Stirring the Pot

# Kitchen Shortcuts & Confidence: Knives, Paprika Powder, Blanching, and What to Do with a Too-Big Pork Butt If your week feels like a never-ending meal-prep marathon, you’re not alone. Tiny choices—what knife you reach…

# Holiday Cooking Without the Panic: Simple, Party-Ready Recipes for Busy Families By Chef Mac — Stirring the Pot Holiday kitchens are a theater of scent and motion: the faint perfume of roasting meat, a…

# GIFs, Comfort Food, and Family Dinners — a note from Chef Mac If dinner time feels like a juggling act, welcome to the club. Between after-school picks, conference calls, and the general swirl of…

# Pantry Power Moves: Pumpkin, Avocado & Smart Meal-Prep Hacks for Busy People Between work, kids, and trying to keep something resembling a social life, cooking can start to feel like a second job. I’m…

# Community Cooking, Crisis Care, and Common Sense: How to Keep Our Kitchen Corner Helpful and Safe We love this corner of the internet because it’s where busy families and time-strapped millennials swap lifesaving shortcuts,…

# Make Restaurant Techniques Work for Weeknights If you’ve ever watched a glossy cooking video and thought, ‘I want that at my table,’ you’re not alone. Lately I’ve been seeing more home cooks try restaurant…

## Intro — The kitchen that stretches beyond your walls You know that moment: you text a photo of a sad-looking roast or a half-assembled taco and, within minutes, you have ten suggestions, a GIF…

# Sunday Setups: Batch-Cook a Week of Comfort (and Global Flavors) in a Morning Want to reclaim weeknights without resorting to takeout? A little front-loaded cooking on the weekend can turn hectic evenings into cozy,…

# Plant-Powered & Packed: Five Vegan Wins for Busy Families (Plus a Way to Help Animals) If your weeknight life feels like a nonstop relay—work, kids, practices, and paperwork—plant-based cooking doesn’t have to add stress.…

# Before 10 AM: Prep a Week of Cozy Meals in One Morning There’s a particular kind of kitchen magic that happens while the coffee steams and the oven hums: an hour or two of…