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I’m a “No-Cart Shopper” — How I Spend $61 a Week on Groceries in New York

I eat out for lunch. READ MORE...

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spaghetti aglio e olio

Do you ever look around at the ingredients available to you, the energy you have to give to the cooking process — or, as I recently explained to a medium-sized child shortly before I got uninvited from future family events, the amount of fudge you have left to give from your, uh, bucket of fudge — and decided to boil spaghetti, toss it with garlicky olive oil, and call it dinner? Read more »

smitten kitchen · EN

simple chicken tacos

Twenty years ago, I started this website because I wanted a place to share recipes I was excited about, as it’s practically coded into my DNA to be an unfettered yap about the things I love. [ This is me. ] The larger context was that upon reaching so-called adulthood, I’d found that while I knew how to cook, there were still so many things I hadn’t figured out, such as: how to turn a can of tomatoes into not just an okay pasta sauce, but a spectacular one ; how to make really good meatballs ; perfect hummus ; and a crumb cake I’d want to make forever. Read more »

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