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Monthly Archives: May 2016
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Cooking on a Charcoal Grill — Cooking Mistakes
(Image credit: Kristin Teig)
With Memorial Day weekend (the unofficial start of summer) coming up, many of us have the same thing in mind: firing up the grill. While gas is certainly convenient, there’s something truly special about meals prepared on a charcoal grill. Those juicy burgers, sausages, and chicken also come bearing a smoky taste, purely reminiscent of the outdoors and summertime. But before getting started, whether you’re a novice or a master griller, be sure to steer clear of these five common mistakes.
6 Ways Tea Can Change Your Mood (Ring) — Tea Time
What mood are you in? Whatever it is, or, more importantly, whatever you want it to be, chances are there’s a tea to match your desired disposition. While there are just four types of tea — white, black, green, and oolong — there are myriad variations, not to mention the whole world of herbal teas (also known as tisanes).
From chamomile to chocolate tea (yes, it’s a thing), we’ve got a tea guaranteed to change your mood (ring).
5 Essential Tips for Better Grilling Away from Home — Master the Grill
I didn’t miss grilling until it was something I couldn’t do. All of a sudden all these incredibly delicious summer recipes centered around grilling were popping up all around me and I had no way to cook them. My apartment had a strict no-grilling policy, but I would not let that deter me! In what felt like a moment of pure genius (it very quickly downgraded into an obvious “duh”), I headed to the park to get my grilling fix.
Leela Cyd Shares the Hardest Part About Writing Her First Cookbook — Meet the Author
This week we’ve shown you how Leela Cyd threw a fabulous tea party right outside of Santa Barbara. The inspiration for the whole thing (including recipes!) comes from Leela’s first cookbook, Food with Friends: The Art of Simple Gatherings. Today we’re delving a little bit more into the inspiration behind the book, including a few of Leela’s favorite recipes and tips for anyone looking to host a party.
Recipe: Roasted Red Cabbage and Rainbow Pepper Slaw — Recipes from The Kitchn
My grandmother, Mommom Boyd, is well-known for her cole slaw. She chops the cabbage, carrots, and onion extra-fine and makes the dressing creamy and somewhat sweet. It’s highly requested by church members and friends, and is an absolute must-have at every family gathering. When I was a kid, Mommom would sometimes mix in red cabbage, too. I would marvel at how the bright purple bits would pop off our plates next to the orange carrots.
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Making Biscuits — Cooking Mistakes
Like anything purported as easy, biscuits are also notoriously easy to mess up. Simplicity, as it turns out, leaves plenty of room for error. Luckily I have quite a few biscuit makers to call on to discuss the common mistakes people make when preparing biscuits, and even better, the tips you need to know to avoid them all together. So before you get ready to bake up you next batch, here are five mistakes you’ll want to steer clear of.
17 Ways to Eat More Vegetables Right Now — Recipes from The Kitchn
Eat more veggies. We all should be doing it, but let’s face it — sometimes it’s easier said than done. But there are plenty of recipes you can make that give you a veggie boost without a lot of extra effort.
Make any of these vegetable-filled dishes this week and soon you’ll realize that getting those veggies in is easier and tastier than you might have thought.
I Tried to Erase My Soviet Past, but Tea Brought Me Back — Now & Then
Growing up in 1970s and 1980s Moscow, my day began and ended with tea. Always in a cup with a saucer, in the mornings it accompanied a breakfast of eggs or a cheese sandwich and in the evenings a dushevni (or soulful) conversation with my mother.
cucumber yogurt raita salad
If you needed another reason to add to the list of why you’d probably never want to be cornered at a party with me, I should tell you I’m more than a normal level of fascinated by the intersection of tomatoes and cucumbers in salads around the world. And I want to talk about it.
Because, seriously, can we go on a cucumber-tomato salad summer world tour? From the classic Greek salad (horiatiki), to the Palestinian/Arab/Israeli salads in their infinite variations, their close cousins, the shepherd’s salads (shirazi in Iran, çoban salatası in Turkey, shopska in Macedonia and Bulgaria), plus the kachumber in India and all of the variants, like fattoush and I’m going to need one of each. I was particularly struck by what Ottolenghi said in the intro to the fattoush salad in his Jerusalem cookbook, that freshly chopped vegetable salads like this are served with every meal and that friends visiting London often complained of feeling like they ate ‘unhealthily’ because there weren’t fresh salad with each meal.
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