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Stainless Steel Food Storage: A MightyNest Giveaway!

27 April 2015 by local kitchen

This post is in partnership with MightyNest, the online retailer with a positive mission: providing the natural, organic, and non-toxic products that families seek for their homes while also giving back to schools. MightyNest is sponsoring the giveaway and provided a set of the materials to me for review. True confessions: When MightyNest first contacted me about teaming up for a giveaway of stainless steel food storage containers, my first response was, “Thanks, but no thanks.” Don’t get me wrong: […]

Categories: giveaway, storage • Tags: food storage, giveaway, stainless steel

Pumpkin Chocolate Marbled Bundt Cake + A Giveaway!

29 October 2014 by local kitchen

This post is in partnership with MightyNest, the online retailer with a positive mission: providing the natural, organic, and non-toxic products that families seek for their homes while also giving back to schools. MightyNest is sponsoring the giveaway and provided a set of the materials to me for review. Teflon in cookware is a bad idea: we don’t really need to debate this, right? When heated (which cookware occasionally is, cough), Teflon coatings on nonstick cookware can release a toxic […]

Categories: baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, fall, whole wheat flour, winter squash • Tags: baking, cake, cooking, dessert, food, giveaway, local, pumpkin, recipes

Hip Girl’s Guide to the Kitchen: Giveaway Winner!

22 May 2014 by local kitchen

Congratulations to lucky commenter #57, Kelli, the winner of the Hip Girl’s Guide to the Kitchen! Kelli says: I already pat myself on the back for a lot of rock star-ism in the kitchen as far as basics goes but I know there is always more to learn and discover. now I am about to go complicated and try my hand at the pesky French macaron. also, you know, I have yet to do real, actual canning, the hot water […]

Categories: community • Tags: books, cooking, giveaway, Hip Girl

Passionate Soccer Love: Giveaway Winner!

20 May 2014 by local kitchen

Congratulations to Tiffany, winner of the Passionate Soccer Love giveaway! Tiffany says: I too am a big soccer fan! I was happy to see this post up here, two of my favorite things coming together! I wish I were attending, but I am going to the US v Turkey game at Red Bull stadium on June 2nd to send my favorite team off to the World Cup. Congratulations, Tiffany! Enjoy! …………………………….. In the midst of all the sugar research and […]

Categories: community • Tags: giveaway, love, soccer

Foraging & Feasting + Giveaway Winner

12 December 2013 by local kitchen

Do you remember when I told you about a new foraging book, written by herbalist Dina Falconi and illustrated by artist Wendy Hollender, right here in Accord, NY? Well, I reached out to Dina and Wendy, who are also the publishers, Botanical Arts Press, and they were kind enough to send me a review copy and a copy to giveaway to one lucky reader. I was so excited to receive my copy and I was not disappointed: it is a […]

Categories: 100% local, foraging, wild foods • Tags: cooking, food, foraging, giveaway, local, preserving, wild food

Glass Food Storage + Giveaway Winner!

13 November 2013 by local kitchen

Plastic: it’s amazing, isn’t it? From the finest fishing line to the sturdiest industrial shelving, plastic is flexible and solid, transparent and opaque, fabric and furniture. If you consider plastic syringes, infant car seats, Kevlar body armor and a host of other applications, it’s clear that plastic saves lives. But one thing it doesn’t do well? Store food. The National Resources Defense Council has a comprehensive round-up of the problems with storing food in plastic, from environmental (“producing a 16 […]

Categories: home goods, tools & gear • Tags: food, food storage, giveaway, glass, plastics

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Put ’em Up! Fruit: Winner!

15 April 2013 by local kitchen

Congratulations to CINNAMON, commenter #22 and winner of a free copy of Put ’em Up! Fruit, courtesy of Storey Publishing. Like many of you, Cinnamon likes to use up the last bits of jam in the jar by stirring it into plain yogurt: The easiest “use it up” trick I have is adding my jams to plain yogurt for the kiddos. In fact, we only ever buy plain, because I know there is always something to put in it at […]

Categories: preserving • Tags: cooking, giveaway, preserving

Food in Jars: Winner!

23 June 2012 by local kitchen

Thanks so much to everyone who entered and who shared with us their one-and-only, most important preserve of the year. I was fascinated by your responses: by far the majority favored home-canned tomatoes, whether whole, crushed, sauced or fire-roasted, and I have to agree: I go into paranoia-overstock-mode with tomatoes these days, ever since the heartbreak of the 2009 tomato blight. But for all of the tomato love, there were many of you dedicated to berry jams, sour cherries & plums, […]

Categories: canning, community, preserving, tools & gear • Tags: canning, food in jars, giveaway, preserving

And the winner is…

28 April 2011 by local kitchen

Beth and the Devil’s Crock-Pot! My favorite recent DIY memory is from the day I purchased a pressure canner. I invited my mom and my best friend over for what was going to be an epic tomato sauce (some meat, some veg, hence the need for pressure over water bath) canning session. I always underestimate the time and effort that goes into this stuff. Eight hours and a few bottles of wine later, our shirts were ruined with tomato splatters […]

Categories: 100% local • Tags: book review, giveaway, hip girl's