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by MARBALET
“You can make this dish and 24 hours later eat the pickles.”
Healthy Appetizers: Overnight Chinese Daikon Radish Pickles
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Healthy Salads: Caribbean Slaw
The 7 Worst Things About Dorm Cooking (and How to Deal with Them) — Dorm Room Cooking
Dorm cooking is kind of a double-edged sword. It feels liberating to branch out from the meal plan, finally eating the foods you want to eat, and cooking for yourself. But as anyone who’s tackled dorm cooking can tell you, it’s only a little while before you realize cooking in your dorm is tough and full of challenges.
In squeezing three squares a day out of your limited space, the best tool you have isn’t your microwave — it’s knowing how to handle each and every one of these common challenges.
The Science of Why Acid Curdles Milk — We’ve Got Chemistry
A commonly used homemade substitute for buttermilk is made by mixing an acid with milk (usually a tablespoon of vinegar for every cup of milk). When you’ve done this at home, you’ve probably noticed that the milk curdles and becomes lumpy over time. If you’ve ever wondered why acids curdle milk, I’ve got the answer.
crispy peach cobbler
I cannot resist a recipe that promises an odd outcome. To wit, prior to stumbling upon this curiosity in the wonderful A Boat, A Whale and a Walrus, an assembly of recipes and stories from restaurants on the other side of the country that I am now extra-sad I haven’t been to (yet! Like maybe in 5 or 18 years or so?), I understood cobblers to be more or less baked fruit topped with a soft cake batter or plush biscuit, while crisps had clusters of oaty and sometimes nutty cookie-like crumbs giving them their namesake texture. [Let us save comparisons with crumbles, grunts, fools, pandowdys, sonkers, bettys, buckles and slabs for another delicious day.] Crisps were not soft; cobblers were not crisp.
But not this one. Here, in technique that Renee Erickson, the author and chef, says she was handed down from the original owner of one of her restaurants, The Boat Street Café, a rather simple flour/butter/sugar/milk batter is beaten for longer than any proper cake recipe would usually advocate, spread thinly over unpeeled peaches that have been dressed only with lemon zest and juice — no thickeners, spices or sugar — coated with more sugar and then drizzled with hot water. In the oven, the batter develops a crisp lid that is as fun to impatiently tap your way through as the best crème brûlée.
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What Every Teenager Should Know About Making Salad — 10 Kitchen Lessons for My Teenage Kid
“How do you make that dressing?” I didn’t give it much thought until my son asked. It seems simple — and it is — but it hadn’t dawned on me to teach my kids to make a basic vinaigrette. Maybe because I never knew how until I met my French mother-in-law.
In my world, dressing came in a bottle from the grocery store. But doing it yourself is easier than driving to the store — and a lot cheaper. It had been years since I measured anything, so the next time I made it, I paid attention, wrote down the recipe, and put it on the fridge. Before I learned to make it, I started with a great cheat.
Healthy Appetizers: Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips
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by CRISSYF
“Cinnamon tortilla chips are dipped in a fragrant fruit salsa.”
Healthy Breakfast and Brunch: A Very Intense Fruit Smoothie
5 Ways to Snack on Zucchini — Small Bites
As a kid, I mistakenly called zucchinis “bikinis” — and that was pretty much the extent of my relationship with them for the past 30 years. My mother, on the other hand, could and would eat steamed zucchini for every meal of the day, which just goes to show the polarizing nature of this vegetable. Some people enjoy zucchini raw, while others need a load of butter and the threat of no dessert to choke them down.
But here’s what I’ve learned about zucchini in my past few years of adulthood and culinary experimentation: they are chameleons.
10 Sandwich-Free Lunch Ideas for Kids and Grownups Alike — Think Outside the (Lunch) Box
The lunchtime sandwich may be as American as the flag itself, but let’s face it: Slapping the same smears onto bread — day after day, week after week — can leave kids and parents a little bored.
Here are 10 ideas for sandwich-free lunches that take cues from home and abroad. Test drive them all with your little eaters (or yourself!) to find new, interesting lunch box variations that keep everyone’s appetites healthy.