You could spend as much money as you wanted on knives. Somewhere out there, a person is probably selling a six-figure gold paring knife with diamonds in the handle and a proprietary smartphone app that tells you how thin you’re slicing, and beeps to let you know whenever Mercury is retrograde.
But sometimes the expensive tools aren’t the best ones, and Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli says that her most favorite kitchen tool is actually a cheap paring knife.
When given the choice, I will always choose a hot lunch over a cold one. It’s so hard to beat the satisfying, nourishing feeling that takes over your body when you dig into a hot meal in the middle of the day. It might surprise you that making a hot lunch doesn’t need to take a lot of time or effort, and the payoff feels like treat — like you’re doing something nice for yourself.
Because time is short and our days are busy, here are 10 quick and easy recipes for a hot lunch.
When Ina Garten says to do something, you do it. For example, if Ina suggests buying a certain type of good vanilla extract, off to Williams Sonoma you go! If Ina Instagrams her method of effortlessly arranging flowers before entertaining a swath of Hamptons neighbors, you run to the florist. If Ina recommends using a very specific brand of canned San Marzano tomatoes, you use them — and don’t ask too many questions.
Let me put it this way: If we all had to hunker down and make roast chicken and drink whiskey sours every Friday night for the rest of eternity, in hopes of becoming just a little bit more like Ina, would that really be so bad? Especially if that meant we all had to save a little room for dessert.
Molly Rosen Guy isn’t known for slapping the perfect Instagram filter on her posts about life, love, and parenting and making it appear as if everything’s coming up roses. In fact, the Brooklyn-based creative director of Stone Fox Bride, book author, contributing editor at Vogue and Domino, and mom to daughters Sunny and Coco (6 and 3), takes the exact opposite approach. We’d go as far to say that she’s one of the most brutally honest parents on social media.
Nonstick cookware is a great convenience — besides being able to use less oil for cooking, it makes cleanup a breeze. Perfect eggs, every time, with virtually no scrubbing? I’ll take it! But in recent years, nonstick coatings like Teflon have come under fire, to the point where many people have abandoned their nonstick cookware.
Are those fears still founded? Were they ever? We did some research to find out.
Brown-bag lunches have come a long way since I was a kid. My school lunches were always plain sandwiches, served in order: turkey, tuna, ham, peanut butter and jelly, then back to turkey and the rotation started over again. Now kids’ lunches are way fancier — carrots are julienned, sandwiches come in adorable cartoon shapes, there are probably grapes in the chicken salad. Kids’ school lunches are getting seriously gourmet, and Pinterest probably has something to do with it.
Love them or hate them, pod coffee systems have carved (and kept!) a home in the morning beverage market. If you use this type of coffee maker, you know how crucial it is to keep the system brewing without issue every morning — or maybe all day, depending on your coffee habit. Could you just imagine if it worked just fine for your husband and then it stopped brewing when you tried to make your own cup? The horror!
It can happen: Machines getting a lot of daily use can develop clogs that can cause the system to quit completely. Here’s a quick cleaning routine to keep your machine running well.
We have officially reached the last week of summer; back to school is just 10 days away for our family. While I’m looking forward to getting back to our school-year routine, these last few days of summer break are still going to be fun and tasty.
This week, I’m checking a few dinners off my summer bucket list (hello, tomato toast), but also trying some new-to-us recipes that I hope to repeat as school starts. Here are the five dinners I’m cooking for the last week of summer.
If you feel like you blinked and summer is basically over, welcome to the club! And nothing will snap you out of that lazy, hazy summer mentality faster than brainstorming packable lunch box snacks. But don’t stress out just yet — we’ve taken some of the guesswork out of back-to-school snacking for you. (You’re welcome!)
Here are Kitchn editors’ 50 favorite snacks to stock up on this year. Our choices are crunchy, crispy, cheesy, salty, and sweet — and everything in between. Plus, they’re adored by kids and adults alike!
It’s interesting to me how financial experts, mothers-in-law, and total strangers on a Facebook page all have distinct opinions on how much you should spend on groceries. The thing is, while food costs certainly shouldn’t be complex, they can vary from person to person and household to household — even region to region.