Frozen yogurt is not ice cream, and it’s not even a substitute, no matter what TCBY says. It’s another animal entirely, and when we stop comparing it to its richer cousin, we enjoy it oh so much more. This one is just about the best we’ve ever made, and it’s so, so easy.
The extremely [...]
Elizabeth Passarella
What are you cooking for dinner tonight? If you stop at the store on your way home from work and pick up a half pound of shrimp, or some inexpensive chicken thighs — or, better yet, a couple of juicy pork chops — one of these recipes will get your dinner on the table in [...]
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All we want right now are foods and flavors that are cooling, refreshing, and soothing. No pair fits this description better than cucumber and mint! What ways can you think of using these two ingredients?
A few recipes to get the creative juices flowing!
• Pimm’s Italiano Cocktail with Mint, Lemon, Cucumber, and Fernet Branca
• Cucumber [...]
Whenever we go to our favorite bagel store in New York for breakfast, we skip right past the array of cream cheeses and order egg salad. Maybe it’s a lunchtime food to you, but we think it’s perfect pre-10 a.m. Same goes for BLTs… peanut butter and jelly…
This is the same line of [...]
We ate this last night for dinner—fresh South Carolina shrimp seasoned with thyme, ancho chile powder, oregano, and smoked paprika. And the best part was that someone else cooked it for us…
This recipe was adapted from Cook’s Illustrated by my brother-in-law, an excellent cook who has made this shrimp for our family many times. [...]
While several of my colleagues here at the Kitchn have been escaping to Provence or Alaska (in their minds, at least), fueled by food memories, I’ve been sitting on my couch with a spoon in my hand and a container of ice cream in my lap. Sometimes it’s before noon. No bowl, no serving size, [...]
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We spend a lot of time talking about fun summer cocktails. What about something non-alcoholic that feels just as special (and, ok, would taste pretty good with vodka)?
As we’ve mentioned before, we often have a hard time using up a big bunch of basil. We had a basil lemonade at a restaurant recently, and [...]
This is an easy, rustic recipe that makes a great vegetarian meal or a pretty summer side dish. We carted the whole thing over to Central Park the other night for an impromptu picnic dinner.
For this gratin, we didn’t bother layering the vegetables in a pretty scalloped pattern. We practically threw the potato and [...]
City: New York City, Manhattan
Population: 1.6 million
Local specialties: Bagels, bread, smoked fish, cheese, and local produce
Most people come to New York City to eat… in restaurants. And man, there are a lot of great restaurants. But the city is a wonderful place to cook, too, even if you are fighting a postage stamp-sized kitchen and [...]
What did we find at the farmers’ market this morning? Everything we love about summer: juicy tomatoes and peaches, bright yellow squash, a perfect plum for jam, and some funny-looking zucchini…
We shopped at the 97th Street market today, and the vendors were bursting with good stuff. These 8-ball zucchini were new to us [...]
Raise your hand if you’ve been there: You’re at work all day, but you’re going to a party or picnic after work (perhaps something like the Symphony in the Park tonight in NYC) and you need to bring something small to munch on. You can’t run home to cook, but you don’t want to [...]
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Have you ever been ordering breakfast at a restaurant and thought, “I want pancakes, but I’m also not sure I want an entirely sweet breakfast,” and then ordered a side of bacon, just so you’d have a savory bite, too? Well, this Dutch pancake may solve all your problems. We had it yesterday morning on [...]
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When we brought these apricots home from the farmers’ market on Saturday, the first thing we thought, seeing them on the counter, was, “What pretty colors for decorating the kitchen…”
In fact, it reminds us of another color combination that we’ve frequently thought of as being great for a kitchen: the terracotta-orange clay courts of [...]
In the summer, we want fast, easy, and, if it’s hot out, cold desserts. This is one of the simplest out there—even quicker if you use a prepared pie crust. Just fresh, ripe fruit, yogurt, some whipped cream, and a little stay in the freezer…
The entire pie has only three tablespoons of sugar, so [...]
In the summer, we want fast, easy, and, if it’s hot out, cold desserts. This is one of the simplest out there—even quicker if you use a prepared pie crust. Just fresh, ripe fruit, yogurt, some whipped cream, and a little stay in the freezer…
The entire pie has only three tablespoons of sugar, so most [...]
Cocktail Recipe: The Paloma
It seems blasphemous during the summer to suggest that one might tire of margaritas… But. If you’re looking for something different and yet in the same vein, the paloma is a great alternative. Do you know it? It’s got a fizzy secret ingredient.
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Grapefruit soda. Jarritos Grapefruit Soda, if we’re getting picky. In [...]
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