My young daughter has started to eat more and more solid food but has decided that she generally doesn’t like to eat much meat. Since I want to make sure she gets enough protein, we’ve turned to a pantry staple: canned beans.
I love that they’re pre-cooked, inexpensive, easy to have a variety of kinds around, and are the perfect convenience ingredient to make a quick but still nutritious dinner on a hectic weeknight. Here are five ways that I’ve found to make canned beans more interesting!
With Thanksgiving a little less than three weeks away, it’s time to start talking roasters. For the most part, roasting pans come out of our cupboards once or twice a year for the big holiday dinners, so given that we’d rather not spend $150 on one. Instead, here are five budget-friendly picks that’ll get the job done.
Although I get pretty weary of the pumpkin madness that hits the universe come October — I’m looking at you, Starbucks — there are two things I’ll make an exception for: bread pudding and pancakes. And since this post is clearly not about bread pudding, let’s talk about what we like to call “Pum’Cakes” around our house. Yes, they’re so good they got their own name!
When I first started collecting family recipes, the one I really wanted to know was how my mother made her roast turkey, it was so good! The turkey breast was never dried out, but always tender and full of flavor. Her method? First she buys the best turkey she can (organic, free-range, etc.) and then she cooks the turkey breast-side down. She also cooks the turkey stuffing separately, not in the cavity, which makes it easier to cook the turkey more evenly.
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“Lebkuchen is a traditional German holiday cookie. It is high in spicy flavor.”
Life is just better after a nice massage, amiright? But did you know that kale tastes better if you give it a quick massage too? Well, we did and you’re welcome. Skinny Taste featured The Kitchn Cookbook and our scrumptious Massaged Raw Kale Salad recipe on their site. Grab yourself some kale tonight and give this super food a little TLC.
Check out the recipe over on Skinny Taste…
There isn’t a Trader Joe’s in my town, but I run with hipsters, so I was pretty sure I knew all about it. The grocery store of cheeses, acai berries, Fair Trade oatmeal, and probably a stunning array of hummus? Home of Two-Buck Chuck, the world’s #1 cheap wine? A smaller version of Whole Foods?
Then I heard a rumor that all the canned goods under the Trader Joe’s house label are packaged in BPA-free cans (and store receipts are printed on BPA-free paper), which had me wondering—how on earth did we not know about this before? Naturally, I needed to know more.
Interstellar, the new movie from Christopher Nolan, comes out today, and as a lover of sci-fi epics, I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. But as a food writer the basic premise made me do a double take. In the near future the world’s soil, through blight or exhaustion, has stopped supporting all food crops except for corn and okra.
Is there any basis to this premise? A far-fetched yet theoretically possible superbug? And, if there was some massive worldwide die-off of crops, would corn and okra really be the last crops standing? If not, what will we be eating as our spaceships lift off for the the Kuiper Belt? I decided to ask a scientist and find out.
Rogan josh is one of the better known Indian classics, and this fiery lamb or mutton dish from the Kashmir region of India is now popular all over the world. My version stays very close to an authentic Hindu-style recipe, but I have tweaked it to make a rich and spicy slow-cooked dish that is perfect for chilly winter days.
