It’s a sweetfest today, with peppermint heart marshmallows (so great for hot chocolate) and seriously yummy cupcakes from Bakerella.
Author: Faith Durand
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Pink Peppermint Marshmallows and S’Mores Cupcakes Delicious links for 2.2.2010
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How To Mince Garlic: The Video Home Hacks
Mincing garlic is a small yet ubiquitous kitchen task. We do this nearly every day! Here Emma shows you how she minces a clove of garlic, along with a great little tip to help keep the garlic from sticking to your knife.
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Ice Cream Pie! Made with 1-Ingredient Ice Cream Reader Submission
Take a look at this great idea for an easy and rather lowfat dessert from reader Leslie. She took that amazing, miraculous 1-ingredient ice cream and made an ice cream pie out of it. Read on to see what she did!
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Can You Recommend a Good Everyday Roasting Pan? Good Questions
Q: I received Diana Henry’s Pure Simple Cooking for Christmas. Last night, I attempted Smothered Pork Chops with Mustard and Thyme and while the chops were moist and flavor great, the potatoes didn’t brown. I used a 9×13-inch Pyrex, but I am thinking a roasting or cast iron pan would have been better. What would you recommend for an everyday roasting pan?
Sent by Whitney
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How Can I Make Soup Out of Leftover Roast Duck? Good Questions
Q: My husband and I went out for dinner last night and shared a roast duck. I brought home some of the bones (with meat still on them) as well as the meat we couldn’t eat.I was thinking I’d make soup, but I don’t know where to start or what to do. Any suggestions?
Sent by Alexis
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Can You Recommend Good Gluten-Free Resources? Good Questions
Q: My grandpa was diagnosed with Celiac’s Disease about a year ago, and since then he has seen health major benefits with a gluten-free diet. However, he and my grandma have had a hard time finding a lot of resources on cooking tasty gluten-free meals at home that would satisfy his bread-loving roots. I often forward them gluten-free posts on The Kitchn, but could you recommend any other blogs or cookbooks on the subject?
Sent by Erica
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What Is the Best Way To: Make Coffee at Home?
We’ve talked about quite a few ways to make coffee at home, and we’ll give you at least one more tutorial before the month is out. But we’re also curious about your own opinion! What, do you think, is the very best way to brew coffee at home, and why?
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Twitter Tuesday: 12 Fabulous Food Photos
Do you follow The Kitchn on Twitter? We focus our energies on the blog primarily, but we’re having fun experimenting with Twitter too! Today we are returning to our Twitter Tuesday event, and every hour, for 12 hours, from 9am to 8pm, we’re broadcasting 12 fabulous food photos we recently noted and appreciated (i.e. they made us hungry). Follow us and tweet your own recent favorite food photos too!
• Click here to follow The Kitchn on Twitter
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Salt and Pepper Grinders from Teal and Gold
Remember the recent lovefest for Giada De Laurentiis’ pepper mill? It turns out that her pepper mill is not easily available now, but we are even more smitten with this set of matching salt and pepper mills from the husband and wife duo of Teal and Gold.
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What Is the Best Way To: Cook a Chicken?
This month is all about How To — we’re giving you home hacks and tutorials for things you want to learn to do in the kitchen (and around the whole home). But we also want to tap into your own household intelligence, so every day we’re going to ask your opinion on the best way to do something. Today: The best way to cook a chicken! What do you think is the very, very best way to cook a chicken?
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How To Learn Great Knife Skills
We are plunging wholeheartedly into a month of How To tips and tutorials, and we are asking you what you would like to learn in the kitchen. But first, we want to make a note on the most requested How To of them all: How to acquire great knife skills. Here’s the secret — are you ready for it?
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Why Do All My Cookies Turn Out Cake-Like? Good Questions
Q: I just started learning to bake, and after several batches of cookies, I can’t figure out how to get the consistency I want — chewy and soft, or even chewy and crunchy. All I get is fluffy, cake-like cookies. A dozen batches of chocolate chip, pumpkin, sugar, and chocolate cookies all turned out like little cakes. They were delicious, but I need a chewy cookie. Is it my ingredients? Baking time? Oven temp? Over/under mixing?
Sent by Melody
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Chris and Heather’s Serene and Hippie Kitchen Kitchen Spotlight
We are just so smitten by this kitchen! It has so much going on for it: It’s light and serene, and yet it’s fun and colorful, too, with little surprises that make it so fun to look at. We bet it’s really fun to cook in, too.
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Adding Roll-Out Shelves to Existing Cabinets?
Q: I was wondering if any readers have retrofitted their existing kitchen cabinets with roll-out shelves. Has anyone used one of the companies that do this, such as ShelfGenie (www.shelfgenie.com) and what was their experience? • Read the full post at Apartment Therapy
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Smoked Mushrooms and 10 Tips for Reducing Food Waste Delicious links for 2.1.2010
Here are some good things we’ve seen lately, from smoked mushrooms to lovely glass mugs to some ideas for using your food more efficiently (we like the “guilt list” idea a lot!).
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What’s the Best Way to Use Good Feta Cheese? Good Questions
Q: I accidentally bought some really expensive feta for a recipe that only called for a small amount. Now that I have a large quantity of expensive feta, what’s a good way to showcase it?
Sent by Melanie
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What Recipes Do You Want to Try This Month? February 2010
Welcome to February! Last month we asked you what recipes were on your must-try-list, and then last week we followed up and asked you which of those made it into your kitchen after all. I got to one or two things on my list last month; take a look at what’s on it this month!
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Eco-Friendly Beer Drinking: Growlers Are Hot
We had beer with dinner last night. It came in a bottle, from a six-pack we picked up at the grocery store. It was, we now realize, not the greenest choice we could have made. Instead, we should have been hunting for growlers.• Read the full post at Re-Nest
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How To Make Scallion Pancakes Home Hacks
Chewy, flaky, and savory scallion pancakes are one of our very favorite Chinese restaurant treats. This pan-fried bread has a lot in common with Indian parathas and other simple flatbreads, and if you follow a few simple steps, they are easy to make at home. Here are instructions on how to make addictively delicious Chinese scallion pancakes in your home kitchen!
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Lunchbox Lemons, a Recipe Binder, & Super Bowl Bars! Most popular posts published January 22-28, 2010
Popular posts this past week included an icebox banana cheesecake, dump-and-mix-no-bake Super Bowl bars (mmm chocolate!), a really beautiful yet controversial kitchen, and creative pizza ideas. Read on to see these and the top 10 posts from the past week. 15. Recipe: Dad’s Authentic Ratatouille
14. Roundup: Removable Kitchen Islands
13. Icebox Banana Cheesecake
12. Great Recipe Binder System: With Free Downloads!
11. What Can I Do With Leftover Pulp From Juicing?