When your friends or family members move into a new home, you want to celebrate with them. And while you can go the practical route (cleaning supplies or pantry staples they might have tossed are always appreciated), it is also nice to warm their home with a splurge that they wouldn’t buy for themselves.
Need some ideas? Here are 12 good-for-everyone gifts that will add a touch of homey luxury to their new kitchen.
This is a straightforward pasta — my favorite kind — with mostly basic pantry ingredients and a couple of things to wow it up. The breadcrumbs (poor man’s parmesan!) might seem trivial, but don’t skip them. They add a wonderful, crunchy texture that really makes the dish. So grab your can opener — this pasta is dead-simple and it will feed a crowd!
Oatmeal is healthy, inexpensive, and as versatile as it gets. It’s a satisfying morning breakfast that’s filling without being too heavy. We love oatmeal because you can make a large batch but personalize each bowl to your mood or what’s in your pantry: brown sugar and cinnamon for a cold winter day, juicy stone fruit in the summer, or even cheese and a soft-poached egg for a savory twist.
Here’s everything you need to know about oatmeal, from the different varieties to tips and techniques that will help you take your oatmeal game to a whole new level! Now you have no excuse not to bring oatmeal back to the breakfast table.
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by JUDI ANN
“Baked in a sweet, tangy sauce of ketchup, mustard, sugar, soy and Worcestershire, this chicken sports a festive pineapple garnish.”
There are recipes on my Cook This list that I’ve been plotting for years but take forever to jump from that place where they’re a rough idea of how I think something might taste good and how I’ll make that happen. There are items on the list which are just the names of dishes I haven’t heard of and want to learn more about. There are recipes that make me kick myself every time I see them because how have we not made a good hearty tortilla soup here yet? And where is that Russian napoleon I’ve been promising you? But this here is none of the above. Exactly one month ago, someone emailed me (hi Angela!) and asked if I had ever made a German Sunken Apple Cake [which sounds even cooler in its native language: Versunkener Apfelkuchen] and I had barely finished reading the email before I had a new tab open because I had to immediately know what it was.
What it was is adorable. Seriously, it’s relentlessly cute. Small apples are peeled, halved, cored and then scored and arranged rump-up on a buttery cake base and in the oven, the cake begins to creep up around them and the apples fan out like accordions and the whole thing is so golden, dimpled and lovely that I abandoned all hopes, plans to do anything else until I could make this happen. (Perhaps predictably, this still took three weeks.)
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We’re big fans of IKEA’s kitchen cabinet system, AKURUM. It offers value, a great warranty, and modern design for a fraction of the price of custom and semi-custom cabinets. I installed AKURUM cabinets while renovating my own kitchen and have been very happy with them (see how they look).
But there have been murmurs and rumblings about the demise of AKURUM, and IKEA has officially announced the news: AKURUM will be replaced by a new kitchen system, SEKTION, starting February 2015. Read on for more details and lots of photos!
Bust out your coziest sweater, turn on the oven, and have yourself a homemade pumpkin spice latte, because today is the first official day of fall. While we look forward to the incredible produce that summer has to offer all winter, it’s really fall that highlights all of summer’s bounty with roasting, hearty soups, and warm spices. Welcome the change of season into your kitchen with these 10 recipes, including a slow cooker chicken enchilada soup, baked apples, and butternut squash pizza.
I’ve had porridge and oatmeal on the brain since starting the Power Breakfast theme on Instagram for September. So many of our followers on Instagram post the most gorgeous photos of big bowls of porridge filled with all kinds of nuts, fruits, and honey. I want them all. This beautiful bowl of coconut and blackberry porridge is the perfect hint of summer with seasonal berries mixed with the warmth we crave in fall.
