We love the look of a warm, wooden dining table. It’s just so cozy and perfect for long dinners with friends and family. If you’re in the market for a dining table, you’re in luck, because there are so many talented woodworkers making beautiful handcrafted tables from salvaged or sustainable wood. Here are seven to be aware of:
Low and slow was the name of the game this week. We had recipes to help you get your slow cooker into action, like savory Boeuf Bourguignon and super cheesy “baked” rigatoni with spinach and mozzarella, as well as plenty of recipes that just need a pot and a place to put it, like lamb korma and hearty Colombian Ajiaco soup. This weekend, why not slow down and let dinner simmer for a while — meals like these are worth the wait.
Tired of slow cooker recipes that call for an hour of prep work before you finally get to set the timer and walk away? The editors at America’s Test Kitchen hear you. Their latest cookbook of slow cooker recipes (The Easy-Prep Edition!) is full of just the kind of “set it and forget it” meals that make us glad we own a slow cooker.
With the changeover from summer to fall, my kitchen also changes from cooking absolutely anything that does not require the stove to everything that requires cooking for hours on the stove. Giant pots overflow with stock, soups, and stews that sizzle and burn on my white metal stovetop. By the weekend when we’re ready to do a bit of cleaning, our poor little four burner rental stove looks like it doesn’t know what hit it.
Q: I have been cooking Thanksgiving dinners for over 20 years, but this will be my first time cooking gluten-free. Any hints on what kind of flour to use for gravy, the best rolls to make, and what to use for bread crumbs? What is the best gluten free cookbook? Thanks.
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In one of my favorite October traditions, we picked too many apples a few weekends ago. As in maybe perhaps 25 pounds more than we needed? It’s hard to gauge. I realize that if you’ve never been in an apple orchard in October, when you’ve escaped the city to find yourselves in a quiet grove as the leaves are just starting to turn and the sky is unimaginably blue and you’re wearing your first thick sweater of the season, it’s hard to imagine how one accidentally picks 25 pounds too many apples. But I bet if you’ve been there and felt that, how fun it is to pluck crisp, unblemished, unwaxed apples from trees and let the branches snap back and the leaves flutter droplets of last night’s rain over your face, you’ve probably gotten carried away too. I think picking too many apples in October is about as important of a tradition as burning food on a backyard grill over July 4th weekend and going through a whole jar of cinnamon every fall. It’s going to happen either way; it’s best to embrace it.
But when we got back to our distinctly not-grove-sized apartment, we didn’t have anywhere to put them. So, we started with applesauce, eight pounds of it. We moved onto oatmeal cookie-ish crumbles (would you like the recipe?), which chipped away at a few pounds apiece, and then my son’s preschool was making something with apples and I was all “LET ME DONATE THEM PLEASE.” There were whole wheat apple muffins (which enlisted 2), then apple pancakes (another 2), and then we made more applesauce (4 pounds) and all of a sudden we had only 6 apples left and I was devastated, because I’d forgotten to make pie. Who forgets to make pie? Nobody you should be friends with.
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