3.83 / 5 Stars | 22 Reviews
by MARBALET
“You can make this dish and 24 hours later eat the pickles.”
Healthy Appetizers: Overnight Chinese Daikon Radish Pickles
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Healthy Main Dishes: Cola Chops
5 Concerns You Might Have About Brewing Beer (and Our Answers!) — The Kitchn’s Beer School
The idea that you can brew your very own fizzy, amber-hued, hop-filled beer at home is incredibly exciting — but also not without a fair share of worries. I get that. In my time teaching homebrewing, I think I’ve heard all the questions and all the concerns, so trust me when I say that the worrywart elbowing for position with the part of you who just wants to dive in head-first is totally normal.
Today, I want to put some of these fears to rest. Exploding bottles? Beers that make you sick? Bring it! Here are five fears to lay to rest so you can participate gladly in our upcoming Beer School.
potato scallion and kale cakes
What makes a recipe great? In my head, there’s a list of ten things and eight of them are different ways of saying the first one, which is “It works.”
- It works.
- For everyone. In every kitchen.
- Without requiring an advanced cooking degree or preexisting mastery of obscure techniques.
- Or voodoo.
- Definitely not prayer.
- It explains what you need to do in the clearest language possible.
- It anticipates where most home cooks might struggle. If something is a game-changer — i.e. it will kill the recipe if you don’t adhere closely to a step — it will warn you.
- Did I mention that it needs to work? Because it doesn’t matter you’re making or who gave you the recipe or how transcendent it was at the Michelin-starred restaurant that night, if the recipe printed in a publication intended for home cooks doesn’t work for most of us at home, it sucks as a recipe. It leads to bad meals, bad moods and take-out. A recipe flop is about the worst way to spend your limited free time. It is a 100% guarantee that you’re not going to feel like cooking next time you have a chance.
But once we get the 8-point plan sorted, there are two additional things that are less essential, but raise the simple act of food prep/nutrient dissemination to something special.
- It improves upon what you already thought you knew to expect from a dish, and/or does it in a way that you hadn’t considered before.
- It tempts you to make something you didn’t even know you wanted, just because it sounds so good.
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Julia Child’s Simple Trick for Perfect Poached Eggs Every Time — Tips from The Kitchn
We have a trick from Julia Child that will completely change the way you poach eggs. And by “change,” I mean be prepared to make flawless poached eggs for the rest of your life. No exaggeration!
Even if you have a tried-and-true method, making poached eggs can be tricky. I’ve made more than my fair share, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I make a darn good poached egg. So, it takes a lot for me to be wowed by tips in this department. Though, I suppose if there was anyone capable of that, it was bound to be Julia Child.
Healthy Appetizers: Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips
4.65 / 5 Stars | 151 Reviews
by CRISSYF
“Cinnamon tortilla chips are dipped in a fragrant fruit salsa.”
Healthy Side Dishes: Grilled Lemon-Pepper Zucchini
If The Kitchn Had a Podcast, What Would You Like to Hear? — Kitchn Business
Hey there, Kitchn friends! We’re thinking of getting our hands dirty in the kitchen with a podcast. (I mean, everyone else is doing it.) As we’ve batted ideas around, though, we knew we had to do the obvious thing and ask you all first.
If The Kitchn had a podcast, what would you like to hear?
30 Recipes You Should Know By the Age of 30 — Recipes from The Kitchn
When you first start cooking it’s natural and tempting to work on the beautiful, complicated recipes you see in fancy cookbooks. What you soon discover, however, is that cooking has a lot of building blocks. Your favorite chicken tikka masala recipe, for instance, will benefit from you having previously made a simple dish of chicken thighs. So, let’s start with essentials!
Here’s what we think everyone should cook before they reach the age of 30. How many things have you made off this list?
5 More Things We Can Learn from Julia Child’s Kitchen (Besides That Awesome Pegboard!) — Kitchen Design Lessons
Julia Child’s recreated kitchen at The Smithsonian.
In 1976 Julia Child wrote an essay for Architectural Digest about her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In it she called her kitchen “the beating heart and social center of the household … both practical and beautiful, a working laboratory as well as a living and dining room.” Sounds so lovely, right?
We — as her humble servants, now and forever — can’t get enough of her kitchen either. Over the years Julia’s famous pegboard has gotten a lot of attention, but there’s so much to learn from the rest of the kitchen, too! From how she set it up and the amazing way she labeled her utensil crocks, to the copycat paint color we found for those iconic blue-green cabinets, here are five other things to know about Julia Child’s kitchen.