A few months ago, I spent a lot of quality time testing three high-end blenders — and I mean a lot. My family drank tons of smoothies, I made enough hummus to serve at my cousin’s bridal shower, and I turned pounds of carrots into carrot purée.
After the blades stopped whirring, I was faced with a choice: Which one was worth keeping in my kitchen? After some intense hemming and hawing, I chose the Vitamix. Here’s why, and here’s what I think of my choice four months later!
Are you holding your knife the right way as you’re chopping, dicing, and slicing your way around the kitchen? Good technique will not only keep you safe, but will help you speed up your cooking. If you want to improve your knife skills, this is the place to start. In this short video, we show you how it’s done.
I’ve lived in six apartments over the last decade, which means I’ve cleaned, set up, organized, decorated, and cooked in six different kitchens. Along the way I’ve also bought a lot of things to fill out or improve these kitchens (and my cooking) — things like tools, storage gear, and pretty little pieces to add punch to the space or make me not hate some otherwise unchangeable aspect of it.
Not every purchase was a raging success (in fact, I’m still scratching my head over some decisions), but a few have proven to be worth their weight in gold. Here are the best and worst things I’ve ever bought for my kitchen.
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What does your kitchen need right now? A small refresh? A good scrubbing? Fresh energy for fall? Welcome to our annual Kitchn Cure, a 20-day journey of cleaning, organizing, and sitting with your kitchen, creating a more restful and mindful place to cook and eat.
This year’s Cure is led by Dana Velden, the author of our Weekend Meditations column, and of the new book, Finding Yourself in the Kitchen: Kitchen Meditations and Inspired Recipes from a Mindful Cook. Dana will offer you a daily assignment to get your kitchen a little cleaner and your mind a little clearer when it comes to cooking and loving your home just a little bit more. You’ll end with a cleaner kitchen and a refreshed love of your space.
Sign up for the Cure; it starts Monday, September 7. You’ll get a note from Dana in your inbox each weekday, with that day’s exercise. Come along with us to make your kitchen happier, healthier, and ready for cooking.
How does that saying go? “Give a man a chicken and feed him for a day. Show him how to get to the grocery store, and teach him to roast a chicken, and he can make, like, four good meals with it.” Or something like that.
Anyhow, when I was in college, my wise roommate Beth taught me how to roast a chicken and make it last. On Monday, we ate roast chicken. On Tuesday, we ate chicken, spinach, and rice casserole. On Wednesday, we had a light supper of chicken salad sandwiches. And the remains of the well-picked chicken made an excellent soup on Thursday. A good roasted chicken goes a long way.
When it comes to lunch, sandwiches make a fine choice, but there’s really only so much you can put between two slices of bread. Swap that sandwich bread for a pita, however, and it’s a totally different ballgame. Sure, you could fill a pita with cold cuts as you would a sandwich, but your options go way beyond that.
From eggs and leafy greens to meat and whole-grain salads, make lunch more interesting with one of these 15 recipes that are perfect to stuff inside a pita.
Grilling used to be a very mysterious way of cooking to me, but over the past few years, I’ve slowly become more confident at the grill. I’ve even taken on larger projects, like using it as a rotisserie and deep-frying on it.
I also live in a building with a communal grill, and while it’s been fun to meet my neighbors and share grilling recipes, there’s one mistake I’ve observed many first-time or very-occasional grillers make.
