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.
Like chicken or pasta, fish is really a blank slate when it comes to preparing it for dinner. Yet, unlike chicken or pasta, fish has a reputation of being hard to prepare, which makes it feel a bit daunting. The truth, however, is fish is just as easy to turn into a quick, flavorful dinner as those other guys. The key is to embrace a few simple tricks that will jazz up just about any fillet you bring home.
We should just rename summer “Tomato Season,” the way people jokingly called autumn “Pumpkin Spice Season” so much that it stopped being a joke and is just the way we talk now. If fall starts when the Pumpkin Spice Lattes appear, every year I think of summer as starting when I put my first baby tomato plant in a pot on my deck and swear that this is the year I’ll remember to water it.
I remember a time in raising my children when I was never without one of those zip-top bags of frozen yogurt bites. If they needed something while we waited for dinner to arrive at the table, or a quiet snack at library story time, there they were. And while I loved making baby food for them and freezing yogurt for snacks, there was just no beating the commercial yogurt bites — even I enjoyed my fair share of the sweet, tangy, melt-in-your mouth texture of those bites.
It almost pains me to have discovered a hack for making dried yogurt bites at home after that season of my child-rearing is coming to an end, but when I discovered I could turn a kitchen staple’s leftovers into tender snack bites, I knew I needed to share this splendid secret.
If you’ve been reading any of our lunch-packing stories over the years, you’ve probably seen us use these stainless steel LunchBots containers again and again. They start at $20 (for one with no compartments) and go up to $40 (for the one pictured above with five compartments), which I realize is a lot of money to spend on a lunch box that your kid may or may not remember to bring home.
Here’s the thing, though: I’ve learned that it really is money well-spent! And I’m partial to the one that only costs $25.