Bacon-Wrapped Potato Bites with Spicy Sour Cream Dipping Sauce

The Internet is a strange place. While perusing recipes online, you’ll probably find a simple chicken recipe right next to some insane cookie-cake-doughnut-muffin dessert. It’s a scary, beautiful place to be. The gatekeeper to this world is undoubtedly Pinterest. It’s where we can organize our hopes and dreams, and that recipe roundup of mug cakes we stumbled upon.

The Kitchn has found a cozy home in this brave new world, and Pinterest has become our good friend. Pinterest has also shown us what some of our audience wants most. From bacon-wrapped potato bites to a no-bake strawberry icebox cake, here are The Kitchn’s most-pinned recipes of all time.

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If you’re a coffee lover, then chances are you drink up all the coffee that you make. But on the off chance you ever have leftover brewed coffee, you don’t need to throw it out. Just like coffee grounds can be put to use in a variety of ways, like compost and facial exfoliant, brewed coffee can be used in a lot of different ways around the house.

Here are nine things you can do with a pot of brewed coffee, or at least a few leftover tablespoons.

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Salad bars and the airport quick-grab kiosks have done the Spinach and Strawberry Salad a real disservice, I think. Done well — done properly — it’s easy to see why this salad is such a classic. The greens are crisp and tender, and they should be slicked with just enough dressing to be interesting without overwhelming. The strawberries give a juicy burst of sweetness, the cheese adds its luxurious creaminess, and the almonds bring it home with some much-needed crunch.

This is the kind of salad that is fancy enough for a Mother’s Day brunch, but also easy to whip together on a weeknight. For either scenario, and all those in between, Spinach and Strawberry Salad will serve you well.

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Knife Skills Poster from Brainstorm Prints & Goods

• $20 to $35

Julienne? Matchsticks? Brunoise? If you’re still working to master all those terms and what they mean for your knife skills, check out this poster from Brainstorm Prints & Goods.

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At Apartment Therapy, we are huge fans of Jennie Garth and her HGTV show, The Jennie Garth Project. Not familiar with the show? Basically Jennie did an insane/awesome/stunning makeover on a dated Hollywood Hills home.

Jennie, who has partnered with the MOTRIN^® Brand for their Make It Happen Weekends campaign, will be our guest of honor on the evening of Monday, May 4th, to talk all things DIY and share her personal home renovation stories just in time for National Home Improvement month.

We invite you to join us at the breathtaking Canoe Studios in the Starrett-Lehigh Building for this exciting evening. This event is not to be missed – purchase a ticket before it is sold out!

When: Monday, May 4. Doors open at 6:00pm, Event begins 7:00pm sharp.
Where: Canoe Studio, 601 West 26th Street, Suite 1465 (in the Starrett-Lehigh Building, on 26th between 11th and the West Side Highway)

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