfully deep in the middle of strawberry season. My Mystery Box provider has been bringing in flats of dead ripe organic strawberries fo...

Reader Garden: Amber's First Sweet Harvest

Reader Amber sent us a link to her very first harvest from the garden this year - a few sweet berries. Look how red they are... ...