How to Make Grits From Scratch
Photo: Claire Lower True grits are usually made with dried, ground hominy—corn that has been soaked in an alkaline solution to render it more nutritious and delicious. This is harder to find in the...
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My Favorite Varieties of Salt and What Makes Them Great
Photo: Claire Lower This is my finishing salt, my snack salt, the salt I cannot live without. I put it on ice cream, I put it on dark chocolate, I put it on every...
The Best Way to Store Cheese Is in a Child’s Lunch Container
Photo: Claire Lower You probably already know that wrapping beautiful little wedges of cheese in clingy plastic wrap is a bad thing to do. Cheese is a treat that demands—and deserves—a little respect, a...
How to Make a Waffle Out of Frozen Pound Cake
Nobody waffles like Sara Lee.Photo: Claire Lower Frozen cake is an underrated convenience item, and Sara Lee makes a pretty good one. The All Butter Pound Cake is a very tight example of the...
How to Make Your Coffee Taste Stronger
Image: GraphicaArtis (Getty Images) So you like bold coffee, but all you have at home is a bag of light-roast beans. What to do? Well, one solution is to buy another bag of coffee—but...
Make a ‘Soviet Spritz’ With Sparkling Wine and Vodka
Photo: Claire Lower 3-Ingredient Happy Hour3-Ingredient Happy HourThe weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. I cannot imagine anyone is feeling very patriotic right now. If there is one thing that we...
Make Your Kebabs With Stew Meat
Photo: Shutterstock It is not stew season, not even a little bit, and yet the grocery stores continue to sell stew meat, with blatant disregard for the weather. It would be rude, almost mocking,...
Use a Blender Bottle as a Makeshift Cocktail Shaker
Photo: Sam Bithoney The Blender Bottle is an item “healthy people” own and use, so I’ve never spent a ton of time thinking about it. But that little whisk ball inside the spouted plastic...
Four Martinis You Should Know
Back to BasicsBack to BasicsWe all have that one seemingly “easy” task we’ve never quite figured out. This week, no problem is too trivial, no question too stupid. Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean...
Make Your Own Sour Cream With Two Ingredients
Photo: Claire Lower Back to BasicsBack to BasicsWe all have that one seemingly “easy” task we’ve never quite figured out. This week, no problem is too trivial, no question too stupid. Just because it’s...
