My Story

HI, I'M JENN - THE KITCHY COOKER. I’ve been cooking since I could hold a wooden spoon and help my mom lick the bowl. I’ve always loved cooking, whether it was baking something sweet or simmering something savory. And you can absolutely be good at both. While I love the perfect fudgey brownie, there’s absolutely nothing better than a hot bowl of chili with shredded cheddar cheese on a cold, rainy night. About me
Kitchy Cooking
Desserts

Apple and Fig Custard

I’m a chocolate fan. But every so often I like to change things up and make a fruit dessert. And while chocolate is very popular this time of year, fruit desserts are also quite popular. The most common fruit dessert?…

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Drinks

Widow’s Kiss

Whenever I hear the term widow, of course I think of a woman who’s lost her husband. But with Halloween on Monday, the term takes on a much more ominous tone that usually involves said wife, murdering her husband. So,…

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Appetizers

Roasted Plum Chutney

This may seem like an odd recipe to be posting this time of year, but believe it or not, plums are still readily available at most grocery stores and farmer’s markets. As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I’m a huge stone…

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Drinks

Corpse Reviver #1

Halloween is a couple weeks away, so now’s the time you’ll start seeing themed drinks called the Devil’s Blood or the Walking Dead that are made with green or orange liquors. But it turns out there are plenty of vintage…

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Salads

Soy Ginger Edamame Salad

I love Chinese food. I’ve been eating Chinese food for as long as I can remember. Any time we decide to order in I always pitch Chinese, and about half the time that’s what we get. But while I love…

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Other

Ginger Syrup

No, I’m not doing a cocktail today. I know this is a little out of the ordinary, but every so often I like to break protocol and provide a recipe for a mixer instead of the cocktail itself. A mixer…

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Side Dishes

Curried Rice Pilaf

Rice is one of my all time favorite side dishes. It’s super easy to make and with all the different ways to prepare it, you could have rice every night and never have the same side twice. I usually like…

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Side Dishes

Tzimmes

There are three things that happen every Autumn: the leaves turn from green to pretty reds and oranges, pumpkin recipes start showing up on blogs everywhere and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur happen. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the…

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Drinks

Savoy Tango

I know I’m a day late (and a dollar short) but it’s been… well I won’t bore you with the details. Instead I’ll get to the important stuff, this week’s cocktail! I know I’ve been on a bit of a…

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Drinks

Strawberry Sunrise

There’s a magazine I love called Tasting Panel that focuses on all things liquor related. They do stories on everything from wine and beer to hard liquor and cocktails. It’s a thorough, informative magazine of which I can’t get enough….

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