We love the idea of building a dish-drying rack into an upper cabinet. We especially love this design, which provides a seamless stainless steel backsplash and countertop below the cabinet.
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Author: Faith Durand
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A Waterproof Drip-Dry Cabinet
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Candied Bacon Fudge, Gifts for Cooks, & 2010 Food Trends Most popular posts published November 27 – December 3, 2009
Candied bacon fudge! What a mix! This plus simple ways to improve your cooking, some budget (yet still luxurious) gifts for cooks, and the easiest pasta ever. Read on for the top ten posts published this past week! 15. How Should I Adjust Recipes to Allow for Salted Butter?
14. December Cooking: What Do You Want to Eat Right Now?
13. A Fresh Kitchen Makeover for Only $400
12. Food Gift We’d Love to Receive: Whipped Brandy Butter
11. Holiday Gift Guide: 10 Kitchen Basics Under $25
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What’s Cooking This Weekend? Weekend of December 5-6, 2009
What’s cooking this weekend? We are thinking about warm and comforting casseroles, as well as holiday parties! Cheese boards (see above), sparkling wines, and delicious nibbles all sound very good. What about you? What are you cooking? Here are a few ideas from The Kitchn’s past week.
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Kitchen Tour: Ashley Ann’s $500 Light and Lovely Remodel
We have been big fans of Ashley Ann’s photography and charming design sense for a while now. So when we saw that she was remodeling her kitchen we had to get a sneak peek. She graciously shared some photos and the story. Here’s a look at how she and her husband remodeled their kitchen for under $500, along with some of the cost-saving tips that let them do it for so little.
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More Spice Rack Fun: Anna’s Jars on the Hood
We love all the creative spice storage solutions our readers send in! We’ve seen quite a few lately, and here’s one more from reader Anna.
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Recipe: Chez Panisse Gingersnaps
Take a look at these cookies. Have you ever seen a more modest, unassuming cookie? Each one is slightly misshapen and a little crooked. Well, who cares what they look like. They are wafer-thin explosions of taste and spice and warmth, and as soon as the weather gets cold, they are what we bake.
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A Warm and Stunning Los Angeles Kitchen Remodel Kitchen Spotlight
Greg just wrote to us to share his kitchen remodel, and we were totally and completely smitten. Yes, this remodel of his 83-year-old Los Angeles home took 905 days (give or take), which is a long time to be washing dishes in the bathtub. But when you see these photos we think you’ll agree that it was worth it.
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Printable Holiday Gift Tags from the Cottage Industrialist
Are you thinking about baking up some holiday gifts for friends and coworkers? Even a loaf of bread can be such a warm and thoughtful gift — especially if it’s dressed up all snazzy. And we have something to help you with that part of it, courtesy of reader Cameron, who blogs at Cottage Industrialist. She has printable tags for all your baked gifts and good things!
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12 Days of Cookies (And Dorie Greenspan’s Linzer Sables) Delicious links for 12.3.09
Tim of Lottie + Doof is holding a festival of cookies, which we think sounds pretty delicious. This plus two lovely things for your tabletop, and a roasted winter treat.
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Gorgeous Hand-Carved Wooden Spoons from Nic Webb
We were recently introduced to the hand-carved woodwork of British artist-maker Nic Webb, and we were just blown away.
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Broccoli Salad with Bacon, Chives, and Tomato Good Eats! A Weekly Roundup from Serious Eats
Every week we bring you our favorite good eating from our friends at Serious Eats. This week we were enamored of this broccoli salad. It just looks so good! More about that below, along with frog stir-fry, how to make perfect little tuiles, and kimchi quesadillas.
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Food Gift We’d Love to Receive: Whipped Brandy Butter
When I saw this brandy butter in Australian Gourmet Traveller‘s roundup of homemade food gifts, my jaw dropped. Brandy butter? How have I never heard of such a thing before?
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December Cooking: What Do You Want to Eat Right Now?
December is a strange month for cooks. On the one hand, it seems like the only food in the news is holiday related: Food gifts like caramels and fudge, and holiday sweets, like Christmas cookies and fruitcake. On the other hand, cooks cannot live by cookies alone. Dinner must be made! What do you cook this time of year, this time sandwiched between Thanksgiving and gingerbread houses?
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Sweet Potato Biscuits with Ham, Mustard, and Honey Delicious links for 12.2.09
Oh sweet potato biscuits! This recipe from Molly Wizenberg looks wonderful, as does Matt Armendariz’s explanation of colatura, the Italian answer to fish sauce.
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Can You Help Me Find a Really Quiet Blender? Good Questions
Q: I love smoothies and blended soups for breakfast, but I live in a small apartment with some late-sleeping roomates. I am on the lookout for a quiet (or at least quiet-er) blender to fit my morning needs! Plusses would be small and easy to clean as well. Thanks for your help!
Sent by Jessica
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Great Web Resource: The Fruit Maven
The Fruit Maven has a simple goal. Write about the fruit she eats, and document the fruit she likes. Easy, and yet also extremely helpful to the rest of us!
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Looking For: The Very Best Toffee in the Country!
Our boss, Maxwell, is on a hunt. He is looking for the very, very best toffee in the country. A recipe would be great, but we’re also looking for a great commercial source — somewhere that makes artisan-quality, incredibly yummy holiday toffee. Do you have a tip for us?
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How To Cook Beans: A Fast, Foolproof, No-Soak Method
Yesterday we told you about a great source for beautiful clay pots, and some of you wondered what you would cook in such pots. Well, dry heirlooms beans are one wonderful thing to cook in a clay pot, and as you know, we are huge fans of beans. They’re complex and delicious, filling and inexpensive. But then, some of you also frequently email us and ask us how to cook them! Here’s one such email, from reader Jeff in Columbus, and a description of the absolutely dead easy, foolproof way we’ve been cooking our beans lately.
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Sensible Design: Recipe Cards from Two Over Zero
We are always on the lookout for good recipe cards, so when reader Elizabeth sent us these cards that she and her husband designed, we were excited. They are almost exactly what we are looking for in a recipe card!
