4.56 / 5 Stars | 60 Reviews
by LORIELEECOOPER
“Serve this surprisingly sweet and spicy spread with cream cheese over crackers.”
Healthy Appetizers: Jezebel Sauce
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Healthy Side Dishes: Mandarin Orange Couscous
Healthy Main Dishes: Chicken Spaghetti IV
How To Bottle Beer at Home — The Kitchn’s Beer School 2015
- Today’s topic: A walk-through of the whole bottling process from start to finish.
- The Kitchn’s Beer School: 20 lessons, 7 assignments to brew your first 1-gallon batch of beer.
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If you’ve been following along with our Beer School timeline, you’ll still be a little more than a week away from bottling your first batch at this point. Let’s take advantage of the downtime to make sure you’re all set for what happens next. Today, we’ll go through the whole process of getting your beer into bottles — the final step before actually getting to drink it!
pasta salad with roasted tomatoes
For someone who is patently terrified of all the offerings in the deli case pasta salad universe — the tri-colore, mayo-slicked, sugar-sweetened, canned tuna-flecked, curry powder-ed, and dotted with green peppers, raisins or ohgodboth — I sure spend a spectacular amount of each summer trying to come up with cold pasta preparations I’d find agreeable. I know that there’s one out there I could love and could love me back, but although a few attempts have gotten me closer, and even temporarily sated, my perfect picnic pasta salad eluded me.
Late last summer, I began forming an idea of how to make this, a pasta salad that would be loud, punchy and full of texture where others are mellow and limp. My notes are adamant about a well-toasted crunch, such as pine nuts, a good salty crumbled cheese, like ricotta salata or feta, chopped black olives, such as those oil-cured ones I was slowly developing an affection for, and pasta taken off the stove when it’s an aggressive al dente, even two minutes before tender “doneness” instead of one, so that no matter how long it soaks in dressing, it does not collapse. But I got stuck on the last ingredient, because what I really wanted in there was not those “sun-dried” tomatoes you find in dry-packs and jars, but these wondrously slow-baked oven tomatoes, all chewy, tart and intense.
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Discover the Kitchen Style for Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type — Life in the Kitchen
If you’ve ever taken the Myers-Briggs personality test, you know that afterwards every aspect of your life takes on immense clarity. Qualities that were previously irksome are now essential to your personhood; habits become lifelines to deeper understanding. You are that four-letter formula! Everything makes sense now.
We are fascinated with trying to define ourselves, but it’s okay, because today that fascination led you to this: a totally scientific, totally foolproof guide to your personal kitchen style, as identified by your Myers-Briggs personality type and this editor, who was given inspiration from above to make the connections known to you. Prepare to be enlightened.
When to Use a Light-Colored Pan, and When to Use a Dark One — We’ve Got Chemistry
Most of us have more than one baking sheet, and probably almost none of them match because we tend to build up our arsenal of bakeware over the course of several years. They come in varying shades of silver, gray, and even black, which can be confusing when you want to bake a sheet cake or roast a pan of Brussels sprouts. When should you opt for a lighter or a darker pan, and why?
Healthy Appetizers: Spicy Mango Salsa
4.43 / 5 Stars | 89 Reviews
by TDAVIN
“This is the best mango salsa I have ever tasted! It’s a refreshing, cool and spicy salsa that adds excitement to fish, poultry, pork or tortilla chips! You’ll love it! If you’re feeling adventurous, use fresh cilantro instead of basil–wonderful!”