Recipes

Sweet Texas Dry Rub. This sweet and spicy dry rub is perfect for all your grilling and BBQ needs! The sweet brown sugar mingled with the spicy chili powder gives the best of both worlds.

This rustic multigrain bread filled with good stuff like whole wheat and rye flours, flax seeds, oats, and bulgur wheat is both hearty and delicious!

To make a worthy New York-style pizza at home, start with this faithful and perfectly calibrated tomato sauce recipe from The Food Lab.

No buttermilk? No problem! These biscuits bake up tender, fluffy, and golden brown thanks to plain yogurt, which keeps them wonderfully thick and moist as well. They're primarily leavened with baking powder, with just enough baking soda to add a little oomph to their browning and rise. It also ensures the yogurt's tangy flavor shines through, a perfect counterpoint to the biscuits' buttery richness.

When I'm jonesing for chocolate and my only options come from a cornerstore candy display, I immediately search out the York Peppermint Patties. At 140 calories and 2.5 grams of fat per pop, they're a good bit lighter than almost any other commercially available chocolate bar. Plus, they're delicious and make your breath smell way better than a Snickers.

This recipe is about as close as you can get to wood-burning oven-style Neapolitan pizza without having to void the warranty of your oven.

Everything you love about summer in one bite. Served with vanilla icecream this is The Best Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp. Simple ingredients AMAZING flavor!

TESTED & PERFECTED RECIPE - This savory sausage & herb stuffing uses store-bought stuffing cubes, eliminating the step of slicing and drying out the bread.

Ottolenghi-inspired, we toss raw ingredients into a springform for a long bake and what emerges is resplendent: layers of tender squash, greens, and pasta that’s burnished to a snatchable cri…

This cinnamon babka features cinnamon spice swirled inside a rich and tender dough. It's everything you love about babka with some spice!

Traditional recipe for Dacquoise. This recipe adapted from the Great British Bake Off is for a simple and classic dacquoise, but can also serve as a base for other variations

To get the most flavor in this shrimp scampi, we use vermouth instead of white wine and a mix of fragrant herbs—parsley, tarragon, and chives—instead of just parsley.

In these decadently delicious bars, a shortbread crust is layered with spiced apples and homemade caramel then finished with a crumb topping.

Improve Kraft Dinner

One of the traditional dishes we took on in Modernist Cuisine at Home is classic mac and cheese. While we have always loved this family staple, there is an inherent problem with traditional preparations: all of the virtues of using good cheese are lost when you make a cheese sauce with flour and milk, as […]

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One of my favorite meals these days is a whole chicken roasted on top of potatoes. The chicken is flavorful with garlic, olive oil, and herbs. The potatoes are perhaps even better: they get seasoned with the chicken's juices, plus more olive oil and more herbs. But easy as it may be, roasting a whole chicken isn't that cheap, and it takes a while. So I've been experimenting with roasting chicken thighs and legs, and adding flavor even during a shorter cooking time.

Eggs and cheese come together to form this silky, meatless Neapolitan sauce.

A shortcut homemade pork sausage is the key to this creamy, hearty Umbrian pasta.

Onions are the star of the show in this slow-cooked beef ragù from Naples.

I grew up eating my mom's layered chicken enchilada casseroles made with canned sauce and tons of sour cream. While I've still got a soft spot in my heart for that dish, this version, with its smoky charred poblano salsa, tender braised chicken thighs, and moderate use of cream and cheese, is its more sophisticated, grown up cousin.

Refried beans are like the mashed potatoes of Mexican and Tex-Mex cooking: they're a versatile, addictive, and delicious side dish. While a relatively simple dish, this master recipe allows you to choose exactly how you want to make them, whether chunky or smooth, cooked with pork fat or vegetable oil, or made with pinto or black beans.

A recipe for creating your own sourdough starter.

If you want to know how to cook beans that are beautifully luxe, tender, and creamy this is a version of the much-loved Tuscan bean recipe - fagioli al fiasco.

What this pot of Instant Pot beans lacks in looks, it makes up for in flavor, simplicity, and deliciousness! A take on Italian fagioli al fiasco.