We get a lot of good ideas from you guys (like this one about how to put cheap cutting boards to good use!). So just for fun, we’ve rounded up 18 of the top tips you guys have given us recently. Steal some of them for your own kitchen and leave some other tips in the comments.
“Healthy” cookie dough falls into the same category as zucchini noodles and cauliflower crusts: lightened-up alternatives to classic (albeit carb-heavy) favorites. If you’re hopeful you won’t notice a difference in taste, you’re mistaken; try as they might, none come close to the real deal. But personally, I’ve taken a liking to spiralized veggies and cauliflower alternatives, mostly because I think of them as fun sides, not as replacements for some of my favorite foods. I was hoping if I approached healthy cookie dough with the same mindset, I might be on board with it, too.
Confession: I am intimidated by the idea of making bread — it’s a delicate process that takes some skill. Thankfully, there are mixes out there to make bread-making easier for novices like myself, and Trader Joe’s stocks some of the most intriguing variations, including this new wonderful-sounding beer bread. Yes, beer bread. And it’s only $3. In this mix, a carbonated beverage like beer or sparkling water is added to make the dough light and airy.
I was intrigued by the idea of adding a full can of beer to bread dough. Would it add an extra dimension of flavor or would it be too boozy? I recently baked it myself to find out.
Tamari first popped onto my radar a handful of years ago. I noticed a lot of recipes that called for soy sauce often included a note with the option to substitute tamari to make the recipe gluten-free. So, I was quick to assume that tamari was simply gluten-free soy sauce, with a more interesting name. Turns out there’s a bit more to it. Here’s what you need to know.
If you’re like me, you’ve just about finished packing away your Christmas decorations and barely brushed all the glitter and confetti from New Year’s Eve out of your party clothes. Nonetheless, for those of you who like to slide out of one holiday’s joys right into another, Valentine’s Day is less than a month away.
Reminder: Anthropologie’s annual Winter Tag Sale is still going on, so if you’re looking to refresh your kitchen with some new goodies, now is the time. At an extra 40 percent off of sale prices, this is one of the best deals they offer — and items are still being added. We rounded up our favorite steals that are sure to liven up your kitchen and make you want to have guests over again post-holiday season.
After a long day of work or school, the last thing you want to cook is a complicated dinner recipe made with a laundry list of ingredients. Sure, there’s a time and place for ambitious cooking projects made with a ton of specialty ingredients, but Wednesday night after a 10-hour shift is not it. So we rounded up 15 of our favorite dinners you can pull off with just five ingredients or fewer — recipes that deliver a ton of flavor without a ton of work.
These are the types of recipes you can turn to time and time again when all you need is something fast, easy, and delicious. So pick a few of your favorites from the list below and keep them in your back pocket — your future self will thank you. (And just a heads up, we went ahead and assumed you had a few staples in your panty — like salt and olive oil — so for some of these recipes, you might actually need to purchase six ingredients if you’re not stocked up.)
Have you ever been inspired to whip up a batch of fresh cookies, only to find that your brown sugar is a rock? Or perhaps you’ve taken a bite of granola that was more, um, chewy than crunchy? The tiny cardboard flap on many boxed pantry items does little to keep contents fresh, and throwing out rancid or stale food is wasteful and costly.
So it’s no wonder we get excited when we come across an awesome innovation on an item as seemingly mundane as a storage container. The makers of the Evak Fresh Airless Storage Canister have considered all of these factors and designed the ultimate solution to our food freshness dilemma. Their patented suite of canisters are usually pretty expensive, but right now you can save up to 44% off a selection of their sleek, airtight containers on Amazon.
Welcome to Snapshot Cooking, the home of Kitchn’s easiest recipes. These mini recipes are so simple you can practically cook from the before-and-after snapshot itself.
One-pot pastas are an absolute magic trick. Cook pasta start to finish in one pot? No straining? And oh, wait — all the other ingredients for a delicious, well-rounded dinner cook right in the pot with the pasta? Amazing!
In fact, one-pot pastas embody everything we crave in a winning weeknight dinner: minimal prep, a 10-minute cook time, a single dish to clean, and a big payoff in flavor. But what happens to the pasta’s cooking water, you ask? As the noodles boil, the water reduces into a starchy binder, creating a rich sauce for the noodles to cling to. See? Magic.
Two years ago, when Amazon bought out the Whole Foods chain of grocery stores, a million questions floated around about what this meant for the quality, prices, and format of the once cutting-edge shop. Now, we’re starting to see some of those results in actual actions — starting with the end of the 365 brand of stores.