The Kitchn Archive: Apr 2017

I cook and bake with my two kids regularly, everything from weeknight dinners to the more advanced sugar cookies during the holidays and cakes for their birthdays, but I recently had a cooking-with-my-kids experience that was so revolutionary, so satisfying, and just plain fun that I have to tell you about it. Five years into this parenthood thing, and way longer in the cooking and eating business, you’d think I would have thought to make pasta from scratch with my kids sooner.

This tip on how to cook perfect sunny-side eggs comes from John Besh, the Louisiana-based chef known for his celebration of the food of New Orleans. It’s a slow method and very much about creating the creamiest egg whites possible. No caramelization, no super crispy lacy edges — this is about a custardy set white around a shimmering, gooey yolk. What this method requires in patience it makes up for in results because it will give you the silkiest, creamiest sunny-side-up egg.

If you’re about to make the swap of cauliflower rice for real rice for the first time, I want to be honest about one thing: riced cauliflower is not going to fool you as a stand-in for grains of actual rice.

If you’re fluent in cooking, then chances are you’ve heard of sous-vide — which literally translates to “under vacuum” in French. It’s a cooking technique conceived in the 1970s and the process entails putting ingredients in a bag, sucking the air out, and cooking the bag in a water bath at a precise temperature. Sound fancy? It’s cause it is.

Tami Hardeman is the observant eye and stylist behind the popular blog Running with Tweezers. Tami is a professional food stylist and recipes developer who has also recently added “cookbook author” to her resume. Tami spent the last year working on her debut cookbook, Pulse Revolution. An extension of Tami’s own cooking style, Pulse Revolution‘s 150 recipes are vegetarian but include both meat enhancements and vegan adaptations.

The world is changing. This isn’t just an understatement about politics. It’s a truism about the equinox, that sliver of time when one season becomes another, when we exhale the old life and breathe in the new. Some of us free our houses from every last crumb for Passover. Some fill it with Peeps for Easter. Plenty use spring to make a fresh start, and for others still it’s a whole new (Persian) year. I am cleaning the winter out of my freezer. I have bones to pick.

Just around the time I started researching making nut milk from any kind of nut at home and the pleasures of making cashew cream, Food52 shared a “genius recipe” for Instant Nut Milk. A hack they adapted from Laura Wright‘s The First Mess Cookbook promises “a better, smarter, faster, less pain-in-the-neck method” to making nut milk at home by blending raw nut butter with water.