What would a new year be without great resolutions! Tiny hopes and aspirations that give 2014 new life, a new slate to work on. This year The Kitchn editors PROMISE to plan ahead more for meals during the week, and pack more satisfying lunches for work. Tell us, what are your cooking resolutions for 2014?
I didn’t realize quite how much we love our salads here on The Kitchn until I started sifting through all our recipes from 2013. Let me tell you: we like them a lot. And we’re not talking about wimpy pale salads with a few cherry tomatoes and goopy ranch dressing, either. We’re talking about salads like our Chopped Brown Rice Salad with Grapes and Pecans and our Radicchio Salad with Avocado, Red Quinoa, and Ricotta Salata — salads filled with colorful vegetables, crunchy textures, and bright snappy flavors.
These are salads that you could take to work and actually look forward to having for lunch. Add a poached egg or a chunk of baguette, and many of these could happily serve as a light dinner. It was hard to choose, but here are fifteen that you definitely need to check out:
Q: I’ve coordinated a weekly dinner gathering of friends for three years now. Each week we send out an email with the night’s dinner plan and a list of ingredients we need. Everyone claims an item or two and we make dinner together, drink wine, and eat. It’s great. Recently, some of our friends have developed increasingly demanding dietary restrictions. We want to be all-inclusive, so I am looking for easy prep recipes (no more than 45 minutes from start to finish) that are gluten-free and vegetarian. Bonus points if they are light on the dairy and eggs, or are dairy and egg optional.
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We went to town on delicious homemade gifts this past month! From Heavenly Hash to chai cookies, here are ten of our favorite new edible gifts — good for the holidays, birthdays, or just any time you want to say thank you.
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“This is a great pasta dish. The hardest part of the whole recipe is cutting the escarole. It is fast, simple, and delicious! What more could you ask for? With a loaf of Italian bread it goes a long way. Enjoy!”
What did you want to cook, eat, and read about through the months of 2013? We always find it instructive and entertaining to look back over the past year and see what you loved.
Dana’s Weekend Meditation series is a welcome, and usually much needed, breath of fresh of air every Sunday. While it is one thing to learn how to properly sear meat, or master the fine art of sugar cookies, it is another to thing to be an intuitive, thoughtful cook. This comes from practice, of course, but also from taking a step back and sometimes seeing the mess in your kitchen as something more than a chore. The Weekend Meditation series allows us to take a break each week and evaluate how food and cooking plays in our lives.
