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cucumber salad with sesame and rice vinegar

smitten kitchen8d ago

It is an error that needs correcting that in the near-20 years of plugging recipes into this url, only a few truly star cucumbers — and highly unrepresentative too, given that we are probably...

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57%plop score

spaghetti aglio e olio

smitten kitchen23d ago

Do you ever look around at the ingredients available to you, the energy you have to give to the cooking process — or, as I recently explained to a medium-sized child shortly before I got uninvited...

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52%plop score

house lemonade

smitten kitchen17 Jul 2026

I realize as far as recipes go, suggesting one needs one for lemonade is questionable. What’s next, a set of detailed instructions for salted water, simple syrup, or buttered noodles? (Whoops!)

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51%plop score

strawberry chiffon shortcake, perfected

smitten kitchen17 Jun 2026

In 2007, when this website was still in its infancy, I shared a recipe for a layered strawberry chiffon shortcake.

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57%plop score

snow pea salad with avocado

smitten kitchen3 Jun 2026

One of my most exasperating traits — or, perhaps one that makes me ideally suited for this space I invented, coincidentally, to suit my collection of traits — is that I have a terrific amount of...

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52%plop score

chicken salad for celery enthusiasts

smitten kitchen20 May 2026

I’m not sure if this is a sign of hitting a certain age — like a sudden interest in bird feeders (check, and please tell me about yours), or beekeeping (well, in the TikTok sense, not sorry), and...

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56%plop score

raspberry swirl cheesecake bars

smitten kitchen8 May 2026

While I’m not from a cheesecake family — it is never unwelcome, but we are more deeply devoted to things like pastry creams, chocolate pudding, and stellar coffee cakes — I married into one, which...

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51%plop score

sidecar

smitten kitchen24 Apr 2026

If there’s anything that’s been consistent about this site in its near-20 years of beaming (babbling?)

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48%plop score

braised leeks and lentils with arugula and yogurt

smitten kitchen16 Apr 2026

I’ve been pining for a springy way to combine leeks and lentils in an unfussy, one-pot, weeknight-friendly meal but would get stuck on one thing: how annoying leeks are — and I say this from a...

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56%plop score