Last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host got to live the dream: he spent an afternoon day-drinking with the Barefoot Contessa herself. Seth gets drunk (or, at least, stage drunk), and Ina remains her composed, lovely self while crushing Seth at the drinking games he challenges her to and dropping info like what her favorite cocktail is.
If you’re currently following a high-protein diet, perhaps you’ve hit a chicken breast rut. How about a little weekend Power Hour session to break out of your routine and set yourself up for a week of feel-good meals?
This Power Hour Meal Prep Plan requires no more than two hours of your Sunday, and leaves you with a week’s worth of high-protein breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. What do we mean by high-protein? The average amount of protein most people need in a day is 50 grams. This meal plan sets you up with roughly double that — about 100 grams per day — divided between three daily meals.
PSA: You have a little more than a week to get your menu together for Valentine’s Day. Maybe you already have dinner planned for your sweet thang (please, ditch the restaurant this year), and maybe you’ve already decided to pick up some flowers. But what about desserts? Sure steak is great, but dessert is essential on this beloved holiday.
If you’re stuck in the dessert department, Costco has your answer to love day bliss: heart-shaped macarons. Provided by Le Chic Pâtissier, you can have 25 of those classic delicate, almond-y cookies that melt in your mouth for only $12.49 at Costco. In comparison, a box of 24 cookies from the legendary Ladurée costs $73, so this Costco find is a total steal.
It’s no secret that Ina and Jeffrey are pretty much everyone’s relationship goals, so obviously when it comes to finding ways to celebrate our own love on February 14, we want to try to copy our barefoot queen as much as possible — and she’s happy to make that just a little easier on us: this morning she announced on Instagram that she’d published her playlist of the best romantic love songs of all time. Go ahead and find yourself a Jeffrey!
Here at Kitchn, we talk a lot about all the ways that your Instant Pot is surprisingly useful. It can make yogurt! It can make Ree Drummond’s chocolate lava cake! But it can also help out with those everyday tasks that could be even easier than they already are — like boiling an egg.
Now, boiling an egg is not the toughest kitchen task out there, but it does have its pitfalls: One common mistake people make is that they often overcook the egg, which gives it a gray-ish tint and thoroughly unappetizing sulphuric odor. If you have an Instant Pot, turns out there’s an ingenious hack for making sure your hard-boiled eggs turn out just right: It’s called the 5-5-5 method.
Back in the early spring of 2016 I tore down a little house my family had purchased 18 years earlier and, taking it on as finally my own and with money that I inherited when my father passed away, I rebuilt it from the ground up (actually below the ground, up) with the help of three wonderfully skilled people, John Berg (architect), Peter Germano (contractor) and Rebecca Robertson (interior designer). The project took nearly two years, allowing me to move in by Christmas 2018. I documented every step of the way (here’s where I left off in July 2017), BUT had to stop when it got close to the end so I wouldn’t spoil the final reveal AND so I could get it photographed by House Beautiful, which gave the team props. NOW, however, I can show everything in great detail, so please come with me as I roll out the whole finished house in a number of posts, starting with this one, which features….
A good chef’s knife is one of the few truly indispensable parts of your kitchen arsenal. We’ve covered them extensively, and the one that we keep coming back to is the Victorinox line — it’s been Editor-in-Chief Faith’s go-to for over 10 years! While the 8-inch is the model so quickly listed by many home chefs as their go-to, we have a major reason you might want to consider the 7.5-inch right now: It’s currently on sale for $28 on Amazon.
But it’s more than just the discounted price we like: The lost half-inch isn’t a huge difference, but can be more manageable for people with smaller hands. A shorter knife also gives you more control as you chop and dice. If you’re not regularly cutting up larger pieces of meat or produce, you might not even miss it.
Here’s a simple truth about food that everyone should know: Bread and cheese are a match made in culinary heaven. It is so difficult to go wrong if you just put these two ingredients together on the same plate. And when it comes to bread and cheese, pretty much no one does it better than the French. So when I saw that Trader Joe’s — which long ago earned its title as the king of snack foods — had released a new package of French fromage slices ($5), I just knew that I had to try it with a fluffy baguette. A plain ol’ cracker would never do for this taste test.
For years, I was a toaster oven denier. Who needs a miniature, worse version of something already in your kitchen? Sure, it heats up quickly, but many of those little jobs could probably be handled in a toaster, and it never seemed worth the extra counter space. Then my sister told me she wanted a toaster oven for Christmas. Mind you, I remained personally anti-toaster oven, but for the sake of my little sister, I’d do the internet research and pick out a nice one for her.
Which is how, a few years ago, I found the Breville Smart Oven Pro. Slowly, via my sister’s glowing reviews, plus getting to used it myself, I started to revise my convictions. And while I remain toaster-less myself (a tiny Manhattan kitchen makes even the world’s best toaster oven impractical for the time being), I have become a convert. So much so that this Christmas, I decided to get my mom one even though she hadn’t asked for one. (Spoiler: It was a hit.) Because I planned poorly and inspiration hit me late, I had to pay full price. Luckily for you, the exact model I gifted is now on sale, meaning you can get one for yourself or your loved ones for over 20 percent off.
No one cares about corn syrup in Bud Light, and everyone cares about the Backstreet Boys. That’s the general consensus from watching all of the food-related commercials that aired yesterday during the Super Bowl. A major misunderstanding that companies have — stemming, perhaps, from articles like this about the ads — is that people can actually hear what’s going on and follow complicated story lines in these commercials. They are wrong.
When you’ve been drinking beer all day and are chatting about the game and/or the Puppy Bowl while the commercials air, not every ad is going to land. So we decided to give the companies something of a report card. This is, in our opinion, how good — and bad — the ads were, ranked from worst to best.