The Kitchn Archive: Mar 13, 2014

Make This, Not That! Your Guide to Eating Naturally Green Food on St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is one of those holidays that brings out the best and worst in food. There’s a lot of delicious beer drinking (a good thing), and Irish soda bread (another good thing), but then there’s that whole trend of using green food dye to turn everything you eat green (the bad thing). But if you are tempted to go all out on St.Patrick’s Day, have no fear! You can put away your green food coloring, and try these green things instead.

Ariel Knutson

Mar 13, 2014

Jenny McGruther’s 5 Essentials for a Warm and Nourishing Winter Kitchen

Jenny McGruther is a food educator and the voice behind the award-winning traditional foods website Nourished Kitchen. She teaches workshops and retreats on traditional foods, fermentation, and food activism. Her work emphasizes back-to-basics, old-world culinary techniques, and simple, traditional home cooking. Jenny lives with her family in the central mountains of Colorado, where she and her husband created and managed one of Colorado’s most progressive farmers’ markets.

Dana Velden

Mar 13, 2014

Recipe: The “Why You Don’t Need a Recipe for a Salad” Recipe

We’re talking about lunch and salads this week and I thought can I possibly write another recipe for a salad? I search for a lot of recipes online, I have a huge cookbook library, and I subscribe to many food magazines, but unless it’s a very esoteric, composed salad I had at a restaurant that I’m trying to emulate, salads are more of an ad-lib kind of thing in my kitchen.

Sara Kate Gillingham

Mar 13, 2014

Cure My Cooking Problem! Help Me Make Lunches That Can Last Well in the Fridge

How is Week 2 of your Cooking Cure? How is lunch going? I sense a couple trends: Many of you are Bored With Lunch. Others of you snack your way through the afternoon. And then others, like Bright Lights, dutifully pack a lunch, but work gets in the way, and the nice lunch deteriorates in the fridge. Can you relate? Do you have any suggestions for Bright Lights and lunches that last well for a whole week in the fridge?

Faith Durand

Mar 13, 2014

Quick Tip: Easily Peel a Clementine

Jennifer Hunter

Mar 13, 2014

The 5 Things I Prepare on Sunday Night for My Lunches

I spend most of my days working from home, typing words on a computer, baking and photographing cookies, then posting pictures of those cookies on the Internet. That sentence makes it all sounds idyllic, and while I’m certainly not complaining, my job presents its own set of challenges. Take lunch for example. It’s the toughest meal of the day for me, so I recently made a change.

Gina Eykemans

Mar 13, 2014