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Kendra Vaculin

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Past articles by Kendra:

To Make the Best Holiday Cookies, You’ll Need a Cookie Press

This post originally appeared on Food52. I’m sure it isn’t easy to be a spritz cookie. The underdogs of my family’s Christmas dessert platter, the little g → Read More

Spritz Butter Christmas Cookies Recipe on

Special equipment required: a cookie press! These may be the underdogs of your cookie platter, but what they lack in splendor they make up for in CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. Little green wreaths and trees galore. → Read More

This Is the Ideal Vegetarian Main Dish for Dinner Parties

This post originally appeared on Food52. Maybe you recall the time Marian Bull crafted a perfect Food52 advice column response in the form of a poem. Yes? → Read More

Root Vegetable Galette: Your Answer to Vegetarian Dinner Parties

Never serve a quinoa salad or pasta dish at a vegetarian dinner party again (unless you want to, of course). → Read More

Herbed Goat Cheese and Root Vegetable Galette Recipe on

Go for a full array of vegetable colors, and don't stress for even a second about making the edges even—this galette's charm lies in its being super rustic. Serve with a big salad with a bracing vinaigrette and prepare to be picking crust crumbs off your plate. → Read More

How to Turn Your Thanksgiving Scraps Into a Satisfying Next-Day Breakfast

This post originally appeared on Food52. I have never hosted Thanksgiving, but I did recently throw my first dinner party, and I’ll tell you what: The afte → Read More

How to Turn Your Thanksgiving Scraps Into a Satisfying Next-Day Breakfast

This post originally appeared on Food52. → Read More

The #1 Use for Thanksgiving Leftovers: Strata

Before you clean up from dinner, throw the leftover ingredients into a casserole dish for the next day's strata. → Read More

You Don’t Have to Make Pie for Thanksgiving. Make This Light, Dreamy Pumpkin Pavlova Instead.

This post originally appeared on Food52. The case has been made: If you don’t want to make a pie at Thanksgiving, you just don’t have to do it. The Gods of → Read More

How to Make Orange Chicken That Tastes Exactly Like Panda Express

This post originally appeared on Food52. Suburban adolescence breeds a kind of food appreciation that’s difficult to shake, the result of spending many for → Read More

Homemade Takeout: Panda Express-Style Orange Chicken

You can take the girl out of the Panda Express but you can’t take the Panda Express out of the girl. → Read More

Homemade Takeout: Panda Express-Style Orange Chicken

You can take the girl out of the Panda Express but you can’t take the Panda Express out of the girl. → Read More

How to Make Marinated Olives, the Ultimate Bar Snack

This post originally appeared on Food52. One day in my future, all at once like a bolt of maturity lightning, I will be able to drink alcohol and not immed → Read More

Next to Marinated Olives, Your Other Party Appetizers Don't Stand a Chance

Why Spanish-style olives make the best bar snack—and party appetizer. → Read More

It Happened to Me: I Fell in Love With Couscous Salad

This post originally appeared on Food52. A catered lunch is often a pretty bleak affair, with soggy sandwich towers and hockey puck cookies. So when I noti → Read More

True Life: I Fell in Love with Couscous Salad

Prepare yourself to fall hard and fast for this (extremely easy and delicious) couscous salad. → Read More

The Indulgent Ingredient Your Blueberry Pancakes Are Missing

This post originally appeared on Food52. My last meal request—more of a last feast request, really, given the long list of foods I would ask for if I ever committed a heinous crime — is a lot of meat things, and then blueberry pancakes. After a carnitas taco, a B.L.T., and a classic sausage... → Read More

The Indulgent Ingredient Your Blueberry Pancakes Are Missing

This post originally appeared on Food52. My last meal request—more of a last feast request, really, given the long list of foods I would ask for if I ever committed a heinous crime — is a lot of meat things, and then blueberry pancakes. After a carnitas taco, a B.L.T., and a classic sausage... → Read More

Hash Browns Are Far Superior to Breakfast Potatoes

This post originally appeared on Food52. At some indeterminate moment in the fairly recent past, the reign of hashbrowns ended, and that of breakfast potatoes began. It was a sweeping replacement: Bougie brunch joints and greasy spoons alike forewent their box graters in favor of roasting pans and delicately sprinkled herbs.... → Read More

My Last Meal Coconut Blueberry Pancakes

Why haven't you been adding coconut milk to your pancake batter all along? → Read More