When it comes to essentials, like tomato sauce, originality is overrated. Marcella Hazan’s classic tomato sauce is famous and adored, and justly so. Scads of bloggers and food writers have written about it, so I’m just following along. This is one of the best sauces I know, and it only needs four (yes, four) ingredients.
We almost always try to choose function over form. (We don’t care how cool a coffee machine looks if it doesn’t actually brew coffee to our liking!) If we can get form and function at once? Well, forget it! There are few things better than when that happens!
You may remember that we lost our minds over these oh-so-beautiful kitchen organizers. And a similar thing happened when we saw these leftover containers on Amazon. (We seriously gasped!) While we totally get — and appreciate — an easy, clear container, it’d be nice if, sometimes, we opened the fridge to find something extra pretty.
So here goes: three of the prettiest food storage containers we’ve ever seen.
My dream of cooking with Ina Garten just became a little more real. Last week Williams Sonoma released a bunch of custom spatulas from your favorite celebrities, including the likes of Gwen Stefani, Questlove, Giada De Laurentiis, and of course Ina Garten. Are you ready to cook like a pro with your favorite Food Network star? Gimme!
I am very worried, friends. Worried that the fear of pie crusts may be keeping a great many of you from making your own pies at home. Is this true? Does this sound like you? Do debates over butter vs. lard or tender vs. flaky make you want to run and hide? Well, take a deep breath and grab your notebook — today we’re going to go over how to make a pie from start to finish, one step at a time.
Get ready, fellow lunch packers! Your bento boxes are about to be bursting with vibrant veggies and creative meat-free mains. Whether you follow a vegetarian diet full-time or are simply interested in cutting meat from your midday meal, these veg-heavy boxes are sure to satisfy.
Our 10 quick and easy ideas for vegetarian lunches feature an assortment of ingredients rich in iron, fiber, and protein (including quinoa, beans, nuts, and nut butter), ensuring you’ll stay full and won’t get bored. No sad salads here — we promise!
This week my big kid starts first grade, and my littlest heads back to pre-k. I’m welcoming the return of our routine with open arms, despite the fact that back to school also means back to packing lunches and snacks, and getting up a little earlier to prep breakfasts and dinners before drop-off.
Of course, we’re still in the midst of warm weather that is keeping me from cranking up the oven and sweating during dinnertime, so this week I’m reaching for my slow cooker to assist me in making five easy dinners.
You’re almost guaranteed to find a salad on my dinner table every night. It’s the easiest way for me to add vegetables to the meal and round things out, no matter what I am serving. And these 10 recipes, in particular, feel extra healthy to me: They’re heavy on the vegetables, dressed in light vinaigrettes that embrace good fats like olive oil, and are dotted with wholesome things like avocado, nuts, and fresh fruit.
They’re also fast to assemble and pair with everything from chicken and fish to pasta and pizza — and anything in between!
In my household, the “right” way to use aluminum foil — shiny side-up or shiny side-down — is the subject of much debate. (My vote is shiny side-up.)
As it turns out, we’re not the only ones who have spent time thinking about this. There’s a lot of speculation on the internet, where different theories abound. I admit that I fell down the rabbit hole of considering different kinds of heat, the possibility of a coating, and clever marketing gimmicks before I finally landed on a reliable source, the Reynolds Kitchens website, and got an answer.
Here at The Kitchn, we’re fascinated by grocery trends. We have Google alerts for the most obscure of topics, talk to experts about new product releases, pore over the nitty-gritty details within industry reports, and are constantly conducting feet-on-the-ground trend analysis (when we grocery shop, of course).
So when we came across this buzzy essay in Philadelphia Magazine arguing how and why millennials killed mayonnaise, we eagerly clicked to learn more.
As sure as there are seven days in the week, I can count on the fact that at least one of those days, I’ll come home from work feeling totally drained. On these nights, I want nothing more than to plop on the couch with Netflix and takeout. And, I’ll be honest, sometimes that is exactly what I do. But most of the time, the thing that saves me from blowing my budget on egg rolls and Kung Pao chicken is the one-pot dinner.
When dinner comes together in a single pot, it means a low-fuss meal that’s better for my wallet and probably better for me, too. So, when you just don’t feel like cooking, consider these 20 dinners your lifeline. With options like zoodles and meatballs, burrito bowls, and a savory Dutch baby, they’re delicious and totally doable.