Before & After: L-Shaped Kitchen to Galley Kitchen

This NYC apartment kitchen got the job done, but the L-shaped layout blocked part of the window, and there wasn't a lot of storage space. The appliances were outdated, and the laminate cabinets had seen better days. What to do?

L-Shaped to Galley Kitchen
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The Craver's Colorado Family Kitchen Kitchen Spotlight

Chris and Tiffany Craver's mid-century modern house in Littleton, Colorado (which they lovingly restored to its original plans after the previous owner's disastrous remodeling) is a testament to the couple's talent and skill: Tiffany "has a great eye and a love for all things vintage" while Chris likes "to design and build new features into the existing architecture." The kitchen was was the biggest and most challenging part of the restoration, but also the most rewarding. And check out that extra long kitchen island! What a dream.

The wood veneer backsplash was made from leftover cabinet panels which, admittedly, is not holding up well directly behind the sink. The couple plans to change it out at some point for solid wood or tile.

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Recipe: One Bowl Mung Bean Meal Recipes from The Kitchn

It happens every year at this time and you know it. Whatever your normal and hopefully healthy eating pattern is, you lose it.

Normally I have a very balanced diet, which not only means it's balanced nutritionally, but it's balanced emotionally: I manage to try everything I want while rarely over-indulging. Then the holidays hit and gatherings fill up the calendar. On one hand I can't complain; I've managed to make a career out of encouraging people to cook and eat together, and it doesn't happen more than at the end of each calendar year. However, these gatherings rarely showcase light, healthy foods. Don't get me wrong: I like a good boozy cup of eggnog and a slice of roast beef as much as the next guy, but everybody needs a break.

Take Tuesday night for example: I went into a dinner party situation wanting to eat light and not drink alcohol. Two blinks of the eye later I found a margarita in one hand and a goat cheese-stuffed, bacon-wrapped date in the other. Pretty soon there were pork loin sandwiches and chile rellenos. There was simply no escape.

All you can do is plan to eat differently when possible. This is a time, more than ever, to retreat to the one-bowl vegetarian meal. Lately, that's meant it's all about mung beans at my house. Sometimes the servings are small, just enough to tide me over.

I'm offering this recipe, like I do with many of my recipes, simply to guide you. Of course, if you are missing any of the ingredients like apples or avocados, replace them with something else: some leftover stir-fried greens, a chopped up boiled egg, sky's the limit. This is a good opportunity to clear the decks and the formula couldn't be easier.

In terms of the sprouted mung beans, they are usually easy to find at any large health food store or Whole Foods. I like them because they don't really require much cooking, and they feel so nourishing. If you can only find regular mung beans, don't fret. Simply cook the beans according to the package's instructions then drain and toss with the other salad ingredients.

The point here is to give your system a break and of course there's no one recipe for this practice. Just allow your system to breathe, and take refuge in a bowl of clean food. We have a whole month of holiday eating ahead, so pace yourself. Have a bowl of mung beans, then brace yourself for the next onslaught of holiday cheer.

One Bowl Mung Bean Meal

Serves 4

1 cup sprouted mung beans
3 cups water or broth
4 chopped green onions, white and pale green parts only
2 ribs celery, trimmed and sliced cross-wise into c-shapes
1 apple, diced
1 ripe avocado, sliced
1/3 cup chopped almonds
1/4 cup tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons loosely packed chopped Italian parsley
2 tablespoon lemon juice
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Bring the water to boil in a medium saucepan. Add the mung beans and gently boil for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat. Cover and let stand for at least 4 minutes and up to 8 minutes, depending on the desired texture. Drain.

Mix the mung beans with the green onions, celery, apple, avocado, almonds, olive oil, parsley, lemon juice and salt and pepper. Toss well. Divide between two bowls and serve.

Related: More Uses for Mung Beans

(images: Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan)

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Milk Sociable, Chestnutting, and Sours: Food Words Deleted From the Dictionary

Usually, once a word makes it into the Oxford English Dictionary, it remains, even if it loses popularity. However, between 1972 and 1983, the then-editor of the OED deleted thousands of words, an unheard-of practice. Many of these were Americanisms, and there were a good number of food-related words that were almost lost forever.

Linguist Sarah Ogilvie researched the so-called deleted words in her new book Words of the World, and found the following food words, among many others, were trimmed:

bake-kettle a heavy cast-iron cooking pot that hung over the fireplace and was used to bake bread, pies, etc.
calabazilla a wild squash of Mexico and California
chestnutting an Americanism for picking chestnuts
milk sociable a sociable at which milk is drunk
seed-cake a cake of compressed seeds used as cattle feed
sheller a shellfish, a crab
sours pickles

Some of these words have since been re-introduced to the OED and can be found in current versions, but it's difficult to know exactly how many more were lost. So next time your grandmother starts talking about cooking up a sheller and some calabazilla, think twice before telling her the words aren't in the dictionary.

Read More: Consider the Ghetchoo at Bon Appetit

Related: Cringeworthy: Which Food Buzzwords Should Get Nixed?

(Images: Melissa Finkelstein)

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Lentil Curry & Soft Gingersnaps with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Delicious Links

Soft gingersnaps, butternut squash salad, and cranberry tartlets in today's Delicious Links.

Today's Delicious Links

Kabocha Squash Lentil Curry - Pinch of Yum.

Soft Gingersnaps with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting - Two Peas and Their Pod.

Cranberry Meringue Tartlets - Apt. 2B Baking.

Chili-Lime Roasted Butternut Salad - The Bitten Word.

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On Non-Food Gifts That Smell Like Food: Is It a Yea or a Nay?

Cinnamon bun, chai spice, grapefruit ginger. Mmmm, sounds good, doesn't it? But these "flavors" are actually from gifts that aren't food at all: lotions, soaps, candles, lip balms. What do you think about food-flavored gifts?

The phenomenon came to mind when I was shopping through Philosophy products for my tweenybopper niece - so many enticing scents but one big hangup (for me, anyway): I once received such a gift. It was a moisturizer scented like sugary frosting. No matter what the texture or consistency of the product, I could not get over the feeling that the moisturizer was sticky. Ever since then, I've shied away from food-scented gifts like these. (Except my chai latte lip balm, that is!)

What are your impressions when it comes to non-food gifts that feign food scents or flavors? Yea or nay? What are some of the wackiest ones you've come across? And while we're on the subject of Philosophy products, has anyone ever tried the recipes printed on the bottles?

Related: How To Make Soft, Chewy Caramels

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