lundi 19 décembre 2016

How To Cook Tender & Juicy Pork Chops in the Oven — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

vendredi 16 décembre 2016

How To Make Spritz Cookies — Baking Lessons from The Kitchn

Spritz cookies, sometimes called butter spritz or pressed butter cookies, are pretty, petite cookies with a tender, crisp crumb and a rich butter flavor. Spritz originates from the German word Spritzen, which literally means "to squirt." Although credit goes to the Germans for the invention of the cookie press, many other countries have shared in the holiday traditions of these cookies. Often, spritz cookie presses and recipes are passed down through generations. They are as simple to make as they are to eat, requiring only a few staple ingredients and a cookie press. Here's how to make them.

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Recipe: Instant Mac and Cheese Mix in a Mason Jar — Bite-Sized Gifts

When what you're after is the ultimate edible gift that will win hearts (and stomachs), it's time to go straight to nostalgic comfort food. Assembled in a tall jar, this DIY instant mac and cheese goes way beyond anything you'll find in a box, and cooks up into an ultra-creamy dinner to feed the whole table.

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Recipe: Lemon Spritz Cookies — The Freezer Cookie Plate

Spritz cookies are a busy baker's best friend. The ingenious contraption of a cooke press allows you to create different shapes of cookies so that you have a wide variety of cookie designs, all with very little effort. While the standard vanilla-flavored spritz cookies are delicious, simply adding some fresh lemon juice and zest to the dough gives it a bright flavor that's welcome on any cookie plate.

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jeudi 15 décembre 2016

How To Brown Butter — Cooking Lessons from The Kitchn

Imagine making butter taste better without adding anything to it. Imagine butter cooked slowly over low heat, its milk solids caramelizing, giving it a nutty sweetness. You get all this from brown butter.

Browning butter is a rather simple kitchen task, but it produces stunning results. So grab a few sticks of butter and a small saucepan and let's upgrade our beloved butter to fragrant, nutty brown butter ready to be used in a batch of fast and fancy sugar cookies, the sauce for pasta, or an elegant dip and spread for your roasted vegetables.

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How To Make Pinwheel Sugar Cookies — Baking Lessons from The Kitchn

Pinwheel cookies are a simple upgrade on a classic sugar cookie, perfect for the home baker who wants to bake beautiful sugar cookies but doesn't have the time (or desire) to decorate two-dozen cookies with royal icing. The premise is simple: Mix up your favorite sugar cookie dough, divide that dough into two, color and flavor one of the doughs, roll them out, roll them together, slice, and bake. The hardest part of baking pinwheel cookies is deciding how to color and flavor the dough and rolling the two doughs together, but there are a few tricks to make both easier.

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