Monthly Archives: November 2013
Low-Calorie Recipes: Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Soup
Healthy Makeover Recipes: Healthier Roasted Pork Loin
Healthy Appetizers: Alicia’s Italian Nachos
What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of November 9-10, 2013
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Happy weekend everyone! What’s cooking? I hope you enjoyed our big Thanksgiving feature this past week — it’s so much fun to start thinking about the holidays. I hope you have good plans for your kitchen this weekend; is there a Sunday roast in your near future? Or a pot of butternut squash pasta? We’d love to hear what’s on your menu this weekend.
Smoky Shredded Brussels Sprouts, Golden Mashed Potatoes, Chocolate Bread Pudding, Hot Cranberry Punch & Our Favorite Thanksgiving Stuffing — New Recipes from The Kitchn
Happy weekend, fellow cooks! We have some delicious new recipes for you to try out this weekend, including our favorite Thanksgiving bread dressing, and golden mashed potatoes. There’s a cocoa bread pudding topped with marshmallows, and an aged tequila cocktail to keep your evenings warm.
But perhaps my favorite new recipe this week was this ultra-simple and enticing hash of Brussels sprouts, spiked with lemon and smoked sweet paprika. It’s the kind of vegetable side dish you can have for dinner with almost anything. Why not try it tonight?
Hang a Bicycle Basket From Your Backsplash to Store Your Tea Towels — Small Space Living
We’ve said it before: keeping kitchen linens in a basket is a nice, neat storage solution. But this idea takes it one step forward: make that basket a vintage bicycle basket, and hang it from a rod (like IKEA’s Grundtal rail) on your backsplash!
What To Read This Weekend: Don’t Say Goodbye at Parties & The Women Who Made Whiskey Great — 10 Weekend Reads from The Kitchn
Ten reads that made us laugh, made us think, made us hungry or (in one case anyway) made us cry.
- In not-so-surprising news: out of 5,427 fast-food kids’ meals, only 33 meet recommended nutrition guidelines. – Anjali
- Hey, this granola master profiled by Food & Wine looks a lot like our very own Megan Gordon! – Emma
- Why you shouldn’t say goodbye when leaving a big party. – Faith
- The mash-ups continue! NYC introduces the “Thanksgivukkah Donut” and it is scary and beautiful at the same time. – Ariel
- The anatomy of a compliment. – Cambria
7 Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Brunch
Love the idea of hosting brunch, but begin to regret it the moment your friends are recalling their hilarious evening while you toil over a pan of bacon grease? Join the club. While I don’t host brunch often, when I do, I frame my entire menu around the fact that I don’t want to spend the whole morning in the kitchen. Sure, that chorizo and leek omelet is fantastic at your local eatery, but are you a short order cook? No. Skip the omelets and spend time with your friends.
Here are seven tips to host a brunch without stress, and without getting up at 5 am to prep.
Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks from Yesterday and Today by Warren Bobrow — New Cookbook
From ancient times until the early twentieth century, cocktails were the domain of healers, pharmacists, and apothecaries. Tinctures, bitters, elixirs, and tonics were created from herbs, flowers, fruit, vegetables, and alcohol to cure stomach ailments, respiratory troubles, and more. Warren Bobrow’s Apothecary Cocktails draws on this rich and delicious tradition so you can make your own restorative drinks at home.