Hola pozole, adios hangover
Pozole is a stew that leads two lives in Mexican culinary folklore. Like the angel on one shoulder, pozole can be an…
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Our favorite holiday cookie recipes, pt. 4: Russian tea cakes
I find baking very soothing—for the most part. Like 90 percent soothing. Maybe 75 percent. Still, mostly soothing.…
Our favorite holiday cookie recipes, pt. 3: Walnut crescent cookies
You aren’t sick of reading about my Oma yet, right? She of the red cabbage, the spaetzle, the stollen bread? Okay,…
There’s only one requirement for authentic pasta all’Amatriciana
Next time you see pasta all’Amatriciana (more often than not, it’s bucatini all’Amatriciana) on a menu, don’t order it.…
Two words: Ham balls
It’s cold here in the Midwest, so in my estimation it’s always casserole o’clock. Casseroles are easy—plop a bunch of…
Our favorite holiday cookie recipes, pt. 2: Thumbprints are super delicious and kid-friendly
My mother was an expert baker, the type who pulled out at least a half-dozen or so recipes at Christmastime to prepare…
A homemade cheese ball is the kitschy hit no holiday party can resist
A few years ago, I got fed up with my inexpert baking skills. Facing a slew of holiday parties, I decided to bring a…
Our favorite holiday cookie recipes, pt. 1: Cranberry oatmeal chocolate chunk cookie
My wife is the baker in the family, the meticulous one who follows directions to the T, who doesn’t eyeball ingredients…
How to make the corn chowder that kicked off my fledgling relationship
In One-Pan Wonders, we look for easy and delicious weeknight dinners that can be cooked using a single pan.
Only a real jabroni would make baked ziti and not use ziti pasta
Thus begins my open letter to a disturbing number of pizza joints and red-sauce Italian-American restaurants: If your…
Snoop Dogg on cooking, the art of entertaining, and his OG fried bologna sandwich
In Celebrity Recipes, we tackle a favorite recipe from a beloved star, past or present.
How I conquered the homemade jibarito
Welcome to American Sandwiches Week, a celebration of the mighty sandwich through the lens of Americana.
How to construct a superb Thanksgiving leftover sandwich
Welcome to American Sandwiches Week, a celebration of the mighty sandwich through the lens of Americana.
Smoked Gouda cheese sauce. I mean, come on.
My favorite part about Thanksgiving isn’t the turkey, the cranberries, nor the stuffing. It’s the cheese sauce.
You should sneak Funyuns into your Thanksgiving spread
For those unfamiliar—and I find this idea hard to believe—Funyuns are fried onion rings in snack form. Introduced in…
Submit to the Potato Cauldron, the most Midwestern of holiday side dishes
My family heads to Wisconsin every year for my dad and stepmother’s Saturday-after-Thanksgiving dinner. Most of their…
Green Stuff blesses the Thanksgiving spread, South Side Chicago Irish-style
Don’t let their elaborately costumed concrete geese fool you: The South Side Irish of Chicago are practical people.…
Skip Thanksgiving turkey, make Thanksgiving porchetta
Real talk: Thanksgiving turkey ain’t all that. The skin is good (especially if you roast a second time in the oven…
Thank you grandma for Sweet Spaghetti—a tasty alchemy of bacon, brown sugar, tomato soup
Grandma Shreibak may have taken her sweet time parting from this world—91 years to be exact—but she still managed to…
Let this Ritz-and-gravy squash casserole be your Thanksgiving’s savory savior
I’m from the South, so the vegetables I ate growing up were usually covered in something creamy—cheese, butter, bacon…