If you’re like me, you’ve just about finished packing away your Christmas decorations and barely brushed all the glitter and confetti from New Year’s Eve out of your party clothes. Nonetheless, for those of you who like to slide out of one holiday’s joys right into another, Valentine’s Day is less than a month away.
Reminder: Anthropologie’s annual Winter Tag Sale is still going on, so if you’re looking to refresh your kitchen with some new goodies, now is the time. At an extra 40 percent off of sale prices, this is one of the best deals they offer — and items are still being added. We rounded up our favorite steals that are sure to liven up your kitchen and make you want to have guests over again post-holiday season.
After a long day of work or school, the last thing you want to cook is a complicated dinner recipe made with a laundry list of ingredients. Sure, there’s a time and place for ambitious cooking projects made with a ton of specialty ingredients, but Wednesday night after a 10-hour shift is not it. So we rounded up 15 of our favorite dinners you can pull off with just five ingredients or fewer — recipes that deliver a ton of flavor without a ton of work.
These are the types of recipes you can turn to time and time again when all you need is something fast, easy, and delicious. So pick a few of your favorites from the list below and keep them in your back pocket — your future self will thank you. (And just a heads up, we went ahead and assumed you had a few staples in your panty — like salt and olive oil — so for some of these recipes, you might actually need to purchase six ingredients if you’re not stocked up.)
Have you ever been inspired to whip up a batch of fresh cookies, only to find that your brown sugar is a rock? Or perhaps you’ve taken a bite of granola that was more, um, chewy than crunchy? The tiny cardboard flap on many boxed pantry items does little to keep contents fresh, and throwing out rancid or stale food is wasteful and costly.
So it’s no wonder we get excited when we come across an awesome innovation on an item as seemingly mundane as a storage container. The makers of the Evak Fresh Airless Storage Canister have considered all of these factors and designed the ultimate solution to our food freshness dilemma. Their patented suite of canisters are usually pretty expensive, but right now you can save up to 44% off a selection of their sleek, airtight containers on Amazon.
Welcome to Snapshot Cooking, the home of Kitchn’s easiest recipes. These mini recipes are so simple you can practically cook from the before-and-after snapshot itself.
One-pot pastas are an absolute magic trick. Cook pasta start to finish in one pot? No straining? And oh, wait — all the other ingredients for a delicious, well-rounded dinner cook right in the pot with the pasta? Amazing!
In fact, one-pot pastas embody everything we crave in a winning weeknight dinner: minimal prep, a 10-minute cook time, a single dish to clean, and a big payoff in flavor. But what happens to the pasta’s cooking water, you ask? As the noodles boil, the water reduces into a starchy binder, creating a rich sauce for the noodles to cling to. See? Magic.
Two years ago, when Amazon bought out the Whole Foods chain of grocery stores, a million questions floated around about what this meant for the quality, prices, and format of the once cutting-edge shop. Now, we’re starting to see some of those results in actual actions — starting with the end of the 365 brand of stores.
If you’re invited to the White House by the president of the United States, it’s fair to say your imagination takes over as to what might happen when you get there. Will you get a tour of the Lincoln bedroom? Will the First Lady make an appearance? How do they plan on entertaining you?
Well, the Clemson Tigers — who were invited to the White House by President Donald Trump after beating the Alabama Crimson Tide last week, winning the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship — found out with the rest of America what their particularly unique presidential experience would be.
Store-bought gnocchi is one of my favorite grocery-store conveniences, so I usually throw a bag or two into my cart every time I’m at Trader Joe’s. But instead of boiling it, I roast my gnocchi for the easiest pasta night ever. That’s right — forget everything you know about cooking gnocchi (and disregard the instructions on the package, too). Instead, toss your gnocchi on a sheet pan and roast until it’s plump and just a bit caramelized.
Not only does this save you the step of boiling water, but it also gives you gnocchi with crispy edges. When tossed with a couple other ingredients — like sausage and pesto — you’ve got a fun twist on a dinner favorite.
If it were up to my husband, we’d eat pizza for dinner every single night. Yes, even though we have a standing Pizza Friday each week, it’s just not enough for him. So I’m never surprised when he suggests these flatbreads for dinner, seeing as they’re essentially pizza with a fancy name. I usually let it slide since they’re such a quick, satisfying meal and I will also happily eat them on repeat. You just need three ingredients from Trader Joe’s to make these cheesy flatbreads possible.
Which came first: the chicken or the Instagram influencer?
2019 is already off to a great start. First we were blessed with a 27-pound bucket of mac and cheese from Costco, and now this Instagram egg. On January 4, 2019, Instagram account @world_record_egg (aka “EGG GANG”) posted a picture of a plain, rather boring stock image of a brown egg. The goal of the photo was to beat Kylie Jenner’s record of most-liked Instagram picture, a photo of her and her 5-day-old daughter, Stormi, posted on February 6, 2018.