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How To Replace a Kitchen Faucet: Our Experience

Earlier this week we asked you if you had ever considered replacing the faucet in a rental kitchen. We realized this could be a simple way to upgrade our kitchen, and this week we did it as our Kitc...

Creamy and Fluffy: How to Make the Best Scrambled Eggs

We honestly think we could eat scrambled eggs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and be very happy. Ok, maybe not every day, but definitely more frequently than is probably good for us! But when you ea...

Tip: How To Roast and Peel Chestnuts

To me, few things signal the arrival of autumn better than the sweet chestnut. As soon as I see them at the farmer's market, I happily scoop them up, filling a bag with them. Chestnuts have to be ...

Colorful Cooking: How to Make Colored Pasta

Want to add a little color to your plate?! Lovely ribbons of green, red, and yellow pasta really bring a dish to life. They're also as easy to make as they are to eat! Here's how:...

How To Make Fruit Butter in the Slow Cooker

We've already talked about making apple butter this fall, but let's revisit the topic and talk about our favorite shortcut for making fruit butters. We had a ton of late season peaches to use up last ...

Tip: Make Butter By the Pound in a Stand Mixer

We are huge fans of making butter at home. Making your own butter is so fast and so easy that we often make small batches of table butter for maximum freshness and taste. But we've also been making ex...

Lobster to Sweet & Sour: How To Make 6 Stir-Fry Sauces

Have the vegetables and meats to stir-fry, but not sure what sauce you'd like to finish them in? In this post I'll list six simple stir-fry sauces to try. Put down the take-out menu and grab your wo...

Apartment Cooking: How to Make Great Ribs in the Oven

Who says you need a grill to cook good ribs?! We thought that for years, and our apartment's lack of outdoor space for a grill meant that a good many recipes for ribs got passed over. Now we'll making...

Step-by-Step Instructions for One-Ingredient Ice Cream

Remember this amazingly creamy ice cream with just one ingredient? Well, in our eagerness to tell you all about it, we didn't give you very detailed instructions. Here, for those of you asked, are s...

How To Fry-Poach an Egg

Have you ever fry-poached an egg? We think that this intriguing mash-up of egg terminology holds out potential for the ultimate breakfast egg. ...

How To Make Your Own Vinegar

Do you see it? That slimy red substance at the top of this ceramic jar is called a mother of vinegar, or vinegar mother. It's basically a combination of cellulose and acetic acid bacteria that forms...

Try This! How To Make Candied Salted Bacon

There comes a time in everyone's life when you're standing in the kitchen at 2am (pants optional) testing recipes. The quickly approaching morning sun seems irrelevant when you're busy creating the s...

Best Methods: Three Ways to Cook Bacon

Unless you're a vegetarian (though sometimes even then), it's hard to resist the lure of bacon. Knowing how to cook those long marbled strips just the way we like them feels as second-nature as breath...

Can I Make Soy Yogurt At Home?
Good Questions

Q: Is there a way to make soy yogurt at home? I don't eat dairy and I love soy yogurt. But it's fairly pricey in my area of the country, and I want to cut my food budget. Has anyone successfully mad...

Quick Tip: How to Strip the Leaves from Herbs

Picking each individual leaf from a sprig of rosemary or thyme is one of the most boring and mind-numbing kitchen tasks we can think of. Happily, there is a little trick that makes it much easier!...

Basic Techniques: How to Segment an Orange

We love the jeweled look of clean-cut citrus wedges in the salads and side dishes we order at fancy restaurants. In culinary terms, these are called citrus "suprêmes" - a fancy name for a simp...

Help! How Do I Properly Cook a Pot of Beans?
Good Questions

Q: I hate buying canned beans — the sodium, the shipping weight, the flavor, etc. But whenever i try to boil beans at home they NEVER GET SOFT. They have a bitter taste, and often go grey. If...

Video: How To Make Olive Bread, Stop-Motion Style

Want to learn how to make bread from a talking olive loaf? This is your chance. ...

How Can I Double A Batch of Cookies?
Good Questions

Q: Any tips on doubling cookie recipe batches? Do I need to add more eggs? I made snickerdoodles and doubled the recipe, but they came out flat and chewy, not puffy. Sent by Joyce...

How To Make Your Own Dolmas (Stuffed Grape Leaves)

I've always loved dolmas - they're such a healthy and delicious finger food to take to a picnic or to add to a collection of mezedhes spread around the table. In the past, I used to just grab a pla...

Quick Meal Technique: How to Stir Fry

Stir frying is really one of the best techniques we home cooks can have up our sleeves. Because they cook so quickly, you can have a stir fry on the table in about the time it takes to chop up the veg...

Guess What Garden Treat Is In the Jar!

Tanya Spacek of Lawrence, Kansas sent us these fabulous photos of her past weekends adventures in canning. Can you guess what's in the jars? It's something Southerners might recognize more easily, b...

Baking Lessons: How to Proof Yeast

Call us old-school, but we proof our yeast even if it's not mentioned in the instructions and even if the jar of yeast says it can be added right into the dough. We just don't want to go through all t...

Cook's Tricks: How to Properly Season a Dish

For a long time, we were intimidated by that innocent little phrase at the end of the recipe: "Adjust seasonings to taste." If we don't know what the dish is supposed to taste like, how are we suppose...

Simple Solutions: How to Make a Quick Sugar Icing

This is one of those cook’s tricks we keep in our back pocket. A simple sugar icing will fancy up some scones for company or add the perfect touch to a batch of cookies. It’s so easy, you don’t ...

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