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COOKBOOK
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the tiny
kitchen
COOKBOOK
Strategies and
Recipes for Creating
Amazing Meals in
Small Spaces
annie mahle
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Storey Publishing
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To those who love to cook and to the ones they nourish.
And to my extended Riggin family—
every one of you is a part of these pages and this food.
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Contents
Love Your Kitchen (Not Theirs) 9
PART 1: setup and strategies
CHAPTER 1: Tools and Work Space 15
CHAPTER 2: Meal Planning 25
CHAPTER 3: Creative Kitchen 33
PART 2: recipes for the small kitchen
CHAPTER 4: Quick and Light 49
Snacks and Appetizers 51
Small Meals 63
CHAPTER 5: Salads and One-Bowl Mains 89
Starring: The Salad 91
Dinner in a Bowl 113
CHAPTER 6: Stovetop One-Pan Wonders 131
In the Skillet 133
In the Pot 165
CHAPTER 7: From the Oven . . . or Toaster Oven 185
CHAPTER 8: Dessert in a Mug and More 201
Acknowledgments 214
Index 215
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LOVE YOUR KITCHEN
(NOT THEIRS)
This book is about strategies for cooking use. They are generally designed to feed two people
delicious meals from scratch in tiny kitchens — but can be easily scaled up (see page 29). Most of
creating big flavors in small spaces. No matter the tools are handheld, as one whisk and a wooden
whether you live in a small apartment, tiny house, spoon take up much less space than a stand mixer
RV, boat, or college dorm, space in the kitchen is or even a hand mixer. It truly doesn’t take much in
nearly always at a premium. Some of our kitchens the way of equipment or tools to create night after
are much smaller than others, but most of us could night of really good food. Focus and desire alone get
stand to be smarter about the space we have. After you more than halfway there. The rest is cooking
all, it’s a rare one of us who has miles of counter your way through these recipes — none of which are
space and gobs of storage at our disposal. Even complicated, take more than an hour to make, or
in the smallest of kitchens, making delicious and require more than one or two pans. Additionally,
healthy food is a goal easily within reach. Small many of these recipes are intended as full, balanced
spaces simply require that we be largely organized. meals in and of themselves. The idea here is to be
No matter the size of your kitchen, there intentional and intelligent about the use of pans,
are always moments when you’ll wish for extra space, ingredients, and time so that cooking in a
counter space or another cupboard. It’s just what small space can be both enjoyable and satisfying.
happens. It’s in our nature. However, loving the
kitchen you have instead of the one you don’t is
MY KITCHENS
what this cookbook is all about. Small-space living
means being intentional about what we bring My primary kitchen is actually a galley located on
into our home. That intention applies especially my family’s Maine windjammer, a schooner called
to the kitchen, the epicenter of nourishment for the J. & E. Riggin. We entertain groups of 24 guests
our bodies — and, some might say, our spirits. all summer long on multiday adventures, and it
There is something inherently joyful and fulfilling is my job to provide scrumptious, beautiful meals
about bringing healthy, home-cooked food to the three or four times a day, no matter the weather. My
table, whether we serve only ourselves or our counter space, the one on which I work every day,
larger family. is 2 feet by 3 feet. That’s it. The only way a good meal
The recipes here are selected for their ease of ever emerges from my galley is if I’m on it with the
preparation, the number of ingredients, the space efficiency, organization, planning, and ergonomic
they might require, and how many pans they might work practices.
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