Q: I recently was given a bag of smoked chanterelles as a gift. I have no idea what to do with them. Do you have any suggestions for ways to use them that would highlight their smoky deliciousness?
Sent by Mathew
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I won’t lie: I generally feel — being a Jewish kid from suburban New Jersey — about the least qualified person on earth to talk about biscuits. My grandmother didn’t make biscuits. I am almost certainly the first person in my family to keep my fridge regularly stocked with buttermilk. And growing up, our breakfast breads were a rotation of Thomas’ English muffins, bagels and maybe corn/blueberry or bran muffins, so it’s not like I have a deep well of biscuit nostalgia to tap into when I decide, on a whim, that what our morning, slicked with heavy snow, really needs is freshly baked biscuits.
Odds are, however you make your biscuits, you’re making them wrong. Either the flour isn’t right (all-purpose when it should be White Lily, cake flour or something equally delicate), the leavener is unacceptable (commercial baking powder instead of a homemade blend of baking soda and cream of tartar), you chose the wrong fat (shortening instead of lard, lard instead of shortening, butter instead of shortening or lard), you pulsed your fat into the flour instead of rubbed, you beat instead of rolled, you dropped instead of cut, you used a cookie cutter (gasp!) instead of a juice glass. I’m totally cool with this: I make my biscuits wrong, too.
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by SAXONY
“Very popular Hawaiian pupu – you can even get pork hash at the 7-11 here. My recipe is better – it includes shrimp!”
Not only do these little genius devices exist, we’ve rounded up eight different ones for you to pick from. Well played dishwashers, well played.
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Apartment Therapy
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Mary Lee’s Austin apartment is only 300-square-feet, but that hasn’t stopped her from making the most of it — particularly in the kitchen. Look at all that artwork! It transforms the space. See more of her little kitchen below, and look out for other sweet details like the mirror above the kitchen sink and the whale dish scrub holder… More
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Q: I used to own a gadget that looked like half of an egg, red and made of plastic or silicone. You would put it in the pan when hard-boiling eggs and it would turn darker when the eggs were done. I let someone borrow it, and now it’s disappeared. I would like to replace it, but I have no idea what it is called.
Sent by Marilyn
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4.59 / 5 Stars | 52 Reviews
by LDSPEAKE
“In this salad, cranberry sauce and pineapple chunks are stirred into a gelatin base and sprinkled with chopped nuts.”
by Guest on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
by Guest on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
All week long we’ve been sharing our discoveries from this year’s Home + Housewares show. We showed you this awesome new Greek Yogurt maker and Bodum’s game-changing stand mixers. We revealed KitchenAid’s new colors and Dansk’s adorable teacups. But now it’s time to round up a few of our absolute favorites, the prettiest and most eye-catching items in the bunch:
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