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Knife Skills & Shopping: 23 Ways to Educate Your Eye in the Kitchen — Tips from The Kitchn
Knowing how to cut your food, and how to eyeball the size and weights of things at the grocery — these little instincts are best taught by looking at examples over and over. This year we helped you educate your eye in the kitchen and at the grocery store.
This collection of visual guides to the five basic cuts (chopped, diced, fine diced, minced, and julienne) and what a pound of 19 different fruits and vegetables looks like will help you to train in a more intuitive and less recipe-dependant style of cooking.
12 Easy Wine Cocktails for a Swanky Party — Recipes from The Kitchn
Wine cocktails are a perfect way to add a sophisticated note to your holiday party while also making it easy to create a special themed cocktail for the evening. Many can be made in pitchers, such as our sparkling apple cider sangria, or served up with pretty seasonal garnishes, like our clementine and vanilla cocktail made with a box of white wine.
15 Ways to Practice Kindness in (and out) of the Kitchen — Give Back
Cooks, for the most part, are kind and generous people. They tend to want to share the fruits of their kitchen labors with others and express their love and appreciation through feeding people. We support and encourage this at Kitchn, and hope you find inspiration here to practice and express your own version of kitchen kindness.
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Loving and Leaving Behind My Tradition of Spritz Cookie Baking — Food & Ritual
Christmas is a grapple. We love the theory (feasting, giving, friends and family), even as we worry over the practice of cooking the food, choosing the gifts, and actually being with our families. We long to make the rites something more than rote, even as we wonder if it’s better to be more practical and less traditional. And right there in that grappling, right there between desire and duty, is the literal sweet spot where spritz cookies gnaw at me.
14 Festive Salads for Your Holiday Table — Recipes from The Kitchn
Bring some festive cheer to your table with a delicious winter salad or two. From a vibrant roasted red cabbage slaw to a garlicky kale salad with grilled bread, these salads will complement any main dish and enliven your holiday dinner.
What Food Banks Really Want This Holiday Season — From Me to You
‘Tis the season to be giving — but how? If you’re thinking about volunteering your time on a regular basis, start with these five tips for finding the right opportunity for you. If you’re looking to do something charitable over the holidays without committing, your local food bank is a great place to start.
But don’t go rushing to the grocery store to stock up on canned goods just yet! We asked SuperFood Drive, a nonprofit committed to improving the health of the hungry, about what they really want. Their answers might surprise you.
Recipe: Christmas Kolaches — Recipes from The Kitchn
Kolaches are a simple fruit-filled pastry. They are one of my husband’s favorite foods from both his childhood and his Czech heritage. Made with a simple yeast dough and a filling made from dried fruit, they taste like a much-less-sweet version of a classic breakfast pastry. They pair amazingly well with strong coffee and early holiday mornings.