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On her website, smittenkitchen.com, food blogger Deb Perelman describes her kitchen as “80 square feet of fourth-floor circa-1870 New York City walkup tenement building joy with a skylight on top.” She has one stainless steel counter, a small gas stove, a carefully curated spice rack, and a pantry full of wedding registry pots, pans, and appliances.

Chicken nuggets
Serves 4 Serve with your favorite dipping sauce - ketchup, mayonnaise, honey mustard, barbecue sauce, or Chinese duck sauce.

Mango-red pepper salsa
This salsa is also excellent with peaches or apples instead of mango. 1 red bell pepper, cut into 1/4 -inch cubes 1 ripe mango, peeled and cut into 1/4 -inch cubes 1 small onion, finely chopped Juice of 1 lime 1/2 cup lightly packed fresh cilantro leaves, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 small fresh hot chili pepper Salt and …

‘Grilled’ toasts
Serves 4 If you have a gas stovetop, you can grill toasts by setting them directly on very low flames, watching them carefully, and turning them with tongs as soon as the bread singes. Or use a stovetop gas grill to toast the bread.

Honey wheat-germ whole-wheat bread
Makes 2 loaves 1 1/2 cups hot tap water 1 tablespoon yeast 1/3 cup honey 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 c ups whole-wheat fl our 1/2 cup wheat germ 3 tablespoons shortening or butter 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, or more as needed Extra unbleached all-purpose flour (for kneading) Extra butter (for the tops) 1. Have on hand two 8 …

One man’s search for PB&J perfection
The quest for the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich is as personal and subjective as the search for beauty or truth - but far more filling.

Chill out
Like everything else in the city, bar prices have been steadily inching upward over the past few years. These days, $12 is about average for a specialty cocktail at a lot of forward-thinking bars, and some of them are even worth it. But we’ve also seen some drinks trending toward the $13-$15 range, and a few as high as $18. …

Teaching the ABCs of healthy eating
Twelve-year-old Maccus Vilain is on a diet. That means a couple of things have changed in his world - for starters, rice. Born of a Trinidadian mother and a Haitian father, Maccus has enjoyed rice as a culinary staple his whole life. His mom used to fry rice in oil before coating it in bouillon and then simmering it to …

A fresh and breezy white wine is perfect company at the cafe
What we call plonk in this column is the kind of thing that might once have been called cafe wine — and may still be in lots of places. Served up with inexpensive meals in small-scale mom-and-pop restaurants all over Europe, cafe wines may come in a glass carafe rather than a bottle and are likely to be described on …

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