Fresh Recipes for 5 of Our Favorite Weeknight Meal Templates — Recipes from The Kitchn

Earlier this week I shared 20 weeknight meal templates, which assign a food theme to each night of the week and are an easy way to think about meal planning.

Once you have your template down, it’s time to nail down your recipes. Here are recipes to go with our five favorite weeknight meal templates.

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How To Cook Eggs in an Electric Pressure Cooker — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

The pressure cooker is an old-fashioned appliance that is enjoying a renaissance of sorts, and there are many good reasons why. Chief among them is the fact that it just cooks so many foods so well; if you have a pressure cooker, you know what I mean. You probably had a gateway experience that made you say Oh! This is what this thing can do.

For me, that gateway cooking experience was simple and elemental: soft- and hard-boiled eggs. The pressure cooker makes them better than any other method I know. Here’s how!

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How To Make Everything Bagel Spice — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

I live in New York City, the home of amazing bagels, so it should come as no surprise that I eat plenty of them. And no matter the filling, my bagel choice is always the same: an everything bagel.

Yes, you can buy the everything bagel spice blend that gives them their signature flavor, but we’ve got something better: a recipe to make it yourself at home.

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10 Things We’ve Learned on Our Travels — The Kitchn Abroad

There are many great things about traveling: beautiful sights, great food, one-of-a-kind souvenirs, funny moments we tell around the table for years to come. Then there are the things we learn — about ourselves, about others — while abroad; the cultural and culinary habits and traditions that make such an impression on us we still think about them years later and, in some cases, even start doing them at home. Here are 10 examples.

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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.

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