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Recipe: Cream of Celery Soup with Bacon

Celery is one of those things that can languish in the back of our fridge for a long time. It's hard to use an entire bunch. We chopped three or four stalks into our Thanksgiving stuffing, and this is...

Recipe: Fresh Cranberry Relish

This is cranberry relish to us. No wiggling cylinder from a can, no whole berries that are cooked down with sugar. Our cranberry side dish is always fresh, chunky, sweet, and full of fruit. We think w...

Recipe: Mushroom Soup

Earthy mushroom soup is one of our favorite fall meals. After trying several recipes, we settled on this one as a favorite and we come back to it again and again. It's adapted from a recipe by Anthony...

Recipe: Sweet Potatoes and Caramelized Onions

We tore through these sweet potatoes before we had the chance to take much of a picture, so we'll have to describe them instead. These are the easiest things. So much flavor for so little work. We c...

Confetti Quiche with Curry Crust
Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #8

Recipe: Melissa's Confetti Quiche with Curry Crust Category: Original We were hoping to get a few good recipes for savory pies in this Bakeoff, and here's the first. It's an egg pie with zucchini, re...

Recipe: Greek Chicken Pasta with Olives and Feta

There's more to this pasta dish than just chicken, olives, and feta. There are some artichoke hearts, fresh oregano, and a lemon vinaigrette — a whole mess of salty, tangy flavors......

Recipe: Herbed Lentils with Bacon

Lentils and bacon are made to go together, we think. Lentils have an earthy, rich taste that complements bacon perfectly. For this recipe we used a bag of mixed lentils that we bought at an Indian gro...

DIY Recipe: Toothpaste

Happy Halloween! In case your teeth and encased in sugar as you sit down to read The Kitchn today, I thought I'd offer a recipe for toothpaste. ...

Recipe: Sweet Butternut Squash and Coconut Jam

Remember the doce de abóbora - sweet pumpkin compote - that we showed you earlier this week? Well, we were so inspired by that and the butternut squash version from Patricia that we had to try it our...

How To: Make DIY Sauerkraut

In today's shaky economic times combined with a movement to eat more sustainably, we're turning more to DIY food-related projects. From making our own bacon to building root cellars, we're learning h...

Recipe: Sticky Spiked Double-Apple Cake with a Brown Sugar-Brandy Sauce

It's harvest time, which means apples, which means that we've already made our harvest apple traditional recipe once - and we'll make it again. What's this recipe? An outrageously amazing apple cake, ...

Recipe: Cabbage Beet Coleslaw

This is the last post that will reference anything about my recent wedding, I promise. (I think.) But after the wedding cakes, the ice cream, and the butternut pasta, I do believe I saved the best for...

Appetizer Recipe: Crab Apples Poached in Sweet Wine

We're talking about local apples this week, and we couldn't let the week pass without a mention of crab apples. Crab apples are the wild, cherry-sized fruit clustered on trees all over our neighborhoo...

Recipe: Butternut Squash and Parmesan Dip

Really, this could easily be a side dish as well as a dip. It's a simple preparation of twice-baked butternut squash: roasted to get it soft and scoopable, then blended with milk and parmesan and bake...

Harvest Recipe: Miso Potato Salad with Yellow Wax Beans

Miso is one of those things we like to keep around, but don't use very often. We're always looking for ways to use another spoon or two of miso; after all, we can't eat miso soup every day. (Well, we ...

Recipe: Pasta with Butternut Squash, Sage, and Pine Nuts

It's officially fall now, and it's officially harvest. We're going to be focusing on all those delicious fall fruits and vegetables this month at The Kitchn, starting with this butternut squash pasta,...

What Are Your Favorite Tailgating Recipes?

Football season is already underway and tailgating parties are happening all over the place! We've gone through our archives and made a list of recipes that would be good at a tailgate party. ...

Recipe: Earl Grey Tea Cookies

The weather changed ever so slightly this week; there's a briskness and nip to the air that even in the sunshine leads our thoughts to tea. A hot cup of tea is an essential cold-weather ritual for man...

Recipe: Penne with Acorn Squash and Pancetta

This started out as a way to use up some squash that had been sitting around for a while, and it turned into one of the best dishes we've made in a long time -- easy, full of flavor, and great warmed ...

Fall Snacking Recipe: Peanut Butter Popcorn

Maybe it's the college football parties, the trick-or-treating, or the endless grazing before Thanksgiving dinner, but snacks and fall just seem to go together. Popcorn is a very old harvest snack, pr...

Recipe: The Best Chocolate Ice Cream

OK, calling it the best might be a bit of a stretch: the true merit of something as beloved and simple as chocolate ice cream comes not just from its formula, but when and where it's consumed, the qua...

Recipe: Peach, Plum, and Ginger Jam

You may remember our last attempt at this jam, when it turned out a wee bit hard. But because the flavor was so good, and because we were determined not to let the jam win, we gave it another try... ...

Recipe: Granola with Almonds, Apricots, Cranberries, and Pineapple

We told you last week that we were making granola for a trip, and this is what we came up with — a sweet, nutty combination full of thick oats and lots of seeds, too... ...

Recipe: Kale Salad with Pecorino and Lemon

One of our favorite late summer and early autumn salads is quite simple: just kale, Pecorino Romano, and a light vinaigrette. ...

Recipe: Squash and Onions with Brown Sugar

This is, hands down, our favorite way to eat yellow summer squash. And we realize this might be due to a nostalgic predilection for Southern-style vegetables (i.e. cooked until they "surrender"), but ...