What is the very best way to get your refrigerator looking (and smelling!) like new? Do you wipe down your fridge often, and if so, how do you clean it? Do you have any really good tips for keeping your refrigerator neat and clean?
Author: Faith Durand
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What Is the Best Way To: Clean the Refrigerator?
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Metro Steel Shelving Wine Rack from Williams-Sonoma
We don’t have a cellar full of wine, but we do like to buy one or two mixed cases at a time to save money. (Nearly every wine shop will give at least a 10% discount when you buy a full case.) Between these mixed cases, and the wine we buy for cooking, we often have at least a couple dozen bottles on hand at any time, and no good place to store it. So this wine rack from Williams-Sonoma looks very appealing right now!
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Dangerous Peanut Butter Pie and Homemade Hob Nobs Delicious links for 2.19.10
Hob Nobs — the greatest tea biscuit ever? Here’s an attempt to make them at home. Plus another sort of biscuit, grilled pork patties, and a very dangerous peanut butter pie.
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Yummy Tea Towel and Spicy Broiled Shrimp Delicious links for 2.18.10
We love this bright and cheery tea towel, and it matches up quite well with this Cup of Tea print, too!
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Homemade Ricotta and Chewy Granola with Cranberries Delicious links for 2.17.10
We love warm, crunchy granola, especially when it’s served with a dollop of ricotta. Here’s how to make both of these delicious things at home.
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Edible Crayons and 10 Ways to Photograph Food Delicious links for 2.16.10
Edible crayons, fun with food photography, and a warm and delicious butternut squash risotto from a young chef and food blogger.
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What Is the Best Way To: Break an Egg?
How do you break an egg? Do you have a strongly-held opinion about the best way to do this? What’s the best way to get a clean break and avoid shell in the bowl? We used to use the edge of the bowl to crack an egg, but now we usually just rap it gently on the countertop. What about you?
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Twitter Tuesday: 10 Recipes for Mardi Gras
Today is Fat Tuesday, and the culmination of Mardi Gras! So, in the spirit of Carnival, we’re talking about recipes suitable for this holiday celebration over on Twitter. Every hour, for 10 hours, from 9am to 6pm, we’re broadcasting 10 colorful, delicious recipes for Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday. Follow us and tweet your own favorite ways to celebrate Carnival!
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Presidential Eats: Happy Presidents’ Day from The Kitchn Presidents’ Day 2010
Happy Presidents’ Day! We take this holiday off, here at The Kitchn, but we still have some good cooking lined up for you today. In keeping with our Home Hacks theme, we’ll be bringing up more old How Tos and favorite tutorials from the archives. But first, to kick things off, here’s a look back at all things presidential and food-related! From Obama’s afternoon snack to Thomas Jefferson’s ice cream, here’s a roundup of presidential eats.
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How To Shape a Sandwich Loaf of Bread Dough: The Video Home Hacks
Yesterday we showed you how to shape a round loaf of bread. Today we’re showing you how to shape dough into a neat and sliceable sandwich loaf.
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How To Shape a Round Loaf of Bread Dough: The Video Home Hacks
Yesterday we talked about how to how to make bread dough and how to knead it, too! Today we’re looking at how to shape a nice, round, artisan-style loaf of bread. It’s easy — here’s how we do it.
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How To Knead Bread Dough: The Video Home Hacks
Earlier today we gave you a good look at how to make bread dough. Now let’s talk about how to knead it! A tutorial on kneading bread dough was actually one thing that several of you asked for this month, so here’s a thorough look at how we knead some doughs.
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Great Steak, Salt-Roasted Potatoes, & a $15 Kitchen Revamp Most popular posts published February 5-11, 2010
Salt-roasted potatoes, an easy way to cook a perfect steak, non-alcoholic cocktails, and a method to cook perfect bacon in the oven — these were some of our most popular posts in the past week. Read on for the top ten! 15. Ingredient Spotlight: Blood Clams
14. Cozy Indoors: 5 Cooking Projects for Snow Days
13. How To Select the Best Produce: Vegetables
12. 11 Grown Up Cocktails Without the Alcohol
11. How To Roast a Chicken
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How To Cut Up a Chicken: The Video Home Hacks
One great way to save money in the kitchen is to buy whole chickens and cut them up yourself. Even expensive organic and free-range chickens can be very economical when, instead of buying separate breasts and thighs, you cut the chicken up yourself. You will get a whole batch of chicken stock out of it, too! Nothing is wasted. But cutting up a whole chicken can be intimidating, so here is a thorough video explaining each part of the chicken, and how to quickly and easily cut it into pieces.
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Help Me Find a Good Starter for Valentine’s Day Dinner Good Questions
Q: This is the first time I’m able to cook for Valentine’s dinner. My partner and I haven’t had a kitchen to ourselves in the past. I cook dinner every night but I want to put more effort into presentation and courses for this night. So far I’m set on the main dish — linguine alla vongole with homemade pasta, and I’m thinking about a halloumi flambé with date paste and reduced balsamic for dessert since I don’t like to bake. I want a starter though, and I need suggestions! We eat seafood but not any other meat. I’m intrigued by a Parmesan basket but not sure what to fill it with, and we’re currently sick of salad. Suggestions for a minimal ingredient cocktail also appreciated (low budget!).
Sent by Quinn
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Valentine’s Breakfast in Bed Recipe: VS Mocha Café
What are you drinking on Valentine’s? (Or, for that matter, Chinese New Year, President’s Day, or Fat Tuesday?) A little later today we have a roundup for you of creative and delicious Valentine’s Day cocktails. But first, let’s consider breakfast. Why not start the day off with a spiked mocha? Here’s one recipe that looks so good; we’d love to curl up with a hot mug of mocha on this snowy weekend! -
Valentine’s Goodie Bags: And Chocolate to Put Inside
We just love these little goodie bags over at Twig and Thistle. Kathleen created a couple of free downloadable templates that you can print straight onto paper goodie bags (available at craft and party stores). What a fun way to make up a small, special package for coworkers or schoolmates. Read on for one more pretty bag design and a selection of chocolate treats from our archives that would make sweet gifts, all packaged up.
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What’s Cooking This Weekend? Weekend of February 13-15, 2010
Have you noticed how many “occasions” are occuring this weekend? Tonight the Olympics kick off, and then Sunday is Valentine’s Day AND Lunar New Year! Monday is President’s Day (it’s a blog holiday for us), and then next Tuesday is Mardi Gras. Whew — we almost don’t know where to look or what to celebrate first! What are you celebrating this weekend, and what are you cooking? Here’s a look back at a few recipes and projects that should match up whichever holiday you want to observe this long weekend.
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Great Idea! Start a Freezer Meal Cooperative
Have you ever heard of a freezer meal group, or cooperative? We just saw this idea for the first time, and we think it’s brilliant! Basically, a group of six friends decided to help each other cook dinner, and so every few weeks, they come up with 12 meal ideas and divide them up among themselves for cooking — and sharing!
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Smoked Paprika and Parmesan Grilled Fries Delicious links for 2.11.2010
Smoked paprika AND parmesan? Um, delicious? There are also cute cookie cutters and, just in time for Valentine’s, “Sole Mates.”