Monthly Archives: December 2013
Winter Vegetable Dal
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This southern-Indian-inspired vegetable dal recipe is rich and creamy thanks to light coconut milk and gets exotic flavor from spice-infused coconut oil. Serve with flatbread or naan.
Spaghetti Squash & Meatballs
With this spaghetti squash and meatballs recipe, you can reduce the carbohydrates and increase the vegetable servings by skipping pasta and serving the Italian-seasoned turkey meatballs and quick, homemade marinara sauce over thin strands of cooked spaghetti squash instead. Cooking the squash first in the microwave and then in a skillet to cook off the extra moisture, gives the squash a more spaghetti-like texture.
What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of December 14-15, 2013
Happy weekend, fellow cooks! What’s on your cooking radar this weekend? It’s the time of holiday parties and potlucks; we hope you’ve enjoyed our Cozy Holiday Potluck Gathering series this week, and that you have plenty of delicious things on the horizon as you get ready to gather with your own friends and family over the holidays. We’d love to hear what you’re cooking this weekend — something cozy and warm? Something sweet and special?
2013 Holiday Gift Guides (& Sweepstakes!) — Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Important Yet Inexpensive Gifts for the New Cook Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Gifts for a Coffee Geek in the Making Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Gorgeous Tea Towels and Table Linens Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Actually Useful Cooking Gadgets Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Classic Kitchen Tools Every Cook Should Have (But Might Not) Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Gifts for the Budding Baker Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Cookbooks & Food Memoirs Worth Gifting This Year Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Generous Gifts for the Cook Who Deserves Something Special Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Small Yet Special Thank You Gifts for Hosts and Coworkers Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Beautiful Bowls Any Cook Would Love Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Gifts for Cocktail Hour Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Gifts for a Stylish Kitchen Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Ingredients That Make Great Gifts Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Kitchen Stocking Stuffers Under $15 Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
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10 Last-Minute Gifts for the Cook Holiday Gift Guide from The Kitchn
Sticky Cinnamon Rolls, White Lasagna, Bigos Stew, Chimichurri Sauce, Toffee Pudding Sundaes & Gingerbread Cookies — New Recipes from The Kitchn
With a winter storm coming down on the East Coast and plenty of winter happening everywhere else, I’m thinking that this is a weekend to hunker down and cook some good food. A batch of our sticky cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting on Saturday morning are definitely in order. Then take your pick of a creamy sweet potato soup or bigos stew with sausage and mushrooms — both are sure to stick to your ribs. Cap off the weekend with a cup of bourbon eggnog and you’re ready for whatever weather comes your way.
How to Set Up a Buffet Table in 5 Minutes — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn
Setting up a buffet table like the one for our Cozy Holiday Potluck might not seem like a part of the gathering that needs a lot of attention. Cover a table with a tablecloth and let guests drop off dishes as they arrive, right?! Even so, I think putting just five minutes of thought into the buffet table will make your life easier and help the whole evening go off without a hitch.
A Rye Manhattan: My Standard Winter Cocktail
Something about cold weather makes me want a cocktail. Though I generally drink wine or a little vodka, winter calls for something brown. Not too sweet, but just sweet enough, chilled, but not too chilled, spicy, but not venturing into the — I am so sorry for this, but I just don’t like it — vile territory of pumpkin spice. A Manhattan, made the traditional way, with rye, is just perfect.
My Family’s New Tradition: Small Plates on Christmas Eve
Every family celebrates Christmas differently. Some hold a big Christmas Eve dinner, others do a brunch with family on Christmas Day, and some (enviably) order Chinese food. Historically, my family has fallen in the first camp, with a more intimate dinner as we hang around the tree and open small presents. Last year, however we tried something different: small plates.
linzer torte
I think if you were to rank foods in order of how intimidating they are to cook, at the bottom of the list would be stuff you throw together any night of the week without a recipe, the top would be basically anything Grant Achatz has ever made and then maybe, just barely a notch below would be a dish that someone you love and respect makes so perfectly that you consider it to be “their” recipe. It feels almost wrong to make someone else’s signature dish, to meddle. It’s their thing, not yours, thus there’s clearly no way you could do it justice. I mean, sure there’s something else you could contribute to the holiday baking curriculum, maybe one of your favorites instead?
And this has been my feeling about linzer torte for all of the years since we first met at this url in 2006. I am lucky enough to join a high school friend for Christmas Eve dinner every year, and her mom always includes squares of incredible linzer torte in her array of Holiday Baking Wonders. Her mother is an excellent cook and baker, and the one that introduced me to Maida Heatter, from whom you should buy every book, immediately, without questioning me because her recipes are detailed without being irritatingly so, charmingly written*, and will never lead you astray. Truly. I mean, remember when she showed us how easy Dobos Torte could be to make? Dobos Torte. Imagine what she could do with a black truffle explosion!
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