The angle: Simple (French!) recipes for small hands.
Recipes for right now: Zucchini Fritters, Cold Cucumber Soup, Raspberry Pie, Grape Juice, Apples with Speculoos, Mushroom Omelette, Orange Cake
Who would enjoy this book? Food-loving parents with food-loving youngsters.
Day 20 Task: Get Our 20 Minute/30 Day Cleaning Plan
It hasn’t always been easy, and there hasn’t always been a lot of time, but my kitchen is now officially clean and organized. The tell-tale sign that the Cure was worth the extra effort this month? I’m more excited to cook and have people come over.
But just because The Kitchn Cure is done, it doesn’t mean the cleaning and upkeep is over. Let’s review the 20 minute/30 day cleaning plan for the next month.
We have some delicious and easygoing dishes to transition you from summer to fall this week. Start off your weekend with a banana date smoothie (with lime!); move on to a delicious bowl of cauliflower fried rice or broiled salmon with spiced butter. For dessert you’ve got options: go for something a little decadent with a caramel-pear upside down cake or lighter (breakfast-friendly, even) with whipped yogurt with apples and walnuts. Happy eating!
The Kitchn Cure Day 20: Friday, September 5
Assignment: Keep your kitchen clean with our 20-minutes-a-day-for-30-days maintenance plan. (See all the assignments so far here)
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Sound the trumpets! You made it through The Kitchn Cure, and we are so happy to see you on the other side. How are you feeling? We feel pretty jazzed that you stuck with us, and we hope your kitchen is the better for it.
Today’s task is to get acquainted with our cleaning maintenance plan, a way for you to clean your kitchen a little bit every day throughout the month. You won’t find any decluttering, re-organizing, or purchasing assignments in this plan — we’ve tried to keep it simple and manageable!
Like most people with at least a passing interest in foods made from recognizable ingredients, I’ve heard a lot about almond milk in the last decade. But my love of all things milk, cream, crème fraîche, sour cream, double-cream, triple-creme, dulce de leche, sweetened condensed milk and milk fudge (you know, just to get started) was such that I had little interest in making it a regular part of my life.
Plus, there was so much that I didn’t understand. First, most recipes call for raw almonds. Have you ever tasted a raw almond before? They taste, to me, terrible, like waxy nothingness. Why stretch this waxy nothingness into a glass of liquid? However, you know that flavor you get when you deeply toast almonds to a nice milky coffee (mm, milky coffee) shade, that incredible flavor which is amazing in pastries as it is on salads and even for a plain snack? Why weren’t we making almond milk out of toasted almonds — was it just the shade? Does beige “milk” unnerve people?
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One of our favorite ways to eat this time of year is veggie bowl style: cook some brown rice or lentils, pile on stir-fried greens from the farmers market, and top with a dollop of zesty, nutty Happy Sauce.
Wait, you don’t know about Happy Sauce? Let us introduce you! Watch the video; it’s only 15 seconds long, and it’ll show you everything you need to know.
4.17 / 5 Stars | 25 Reviews
by Karen-Jean Coxe
“I made up this recipe when I had no idea what to make for dinner, I had a lot of canned foods so I decided to use them. I hope this works for you as good as it works for me. Serve hot with homemade cornbread and green salad.”
Here is a family favorite for a weeknight dinner—chicken thighs, floured and browned and then baked, served with a creamy mushroom sauce. You can serve it with rice, or if you put it over egg noodles, you have something resembling a chicken stroganoff.
I learned this treatment for pasta from an old neighbor of mine who took his cooking very seriously and made even the simplest meal seem like a dinner party. Music gets changed, cocktails are poured, stories told. There’s a lot of gesticulating.
But really, all there is to this dish is boiling the pasta, tossing the sauce ingredients into a metal bowl, then tossing in the drained pasta. It’s a stress-free party dish, or even just your dinner tonight.