How would you like to wake up, walk into your kitchen, and feel happy to be there? It doesn’t matter if your kitchen is big or small, designer or DIY, these five little tasks, done the night before, are my secret to starting the day out right. I promise — they really make all the difference in my mood and cooking life!
Q: Does anyone have tips on how to deal with really awkward cabinet space?
I have four cabinets with odd, hard to access corners — so much space!
Once a marginalized subset of our food culture, vegetarian cuisine is now mainstream. There are a huge number of cookbooks and websites that focus on vegetarian and vegan cooking, and a lot of them are incredibly successful. I grew up in India where more than half the population is vegetarian, and so I was raised with a healthy appreciation for vegetarian cooking.
But then I married a pesco-vegetarian and am now raising a (picky) pure vegetarian child. I have come to need more resources for dinner, and to develop a more in-depth understanding of vegetarian cooking. Here are some of the cookbooks on which I’ve come to rely to feed my vegetarian family every day.
Curious about the inside secrets of culinary school but don’t have the resources to attend? Ariel Knutson, our own assistant editor, took one for the team and went to school for you (you’re welcome). Watch the video for her most important culinary school takeaways. Item number one: CONFIDENCE! Check out all her 10 Things I Learned in Culinary School and give yourself a competitive edge in the kitchen.
In an ideal world, I would cook a hot, fresh meal every night, but we all know that this is just not reality! Leftovers fill in the gaps on busy nights and make home-cooked lunches possible. How do you avoid the boredom of eating the same thing several days in a row? The key to leftovers is having the right recipes.
With the right recipe, leftovers mean that it isn’t a drag opening your fridge for dinner. You’ll actually look forward to several days of eating the recipes we have for you today. From vegetable lasagna, to slow cooker chicken tikka masala, to hearty chickpea salad, these meals might just taste better the next day.
Over the past month we invited you to come along on a cooking school adventure: 20 days, 20 lessons to become a better cook at home. Nearly 20,000 of you jumped in wholeheartedly and it’s been a blast to see how much fun (and learning) this online cooking school format can be! We hope that you finished out strong over the weekend and that you’ve fully graduated now from our Cooking School! If so, guess what? You get a diploma.
Read on to download your own Cooking School diploma, and to tell us what kind of cooking school you’d like to see next!
Gluten is almost a four-letter word these days. Along with its friends GMO, Partially-Hydrogenated and Processed, Gluten is something everyone loves to hate. But do we all really know what it means, and, for those who need or want to live gluten-free, how can you avoid it and still cook tasty meals? Erin Scott, the force behind Yummy Supper, is a photographer, gardener, home-cook and gluten-free expert. She entered the gluten-free world out of necessity, but decided to find a way to make cooking easy and delicious. Watch the short video for her 10 delicious tips and tricks.
People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way others do? – M.F.K. Fisher
My book club met to discuss The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher recently. I last read Mrs. Fisher when I was quite young, and while I fell in love with her, and all the places she had lived and the food she had eaten, I don’t think I ever really understood her. Or at least I didn’t quite pick up on her subtleties and deeper explorations, and how adept she was at hiding in plain sight.
Do you wish you could create your own delicious, over-the-top cocktails at home? Ben Paré, aka NYC mixologist The Cocktail Snob, has a serious roster of cocktail recipes under his belt. Luckily for you, he joined us at our October Maker Talk to show us all the tools and techniques needed to up your drink game. Fear not: his tips and tricks are easy to follow. Watch the video and then prepare to impress your guests today!
Happy weekend fellow cooks and treat-lovers. What’s cooking this weekend? Candy corn? Marshmallow spiders? Pumpkin rice krispie treats? I hope you have something good going on. Here are a few of my favorite Halloween posts from this past week, and a reminder: we get an extra hour to cook on Sunday, thanks to the magic of Daylight Savings Time. Happy Halloween!
