Monthly Archives: May 2014
What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of May 3 & 4, 2014
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Happy weekend everyone! Do you have any recipes bookmarked to try for the first time this weekend? Are you planning for Mother’s Day, or a graduation party? Or maybe you’re just headed to the farmers market to get an armful of fresh ramps and asparagus? We’d love to hear all about your cooking plans!
Crunchy Black Bean Tacos, Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries, 30-Minute Chicken Posole & Spicy Grapefruit Guacamole — New Recipes From The Kitchn
Happy weekend, all! Do you have any big cooking plans for the next couple days? We’ve got a few recipes this week that’ll keep things fresh and easy. For dinner try a scrumptious 30-minute chicken posole or crunchy black bean tacos. If you’re in the mood for a spring-y dessert, check out the dairy-free raspberry rose pudding or chocolate-dipped strawberries. And for brunch? There’s nothing better than waking up to one giant pancake (Dutch Babies!).
Dairy-Free, Soy-Free Breakfast Ideas for a Breastfeeding Mom? — Good Questions
Q: I’m a breastfeeding mom and my daughter is sensitive to dairy and soy, so I’ve had to cut them out of my diet. I can have a little bit of butter but that’s it. I’m desperate for breakfast ideas — I’m so sick of plain scrambled eggs. Please help!
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Best 100 Juices for Kids by Jessica Fisher — New Cookbook
The angle: Skip the juice aisle and get creative
Recipes for right now: Apples & Oranges Juice, Tropical Cooler, Mango Madness, Spiced Carrot-Orange Juice, Strawberry Colada, Banana-Cherry-Pom Smoothie, Spiced Banana-Coconut Lassi, Grape Sports Ade
Who would enjoy this book? Parents hoping to curb the amount of sugar in their kids’ drinks; anyone with a juicer and a bowl of fruit.
What to Read This Weekend: The Best Way to Suck an Egg Into a Bottle — 10 Weekend Reads from The Kitchn
Ten good reads from the past week that made us think, made us laugh, or made us hungry.
- The best way to suck an egg inside a bottle. — Faith
- What would the world look like (really) if we stopped eating meat? — Emma
- Why you should be eating crawfish right now. — Cambria
- Gerber’s biggest competition in the baby food world? You. — Anjali
- Is urban porroning the new hot thing in wine? 4 lady somms show us how it’s done. — Ariel
blue sky bran muffins
I am likely the last person in New York City to learn about Blue Sky Bakery muffins, and it’s all my fault because I wasn’t paying attention. Why would you, really? Most coffee shops don’t sell muffins worth noting. You can only audition so many flavorless, greasy, tight-crumbed, massive metallic-tasting muffins before not even looking in bakery cases when you go in for your morning fix. Four year-olds, however, are not suspicious — they are insistent. So, one morning over spring break (something you dread when you’re in preschool, live for in high school and college, and I’m sorry to admit, lightly dread again as a parent), when I tried to make the most of our more leisurely mornings with excursions, we got in the terrible habit of splitting one of their fruit-filled bran muffins each morning and by the end of the week, we were so addicted that I had to make them at home.
It’s no surprise that a bakery that takes their muffins as seriously as Park Slope’s Blue Sky does produces such excellent ones. In a video on Serious Eats, founder Erik Goetze notes that “most bakery muffins are made by just going through the motions, either in an industrial factory-type muffin-making operation or whether people are making so many things, they cannot focus on what makes a great muffin,” which he outlines as moist, having a nice peak to it and, ideally, straight from the oven when it’s still crisp and crunchy on top, and when opened, a little curl of steam comes out of it.
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Because It’s Friday: Watch This Tiny Hamster Eat a Tiny Burrito
Happy Friday, everyone! You made it: It’s the weekend. What better way to celebrate than by watching a tiny hamster sit down at a miniature table and stuff its face with tiny burritos? You deserve this.
Stock Up on Freezer Meals Week 5: The Best Reader Advice for Filling the Freezer Before Baby Arrives — Spring Projects from The Kitchn
Over the past month I’ve been sharing the planning process behind my big spring project: stocking my freezer with healthy meals before the arrival of my first baby in early June. Checking in every week has been hugely motivating, but the even bigger benefit of letting The Kitchn readers in on the process has been the wealth of helpful advice you’ve given me in the comments. Here are the 7 best reader tips for filling your freezer before the arrival of a new baby.
12 Design Ideas For Small Kitchens — Apartment Therapy
From Apartment Therapy → 12 Design Ideas For Small Kitchens
“If you are planning a large renovation, or just want refresh your space, here are twelve tried and true ideas for getting a kitchen that totally works.”