My mother was a successful, professional woman and a great role-model for her daughters. But while she was out bringing in the bacon, she wasn’t spending much time teaching me how to cook the bacon. Welcome to the feature where we learn how to do the things in the kitchen we know we should know, [...]
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Building a well-stocked food cabinet takes time and money. What do you need? How do you know what to buy?
All Starter Kitchen recipes include an Already in Your Starter Kitchen section. These are foods and spices you’ll want to keep on hand. Don’t have them? Don’t worry. Keep cooking with Starter Kitchen recipes, adding the Already in Your [...]
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My first kitchen had lots of paper plates, plastic silverware, paper towels, and a working microwave. Now I have so many kitchen toys and tools we’re running out of cabinet space for food. And yet I’m still lusting over this.
What do you need? How do you know what to buy?
All Starter Kitchen recipes include a [...]
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Welcome to our new feature, at the Starter Kitchen roommate’s request: Freezes Beautifully!
I’m a busy woman. I work full time, commute two hours every day, write this blog, freelance part-time, and go to the gym most evenings. Cooking a healthy meal at the end of those weekdays? Not going to happen.
Making the transition from cooking for my family in [...]
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What not to eat – the weekly feature wherein we check out what’s in some of your favorite junk foods. Read at your own risk!
Alright, I know we all have joyful cup-of-soup memories. When I was a young kitcheneer, my friends and I used to come home from high school, cook up a few flavors of [...]
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The weekly feature in which we answer questions from The Starter Kitchen’s roommate.
Question: How do I know if this is bad? (holds out a plastic container of tiny, wrinkled cherry tomatoes) I don’t want to kill anyone.
Short Answer: Wrinkly tomatoes (especially the smaller grape and cherry tomatoes) aren’t necessarily bad. Don’t buy them like that [...]
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One of my favorite bloggers, Megan McArdle, of Atlantic.com, wrote an amazing post today about the crazy-diet book that could: Skinny Bitch.
She has this to say:
Imagine distilling all the self-righteous moralism of a yuppie eco-tourist who voted for Nader, twice, and only eats hemp. Now add all the hectoring nannyism of the nutritionists who write [...]
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“There are 20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease.” – American Diabetes Association
About a year ago, I started gaining weight. A lot of [...]
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So you’re on your own for your first Easter Sunday, but you want something a little more complicated than cheerios.
Host a perfect make-ahead Easter Brunch! The whole meal will cost less than $50, serves up to seven, and most of it can be prepared the night before in less than an hour! Sunday morning, wake [...]
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