Our most recent staff picks No Images? Click here "Oh, @%#^": Our Most Embarrassing Kitchen Fails The more time you spend in a kitchen, the more opportunities you have to screw something up in a royal way. Behind on our staff picks? Here's what you missed You can take our chili crisp when you pry it from our cold, dead hands. A kitchen space all to ourselves is but a fantasy for most of us. So we'll settle for the next best thing: griping about our most eye-twitch-inducing kitchen pet peeves. |
Friday, September 27, 2019
"Oh, @%#^": Our Most Embarrassing Kitchen Fails
Homemade Nacho-Style Cheese Sauce
Respect the dip No Images? Click here Ooey Gooey Cheese Sauce Sure, you could just pop the top on a jar of store-bought nacho cheese sauce, but what's the fun in that? Even more importantly, what control does that give you? Not much: You can't choose what kinds of cheese go into the sauce, nor how spicy it is, and whether you add pickled jalapeños or not. But with this dead-easy homemade nacho cheese sauce, you can make those decisions, and end up with a silky, gooey, perfect nacho cheese sauce of your own design. Whenever you want. Perfect partners for your cheese sauce |
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Olive Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies: Just Pantry Staples
And they're vegan! No Images? Click here Olive Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies These vegan chocolate chip cookies get their color and richness from extra-virgin olive oil, which lends its unique flavor to the dough and underscores the bittersweet earthiness of chocolate chips. The cookies bake up crisp around the edges, with a soft and chewy center, but feel free to bake them more or less for a crisper or softer texture instead. The Kitchen Essential Immersion Blender A good immersion blender blitzes the ingredients of the oat slurry to an even consistency that mimics the water, protein, and emulsification powers of a whole egg. More ways to bake with olive oil How to Buy a Good Bottle of Olive Oil Olive oil is one of those foods we embrace on faith. Science says it’s good for you, chefs say the quality stuff makes other foods come alive, and pretty green bottles of it can hit $40 on store shelves. But what is good olive oil? What makes it good, what should it taste like, and how do you shop for it if you can’t taste it beforehand? |