What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of June 7-8, 2014
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Happy weekend, food folks! Are you getting into the weekend spirit? What’s on the menu this weekend? I’m planning on eating a lot of strawberries and making a big family lunch on Sunday. What about you? Also, here are a few of my favorite posts from the past week, just in case you missed them.
- Two budget kitchen renovations, one for $250 and another for $700.
- This machine will make you fresh tortillas any time you like.
- 5 beer cocktails for summer.
- You could win a trip to Paris…
- Are you eating enough strawberries?
Where Should I Buy Dried Fruits and Nuts? — Good Questions
Q: I’ve started to make homemade granola, and dried fruits and nuts can get pretty pricey. Should I buy them in bulk or online? Any suggestions?
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Scandinavian Cooking by Tina Nordström — New Cookbook
The angle: Let’s branch out from gravlax and apple cakes — Tina Nordström, Sweden’s own celebrity chef, shows us what Scandinavian home-cooking is really all about.
Recipes for right now: Cress Salad with Coconut and Lime, White Asparagus Soup with Bread and Salami, Grilled Cod with Green Pea Pesto, Stuffed Lemon Bread, Mascarpone Gratin Blackberries with Grand Marnier
Who would enjoy this book? Fans of Scandinavian cuisine, my fellow Midwesterners, armchair-traveling cooks
How to Cook (and Shred) a Pork Shoulder, Roasted Shrimp Scampi, Jalapeño Cheddar Corn Muffins & Grilled Cauliflower Steaks — New Recipes from The Kitchn
Consider it your duty this summer to make pulled pork sandwiches. This week we’ve got a tutorial for how to cook and shred a pork shoulder, how to make BBQ sauce, and finally putting it all together in a delicious sandwich. In the meantime, let’s take advantage of more spring-things by making Izy’s asparagus soup with frittata bites and Sara Kate’s pesto pasta with fava beans. Looking for dessert? Be sure to try your hand at the lemon-lime curd with rosemary sables – a real treat!
Kitchen Before & After: From Blah Brown to Gray and White For $700 — Kitchen Remodel
Deme’s Dayton, Ohio kitchen “was definitely drab,” she writes on her blog House For Five. “And dirty. And really, really blah-brown.” We see what she means. The enormous lightbox in particular “made the ceiling feel like it was grazing the top of your head,” especially for her 6’4″ husband. It was time for a change.
To give her kitchen new life and spark, Deme embarked on a plan to transform the space by updating, repainting, or replacing almost everything while keeping the budget to under $700. How did she do it? See the amazing transformation below:
One Small Step to Make it Easier to Unload Utensils from the Dishwasher — Tiny Tips from The Kitchn
Who else thinks it’s a drag to unload the dishwasher? Of all the kitchen chores, it’s my least favorite. But this one little tip has made the task less tedious.
Low-Fat Recipes: Quick Mango Salsa
4.88 / 5 Stars | 16 Reviews
by whitney
“This fruity salsa is great with pita chips. You could use it to top salmon or your favorite grilled fish, steak, or pork chop. You can add pineapple for even more of a tropical flair. The possibilities for this recipe are endless!”
Low-Calorie Recipes: Really Easy Chowder
coconut brown butter cookies
I realize that most people don’t go to the City Bakery or their green Birdbath outlets for coconut cookies. They come in droves to load up on the legendary chocolate chip cookies, pretzel croissants or even the alien-looking baker’s muffin. The coconut cookie — an almost monotone golden brown that resembles a million other cookies on earth — just doesn’t inspire the same kind of fervor. But I think it should. If you’re familiar with the place, you could probably have guessed that Maury Rubin, the owner/chief baker of the chain — he who bakes caramel, almonds and fresh cranberries together in a way that you will never want to go without again — wasn’t going to put just any coconut cookie in his bakery case. Yet, to actually bite into one is still astonishing: how did they get all of that butter in there? Or in short: goodbye boring macaroons, forever!
As should be abundantly evident by now, I’m a bit obsessed with them, and finally decided in January that I was going to reverse engineer them or fail wildly trying. And oh, how wildly I failed, first auditioning a straightforward drop cookie with sweetened flaked coconut that was not even close. Then I decided to fiddle with all of my favorite baking vices: brown butter! sea salt! homemade vanilla extract! But I was still miles from the bakery case dream. And then, two weeks ago, I fell down the most wonderful internet rabbit hole, which began with these Blue Sky Bran Muffins, followed by a comment Patty which directed the curious to Maury Rubin demonstrating his Corn Muffins with Pear and Candied Ginger on Martha Stewart’s TV show, with an embedded video segment that I watched until the end, at which point my reward was revealed in the following 17 words: “After the break, I’ll be back with Maury to make a recipe for the perfect coconut cookie.”
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