Apartment Therapy: Cupboard Challenge

Recipe: Creamy Black-Eyed Pea Soup with Cumin

I was so inspired by all the responses to our very first Cupboard Challenge. A dip had never crossed my mind, nor a casserole. It's amazing what you can do with four ingredients! In the end, I had a...

Good Question: Help Me Clean Out My Fridge!

Reader Dimara needs your help. Can you give her suggestions on good ways to use up her produce before she goes on vacation? I'm going on a long vacation and need to clean out my fridge beforehand, so...

Cupboard Challenge with Sheila Lukins: Evie's Blocked Flow of Beans, Pasta, Grains, and Spotted Dick

We recently asked you for your best cupboard challenge for author and cook Sheila Lukins. Lukins is the author of The Silver Palate Cookbook and most recently Ten: All the Recipes We Love and Ten Reci...

Sheila Lukins Cupboard Challenge: Show Us What You've Got In Your Cupboard!

Cook and author Sheila Lukins has been inspiring and educating home cooks for a long time. Her books are classics, and we just reviewed another new book from her. Now she's going to help one Kitchn...

Cupboard Challenge with Eric Ripert: Barbara's Quality (Yet Overwhelming) Refrigerator

We recently asked you for your best best cupboard challenge, because acclaimed chef Eric Ripert was going to take on one challenge from a reader. Well, you sent in quite a few challenges, and here's t...

Eric Ripert Cupboard Challenge: Deadline Tonight!

Got a cupboard full of leftovers? Need to use them up? How would you like acclaimed chef Eric Ripert to design a meal around your cupboard contents? If you dare to show the contents of your cupboard...

Reader Cupboard Challenge: Evaporated Milk and Oreo Cookie Crumbs

Here's another Cupboard Challenge in response to our invitation from last week. And really - this invitation always stands! Got some extra pantry staples to use up? A carton of milk about to go off? A...

Reader Cupboard Challenge: Lentils, Salmon, Barley, Clam Juice and Moonshine Jelly

Yesterday we asked you for your cupboard challenges - all that stuff left over from cleaning out your cupboards for the Spring Cure. You probably have things you don't want to get rid of but you'd lik...

Good Question: What Can I Do With Stale Tortilla Chips?

Here's a good question for those of you still cleaning out your cupboards for the Kitchn Spring Cure. I have half a bag of stale tortilla chips sitting on my counter... What would happen if i made "...

Attention Cure-Takers! Send Us Your Cupboard Challenge!

How is your Kitchen Cure going? Are you nearly finished with cleaning out your overly processed and expired foods from the fridge and cupboard? Or perhaps you're not an official Cure-taker but you hav...

Cupboard Challenge! Super Mega Moving Edition

Cupboard Challenge! It's moving season, and Raedia writes to us with a mega challenge - polish off the contents of ALL her cupboards. She writes: My boyfriend and I are moving to Vermont at the end ...

Recipe: Sautéed Shrimp and Tomatoes with Lemon Couscous

Our Cupboard Challenge last week gave us a delicious supper - so quick and easy that we are certainly making it again. With the addition of some fresh jumbo shrimp, these ingredients made a tart, fluf...

Cupboard Challenge! Lemons, Couscous, Sundried Tomatoes and Parsley

We were leaving town and had just a few things that needed to be used up. This parsley was on its last legs, and the couscous and sundried tomatoes have been hanging around for a while. This is a rat...

Cupboard Challenge! Rancho Gordo Beans and Sweet Corn

What lingers in your cupboards? When it comes to pantry items, we have two extremes. First are things we don't really want - grocery store mistakes and canned goods passed on by relocating friends. On...

Recipe: Fried Brown Rice with Ginger and Scallions

Ginger, brown rice, scallions and parsley made up this last cupboard challenge, and fried rice seemed like a perfect solution. It turned out to be much more than a solution - it was a totally yummy ...

Cupboard Challenge! Brown Rice, Ginger, Parsley and Scallions

There are certain items in the fridge that always seem to get left for last. For me it's the ginger, scallions, and herbs. They are absolutely necessary kitchen staples, but when I only use a little ...

Recipe: Bacon and Artichoke Jambalaya

This Cupboard Challenge gave us a great supper last night. This quick and easy version of a jambalaya fits in the huge family of rice dishes cooked with broth, meat, and vegetables. Pilaf, pulao, ...

Cupboard Challenge! Broth, Rice, Tomatoes...

It's a spring cleaning weekend! We're tackling our cupboards and refrigerator, both in need of a brisk cleaning. We got a jump on the cupboards last night and decided to clear a bunch of stuff out w...

Recipe: Lentil and Yogurt Spread

Yet another Cupboard Challenge brought some really great recipes and ideas; we want to eat lentils every night this week! Lentil pancakes or fried patties were tempting, but ultimately we went with th...

Cupboard Challenge: Lentils!

One more Cupboard Challenge - and then I'm going to open it up to all of you. If you have anything in your cupboard that you're puzzling over or a combination of ingredients that you'd like to throw o...

Cupboard Challenge: Avocado, Lettuce and Beans

This is such an easy one, seriously, that I considered throwing in something really wacky just to make it fun - like wasabi peas or candied ginger - but didn't think it would be fair. So I am going ...

Recipe: Coconut Rice Tart with Mango

Well, this was definitely an experiment. There were many inspiring suggestions for this Cupboard Challenge, but I had a tart lodged firmly in mind, with a creamy or chewy rice filling and crispy p...

Adapting Jamie Oliver's Baked Lemons with Mozzarella

Jamie Oliver's new cookbook and television show bring us Jamie's Italy. Jamie crosses Italy to find homecooks and sends their recipes on to us. Jamie's trip reminds us that flexibility and simplicity...

Cupboard Challenge: Canned Mango and Coconut Milk

January is over but I still have a lot of stuff in my cupboards, waiting to be used up. So here's another Cupboard Challenge, and this time it's dessert! I find that dessert is harde...

Recipe: Spicy Shrimp and Pork Noodles

This dish makes no pretense at authenticity; it's purely a product of necessity, but as so often happens, constraints make it rather good. Another Cupboard Challenge pushed the boundaries of my cookin...

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