Know the size of your equipment, how much your pots can hold and what your oven can handle – these and other lessons from a kitchen volunteer.
Recipes
Being green in Maine means buying local, fresh goat cheese
For the farmer, a goat dairy operation is a comparatively easy entry point into the cheese-making world.
With radishes and turnips, you get 2 veggies for the price of one
This recipe for Ginger-Garlic Miso Soup can be entirely locally sourced.
To kick up classic chicken salad, turn to your spice rack
Mild, creamy chicken salad is an ideal canvas.
‘Double Awesome Chinese Food’ offers helpful tips and intriguing recipes
A test recipe was problematic, but the book has so much else to recommend it, we’re forging ahead
Japanese flavors inspire these savory burgers
Packed with edamame and seasoned with ginger root, sesame and nori, they need neither meat nor buns.
Try DIY ketchup on your July 4 burger
In a common American story, ketchup immigrated from abroad and adapted once it reached these shores.
Dive into a gyro, with lamb and yogurt sauce in a pita
Traditionally, the meat cooks on an electric vertical rotisserie. Here’s how to translate that to the home kitchen.
Bean salad with fresh corn and avocado is just right for summer
Start with a smart trick: Toast the corn.
Ham salad, a retro throwback, keeps its cool by losing the mayo
This adaptation of a classic will please even the mayonnaise haters in your life.