4.17 / 5 Stars | 25 Reviews
by Karen-Jean Coxe
“I made up this recipe when I had no idea what to make for dinner, I had a lot of canned foods so I decided to use them. I hope this works for you as good as it works for me. Serve hot with homemade cornbread and green salad.”
Here is a family favorite for a weeknight dinner—chicken thighs, floured and browned and then baked, served with a creamy mushroom sauce. You can serve it with rice, or if you put it over egg noodles, you have something resembling a chicken stroganoff.
I learned this treatment for pasta from an old neighbor of mine who took his cooking very seriously and made even the simplest meal seem like a dinner party. Music gets changed, cocktails are poured, stories told. There’s a lot of gesticulating.
But really, all there is to this dish is boiling the pasta, tossing the sauce ingredients into a metal bowl, then tossing in the drained pasta. It’s a stress-free party dish, or even just your dinner tonight.
The Kitchn Cure Day 19: Thursday, September 4
Assignment: Buy something nice for your kitchen! (See all the assignments so far here)
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You’ve worked hard the last few weeks, so now you deserve to buy something special for yourself and your kitchen. It doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive — just a little indulgence! Not sure what means? We have a few ideas:
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been attracted to dishes that could straddle the line between breakfast and dessert. Mounds of berry pancakes with whipped cream fit the bill. Chocolate chip waffles? Absolutely. In my recent cookbook, I even managed to work in a recipe for Breakfast Cookies!
So it is with great enthusiasm that I bring you this early fall recipe for warm apples and walnuts served up with creamy whipped yogurt — and I’ll let you decide if it should be morning fare or graduate into an after dinner treat.
4.15 / 5 Stars | 10 Reviews
by Kathleen White
“This is a very tasty and easy bean salad made with four kinds of beans, red onion, and celery in a vinegar dressing. My friend next door gave it to me years ago.”
The Kitchn Cure Day 18: Wednesday, September 3
Assignment: Clean the countertops and backsplash. Sweep and mop the floors. (See all the assignments so far here)
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After three weeks of cleaning, decluttering, and (we imagine) still cooking in your kitchen, your kitchen floor is probably in desperate need of a good mopping. The same goes for the countertops. When was the last time you cleared them off completely to get to that spot beneath the utensil crock and behind the cutting boards? That’s what we’re doing today, friends.
Did you know that you can peel a mango with just a drinking glass? Or that you can use a pastry tip to remove cherry stones? There are so many ways to peel, cut, or otherwise prepare fruit in the kitchen, but some are better than others.
If you love eating fruit by itself, or use fruit in a lot of seasonal recipes, these 10 small yet mighty shortcuts may just save you some valuable time.