Category: Cooking

When it comes to salad, many people rely heavily on the dressing and, to a lesser extent, on the cheese. I love dressings and cheese, […]

Crab cake initially doesn’t seem like a good candidate for a waffle. In the end, good is respect for the tender nature of (expensive) crab […]

If you haven’t prepared the exact and correct amount of food for yesterday’s big game, you probably have leftovers, and one (or more) of those […]

As a general rule, I am not a fan of meat substitutes that try too hard to imitate the “real”. Vegetables are not meat and […]

Last week, my family and I went to the Florida Keys. It was wonderful. When my parents met me at the airport, my dad greeted […]

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but beans have a moment – and as a longtime adherent of the bean-eating lifestyle, I really love to […]

Everyone at some point was tempted to eat a potpourri (forbidden chip). A mixture of dried flower petals and spices always looks seductively crispy, albeit […]

Almost all of the crabs you see at the grocery store – whether whole Dungen or Alaskan legs – come pre-cooked and frozen. This extends […]

I am always looking for excuses to pour sour cream into and around my mouth. I use it the usual way (tacos, nachos, sauces), but […]

There is a fine line between hot sauce and casserole. Both have a golden brown top and a creamy interior, but the difference is in […]

I am a fierce and implacable advocate of beige food – always was, always will be – but even I admit that a bright color […]

Cold fries appear to be one of the few leftover foods that cannot be disposed of. As soon as the roast begins to cool down, […]

One of the toughest challenges in meal planning is predicting what kind of future you’re going to eat. I’m very bad at this because my […]

The wedge salad is often referred to as nothing more than a medium for making blue cheese and crispy pork chunks. I don’t think there’s […]

I’ve always been suspicious of artists who claimed they couldn’t create anything of value while sober. I never thought my drunk writing was better than […]

I consider myself to be something of a fast food innovator. In the end, I brought you The Big Pickle , a very good marinade […]

Cheese popcorn is a special snack. Usually found in inflatable bags or seasonal cans, the (ideally) bright orange puffy kernels are the perfect combination of […]

Some life-changing events are preserved in great detail, such as insects caught in amber; some so carefully work their way into your consciousness that you […]

Decorating sugar cookies after they come out of the oven can be a fun holiday experience, but I appreciate the cookies that bake beautifully and […]

Chick-fil-A is known for two things: surprisingly addictive chicken and problem politics . To enjoy the former and avoid the involvement of the latter, you […]

Applying a sticky, sweet frosting to salty holiday hams is almost a matter of course, but the best frosting should not only taste sweet, but […]

Cinnamon rolls are a fairly standard Christmas morning breakfast, but those made with store-bought dough are rarely as soft and sticky as their homemade counterparts […]

The Royal Blue Jar of Danish Butter Cookies is always a welcome sight. These crunchy buttery friends are a simple holiday treat that requires no […]

The royal icing is very pretty, but it doesn’t taste great. The hard, super-sweet cookie filling is more decor than anything else, but if you […]

The breadcrumbs are good, even noble. Without them, the meatballs would be tight little balls, and the meat rolls would be just loaves of meat. […]

The holidays require a certain surplus in terms of both sugar and alcohol. For some, it means something nasty, like an eggnog, but we are […]

Cranberry sauce plays a vital role in Thanksgiving. Without it, salt and fat will dominate your palate, and your mouth will quickly become oversaturated with […]

When you are not cooking or hosting Thanksgiving dinner, you often spend the day before texting the host and begging him to tell you, in […]

I don’t know if you can tell or not, but I recently bought a waffle maker and was testing the limits of what can be […]

The turkey is my least favorite bird (to eat), but I can never devote myself to Thanksgiving without turkey and I can’t let someone else […]

Hating green bean casserole is both easy and seemingly cool. Admittedly, “canned green beans mixed with canned mushroom soup condensed cream topped with canned fried […]

Thanksgiving leftovers aren’t exactly onerous, but they do require some strategy. Half-filled baking dishes covered with plastic wrap may seem like the path of least […]

When I start typing this, I am kept from leaving the old comment – a comment from my xoJane days. I don’t remember which article […]

For reasons I will never fully understand, the only part of the pie making process that anyone tries to crack is by far the easiest. […]

Scrambled Eggs – one of those products that are misleading, which seem to be very light, and to a certain extent this is true (take […]

Thanksgiving leftovers is a recipe genre in its own right, and while I love sandwiches, it’s a good idea to have other, slightly more innovative […]

While the initial Instant Pot craze has subsided, fans remain loyal and recipes keep coming in (albeit a little slower). Much of the praise of […]

A ghost haunts Thanksgiving – the ghost of a dried turkey. One of the easiest ways to prevent this horror is to cook a large […]

Typically, when drawing up a guest list for a dinner party, they try to minimize the cranks and troublemakers, but on Thanksgiving there is no […]

The nutritional yeast known as nooch in my studio apartment is best known for its zesty, cheesy flavor, which it imparts to vegetarian and vegan […]