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8 Beautiful Kitchens with Mixed Cabinets — Apartment Therapy
At this point, we’re all used to two-tone kitchens, but combining two cabinet types takes the trend further. Are you ready?
From Apartment Therapy → It’s In The Mix: Kitchens with Different Cabinet Types
I Tried the Instant Pot. Here’s What I Think About It, 8 Months Later. — Appliance Love
I first heard about the Instant Pot at the very beginning of this year when Cambria polled readers to find out their favorite slow cooker. Instead of a traditional slow cooker, many of you raved about the Instant Pot, but I’d never even heard of it. My curiosity led me to Amazon, where I found pages and pages of glowing reviews. Was I the only person who didn’t know about the Instant Pot?
A few months later, I reviewed the Instant Pot on the site. I approached it with a mixture of excitement and curiosity, along with a large dose of skepticism and disbelief. I mean, can one appliance really do the job of seven? That was eight months ago. After much use, here’s what I think about it now.
pull-apart rugelach
The single most frequently asked (possibly rhetorical but I’ve never let that stop me before) question in regards to the sweet recipes on this site is “How do you not eat all of these?” And I finally have an answer: They’re not rugelach. I love chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, I think snickerdoodles are wildly underrated, but rugelach — those impossibly flaky Central European crescent cookies — are the single item in the category of foods that are just not allowed to be here ever, because there’s something about the glorious harmony of it all (the salty cheese, the tart jam, the cinnamon aroma, the crunch, and if you love your people, the chocolate, gaaah) that it will not be safe with me. Or I will not be safe with it. Which is unfortunate, because I have an avalanche of rugelach in my apartment right now.
Previously, the only things that prohibited me from an all-rugelach diet were the fact that: they are never as good from a bakery, even a great one*, as they are homemade and that they’re pretty tedious to make. Butter and cream cheese must be softened, which takes forever in the winter. The dough has to be beaten with a mixer, then chilled, then rolled out, one-quarter at a time, then spread with jam and nuts and dried fruit and, because you love your friends, chocolate and then cut into 16 wedges and each rolled individually then arranged on a baking sheet, brushed with egg or cream wash, sprinkled with more sugar, baked and cooled then repeated three more times with the remaining dough and even I don’t love them enough to do that more than once a year.
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Recipe: Rustic Almond-Orange Macaroons — 5 Hanukkah Recipes from Amelia Saltsman
French macarons may be all the rage, but don’t dismiss the humble macaroon, which is derived from marzipan — a smooth paste of blanched almonds and sugar that, when mixed with egg white and baked, turns into chewy little gems. And macaroons are a heck of a lot easier to make than a DIY Ladurée project.
The Top 10 Under 40: Design & Food — Apartment Therapy
The 7 Essential Southern Dishes (According to Sheri Castle) — Good Food Reas
In the mood for a little controversy today that doesn’t involve politics or morals? A controversy that goes so far beyond our political system — into the very heart of identity: food. At The Bitter Southerner, Sheri Castle — one of our favorite Southern voices — makes her case for the seven essential recipes of Southern cooking. Do you agree with her picks?
Recipe: Goat Cheese Tart with Roasted Eggplant, Zucchini, and Caramelized Onions — Recipes from The Kitchn
Every so often there comes a restaurant meal which really inspires us in our own kitchens. This is a dish influenced by my own recent visit to the Porthminster Café, a breezy restaurant nestled below an ocean cliff just steps away from the stunningly blue water in St. Ives, Cornwall.
Meet the Popular New “Tea” That’s Made from Coffee Waste — Food News
Cascara, a new tea-like drink, has been popping up on coffee shop menus across the country, and winning the hearts of coffee- and tea-lovers alike.
While we think of it strictly as a drink, coffee — or, rather, the plant it’s made from — is actually a fruit.
10 Ingredients to Make the Perfect Gift with The Kitchn Cookbook — The Kitchn’s 2015 Holiday Gift Guide
You know how you feel when a friend asks you for advice and your best recommendation is to direct them to something you made or wrote yourself? Part of you feels sheepish for suggesting it, but then the other part of you feels like — well, it really is helpful. And you’re not just saying that because you wrote it!
That’s how we feel about “The Kitchn Cookbook.” Of course we’re proud of it and want everyone to have one — even your grandma! — but honestly, it comes down to the fact that we set out to create a comprehensive, inspiring, and helpful cookbook for cooks of all ages and experiences, and we think we did a pretty good job at it. It’s a great gift, if we do say so ourselves, and especially so if you juice it up with one of these 10 luxurious ingredients.