Recipes & Food

These homemade Lofthouse-style cookies are so light and cake-like, it's not even fair to call them cookies. They're as puffy, soft, and sweet as a vanilla cupcake, with creamy frosting and rainbow sprinkles, too. Take care when scooping the soft batter, or else you'll wind up with cookies shaped like haphazard blobs. For best results, use a cookie scoop, scraped level against the side of the bowl.

Keeping a kitchen clean can feel like a Sisyphean task, but if you approach it methodically, you can keep your cooking space spotless and organized. The key is to know what to do, and how often to do it.

Knowing the proper doneness temperatures when cooking chicken will ensure juicy results. But what if the meat or juices are pink, and it looks bloody?

People love eating breakfast for dinner. Don't deny it, you do, too! There's something that is at once comforting and somehow wicked about eating waffles or

Okonomi means "how you want it," and an okonomiyaki is one of the world's most infinitely adaptable dishes. The shredded or chopped cabbage in the base is a given, but beyond that, you can add whatever you'd like to the batter. Once you've got a few Japanese staples in your pantry (all of which have a shelf life of forever), making it at home is cheap, quick, easy, filling, and great for using up leftovers

For my money, the very best classic steak sauce you can make at home, a sauce that will wow your guests with its flavor and elegance, and—most importantly—a sauce that can be made start to finish in under half an hour, is béarnaise. The catch (there's always a catch) is that made with the classic technique, it's very easy to mess up. Here is a foolproof technique that uses hot butter and a hand blender for perfect results every time.

Toum is both a sauce, a condiment, and a dip, loaded with pungent raw garlic, which gives it both its kick and the necessary emulsifiers to keep it stable. It's perfect for grilled meat and kebabs or as a bold (and egg-free) alternative to mayonnaise.

You come to my pantry, you're gonna see a lot of prison materials. Former felon Josh of Lockdown 23and1 shares his ingenious recipe for "Prison Pizza"

Chicken piccata takes a beloved food—pan-fried chicken cutlets—and tops it with a simple but luxurious lemon-butter pan sauce. The result is a flavor and texture festival that blends crispness, juiciness, richness, and tartness all into one.

If you don't tend to think of rice and beans as a full meal, New Orleans red beans and rice may just be the dish that changes your mind. It's smoky, spicy, hearty, supremely comforting, and straightforward to make, too.

The olive oil industry is famously rife with fraud. We sent a reporter to California to learn what makes for good oil, bad oil, and everything in between.

One of the most basic pasta sauces, aglio e olio uses just garlic and olive oil (and maybe a pinch of red pepper flakes for heat). It sounds too simple to be good, but it's among the best.

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My method isn't exactly traditional, but it's a surefire way to guarantee homemade bagels that stay fresh long enough to enjoy them a few days in a row. They're chewy but tender, with a blistered crust that's eggshell thin and perfectly crisp. The trick is to pre-cook a portion of the flour and water on the stovetop, which improves browning and moisture retention and leads to bagels that won't turn into bricks overnight.

The perfect margarita is all about fresh, crisp flavors, with tequila barely tempered by triple sec and lime. After testing all the ratios, this is the one we reach for.

The wonderful thing about saag paneer—the Indian staple of greens and fresh cheese in a creamy sauce—is that, in my experience, it's almost universally loved by vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. But what if we wanted to make a completely dairy-free version, so that vegetarians, meat-eaters, and vegans can all enjoy a meal together? This recipe recruits the power of cauliflower, a variety of greens, and marinated tofu to do just that.

I'm a fan of goulash in all its forms, and there are many. But in the winter months, the version I'm after is the rich, hearty, rib-sticking Hungarian-American version, made with big chunks of beef, carrots, and potatoes in a stew flavored with onions, garlic, peppers, and plenty of great paprika.

Radishes are usually thought of as a raw-only vegetable, but they're delicious roasted, too, which tames their spicy flavor considerably. Here, they're roasted until tender and bursting with juice, then tossed with melted butter and fresh herbs.

Chinese hot pot is truly communal: Not only do you sit down to eat with all your companions, you cook the food together in the same pot of broth. This recipe will get you started, with one pot of simmering broth, tasty homemade shrimp balls, two flavorful dipping sauces, and lots of ideas for what else to cook in the pot.

What is dulce de leche? While often called Mexican caramel, it's based on the Maillard browning of dairy rather than the caramelization of sugar. That may sound like a technicality, but it gives dulce de leche a sweet and mellow, toffee or butterscotch-like flavor without the bitterness associated with caramel (i.e., burned sugar). Traditional methods made with fresh milk can take seven hours or more, while starting with a can of sweetened condensed milk drops the time down to two to three hours. It's a no-fuss approach to this rich and creamy sauce.

These thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies have a big, butterscotchy flavor and an earth-shattering crunch. A blend of raw cane sugar and light brown sugar give them a bold flavor and golden brown color, studded through with chocolate morsels. Their slim profile and delicate texture come from using a food processor to combine the dry ingredients with cold butter, for a uniquely textured dough.

Add one piece at a time, and you'll have the kitchen of a pro before you know it.

Homemade nacho-style cheese sauce is within your reach. With this easy recipe, you can make your own gooey, creamy, cheesy dip for nachos, fries, and more.

For an updated take on this classic combination, cook your broccoli like steak, turn food scraps into a punchy garnish, and then add gooey cheese.

How to make perfect oatmeal from scratch.

This recipe works whether you want to pre-soak the oats for quicker-cooking overnight oats or just want to cook them up from scratch. It's still a simple bowl of oatmeal, but it tastes like a lot more.

If you think snickerdoodles are simply cinnamon sugar cookies, think again. Properly made, they have crispier edges and chewier middles, with a rich and tender crumb beneath their shimmery crusts. Once upon a time, those qualities came from cutting butter with hydrogenated shortening, but virgin coconut oil does a better job: Its subtle aroma heightens both the cinnamon and the vanilla, while helping the snickerdoodles stay rich, moist, and chewy.

This is not everyday pizza. It's not every-week pizza. It might not even be every-month, if you want to live to a reasonable age. But damn, is it good pizza. So good that it's worth a trip to Detroit just to taste it. So good that it's worth devoting months of time, weeks of research, and dozens and dozens of experiments to developing a recipe to duplicate it at home. So that's exactly what I did. Here's what I found.

Japanese Milk Buns are known for their distinct milky taste and their soft, melt in your mouth texture. Delicious on their own or with butter or jam.