How's the Kitchen Cure going? Is your kitchen now neat as a pin? Or do you feel woefully behind? If it's the latter — don't give up! Just do what you can this weekend; just a half hour of purgin...
This week's Kitchen Cure assignment is to finish up your reorganizing and cleaning, but also to tackle any special projects that need to get done. Do you have a little project that would perk up your ...
Winter is a great time to tackle a new cooking project! The blustery weather makes us want to hole up in the kitchen and attempt all sorts of fabulous and complicated concoctions - plus there always s...
The day has finally arrived! Our homemade beer has been brewed, fermented, and bottled. We've survived two weeks of anxious anticipation without a single bottle exploding. A few days ago, we put a c...
We've brewed the beer, let it ferment, and now we're finally ready to get it into bottles. We're so close to having homebrew we can almost taste it! And in fact, we did sneak a little taste - for pu...
First things first: Find some canned goods with really cool labels......
We can taste it right now: smoky, rich, slightly sweet, slightly tangy, and a hint of hot spice. That's our ideal barbecue sauce, and this time of year, we want it on just about everything. We've disc...
Last week, we talked about shopping for kitchen islands, what features are good to look for, and brands we like. There is another option for finding the perfect island: build your own! If you're feeli...
We're expecting thunderstorms this weekend, and we can't think of anything we'd rather do than spend the afternoon making a big batch of gnocchi while the rain is pattering outside. These little potat...
Remember those cooking resolutions we made back in January? We know that resolutions made with the best of intentions at New Year's have a tendency to lose their draw as the months progress, so we tho...
Happy May, everyone! Can we declare the ice cream season officially open? Even if you've been making ice cream all year long, you've got to admit that there's something special about that first batch ...
After reading this post over at Apartment Therapy, we ordered some oil cloth to line the drawers of an old chest in our bedroom. That project left us with quite a bit of extra cloth, so we decided to ...
Do you like éclairs? What about profiteroles, cream puffs, and cheesy gougères? Aside from making us drool just thinking about them, the one thing all these pastries have in common is th...
Why not make confit at home? Aim high, we say! Besides, long before confit became synonymous with fine dining, making confit was a common way for home cooks to preserve meat for extended periods of ti...
Is anyone else just itching to get outside and do some gardening? Well, we can't do that quite yet (there's still a foot of snow in our backyard!), but this weekend we're planning on getting out the s...
Every week - make that every day - we come across dozens of new recipes that make us itch to break out the sugar. Unless we make it right away, the recipe often just gets lost in the pile. We seem to ...
If one of your New Year's resolutions was to do more cooking without following a specific recipe, soups are a great place to start. They're relatively easy to make and very forgiving of mistakes. Here...
Anyone planning on making a soufflé for your honey on Valentine's Day? Sweet or savory, a warm and pillowy soufflé definitely makes an impression! We also think they're a lot less fussy th...
See these artfully arranged spices from Dean & Deluca? Aren't they pretty? They were a wedding gift. From 2005. In the spirit of our February Jumpstart Project, we're vowing to deal with these......
I've been living in my apartment for 18 months now, long enough to know which of my original move-in decisions still work and which don't. These Ikea shelves in my kitchen are great but I let them ge...
We've often said that developing good knife skills is a matter of practice. And then practicing some more. And then again! But that doesn't mean that you have to sit down with a pile of onions to perf...
Ready to tackle another cooking resolution? Many of you talked about wanting to break out of cooking ruts, expand culinary repertoires, and try out some new recipes in 2009 - and we're right there wit...
We expected a bit of trial and error, perhaps a snafu or two. We hoped we'd end up with some good pasta, or at least a good story to share with you. Never did we imagine that making pasta would be so....
Homemade pizza was on our New Year's Eve menu, and after boasting of our cheese-making success this past fall, we volunteered to make a batch of fresh mozzarella to go on top. But as you can see in th...
No time like the present to get started on Resolution #1 to make pasta in the new year! This weekend, we solemnly vow to break out that dusty pasta maker and get rolling. Who's with us? Read on for a ...
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