To Save a Species from Extinction, Get People to Eat It. Tart and Tangy: Homemade Rhubarb Juice Recipe Review. We’ve tried rhubarb syrup and rhubarb vodka. Now we’d like to introduce you to rhubarb juice! This pretty pink brew is sugar-free and alcohol-free, making it a super versatile ingredient in the kitchen. If you find yourself with a spare bunch of late-season rhubarb, we highly recommend making it. Making this rhubarb juice couldn’t be simpler.
Chop up a few pounds of rhubarb. Add a split vanilla bean. Cover with water. We made a batch right after reading about it in the New York Times Magazine, and at first we didn’t get it. Then we added a few tablespoons to a glass of water and had our “Aha!” Later, we tried it in lemonade and then in a riff on a margarita with tequila and cointreau - both experiments were a great success. We also really like that this juice is sugar-free. Check It Out! Related: Gardening Tip: How to Grow a Bumper Crop of Rhubarb (Images: Emma Christensen) Jeni Britton Bauer Shows How To Make Ice Cream in a Food Processor Video. Tools for Frozen Treats: Popsicle Molds. DIY Boozy Popsicles! Just How Much Alcohol to Use? 6 Ways to Make Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Machine. My Vegan Pantry. One of the requests I receive often is to write a post on building a vegan pantry, providing a list of the ingredients that I use the most.
I’m a bit embarrassed by how long this post has taken me to put together, but as they say, better late than never. Or is it better never than late…heh. This post is by no means exhaustive (nor do I think you need all or even most in your own pantry), but it does highlight many of my favourite foods that I have relied on for about 3 years now. Feel free to use it as inspiration for your own pantry. This post will also be linked from the top of the blog (see: “My vegan Pantry”) for easy access.
My best tip for building a pantry is to buy in bulk whenever possible whether in store, online, and/or via a buying club such as with ONFC (see my note below for discussion). Grains: Pearled BarleyCouscousRolled, Old-Fashioned OatsShort-grain brown riceMilletWild & brown riceSpeltberriesNot shown: Farro, kamut & brown rice pastas Some of my fav flours: Vinegars: 10 Foods That Drive Weight Gain and Loss Identified by Harvard - Daniel Fromson - Health. A journal article published today examines the long-term impacts of small but significant lifestyle changes—especially to diet In a new report published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Harvard researchers has revealed the results of a study of 120,877 people showing that small changes in lifestyle behaviors such as physical activity, sleep duration, and TV-watching are strongly correlated with long-term weight gain.
But the most important factor was diet—and among the report's most intriguing findings is precisely how much weight gain (or loss) can be attributed to consuming an additional daily serving of a variety of specific foods over a four-year period. The following 10 foods were found to be especially correlated with long-term changes in weight (the first five foods promoting weight gain, the second five promoting weight loss): Please use a JavaScript-enabled device to view this slideshow How much did each food affect weight over a four-year period? Seize the Season! 5 Tips for Preserving Fresh Vegetables in the Freezer.
Love to buy loads of fresh veggies at the farmers' market but can't always use them up in time? Look to your freezer for help! However, it's not as simple as throwing a few tomatoes in the freezer; there are techniques that vastly improve the thawed product. Read on for tips! In general, just plopping fresh veggies in the freezer results in rather sad, limp results once thawed. Why? It's an ugly combination of cell walls being weakened by the freezing process and ripening enzymes remaining active even as the vegetables freeze. What helps vegetables maintain color and texture through the freezing and thawing process? 5 Steps to Freezer Success: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Do you have any tips or best practices for freezing vegetables? (Images: Kathryn Hill; Flickr user tvol licensed for use under Creative Commons) It's Reader Request Week at The Kitchn!
From The Fishmonger: Black Cod (Butterfish/Sablefish) Monkfish and the Minimalist: Choosing Ocean Friendly Seafood. We were surprised to see Mark Bittman's recipe yesterday for Monkfish and Mashed Potatoes. The dish looks great, but the choice of fish? Not so much. Monkfish is high on the list of fish to avoid - high in mercury, overfished, and fished in a way that damages the ocean floor. We've talked about Blue Ocean Institute's Guide to Ocean Friendly Seafood, and this is a reminder to us to check it frequently. This is one very important area of our food choices, and we're revisiting it. Here are a few more links to guides and resources. Seafood Guides&bull Seafood Watch Program at Monterey Bay Aquarium&bull Blue Ocean&bull Mercury at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)&bull Oceans Alive: Seafood and Your Health&bull Marine Stewardship Council From the NRDC, a quick rundown on the best and worst of mercury levels in fish: Highest MercuryMackerel (King)MarlinOrange RoughySharkSwordfishTilefishTuna (Bigeye, Ahi) And the Minimalist's recipe?
Grill ’Em All. Marcus Nilsson for The New York Times; Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Angharad Bailey. I set out to talk to Alan Ashkinaze about that. Ashkinaze is the longtime chef de cuisine for Laurent Manrique, the charming Frenchman who came to Peacock Alley at the Waldorf-Astoria in the 1990s, courted fame at Aqua in San Francisco and later returned to Manhattan to open Millesime in the Carlton Hotel. Manrique is a celebrity chef of a sort, Gallic and handsome, often on the road. Ashkinaze is the one who makes his food. He has done so on and off for the better part of 20 years. When you go to Millesime and eat the grilled romaine salad with Caesar dressing and a sprinkle of lime vinaigrette, marveling at the warmth and crispiness of the greens, the pungent creaminess of the dressing spiked with acidity — that is Ashkinaze’s calling card you are devouring.
He is not bad at the steak either. But let’s not get in front of ourselves. There are two dressings. Now: fast work. To drink? 23 Homemade Breads to Fit Any Schedule Recipe Roundup. Previous image Next image Whether you have an hour or a whole day, you can count on having fresh bread. Fresh-baked bread is a special treat, a delicious treasure of a home-cooked meal. But we know how hard it can be to tackle bread. Some days you have a whole day to devote to the kneading, rising, and tending of a loaf of artisan bread. Today we've gathered up our favorite bread recipes and sorted them by the time it takes to make them. IF YOU HAVE A HALF HOUR OR LESS• 15-Minute Cream Biscuits• Buttermilk Biscuits• Yogurt Biscuits with Dill• Bacon and Cheddar Cheese Biscuits IF YOU HAVE 1 HOUR• No-Time Bread• Mom's Rosemary Focaccia• Cornmeal, Parmesan, and Poppy Seed Crackers• Homemade Flour Tortillas IF YOU HAVE 3 HOURS• Rustic Flatbread• Homemade Pita Bread• Chickpea Socca Flatbread IF YOU HAVE 5 HOURS• Ciabatta Rolls and Loaves• Lemon and Sea Salt Focaccia• Herbed Olive Oil Fantail Rolls What kind of bread do you most often have with dinner?
Related: Working with Yeast: Be Not Afraid! Seasonal Menu Planning from Around the U.S. This week in the Kitchen Cure we're talking about menu planning. Yesterday I promised I'd give some suggestions for seasonal menus from around the country. Leave us your suggestions in the comments, and make sure to tell us where you are geographically, since "seasonal" and "local" are not interchangeable. International contributions encouraged! Click through for menus from New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Ohio. Elizabeth, in NYC suggests the following menu based on what she's seeing in our Farmers' Markets: Use asparagus but do something a little different, do the asparagus puree on buttered bread (with or without the prosciutto) that I wrote about last year.
For a recession-friendly meal, spaghetti with ramps and sausage. I know there are sun-chokes at the market. Or the Pizza with Morels and Ramps. Spinach salad I loved this pistachio cake which was part of Virginia/Mateo kitchen tour. Dana, in San Francisco offers this menu: 5 Tips for Vegetarian Menu Planning. After working for a few years as a personal chef, the most important skill I learned from the job wasn't how to wield my knife like a pro or how to cook super fancy, it was the ability to plan a menu for the week ahead. Do you plan your meals in advance? If so, what does this look like for you? Every weekend, I think about what's coming next on the calendar and try to get a grip on our food situation.
Usually I grocery shop over the weekend as well as make a ritual trip to the farmer's market. I learned a lot cooking day in and day out; here are some tips I still implement in my home cooking/planning routine. 5 Tips for Vegetarian Menu Planning • Include mostly tried and true favorite dishes on your menu for the week — for us that's enchiladas, egg dishes and tons of green salads — but then branch out and try something new one of the days. . • Wash and bag a half week's worth of lettuce right when you get home from the grocery store. . • Make a pot of beans or brown rice once per week. National Center for Home Food Preservation. Summer Preserving: Buy Fruit In Bulk From Local Farms. We like to shop around at farmers markets for good deals on summer berries, cucumbers, and other fruit for summer cooking and preserving. But did you know you can get even better deals if you go straight to the source?
In fact, many farms and farm stands offer bulk quantities of fruit for customers willing to buy 10 pounds of blackberries, 12 pints of strawberries, a batch of dill pickles' worth of cucumbers. This is how we discovered our latest prize: 10 pounds of tart, juicy cherries. We got a tip (thanks Lisa!) That a couple farmstands close to the city would order pounds and pounds of sour cherries during the summer and make them available for pre-order. Then you go on the appointed day and lug home your big pail of sour cherries — all for a very low price. One farm had them for much less than $2/pound. And now for the real question: what should we do with all our cherries? Related: Eat Cheap: Farmstands in the Country (Images: Faith Durand) Shopping for Ice Cream Makers: 5 Models We've Reviewed. From Artichoke to Zucchini: Our A-Z Guide to Grilled Vegetables. Freeze Individual Portions For Expedited Defrosting Lunch In A Box.
Quick Tips: What To Do With Leftover Egg Whites. Recipes. Clip-Art Freezer Labels - Martha Stewart Templates & Clipart. The Porthole by Crucial Detail: The Aviary's Glassware at Home. Plenty of places can make great cocktails these days, but when it comes to presentation nobody comes close to Chicago's The Aviary. Grant Achatz's cocktail lounge is like the Cirque du Soleil of bars, and its custom glassware makes every drink look at least 20 percent cooler. And now the rest of us will be able to get our hands on some of our own.Of all the eye-catching serveware at The Aviary, the one that stands out the most is probably the Porthole, a flat, clear, teapotlike flask designed for infusions.
Arrange it full of whole flowers, fruit, herbs, spices, or whatever, then fill it with the spirit or spirits of your choice for a cocktail that's almost too pretty to drink. (I'm just kidding; drink it. You can make another.) Martin Kastner of Chicago's Crucial Detail — who designs glassware for Alinea, Aviary, and Next — said they've been working to adapt the Porthole for production for the rest of us. According to Kastner, the production run will be funded via Kickstarter. 30 Courses of a Nathan Myhrvold “Modernist Cuisine” Dinner. Zucchini Ribbons and Peaches with Macadamia Cream Recipe - Alyssa Gorelick. Why Small Batch Canning Is Awesome: And What You Need To Get Started Urban Preserving with Marisa McClellan. When I first started canning, I made huge batches of jam. Between the cleaning, peeling and chopping, I'd be dripping with sweat and every inch of my kitchen would be covered in sticky fruit residue.
Despite the fact that each jamming session took hours and hours, I did it that way because that's just how I thought canning was supposed to be. However, at the end of that first year, I discovered that even after eating jam on a daily basis and giving away many, many jars, I was still swimming in preserves. I knew that I really enjoyed the process of preserving, so giving it up until the first year's jams were gone wasn't an option. And so I started tearing down the recipes, dividing the amount of produce required and finding pieces of cookware that worked best with these small batches.
These days, I do a lot of very small batches. Equipment for Small Batch Canning There are just two pieces of cookware that I really recommend if want to do these tiny batches. 1. 2. The better for you diet, low sugar, all natural soda - DRY Soda. 5 Delicious Pregnancy Safe Cheeses Everyone Will Enjoy. Well, I guess it’s time I came clean. The for rent sign on my belly has been removed and I’ve got my 3rd tenant. That’s right, I’m joining the outnumbered club and having a 3rd baby. So far this one’s already demanding, in the food department at least. This week has been all about cheese, glorious, forbidden during pregnancy cheese.
No need to fret, someone did the dirty work and found five fab cheeses for me to devour during my baby growing phase… image credit: Prudent Baby Thank you, Jacinda over at Prudent Baby, for satisfying that deep, cruel, pregnancy craving and finding all these amazing cheeses! R&D-I-Y | Research and Develop It Yourself. Kitchen Treaty | Vegetarians and meat-eaters CAN live together. Chocolate ice cream with candied bacon bits (and no ice cream maker) - Adventures of the Kitchen Ninja. Believe it or not, this is my 200th post. Yowza. That's 200 things I've cooked and shared with you ... at least 200 photos -- not all good, but still ... and 200 (well, probably 5000) smart-assed comments about food -- not all good, but still. So what better way to celebrate than with ice cream? With candied bacon in it. Yes, my friends, candied bacon. (I think Job 1 this weekend is to re-make the bacon oatmeal cookies with candied bacon, don't you agree?)
Before we get too far down the candied bacon road, let me emphasize that this post is really about making ice cream without an ice cream machine. For a while now, I've been debating about whether or not I need an ice cream maker. I am torn. Should I decide in favor of ice cream, my choices for making it are to get the attachment for my Kitchen Aid stand mixer or buy a standalone machine. So, here's how my thinking went after that: But now we've got good news and bad news.
Good news: The candied bacon is simple and amazing. 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling. 20. Grill pineapple (or anything, really, from pork to tofu to eggplant). Make a sauce of half-cup peanut butter, a tablespoon (or more) soy sauce, a dash (or more) sriracha chili sauce, a handful of basil or mint and enough warm water to thin. (I’m tempted to say, “Throw away the pineapple and eat the sauce,” but the combination is sensational.) 21. Waldorf salad revisited, sort of: Grill cut apples until browned but not mushy; grill chunks of Napa or savoy cabbage, also left crisp; grill halved red onion.
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Desserts 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. Mix & Match Bagged Meals At Home. How to Freeze Fresh Herbs: Rosemary and Thyme. More About Freezing Fresh Herbs: Freezing Thai Basil, Sage, Tarragon, and Mint. Mashed potato spinach patties. Fat or Fiction. Smart Tip: Keep Berries Fresh Longer With This Washing Method. Grilled Polenta with Shiitakes, Onions & Gorgonzola | BITCHIN' CAMERO. Fish Balls in Nuts Sauce. HAYASHI ATSUHIRO PRODUCT DESIGN. Greenmarket Cocktails, Made With Summer’s Best. The June Salad Challenge! Plus, 6 Scrumptious Salad Recipes to Kick it Off.
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