Here's What You May Have Missed This Week

Life moves pretty fast, as Ferris Bueller says. Here's a selection of our favorite stories from the site this week.

Monday:

• Our latest contest wants to know what your best one-pot meal is. P.S. There's a prize!
• Amanda taught us to fashion a bike rack with just one little hardware-store buy.
• We made matcha ice pops and pretended summer would last forever.
• Leslie walked us through the best way to defrost any frozen fish.
• And we learned more about Sarah, our Contributors Editor (and SCOBY queen).

 

Tuesday:

• We launched some beautiful canvas bags in partnership with cookbook author Heidi Swanson and San Francisco artisan àplat.
• We also launched an advice column! 
• Joanne Chang guided us through our baking-with-less-sugar challenges.
• And we did a little fall trend forecasting. (Cast your votes!)

 

Wednesday:

• Kristen told us about a Genius way to handle peppers (that won't make our fingers—or eyes—fiery and sore).
• Our editors put out a call for Portland, Oregon, recommendations! Kenzi and Leslie are eating their way through the city for Feast Portland.
• We debated whether pricey chocolate chips are worth it, and whether microwaves deserve the counter space.
• And finally figured out what to put up on the big, blank walls of our homes.
• Plus: Sara Forte joined us for lunch! Here's how we pulled it off.

 

Thursday:

• Gena Hamshaw taught us everything we need to know to stock a vegan pantry.
• And we learned about what a South Bronx program is doing to instill a love of good food in the neighborhood's kids.
• Fiveandspice taught us the magic cocktail ratio (just in time for the weekend).
• We stepped into Emma Aubry Roberts' shoes and pretended we were professional bakers.
• And excitedly read Leslie's and Kenzi's first dispatches from Portland. (Sandwiches! Secret sauces!)

 

Friday: 

• Sarah took us behind the scenes of the Baking book. There may have been a few early-morning disasters.
• We mused on the kitchen sounds we like best.
• And learned about a new cookbook—the proceeds of which go to increasing food aid for Syrian refugees.
• Kenzi shared some straight-from-Portland wisdom about how to pair donuts with coffee.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday photos by James Ransom; Friday photo by Alpha Smoot