Q: Baseball season has started for my 15-year-old son. This means that me, my husband, and our 5-year-old daughter will be spending many evenings at the ballpark. I need some ideas for fairly healthy, portable, make-ahead “meals” that I can bring to the games so we can eat dinner while we watch. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches aren’t going to cut it!
When Kitchn reader Elizabeth moved into her Brooklyn apartment, it was a dull affair: “The kitchen floors were a brown linoleum that never looked clean, the cabinets were a mega mess, and the lighting couldn’t have been less desirable,” she wrote to us. “Nothing like halogen donut overhead bulbs!” But after a few DIY projects, including painting and redoing the kitchen floor, the new space is full of color and personality! See how her kitchen looks now:
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by Kristin
“A different kind of hummus, featuring fresh basil and tomatoes – smooth, flavorful, and delicious.”
It takes a killer eye to make a modern home shine: Too much midcentury or minimalism and your living room feels like a museum; not enough and the look just doesn’t gel. That’s why we love these readers’ house tours—they each put their own spin on modern decor, and the results are contemporary houses that still feel like homes.
Totally snackable pretzel crisps, cast iron muffin pans, and color-washed vases are just a few of the things we’re eying this week!
I bought this $6 bottle of Trader Joe’s rum for a recipe I was working on a few months back, and after using the few tablespoons I needed, it has sat at the back of my liquor cabinet collecting dust ever since. Because let’s face it: a $6 bottle of rum tastes pretty much like a $6 bottle of rum, and that’s nothing I’m excited to have in my cocktail at the end of the day.
In a recent sweep of the dark corners of my kitchen, I unearthed this bottle and thought to myself, Self, I bet you could do something with this rum to make it taste amazing. And that’s when inspiration struck.
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by Twila Davis Reed
“An exciting, cool and refreshing side salad that goes great with grilled meat. Fantastic for get-togethers. It’s also really quick and easy to prepare…no cooking needed!”
