Calling all NYC families! Do you cook at home regularly? Are you up for working with The Kitchn and an advertiser partner on a new project to promote a web tool, designed to help make finding and cooking the perfect recipes for you and your family easier and more fun?

We’re looking for two Kitchn readers who live in New York City and would like to be filmed talking with one of our editors about the challenges and triumphs of cooking for your family. The video will run in sponsored posts on The Kitchn.

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Recipe: Lavender Lemonade

Happy weekend, fellow cooks! It’s Memorial Day weekend and we’re looking forward to an extra day devoted to lazing in the sun and maybe grilling a thing or two. What about you? What’s cooking in your kitchen — or in your backyard — this weekend? Tell us all about it. Here are a few of my favorite posts from the past week, too.

• Lavender lemonade is exactly the right thing for a warm weekend.
• A two-ingredient strawberry treat for spring.
• Learn how to pour a beer properly.
• How well do you see color in the kitchen?
• I think it’s time to put a box of wine in the refrigerator.

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From Apartment Therapy → 10 DIY String Light Setups for Summer Entertaining

“Planning an outdoor party or gathering or looking to bring the summer outdoors in? Get crafting with one of these 10 summer string light projects.”

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Do you have any delicious plans for the long weekend? We have some great recipes this week perfect for entertaining, indoor and outdoor. If you’re going on a picnic, make our easy potato salad recipe, or spice things up with pasta salad with roasted peppers, tuna and oregano. If you’re looking for something sweet, you need to try the two-ingredient toasted marshmallow strawberries, or go all out with a lemon poppyseed bundt cake. And whatever you’re doing, don’t forget to cheers to the weekend with a sparkling spring sangria!

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Q: I recently received a bottle of cherry balsamic vinegar. Other than using it to dress salads, or perhaps to top a baked brie, I’m at a loss! What are some recipes that allow the flavors to shine/complement other ingredients?

Sent by Vicky

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This Memorial Day Weekend, you won’t find me outside grilling or shaking out my tent. Nope, you’ll find this book nerd curled up on the couch (or perhaps, if it’s warm enough, a park bench) with my nose in one of these three just-released food memoirs: Delancey by Molly Wizenberg, A Farm Dies Once a Year by Arlo Crawford, and Under Magnolia by Frances Mayes. Think I can get through all of them before we have to go back to work?!

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If Memorial Day has you restocking your home bar this weekend (if for no other reason than to make this amazing strawberry spring sangria), here’s something to consider: you don’t need a bar cart! You can have a sweet home bar setup with just a shelf and a few lacquered trays.

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