10 Small, Fun Projects For Your Day Off — Recipes from The Kitchn

If you are starting work again as usual on Monday, my condolences. For the rest of you with a three-day weekend, let’s do something fun! What about a cooking project — just a small one! — that you can make and eat all in one day? I’m thinking about fresh pasta or a batch of hand-pleated Asian dumplings for dinner. Or maybe some soft pretzels that we can dip into mustard while still warm from the oven. Granola bars? Marshmallows, maybe? What sounds good to you?

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Weeknight Meals Made with Fish, a Better Way to Organize Pots and Pans, and Debunking Myths Around Cooking Pasta — Most Popular Posts Published January 12 – 18

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Happy holiday weekend, everyone! Popular posts this week on The Kitchn include breakfast recipes for chai-spiced French toast and overnight yeasted waffles, a spirited discussion on whether or not we should all stop saying the word veggies, a tour of Joy Cho’s colorful, whimsical studio kitchenette, why you should have your first cup of coffee later in the morning, and more! Enjoy!

15. What’s the Deal with Cute Paper Straws?
14. Breakfast Recipe: Scrambled Eggs with Goat Cheese, Greek Yogurt & Greens
13. Don’t Forget the Wine! Jacques Pepin’s 5 Habits for Better Cooking
12. How Much Does It Cost To Install a Garbage Disposal?
11. Teach Yourself to Eat More Vegetables by Reorganizing Your Fridge
10. Recipe: Baked Chai-Spiced French Toast

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What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of January 18-20, 2014

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Egg in a Basket from Joy of Oh Joy!
Don’t miss Joy’s kitchen tour from this past week, too: Joy Cho’s Grown-Up Candyland Kitchenette

Happy weekend, fellow cooks! Are you wrapping up Friday in anticipation of three-day weekend? I’m looking forward to an extra day of lazing about, trying some new recipes, and munching toast in bed. What about you? What’s cooking? We’d love to hear all about your menu plans for next week; are you writing up a meal plan this weekend?

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Overnight Yeasted Waffles, Chai-Spiced French Toast, How To Make Peanut Butter, Stuffed Chicken Breasts & Theater Steak — New Recipes from The Kitchn

Happy Friday, everyone! Let’s talk about what you’ll be having for breakfast tomorrow morning. I suggest these Overnight Yeasted Waffles — start them before you go to bed, dream about golden waffles all night long. But there’s also this Baked Chai-Spiced French Toast to tempt us, or if you’re looking for something a little quicker and easier, a plate of soft scrambled eggs with goat cheese and tender greens. You really can’t go wrong with these — or with any of our recipes from this past week!

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Weekend Project: A DIY Door Organizer For Foil and Plastic Wrap Dispensers

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Remember this clever idea to use a magazine file for storing foil and plastic wrap? If the aesthetics of that weren’t to your liking, but the door storage bit was, then this project may be just what you need. Whitney of the blog Shanty 2 Chic built her own door organizer for all her parchment, foil, and plastic wrap boxes. It cost $10 and only took her about 10 minutes, and look how sleek it looks!

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