Q: I am hosting a housewarming party. I recently purchased a house and I will be having between 50 and 100 people there.
How do we feed this many people without losing our minds?
I remember this one time I didn’t label my purchases from the bulk bin, and I couldn’t remember what was in the bag: were they split peas or lentils? These cute little dried legumes are both healthy and delicious, but it’s worth knowing their varieties and differences. Read on to find out more!
From Apartment Therapy → The “Tired Tile to Contemporary Quartz” Kitchen Makeover
This San Francisco kitchen got a much-needed update by removing the outdated tile and replacing it with a modern quartz countertop, among other fresh touches.
Have pancake plans this weekend? You’ll probably need buttermilk — especially if you’re making Dana’s completely amazing and wonderful Lofty Buttermilk Pancakes (truly the best pancake recipe I have ever tried). Don’t let a lack of proper buttermilk stop you from pancake bliss, however. Our contributing editor Kelli shows you how to make buttermilk from plain milk — it’s so easy!
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“This salsa is a staple at our house. There’s nothing better to serve as a dip for tortilla chips or as a condiment for your favorite Mexican food. Include jalapeno peppers for added heat.”
Instead of buying a one-way ticket to the Mediterranean, I’m going to crank up our wood stove, play some upbeat music, and make the Mediterranean come to my kitchen. This winter weather has been getting us down, but the fresh flavors of feta, artichokes, and olives in this dish are brightening our spirits and making our taste buds very happy. We even invited a few friends over for dinner and everyone agreed that this dish was a real treat on a cold winter night.
January, as far as I’m concerned, is a pretty mediocre month. The holiday party tinsel-and-bubbly frenzy of November and December is replaced with hibernation and Netflix binges. The charming first and second snowstorms pass and the ones that follow are met with more of a really? it’s snowing again? Squarely between Christmas and mid-Winter break, it’s too early in the season to be so weary of the cold, but here I am, counting down the days until the hi/bye gloves can literally come off.
Fortunately, just when I’ve resigned myself to thinking it’s going to be as beige and bleak going forward as the paragraph above, January — as if implicitly understanding that it’s going to have to sell itself harder — presents us with a luminous ray of tropical sunshine packaged as citrus fruit. I become obsessed. This ridiculous thing I bought five years ago as everyone around me tut-tutted that it would never earn its keep is put into overdrive as we conduct methodical studies of the pros and cons of cara-cara vs. blood orange vs. pink grapefruit vs. tangerine juice. (Spoiler: they’re all amazing.) Citrus is as good as everything else about a biting cold sleeting day is bad.
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