The house-cleaning community of this Reddit thread got pretty fired up the other day when the topic of often-forgotten nooks and kitchen gadgets was raised, prompting a passionate discussion about tidying fixes that will have your space looking brand-spanking new. In the off-chance that you’re not a professional house cleaner, here are some spots to keep an eye out for the next time you give your kitchen a clean sweep.
During his two-decade-long career helming the kitchen at Alice Waters’ iconic restaurant Chez Panisse, Cal Peternell mentored countless breakout chefs, but the most important people that he’s taught to cook are his three sons — Henderson, Milo, and Liam (ages 26, 22, and 13) — right in his home kitchen.
As you might expect, instilling a love of cooking within his kids came pretty naturally for Cal because teaching people how to cook is woven into his DNA.
We’ve sung the cast iron skillet’s praises so many times here at Kitchn that we probably sound like a broken record. So how about a little reinforcement from the choir? In this case, the choir is a group of smart, seasoned home cooks who also keep their trusty skillet within arm’s reach to churn out easy and delicious meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Here are the 10 recipes that made them fall hard for the cast iron skillet and that they still turn to time and time again.
Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond has turned her small town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, into a tourist attraction, and she’s just expanded her food empire with a brand-new restaurant called P-Town Pizza.
Ree announced her upcoming new restaurant on Instagram over the weekend.
Dads are notoriously tough to shop for, but this year we decided to call in some inspiration. We reached out to five of the coolest dad food bloggers to find out what they’re asking for this Father’s Day, and you might be surprised at some of the things on their list. Take a peek.
There’s an Econ 101 concept called comparative advantage. You’ve heard of it — it just means some people are more efficient (and/or more effective) at doing things than others. In our kitchen, it means I make dinner. I’m home from work earlier, and I’m a recipe developer by trade, and my partner doesn’t really cook. It means we have a very traditional separation of labor at home, and it works for us.
Attention all germaphobes: We hate to break it to you, but there are probably some spots in your kitchen that you’re forgetting about during your regular cleaning sprees. Even if you’re the type of person who gives your sink a good scrub and rotates out your sponge on the reg (gold star!), there are definitely still some unexpected areas that could use some TLC.
We recently had a summer happy hour at the Apartment Therapy Media offices, with cocktails served up by guest bartender (and ATM staff member) Michael Kuhn. When I went to get a drink, I noticed he was shaking up his delicious gin-and-basil concoction in a BlenderBottle. Having been unable to locate a cocktail shaker, he improvised with the shaker cup, which gave me a major moment of inspiration.
What else could you use a BlenderBottle for?
Ina Garten has the most gorgeous life. I thought I envied Ina’s fancy French range, or her huge collection of Le Creuset French ovens in Dune, but that was before I saw her library — and now I’m positively drooling.
Breakfast is too often the meal that gets forgotten, skipped, or phoned in. People say it’s the most important meal of the day, but it tends to take a back seat to getting oneself and possibly one’s family members all out of bed, made presentable, and off to school or work on time. So it’s easy for breakfast to become a cup of coffee on the go or a bowl of cold cereal.