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The 10 Things to Register for at Target — The Happy Ever After Kitchen
You know to go to Target when you need trash bags and adorable decorative baskets, but have you thought about registering for your wedding there? You should!
For starters, the site and the registry app are both incredibly easy to navigate. And Target sells all the brands you know and love (think: KitchenAid, Nespresso, Vitamix, to name a few), and the oh-so-cute in-house brand, Threshold, which has never made something we didn’t want. Plus, we’re guessing your friends and family are shopping there anyway, so this makes the gift-getting process a little easier for them.
Here are 10 things you should register for.
10 Mother’s Day Dishes Kids Can Make — Recipes from The Kitchn
We like to keep our Mother’s Day celebration low-key, which usually means breakfast in bed (or snuggled on the couch). Since my two kids like to help in the kitchen, we are always looking for recipes that they can safely help with, but are also delicious, easy on cleanup, and can be eaten without getting too many crumbs all over the sheets!
Here are 10 recipes that kids can make, plus a few tips for helping them do it.
5 Store-Bought Treats That Are Better than Anything You Can Bake — Kitchn Craves
I love to bake. I’ll bake for birthdays, holidays, parties, and random Wednesdays — as long as I have time. Unfortunately, I don’t always have 30 minutes to make from-scratch chocolate chip cookies or an afternoon to devote to making my famous pecan pie. But a gathering has to have a dessert, right?
There are plenty of times when things are just too crazy and I have to fall back on the store-bought stuff. And honestly, no one ever seems to mind. For one, it’s not like my friends and family would demand that I pull an all-nighter to make them a three-layer cake. I also have a roster of really good (like, really good) store-bought treats that always impress. I’ll pull out a fancy platter and call it a day. (Note: I never take credit for the baking, though — that would be unethical!)
Here are some of my go-to treats.
18 Easy Pitcher Drinks to Celebrate Spring — Recipes from The Kitchn
Festive spring celebrations call for an equally festive cocktail. If you’re hosting a group, be it for a bridal shower, brunch, or graduation party, it’s time to think big when it comes to the drink options. Skip the individual drinks in favor of an easy pitcher cocktail that will serve a crowd.
From fresh and fruity sangrias to pretty sparkling cocktails, plus a couple options that skip the booze, here are 18 pretty pitcher cocktails for spring celebrations. They come together easily and are just as refreshing as they are pretty.
tall, fluffy buttermilk pancakes
About a year ago, over a series of weekends I was up too early anyway, I went on a buttermilk pancake-making bender. I tried, well, not all, but several of the recipes I always read about, the loftys and the fluffys and the best-evers. I used, in turn, cornstarch and vinegar and unseemly amounts of butter, I separated egg whites, I rested batters, and every single one of these pancakes was consumed by happy children but not a-one of them stayed as tall as they left the pan for more than a few minutes and I was gravely disappointed. It was very possibly user error; all pancakes were made before 8:30 a.m. on weekends, pre-coffee. Regardless, I tabled it and moved on.
Recently, in an attempt to extract myself from the 1008-page book I began in the fall and needed to accept I was probably never going to cross the halfway point of, I read Nora Ephron’s Heartburn. I honestly didn’t know the narrator was a food writer going into it but this made it even more delightful.* (I promise, I’m getting somewhere with this.) In some passage that I now cannot find, she essentially says that there are very few truly new recipes, that most things have been made well before, and this led me to send my kid to take down the 1896 Fannie Farmer cookbook with and look up her pancake recipe. “It’s not in here.” “Yes, it is. Look in the index.” [I think library science lessons are a small price to pay for pancakes, don’t you?] “I did, there are no pancakes.” But I knew there were pancakes in there and grabbed the book from him and hrm, he was totally right, there were no “pancakes,” but there were many recipes for “griddle cakes.”
Should You Get a Microwave Drawer? — Side by Side: A Guide to Appliance Shopping
At Kitchn, we have a love-love relationship with our microwaves. Of course we love it for all the obvious reasons — like warming our coffee in the morning and delivering near-instant popcorn gratification on movie night — but also for mug cakes, single-girl suppers of mac-and-cheese, and the quickest and easiest answer to breakfast (eggs in the microwave!). We even lean on it when migraines strike.
It’s an important appliance, and buying the right one matters. There are quite a few factors to take into consideration (like size, wattage, and special features), but today we’re looking at a very specific question: Is it worth it to get a drawer microwave? Or should you opt for the regular countertop variety? To help you on your microwave-buying quest, we’ve broken down the pros and cons of each kind.
5 Old Kitchen Design Trends that are Making a Comeback — Apartment Therapy
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Before & After: A Gorgeous Gut Remodel of a Studio’s Mini Kitchen — Apartment Therapy
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20 Simple Spring Salads to Make for Dinner — Recipes from The Kitchn
As the weather warms up and the evenings stay brighter for longer, we’re craving something lighter at the dinner table. We’re ready to push aside all those stews and roasts, along with our wool coats and sweaters! A dinner salad is definitely ready to see its time in the spotlight after a long winter.
Here are 20 quick and easy ones that are satisfying enough to be a main course, yet definitely won’t weigh you down this spring season.