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smitten kitchen https://smittenkitchen.comFearless cooking from a tiny NYC kitchen. Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:55:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/smittenkitchen.com/wp-content/uploads//2017/09/cropped-smitten-kitchen-logo\_no\_text.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 smitten kitchen https://smittenkitchen.com32 32 172052577 skillet-baked macaroni and cheese https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/11/skillet-baked-macaroni-and-cheese/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/11/skillet-baked-macaroni-and-cheese/#comments Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:06:21 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=78413 I hadn’t planned to spend most of the fall to date making skillets upon skillets of baked, gooey, decadent macaroni and cheese, though given the state of things right now, perhaps this steady dose of comfort food was some unintended brilliance on my part. But mostly it started because we had baked mac and cheese from The Smith one night. My kids fought over the last scrapings from the pan and I reminded them — I honestly don’t even think they realize it sometimes — that I could make it for them, too. And so the next night, I pulled up my trusty Martha’s mac-and-cheese, a forever SK and internet favorite, and it immediately …irked me. Start with cooked pasta? Warm the milk for the bechamel? So many pans, so many bowls, so many steps. On a Tuesday, no less. It felt unacceptable.
]]> I hadn’t planned to spend most of the fall to date making skillets upon skillets of baked, gooey, decadent macaroni and cheese, though given the state of things right now, perhaps this steady dose of comfort food was some unintended brilliance on my part. But mostly it started because we had baked mac and cheese from The Smith one night. My kids fought over the last scrapings from the pan and I reminded them — I honestly don’t even think they realize it sometimes — that I could make it for them, too. And so the next night, I pulled up my trusty Martha’s mac-and-cheese, a forever SK and internet favorite, and it immediately …irked me. Start with cooked pasta? Warm the milk for the bechamel? So many pans, so many bowls, so many steps. On a Tuesday, no less. It felt unacceptable.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/11/skillet-baked-macaroni-and-cheese/feed/ 55 78413 glazed apple cider doughnut cake https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/10/glazed-apple-cider-doughnut-cake/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/10/glazed-apple-cider-doughnut-cake/#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:51:03 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=78030 Confession time! As someone with more opinions than I can fit in three cookbooks, one audiobook, and even 18 years of archives on this website, sometimes when I want to grumble about something food-related but it’s not the time or place, I tuck it in a little document called “rants” that is so full of cringe, you only have my permission to publish posthumously. But I can’t write a headnote for this particular cake without first owning up to #23 on the list in advance: “Apple cider cakes are lies.” Which begs the questions: Who hurt you, Deb? What gives? Essentially, my quibble is that you can put all of the wonderful fresh-pressed apple cider you want in a cake, but it rarely comes through to actually taste like apple cider. The flavor is not robust enough. I’m not saying it can’t be wildly delicious with all of the cinnamon spice we also put in these cakes, but it rarely, to me, tastes like an accurate representation of its name.
]]> Confession time! As someone with more opinions than I can fit in three cookbooks, one audiobook, and even 18 years of archives on this website, sometimes when I want to grumble about something food-related but it’s not the time or place, I tuck it in a little document called “rants” that is so full of cringe, you only have my permission to publish posthumously. But I can’t write a headnote for this particular cake without first owning up to #23 on the list in advance: “Apple cider cakes are lies.” Which begs the questions: Who hurt you, Deb? What gives? Essentially, my quibble is that you can put all of the wonderful fresh-pressed apple cider you want in a cake, but it rarely comes through to actually taste like apple cider. The flavor is not robust enough. I’m not saying it can’t be wildly delicious with all of the cinnamon spice we also put in these cakes, but it rarely, to me, tastes like an accurate representation of its name.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/10/glazed-apple-cider-doughnut-cake/feed/ 335 78030 roasted carrots with lentils and yogurt https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/10/roasted-carrots-with-lentils-and-yogurt/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/10/roasted-carrots-with-lentils-and-yogurt/#comments Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:45:56 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=77890 “I was looking for a simple roasted carrot recipe on your site and couldn’t find one,” a friend told me a month ago and I immediately put “simple roasted carrot recipe” on my sprawling, decades-long To Cook list because sometimes I forget myself, too. Spoiler: I was never going to write a simple recipe for roasted carrots.
]]> “I was looking for a simple roasted carrot recipe on your site and couldn’t find one,” a friend told me a month ago and I immediately put “simple roasted carrot recipe” on my sprawling, decades-long To Cook list because sometimes I forget myself, too. Spoiler: I was never going to write a simple recipe for roasted carrots.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/10/roasted-carrots-with-lentils-and-yogurt/feed/ 38 77890 easiest cinnamon rolls https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/09/easiest-cinnamon-rolls/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/09/easiest-cinnamon-rolls/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:07:10 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=77704 What if I told you I had a from-scratch cinnamon roll recipe that was effortlessly veganized, required no kneading, and could be coming out of your oven in just over two hours? And what if I told you’d I’d been making it for years and didn’t tell you about it because I thought, for some bizarre reason, that the site didn’t need another breakfast bun recipe? Yes, I’d throw a jar of cinnamon at my head too. Good news, though, you can stop yelling now because I’ve come to my senses.
]]> What if I told you I had a from-scratch cinnamon roll recipe that was effortlessly veganized, required no kneading, and could be coming out of your oven in just over two hours? And what if I told you’d I’d been making it for years and didn’t tell you about it because I thought, for some bizarre reason, that the site didn’t need another breakfast bun recipe? Yes, I’d throw a jar of cinnamon at my head too. Good news, though, you can stop yelling now because I’ve come to my senses.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/09/easiest-cinnamon-rolls/feed/ 200 77704 lemon chicken with potatoes and chickpeas https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/09/lemon-chicken-with-potatoes-and-chickpeas/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/09/lemon-chicken-with-potatoes-and-chickpeas/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:53:32 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=77525 It’s humbling that way every September, without fail, knocks me on my rump. One week, you’re breezy and unscheduled, reading books on a beach and tearing lobster apart with your bare hands (indeed, we were in Maine) and the next you’re realizing a certain fetid backpack was never emptied on the last day of school in June, scrambling for after-school care, and despite the fact that I work every week of the year, somehow there’s a lot more to do. If dinner can’t be made in one pan in which everything cooks at once, I haven’t been making it. And yet I’ve made this chicken dish four times in the last month; it’s clearly time to shout about it across the internet.
]]> It’s humbling that way every September, without fail, knocks me on my rump. One week, you’re breezy and unscheduled, reading books on a beach and tearing lobster apart with your bare hands (indeed, we were in Maine) and the next you’re realizing a certain fetid backpack was never emptied on the last day of school in June, scrambling for after-school care, and despite the fact that I work every week of the year, somehow there’s a lot more to do. If dinner can’t be made in one pan in which everything cooks at once, I haven’t been making it. And yet I’ve made this chicken dish four times in the last month; it’s clearly time to shout about it across the internet.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/09/lemon-chicken-with-potatoes-and-chickpeas/feed/ 179 77525 napa cabbage wedge with miso dressing https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/08/napa-cabbage-wedge-with-miso-dressing/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/08/napa-cabbage-wedge-with-miso-dressing/#comments Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:24:00 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=77111 If you were to make a multi-part Venn diagram combining my favorite salad things, you could nestle this right in the center. It’s one part wedge salad, the fork and steak knife kind, something I am so into I talked my podcast co-host Kenji (okay, it wasn’t hard) into dedicating a whole episode to it. And it contains cabbage, and not just cabbage but Napa cabbage, which I think deserves more credit as a salad green. [This can be convenient to know as it often comes in heads large enough to feed a small family for a week.] Napa cabbage is a little leafy, a little crunchy, and yet kind of juicy too and I’ve used it, sliced thin, in everything from this Italian-style salad to a classic Caesar.
Read more »]]> If you were to make a multi-part Venn diagram combining my favorite salad things, you could nestle this right in the center. It’s one part wedge salad, the fork and steak knife kind, something I am so into I talked my podcast co-host Kenji (okay, it wasn’t hard) into dedicating a whole episode to it. And it contains cabbage, and not just cabbage but Napa cabbage, which I think deserves more credit as a salad green. [This can be convenient to know as it often comes in heads large enough to feed a small family for a week.] Napa cabbage is a little leafy, a little crunchy, and yet kind of juicy too and I’ve used it, sliced thin, in everything from this Italian-style salad to a classic Caesar.
Read more »]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/08/napa-cabbage-wedge-with-miso-dressing/feed/ 45 77111 salted caramel peach crisp https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/08/salted-caramel-peach-crisp/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/08/salted-caramel-peach-crisp/#comments Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:36:26 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=76844 Consider this the summer flip of one of my favorite recipes in my third cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers — the apple butterscotch crisp.
]]> Consider this the summer flip of one of my favorite recipes in my third cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers — the apple butterscotch crisp.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/08/salted-caramel-peach-crisp/feed/ 91 76844 braised chickpeas with zucchini and pesto https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/07/braised-chickpeas-with-zucchini-and-pesto/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/07/braised-chickpeas-with-zucchini-and-pesto/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:01:16 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=75400 Last summer, when my younger child joined my older child at sleepaway camp for a month for the first time, leaving us unmoored and a little restless, we made a list of restaurants we’d been meaning to try and friends we don’t see enough and took this task on like it was our job. I barely cooked once. By the end of the third week, everything hurt and we realized our template for a child-free life (going out late, cocktails on weeknights, and generally behaving despicably) was based on our age and energy level when we were last child-free, which (I’m sorry as this fact seems to upset you guys as much as it does his actual parents) was almost 15 years ago.
]]> Last summer, when my younger child joined my older child at sleepaway camp for a month for the first time, leaving us unmoored and a little restless, we made a list of restaurants we’d been meaning to try and friends we don’t see enough and took this task on like it was our job. I barely cooked once. By the end of the third week, everything hurt and we realized our template for a child-free life (going out late, cocktails on weeknights, and generally behaving despicably) was based on our age and energy level when we were last child-free, which (I’m sorry as this fact seems to upset you guys as much as it does his actual parents) was almost 15 years ago.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/07/braised-chickpeas-with-zucchini-and-pesto/feed/ 174 75400 summer steak with corn and tomatoes https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/07/summer-steak-with-corn-and-tomatoes/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/07/summer-steak-with-corn-and-tomatoes/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:47:29 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=75191 This has been my go-to summer steak for the last several years and I have some audacity to have gatekept it for so long. Mostly, we’ve been too busy eating it for me to grab the camera and shoot it and then sit down and write the recipe, which is hilarious as that’s, like, my whole job. But my brain softens in the summer, especially when my kids are away at sleepaway camp, as they are now, and we quickly lose whatever tethers we had to things like to-do lists, responsibilities, and adulting. And while I do not expect a skirt steak with a cherry tomato and sweet corn salad to shake the cooking internet off its axis, there are a bunch of tips tucked into this recipe that make it a reliable favorite, and I hope become part of your repertoire too.
]]> This has been my go-to summer steak for the last several years and I have some audacity to have gatekept it for so long. Mostly, we’ve been too busy eating it for me to grab the camera and shoot it and then sit down and write the recipe, which is hilarious as that’s, like, my whole job. But my brain softens in the summer, especially when my kids are away at sleepaway camp, as they are now, and we quickly lose whatever tethers we had to things like to-do lists, responsibilities, and adulting. And while I do not expect a skirt steak with a cherry tomato and sweet corn salad to shake the cooking internet off its axis, there are a bunch of tips tucked into this recipe that make it a reliable favorite, and I hope become part of your repertoire too.
]]> https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/07/summer-steak-with-corn-and-tomatoes/feed/ 60 75191 blistered peas-in-the-pod with lemon and salt https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/06/blistered-peas-in-the-pod-with-lemon-and-salt/https://smittenkitchen.com/2024/06/blistered-peas-in-the-pod-with-lemon-and-salt/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:34:26 +0000 https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=74946 Even though my kids are not yet on summer break and even though I, as an adult, do not have a thing called a summer break, I’ve apparently helped myself to one. I’m sneaking off to the beach on weekdays (oops), reading novels, gorging myself on cherries and crisp-from-the-market cucumbers, playing midday tennis like a lady who lunches, and getting vexed when I receive work-related emails and texts. [“Alex, why are they texting me on a Sunday?” “Deb, it’s Tuesday.”]
]]> Even though my kids are not yet on summer break and even though I, as an adult, do not have a thing called a summer break, I’ve apparently helped myself to one. I’m sneaking off to the beach on weekdays (oops), reading novels, gorging myself on cherries and crisp-from-the-market cucumbers, playing midday tennis like a lady who lunches, and getting vexed when I receive work-related emails and texts. [“Alex, why are they texting me on a Sunday?” “Deb, it’s Tuesday.”]
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