Take a look at these new colors from Le Creuset — purple! What do you think?
Author: Faith Durand
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S’moreffles and Tyler Florence’s Hot Apple Toddy Delicious links for 1.15.2010
S’mores from the waffle maker? Oh yeah! Plus “S’moreffle” is fun to say (rhymes with “snorkel”?).
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A Tea Mug Cozy and Pizza with Honey Delicious links for 1.14.2010
Pizza with honey? Sound strange to you? Well, this pizza with chevre and honey actually looks so good!
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Eat Your Books: An Online Index for Your Cookbooks
Ever since the internet came on the scene, we have used our cookbooks less and less. It is so much more convenient and functional to use the web to search for recipes, ingredients, techniques, and everything else we want to know. Who knows what’s in all those cookbooks we have! While we still enjoy dipping into them for inspiration, they feel far less functional (i.e. searchable) than our trusted food resources online. But what if your cookbooks were indexed and searchable online? What if you had a virtual bookshelf with all your cookbooks, searchable and cross-referenced by ingredient and keywords? Well, that changes everything. Meet Eat Your Books.
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What Can I Do With Fennel Tops and Fronds? Good Questions
Q: I recently used fresh fennel in a recipe for the first time. It was spectacular! However, the recipe called for two bulbs and a tablespoon of the fronds. Is there a recommended method for preserving the remaining fronds and stalks for use in other recipes? Do I dry them and, if so, how does that alter their potency?
Sent by Janice
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Green Eating: Leon Seasonal Food Chart
Is your resolution to eat healthier and be a little bit greener this year? Get on top of both with this easy to follow seasonal food chart from UK restaurant, Leon.• Read the full post at Re-Nest
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Green This, Not That: Danny Seo On Choosing Food
When it comes to making green choices, the array of options can be baffling so, when it comes to making decisions, we often look to our gurus to guide us. Danny Seo is one of our constant touchstones; he does it economically, simply and very, very stylishly. If you’re lucky enough to live in Canada, you may have caught his segment on Canada AM, “Green This, Not That.” For the rest of us, he shared his tips on making decisions at the grocery store.• Read the full post at Re-Nest
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Greek-Style Potato Skins Good Eats! A Weekly Roundup from Serious Eats
Every week we bring you our favorite bites from our friends at Good Eats. This week we have potato skins on the brain (remember the baked eggs in potato skins?) so these potato skins with yogurt, feta, herbs, and red onion look really scrumptious. Read on for these plus pork chops with fennel, the Waffleizer, grilled pears, and peanut butter brownies.
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An Elegant Grey Galley Kitchen Remodel PointClickHome
I am on an improvement spree right now in my rental kitchen. It’s old and worn, and sorely in need of freshening up. So I have been looking for inspiration, and this elegant yet cost-conscious remodel at PointClickHome caught my eye. Read on to see how they updated the cabinets, created a gorgeous stove nook, and added touches of glamour here and there.
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In Defense of Play: What Are Your Most Fun Kitchen Tools?
What are the most fun tools in your kitchen? You know, the ones that, regardless of functionality and usefulness, are just pleasant to handle? Do you have toystools that you make excuses to use? Here are a few of my favorite fun tools.
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LinenMe Good Shops for Cooks
You know we’re big fans of linen in the kitchen. Linen is tough and lasts nearly forever, and it’s also beautiful. It can also be extra-expensive, but we have found that independent artisans offer better prices and more lovely designs for linen than mainstream kitchen shops. Here’s one of our favorite online shops for kitchen textiles: LinenMe.
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Recipe: Fennel and Radicchio Winter Salad with Pecans
Winter salads can be wonderfully impromptu affairs. This one, for instance, came out of my need for a fresh salad and one expedition to the grocery store. I just picked up a few relatively seasonal things to toss together, and the result was this crunchy, slightly bitter, tangy salad.
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How Can I Store Leftover Wine (and How Long?) Good Questions
Q: I had a party and we opened a bunch of bottles of wine. How do I not waste that wine? I’m drinking as much as I can (Haha — I don’t want to waste any!) but there’s only so much I can drink or use in sauce before it goes bad. Any ideas? Can I freeze it? How long will wine be good for in cooking before it goes bad?
Sent by Cherie
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What Can I Do With My Stockpile of Jams? Good Questions
Q: Somehow in the crazy holiday gift givings, I ended up with SEVEN different jars of homemade jams and marmalades. The flavors are interesting and all over the place (jalapeno peach, boysenberry, cranberry marmalade), and I like jam and toast as much as the next guy, but do you have any suggestions for some recipes that use jams/jellies to help me make a dent in this massive stockpile? Sent by Colin
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Bamboo Compost Crock from Gardener’s Supply Company
Do you use a compost crock or slop pail in the kitchen? We love our stainless steel compost pail. We fill it up every week with vegetable trimmings before dumping a full load on the compost heap. It’s green and convenient too (love it when it works out like that). But what if you want something warmer than stainless steel? Well, we just noticed this handsome bamboo compost pail.
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Bright White Kitchens and Easy Portable Breakfast Foods This Time Last Year
What were we talking about (and cooking!) this time last year? Well, there was a crispy banana sandwich with fromage blanc, plus other winter treats like cranberry tart, pig cheek salad, light chicken Parmesan, and warm farro salad. There was a big roundup of bright white kitchens, tips for quick breakfasts on the go, and good storage canisters for flour and sugar. Oh, and the Golden Spurtle too. Read on for these and more from this time last year!
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Open Storage Solutions: In The Kitchen
We’re really digging Manda’s kitchen makeover — bright and cheerful with tons of open storage solutions. But what we love most about these organizing ideas is that they can translate easily into any home.• Read the full post at Apartment Therapy
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Cheap and Meaty: How To Make Oven-Braised Short Ribs
When it’s this cold, sometimes we really, really want a bite or two of meat with our evening meal. And in the fall and winter, our top pick for inexpensive, easy, and absolutely succulent meat is short ribs. Have you ever made short ribs? They’re cheap and easy. Here’s a quick guide to cooking them.
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Small Space Solution: Narrow Rolling Pantry Shelves
We always have a tiny flush of jealousy when we see those beautiful custom kitchens with perfectly fitted cupboards, and lots of pull-out cabinets that make great use of every narrow space. Well, you too can squeeze in a narrow pantry pull-out, with these rolling pantry shelves.Pantry space for things like baking supplies, canned goods, and other staples has always been at a premium in our kitchens. Rental kitchens like ours also are not as thoughtfully planned out in terms of storage and functionality.
Slim carts like these are designed to help you get the most out of odd or narrow spaces, like the space between the fridge and the wall, or between a bank of cabinets and the door. Some are as narrow as 9 inches, so they can be slipped in many places.They pull out on wheels, and there’s no installation necessary at all, which makes them perfect for a rental kitchen!
Here are three slim rolling pantry shelves we found in our browsing:
• Six-Shelf Pantry Rack, $99 at Improvements. 10 inches wide and 56 inches high. We like the handsome chrome!
• Slim Cart, $24.99 at The Container Store. 9 inches wide and 30 inches tall. Skinny!
• Slim Household Cart with Wheels, $19.99 at Space Savers. 10 inches and 32 inches tall. Small and accessible.Do you use any rolling shelves like these? How have they worked out for you? I would love to squeeze one of these in between the fridge and countertop, but it would be a tight fit!
