Ever since I met this sweet slow cooker breakfast casserole, I've been hosting weekend brunch as often as possible. It's a treat to be sure, loaded with tender cubes of custard-soaked brioche tinged with the warm scent of pumpkin spice and topped with a nutty brown sugar streusel. You'll want to keep this one in rotation all year long.
For many of us home bakers, making a good loaf of sourdough bread feels like striving for the World Cup or an Olympic gold medal. It's the challenge to top all challenges and takes real commitment, but it's also something that's completely achievable.
Are you ready to take on the challenge of a true sourdough bread? If so — or even if you're just curious to see what the fuss is about — here's everything you need to know!
For perfectly cooked green beans that are flavorful, crisp, and tender, you have to employ a quick two-step technique. Here's how to do it.
Beefy brisket is the king of Texas barbecue. Yes, Texas has ribs and pulled pork, but tender, peppery brisket is what most people dream of when they think Texas barbecue. Swiped with mustard and packed with a salt and pepper coating before slow smoking produces a brisket that is ingenious in simplicity and mind-blowing in flavor.
The best Texas-style brisket is tender without falling apart and has a thick layer of smoky-peppery bark that surrounds each slice. While we can't exactly replicate the terroir of a Texas smokehouse, we can slow-roast brisket in the oven and get pretty darn close. Here's how to make Texas-style brisket in the oven at home.
Nothing quite encapsulates everything we love about comfort food more than smooth, creamy, buttery garlic mashed potatoes. Oh, and to make it easy on you, we made this in the slow cooker, which means you can make these rich, satisfying potatoes a regular occurrence at your dinner table. Here's how to do it.
This is the macaroni and cheese recipe I grew up on — creamy sauce, chewy pasta, and plenty of cheese. It always felt like a special treat to us kids, although I suspect my mother liked it more because it was an easy stovetop dish that required almost no thought to pull together at the end of a long day.
Whatever the reason, whatever the occasion, a bowl of this mac and cheese will always spell comfort. Here's the best, most classic recipe I know, with step-by-step pictures to guide you.
What's better than a five-minute shrimp dinner? A five-minute shrimp dinner that comes with a built-in margarita. In this smart recipe from Julia Turshen's new cookbook, Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas For Reinventing Leftovers, buttery garlic shrimp get tossed in a splash of tequila and finished with fresh lime juice for a fast and fancy dinner inspired by the classic cocktail.
Use the rest of the bottle and a few more limes to whip up margaritas for everyone at the table.
After reading "broccoli rabe" on a menu and expecting broccolini a few too many times, I'd decided I'd had it with the bitter, leafy crucifer. I wanted cute baby broccoli, not an aggressive-tasting vegetable I found awkwardly hard to chew.
Well, I take it all back. I've officially acquired a liking for the leafy green, thanks to these garlicky, briny pressed sandwiches from Julia Turshen's new cookbook, Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers. And because the book is all about, well, leftovers, I've eaten broccoli rabe countless ways this week (broccoli rabe pesto! broccoli rabe pasta!) — and I've enjoyed every single version.
Pork tenderloin is on regular rotation at my house, both for its flavor and its ease. We love to marinate it in sweet and savory teriyaki sauce, or serve it with a big dollop of Spanish-style romesco. But our current favorite is definitely wrapping that pork tenderloin in bacon, because as my neighbor says, pork on pork can never be a bad thing. And I must say I agree.
There's a reason why a packet of ranch seasoning is the secret to so many crazy-delicious recipes, from chicken marinade and yogurt dip to potato salad and popcorn seasoning (yeah, you should try it). It just has that special something (along with a heavy dose of nostalgia) that homemade recipes can't quite seem to capture.
Well, I'm happy to report that Julia Turshen has simply nailed homemade ranch dressing in her new cookbook, Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas For Reinventing Leftovers. Her secret? Garlic two ways, resulting in a ranch that would fool any Hidden Valley devotee.
You know you've got yourself a party when the scalloped potatoes show up at the table. With its layers of cream and potatoes, and then more cream and more potatoes, all baked until bubbly — well, I would be hard-pressed to think of another dish that pairs comfort and elegance quite so perfectly. Here's how to make this classic dish for your next dinner party.
There are a million ways to geek out over coffee. But in the end, what we're after is a hot, delicious cup of coffee to see us through the morning. A simple pleasure.
French press is one of the easiest, least expensive ways to make great coffee. Learn the essentials: here's how to make a pot of great French press coffee.
There's something extra special about bringing warm, homemade bread to the table — perhaps it's because it's such an infrequent occurrence. If you'd like to start doing it more often, I suggest you start with this focaccia. It's rich with olive oil (which keeps it extra moist), topped with fragrant rosemary, and baked in a skillet to give it a perfectly golden, crispy crust. Oh, and it comes together even easier than you could imagine.
In my Southern family, we grew up eating broccoli slaw that had raisins, peanuts, a sweet mayonnaise dressing, and toasted ramen noodles on top. It's a delight. But every time I crave it now and look up a recipe, I'm turned off by the amount of mayonnaise or inclusion of the ramen noodle seasonings packet.
So I set out to modernize this retro slaw with a few fresh tweaks. The result is easy, lightened-up, and still oh-so-crunchy.
I tend to be a purist when it comes to classic dishes, but this twist on mac and cheese has me changing my tune. Swap in tender potato gnocchi for the usual elbow or shell pasta, and the result is even more decadent and comforting than the original. Each bite is cloaked in a creamy cheddar cheese sauce, and the whole skillet is topped with Parmesan cheese to create a crispy golden crust.
The first few times I tried kimchi it was not, I must admit, my favorite food. Then I met my Korean-American partner, Gregory, moved in with his mom — a superb cook — and within a few months I was wholly converted.
These days my mouth waters at the slightest whiff of pungent, fermented cabbage and I'll eat it with everything from fried rice to dumplings, summer rolls, or, ahem, straight out of the jar. I still have a lot to learn from Mom when it comes to kimchi-making (there are over a hundred different kinds!) but the recipe for mak kimchi, or simple kimchi, has been a great place to start.
It's hard to improve on sweet summer tomatoes, but it's not impossible. Pack as many juicy tomatoes as possible into a simple compound butter and you have a versatile ingredient that you'll be able to hold onto long past these balmy months and into fall.
Every year after Thanksgiving dinner, when the guests are gone and we're scrubbing the last of the dishes, my family and I go over the meal in detail. What did we all scoop up seconds of, and what did we push to the sides of our plates? What would we make again next year, and what needs to go back to the drawing board?
At this point we've pretty much got the turkey (grilled), mashed potatoes (garlicky), and dinner rolls on lock. But every year, we're not entirely sold on our sweet potato recipe, the vegetable side dish, and, most importantly, the stuffing. Why can't we seem to master the perfect stuffing?
Honestly, I think we play it too safe. Switching to cornbread is too sharp of a pivot, and with so many vegetarians in our family, sausage is out of the question. But unlike the mashed potatoes and the dinner rolls, it feels like stuffing is a place where we can have a little fun.
That's why this year I'm proposing a wild mushroom stuffing, which I'm confident will please both the stuffing purists (there's still celery and parsley and thyme!) and the adventurous eaters alike. It's so good, you won't want to wait until Thanksgiving to eat it.
The last thing I want to do if there's a party happening and a major game on the television is man the deep-fryer back in the kitchen. But you can't have a game-day party without buffalo chicken wings on the buffet table — inconceivable. The solution, obviously, is to turn to the next best thing: the oven.
Doused in a double dose of hot sauce — first to marinate and then to coat — these oven-baked wings are arguably just as crispy, just as sticky, and just as irresistible as their deep-fried brethren. Here's how to make a batch for yourself; you only need four ingredients. (Not including the blue cheese and celery!)
Dinner party plans stressing you out? Puff pastry cheese straws are here for you. These crispy, flaky, cheesy twists require just two ingredients and a few minutes of your time, and yet they deliver big — real big — out on the buffet table.
If you only bake one thing this fall, let it be this cake. Studded with chunks of apple, scented with cinnamon, and finished with a sweet and tangy cream cheese glaze, this gorgeous Bundt cake is the very best way to welcome fall weather. Our fuss-free, one-bowl method makes it easy to throw together quickly for a crowd, and you won't be hard-pressed to find ways to enjoy it. Serve it for dessert or as a midday treat with a hot cup of coffee or tea.
When's the last time you had a breakfast bowl that made you feel nourished — on a weekday? As much as we love classic oatmeal, we've all got some other grains sitting in our pantry that need to be used up too. This breakfast grain bowl is basic in the best way, featuring quinoa and steel-cut oats with a refreshing zing of ginger and lemon. Make this bowl-starter on Sunday and you can enjoy it all sorts of ways — both sweet and savory — throughout the week.
Don't spend any more of your life reserving home fries for weekends only. This big-batch, sheet pan method lets you cook your home fries once and eat them all week long. Home fries — crispy, creamy potatoes cooked with peppers and onions — are one of our favorite breakfast starters. You can eat them straight up topped with a fried or hard-boiled egg, or wrap them in a tortilla or pita for an on-the-go breakfast that's heavy on the veg.
Here's how to make sheet pan home fries on Sunday that you can eat all week long.
If you're not already familiar with smoky-sweet chicken tinga, know this — it is your ticket to the most delicious shredded chicken tacos you'll make. And with the help of your slow cooker, it is an absolute breeze to pull together. Just like classic chicken tinga, this version is cooked in a full-flavored tomato-chipotle sauce, studded with sliced onions, and hit with just enough heat to keep you on your toes.
And like most slow cooker chicken recipes, this one needs just a few hours of cook time, making it an ideal make-ahead dinner for meal prepping or leisurely weekend cooking when you need to run errands or get things done around the house.
Perhaps the most time-intensive element of this recipe is waiting for the tofu to dry out. That's when you do the rest of the prep — making the sauce and cutting the veggies — so by the time you pop everything into the oven to cook, the 10 minutes or so it takes goes by in a flash. Would you expect anything less from a recipe from Damn Delicious?
