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5-Step Process for Easy Composting in a Small Urban Apartment

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“Adult Taco” Wins Best Seasonal Grilling Contest

There was an outpouring of delicious ideas put forth in our “Early Summer Grilling Ideas Contest” — ranging from pesto shrimp to jerk sweet potatoes to grilled watermelon. But the Adult Taco took the cake!

Meta-Pantry: How to Preserve Angelica

Candying is one a great way to preserve a huge variety of vegetables, fresh spices, and herbs. Here’s a basic method which works for many tough plants as well as squash and melons.

Win a Copy of “The Flavors of Olive Oil” With Your Best Grilling Ideas

It’s the first week of June – time to rock the party with your grill skills! We’re therefore holding a contest for Best Seasonal Grill Ideas and Recipes. The prize will be a copy of Deborah Krasner’s James Beard award-winning: The Flavors of Olive Oil: A Tasting Guide and Cookbook. Post yours today!

How to Make Homemade Yogurt

Even though the supermarket down the street has a 5 meter long display of yogurt, I’ve begun making my own. It’s easier than you think.

Early Spring Canning, A Few Jars at a Time

Canning is easy, and it isn’t just something you do when you have bushels of overripe produce on-hand and a full day to spend stirring a pot. It’s perfectly reasonable to put up just a few jars at a time.

The Food Lab: What’s the Point of a Vinaigrette?

For me, the big question about vinaigrettes has never really been “how?” but “why?”

Is emulsifying the oil and acid really necessary? Does adding the olive oil and the vinegar to the salad bowl individually really make for an inferior salad? Could every red-sauce Italian joint that serves salad with a side of oil and vinegar be wrong?

Well, stranger things have been true. I decided that a bit of hard-core kitchen work was in order.

Recipe: Fresh Ricotta in Five Minutes

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The Food Lab: Fresh Ricotta in Five Minutes or Less

So how do you make ricotta easier when it was already pretty darn fast and easy to begin with?

For those of you who aren’t really into the whole brevity thing, and would like a little more detail about the processes involved in curdling milk, read on.

Recipe: Perfect French Fries, Iteration 1

A recipe for perfect french fries.