Slow-Cooker Curried Chicken With Ginger and Yogurt
I tried Indian food for the first time just last year while living in London, was immediately hooked, and found myself craving the cuisine once I returned to the states. During the past year, I gathered [...]
Slow-Cooker French Dip Sandwiches from Simply Scratch
There really isn’t anything you can’t prepare in a slow-cooker. From spoon bread to zucchini lasagna, when you’re using a slow-cooker you get to just set it and forget it. My all-time favorite recipe [...]
Slow-Cooker White Bean Soup With Andouille and Kale
Confession: I’ve never used a slow cooker before. Ever. Until about three weeks ago, when I was testing a few models for our roundup of best slow cookers. I’ve been meaning to play around [...]
The Kitchen Gadget You Didn’t Know You Needed: William Bounds Nutmeg Mill
I love nutmeg’s spicy aroma and the depth it gives to everything from cakes to smoothies. Maybe I’m lazy but sometimes it seems like too much work to unscrew the jar, fish out the [...]
Food and Consequences
Did any of you read this article from Frank Bruni in the New York Times? We’ve talked a lot about it in the test kitchen this week and wanted to share it with those [...]
Slow-Cooker Hummus from Big Girls, Small Kitchen
For a lot of harried, young cooks, store-bought tubs of hummus are subsistence-level forms of nourishment, akin to cereal, peanut butter, and even sardines. For the slightly more domestically inclined, over on Big Girls, [...]
February is Slow-Cooker Month on Simply Stated!
This month we’re all about the slow-cooker on Simply Stated. We’ll be sharing some of our favorite recipes from our editors and our friends around the web through the end of February. But to [...]
Last-Minute Super Bowl Party Idea: Do-It-Yourself Nachos
I’m a big fan of do-it-yourself parties—they get people talking, mingling, and interacting, which is the point of a get-together in the first place. Plus, people end up having a lot of fun when [...]
Oven-Roasted Meatballs
Meet my new (to me) method for meatballs: oven roasting. I almost always sear my meatballs in a skillet before finishing them in marinara. However, our windowless kitchen and aging exhaust fan mean that [...]
How NOT to Break an Egg
In the test kitchen earlier today I was working on a cake recipe. Trying to save time while making the batter I decided to break the egg on the rim of the bowl, while [...]
