Category: Cooking

Thanksgiving has a reputation for endless pickling techniques, divisive side dishes, and contentious relatives. It’s no surprise that hosting can be stressful. If you don’t […]

Thanksgiving has a reputation for endless pickling techniques, divisive side dishes, and contentious relatives. It’s no surprise that hosting can be stressful. If you don’t […]

Thanksgiving has a reputation for endless pickling techniques, divisive side dishes, and contentious relatives. It’s no surprise that hosting can be stressful. If you don’t […]

Beef Wellington, or “Welly” as some chefs call it, is intimidating. A true test of a chef’s ability, it features prominently in the shop windows […]

Baked potatoes come out bland and dry. That’s why it’s better to split them up and add a ton of salt, fat and dairy to […]

Baking a pie or pie is theoretically simple: you put the filling in the crust, bake it, and eat it. But the devil, as they […]

Olive oil has many known benefits, from the subtle flavor it adds to food to its status as a heart-healthy food. In recent months, due […]

While a simple sauce and some decent broth will give you a good enough sauce, it’s the drippings that really make it worthy of the […]

There’s a time and a place for chewy, crusty homemade bread. Bread that requires 12 minutes of constant kneading to prepare. Bread full of great, […]

While I only really enjoy Thanksgiving turkey an hour after it comes out of the oven, it seems like most people eat it for sandwiches. […]

Mashed potatoes are real clouds of happiness. Potatoes, butter, cream, salt. It’s like everything is perfect in this world, in one fluffy form. A reasonable […]

Porchetta is perfect. Crispy crispy skin, roast pork and a magical mix of fennel, pepper and lemon. It’s no wonder that at some point someone […]

Thanksgiving gravy is a must on the holiday table. This delicious and versatile sauce is designed to highlight everything it touches on the plate and […]

The Thanksgiving table doesn’t leave room for real innovation if you stick to the classics. What the spread often lacks, in my opinion, are highlights […]

The Bolshoi Theater choreographer was still puzzling over how to calculate the cooking time for Thanksgiving meals. Your oven and stovetop are the main stage, […]

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to view Thanksgiving less as a holiday and more as an occasion to gather around a big meal. Honestly, […]

I remember the first time I was invited to a vegetarian Thanksgiving, I felt offended. I was going to miss the most important thing – […]

We’re going to make a deep umami seasoning with mushrooms and then use that seasoning to ruin everything this Thanksgiving. Doesn’t sound very convincing? Think […]

Throwing away food really upsets me. I will do anything to prevent this, including meeting friends at BYOF bars and forcing food on them. When […]

Leftover cornbread is a sad, dusty thing. It’s hard to believe it can be left at all—food is so delicious when it’s fresh—but Thanksgiving brings […]

Freshly baked cookies are the best food, and if stored properly, they should stay intact for about a week. But sometimes accidents happen. Soft cookies […]

I love a savory soufflé, but I hate whipping egg whites. Don’t get me wrong: I love what an all-purpose egg white can do when […]

Hot chicken is currently popular among foodies, but it is not a passing fad. This spicy fried bird has been scorching the taste buds of […]

On June 2, 2015, I emailed Whitson Gordon, then editor-in-chief of Lifehacker, about a freelance writing opportunity for a fairly new food blog called Skillet. […]

Just when I think I’m done experimenting with scrambled eggs, I come across a new (to me) preparation and am once again amazed at the […]

Once the weather started to cool down, I started thinking about Thanksgiving parties. This may seem unreasonably early, but I’m going to make it rain […]

As Halloween approaches with frantic last-minute wig shopping and candy binging, you may find yourself overtired and undernourished. You need real food, but the scary […]

When it comes to themed food, Halloween allows for more creativity. This is the only time of year when you are encouraged to be repulsive […]

There are times when I needed two identical cake pans and only had one shallow pan to work with, and there were times when I […]

I don’t know how to carve pumpkins, but I’m pretty good at making delicious things out of them, like mini crustless pumpkin pie and beer […]

There’s only one Thanksgiving dish that can’t be made vegan: turkey. The rest are surprisingly easy to modify, and the easiest is mashed potatoes. Non-vegans […]

There are many simple white bread recipes, many of which make enough dough for several loaves. Whether you’re an experienced baker or trying yeast bread […]

Unless you like to top your cornbread with buttermilk (a classic Southern treat) or don’t like to do a lot of baking (or frying chicken), […]

I don’t enjoy dressing up in Halloween costumes anymore, but I do look forward to all the stupid “scary” food that comes along. Peeled grapes […]

Thanksgiving dinner isn’t complete without stuffing ( or dressing ). It’s a humble and somewhat silly dish. You dry some bread, wet it again, then […]

I have a secret shame and his name is Bob. Bob’s Red Mill Instant Mashed Potatoes , to be exact. I originally bought them to […]

I do a Pop-Tart at least once a year and am currently performing at Rockette level. You can use them to make holiday pie crusts […]

For some reason, I hate following a bunch of keto-focused influencer accounts on Instagram. They lure me in with a pile of meat and then […]

The northern hemisphere is now going into soup mode, but soup itself has (at least) two modes: broth, with something hanging out in it, and […]

Japanese soufflé pancakes are fluffy, impressively tall, totally Instagrammable, and taste great, too. You don’t have to go to a restaurant to eat your own […]