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s. For the longest time while living in our apartment they were always just tossed into a drawer and for someone who enjoys cooking and frequents her spice drawer, it was just one big mess. I thought I would share this process with you guys step by step and everything I used incase you were wanting to give your spice jars a face lift as well! One tip, as far as expiration dates, you can either label small with a permanent marker on the bottom, or I prefer using a label maker so you can keep updating as you refill...

Great for a weeknight, slow cooker chicken carnitas don’t need to be pre-cooked. Just combine chicken thighs and spices in the slow cooker and let them go. Right before serving, shred the chicken and broil it until tender and crisp. Use the carnitas in tacos, burrito bowls, or to make taco salads. With Cinco de Mayo this year falling while Kansas City (and many other places in the world) are still under stay-at-home orders, it’s a good year to get creative with some Mexican-inspired food at home! Mexican and TexMex meals are a staple of our weeknight routine (see Slow...

This quick and easy banana bread recipe is straight from my grandmas’s recipe box. It uses only ingredients that you’re likely to have in the store cupboard already. Baking a banana loaf is the ideal way to use up any unloved brown bananas. Once you’ve mastered banana bread, you’ll never throw an overripe banana away again. Feeling fancy? There are lots of variations on this simple version of banana bread, including pumpkin banana bread and banana bread pudding. MORE BANANA RECIPES Banana Split Cake | Banana Pudding Pie INGREDIENTS TO MAKE BANANA BREAD You will need: 2 cups flour 1...

My grandmother cooked in an embroidered cotton caftan and rubber flip-flops, getting all of her prep out of the way in the morning, sometimes enlisting my help with tedious potato-peeling or kneading. Blasting Hindi movie soundtracks on the radio, she built the seasonal Gujarati dish undhiyu, a specialty of the city of Surat, with purple yams and plantains, flat hyacinth beans and teeny eggplants, all of it layered in a giant, lipped stainless-steel pot and left to cook slowly over the charcoal outside. This didn’t happen in India, but in Kenya. I’m a part of the diaspora. Born in London...

This week, I experimented with making super easy Chinese barbecued ribs. The idea came from grocery shopping and realizing that people had bought up a lot of chicken and ground beef. Pork wasn’t as popular. I’m prone to ‘pity purchasing’ and ended up buying a nearly four-pound slab of baby back ribs at Costco. Looking for a simple and fun recipe that used pantry ingredients lingering in my fridge, I decided to apply a Joyce Chen Cookbook recipe to the ribs. Filled with unfussy information, the book was written in 1962, and I’ve made a great fried rice recipe from...