4.47 / 5 Stars | 31 Reviews
by Sarah Stephan
“This is a delicious variation of the popular tomato based appetizer. The strawberries are warm and sweet and the sugar is caramelized and crunchy! Your guests will love it!”
It’s the weekend, and perhaps one of the last ones before going back to school or back to work. How are you using your summer weekend hours? I’m stocking up my freezer for a busy fall, and planning next week’s meals. What about you? And how’s your Kitchn Cure going, by the way? (Here’s today’s assignment; it’s a fun one!) Happy cooking, and don’t miss these posts from the past week:
The angle: For every occasion, there is a feast — from an afternoon scrounging for treasures at a flea market to the first snow day
Recipes for right now: Espresso Chocolate Chip Cookies, Turkish-Style Eggs with Yogurt, Mini Strawberry Cakes, Grilled Fennel & Watermelon Salad, BBQ Ribs with Coffee Mole Sauce, Cantaloupe Campari Granita
Who would enjoy this book? Cooks who love to throw gatherings big and small.
Q: Just read the article on organizing a freezer. Loved the containers used, especially the clear ones beside the ice maker. Have never seen anything like that in the store. Could you provide source information for the containers, please.
Sent by Jan
Day 10 Task: Buy That Pan or Small Appliance You Need
After deep-cleaning the oven, the stovetop, the range hood, and all the small appliances, today’s assignment for The Kitchn Cure is a fun one: buy that small appliance for your kitchen that you need! After a little brainstorming, I quickly got to work on that one thing I’ve been wanting for my kitchen for quite some time.
From Apartment Therapy → Small Kitchen Designs: 10 Organized, Efficient and Tiny Real-Life Kitchens
When you have a tiny kitchen, being organized and efficient are keys to making that kitchen function well.
Here are 10 real-life examples!
Whether you’re gearing up for fall or savoring every last bit of summer, we’ve got recipes to satisfy all your kitchen needs. If you’re looking for something sweet, try the raspberry lemonade bars, or the sweet biscuits with roasted peaches. If you want something for supper, go for the Southwestern-spiced pork tenderloin or cheesy packet potatoes. And remember to cool down with a delicious matcha green tea shake or low(er)-alcohol Diplomat cocktail.
How do you store your knives in the kitchen? There are advantages and limitations to every solution: Magnetic racks take up wall space (and scare some people!); knife blocks consume precious counter space; drawer inserts can monopolize a drawer better used for other things.
Here’s an interesting idea, and one that makes use of an otherwise unusable space: an ultra-narrow pull-out.
When was the last time you had a glass of orange juice with breakfast? Turns out Americans are sipping the former breakfast staple a lot less often than they used to. It was reported that orange juice sales hit an all-time low recently, and that’s only part of the bad news.
To unforgivably botch something great, if all of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone, I’m starting to believe that all of Smitten Kitchen’s problems stem from my inability to leave exquisitely simple things like berries and cream alone. Or maybe it’s about me being unable to sit in a room alone with strawberries and cream and not eat them? One thing is clear; I think we know better than to entrust me with the work of great philosophers ever again. I’m sorry, Pascal.
Let me rewind. Because my son has been going to a day camp across town this summer, I’ve had a lot more excuses to swing by the big Union Square Greenmarket on my way back to poke around for inspiration, which is about as close as I’m probably going to get in Manhattan to a summer on the farm. I’ve learned a lot. As I gasped a couple weeks ago, I didn’t even realize the New York grew such great apricots, or that their season is so long. I’d always associated prune plums with late August and early September, but they’ve been out for weeks now. And, most excitingly for me, I always thought of strawberries as a June thing — they come early, leave quickly, and are often good but rarely transcendent. So, it’s been a treat to learn that the best strawberries, the tiny wild ones, show up later in the summer and are, as far as I’m concerned, the platonic ideal of what a strawberry should be — sweet, delicate and fragrant, with no two exactly alike.
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