Midday Protein Boosts, an Airplane Salad, Cold Soba Salads, Best Backpack Snacks, and the One Thing To Do Before a Trip — Most Popular Posts Published June 2 – 8

Happy Saturday, friends! Popular posts this week on The Kitchn include a look at 25 condiments that could push sriracha out of the hot-new condiment spot, a tour of sweet, family-friendly kitchen in Atlanta, a recipe for a clean-out-the-fridge airplane salad, and our favorite backpack snacks for traveling. Enjoy!

15. Sweet Travel Snack: Raw Peanut Butter Bites Sweetened with Dates
14. Lunch Recipe: Couscous Salad with Cucumber, Red Onions, and Herbs
13. Look! Brand New Blue Ball Canning Jars
12. My Travel Snack: Asian Dumplings
11. The New Sriracha? 25 Condiments That Could Be the Next Must-Have Thing
10. Why Chickpeas Are the Perfect Travel Snack: And 8 Recipes to Try!

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What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of June 8-9, 2013

Shiitake Mushroom & Tofu Potstickers

Happy Friday! I’m really excited for this weekend, as it’s the first one in a while with no major events or travel planned, and I’m looking forward to trying out a few new recipes. We’ll hit the farmers market in the morning, pick up some vegetables, and relax in the kitchen. What about you? Are you headed out to a market this weekend? What’s been showing up there? What are your plans for all those June berries and fresh vegetables? What’s cooking? 

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Peanut Noodle Salad, How to Make Asian Dumplings, Fruit-Packed Energy Bars & Couscous Salad with Cucumber — New Recipes from The Kitchn

This past week, we gave you all of our favorite pack-and-go meals for a long day of travel. If a car trip or plane ride is in your near future, take your pick! A dish like this cool noodle salad with creamy peanut sauce or couscous with cucumber and feta make a mid-flight meal you can look forward to. Fruit-filled energy bars and deluxe trail mix raise flagging spirits, while Asian potsticker dumplings make a surprisingly satisfying one-bite meal. Take a look back through all our recipes from this week for even more road food inspiration!

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5 Easy Ways to Eat More Whole Grains This Summer

Eat More Whole Grains This Summer: 5 Easy Ways to Begin Today

You’ve likely read a lot about whole grains in the news lately. It seems everywhere I turn, a magazine or major news source is touting their benefits, and it’s now recommended that our intake of whole grains sit right around 48 grams per day, which can feel overwhelming to many people. But it doesn’t have to be; there are a lot of sneaky, quick ways to work whole grains into your diet without sitting down to a big bowl of farro every day. 

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20 More Small Cool Kitchens to Send You Off Into the Weekend

Yesterday we showed you the first round of awesome small kitchens from Apartment Therapy’s Small Cool Contest, which just recently finished up. (See the winners here!) Haven’t had your fill of impressive small spaces yet? That’s good, because we have 20 more kitchens for you today! More colors, more storage ideas, more smart solutions for small kitchens of all kinds. 

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rhubarb cream cheese hand pies

rhubarb cream cheese button pies

A few weeks ago, I retold the sad tale of the late rhubarb meringue tart that met its end when it slid off the plate and managed to coat nearly every part of the open fridge I’d intended to put it into with smears of curd, puffs of meringue and crust of crumbs. Rhubarb, although not to blame, and I took a break after that, and it might had continued longer had I not been haunted by an Instagram commenter (hi!) who urged me to try my hand at a rhubarb cream cheese danish. I imagined the tart pink rhubarb against a lemony slick of cheesecake, enveloped in a puff of orange-scented pastry and I could not bear it.

rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb
sugared rhubarb

However, as I began researching danish dough, my interested waned. I don’t think it will be a bad project for one day, but all of that envelope folding and yeast and butter and carefully timed steps seemed a bit much for six to eight folded pastries that wouldn’t survive beyond the breakfast meal. And certainly not when it is finally high pie season, that blissful period from May to September when we in this hemisphere are lucky enough to have more fruit than we know what to do with.

rhubarb, cooking until slumpy and reduced

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The Road Trip Snack Trifecta: The 3 Snacks I Take With Me On Every Trip

The Best Road Trip Snack TrifectaIf you’re like me, when you travel there’s usually a food destination or two on the list of things to see and do along your journey. But between those mega-meals I’m always looking for things to keep my tummy and incessant need-to-snack in check. My go-to snack for these moments is comprised of three parts, and it goes with me on every single road trip I take! 

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