Making homemade mayo is easy—if you follow the rules
The creation of mayonnaise has always seemed to me like a mysterious alchemy: eggs and oil combine to create a white,…
America: Chicken-fried bologna sandwiches are now in season
As spring arrives, my social media feed fills up with photos of light, bright, fresh dishes: Salads of every hue, tiny…
Julia Child eased my fears of making chicken liver mousse
I consider myself an un-squeamish cook. The more visceral activities involving meat are often relegated to me in our…
The Instant Pot was made to cook Indian butter chicken
I’m no Luddite, but I counted myself among the skeptics when the Instant Pot first saw rise. I’ve seen too many fad…
Why you should consider charring your cucumbers
A quick note about Abra Berens: I first heard of her name four years ago when she was running a cafe called Stock,…
Give your Western breakfast a Korean twist with gochujang-fried bacon
My fear upon buying a house in the suburbs was my dining-out ambitions would be reduced to chain family restaurants. To…
Caution: 3-ingredient "Peanut Butter Bran Thingy" is highly inhalable
When it comes to homegrown recipes, it’s helpful to surrender to a “just trust us on this one” mindset. Our time-tested…
You really ought to make homemade jam
Continuing my quest to make things I doubted I could—pie crust, pizza dough, pickles—my thoughts recently turned to…
Is making cheesecake in an Instant Pot as good as baking it?
As I write this, I sit devouring the last slice from what has been The Fortnight of Cheesecakes in my household. It…
Broccoli, garlic, anchovies make a weeknight pasta dream
I grew up as a latchkey kid in the ’90s, and my after-school routine consisted of my sister and I watching an episode…
The painstaking process of making pierogi at home is totally worth it
I work five days a week, and my nights are spent around Los Angeles bars, clubs, and small theaters doing stand-up…
Kate's All-Purpose Picnic Sauce™ is here to streamline your spring cookouts
My house is small. My brother once told me I lived in a tiny house, “but like, not an actual tiny house.” Thanks, bro.…
How to bake mandelbrot, biscotti’s rustic cousin
As much as I love coffee and cookies, I generally overlook the jars of biscotti slowly staling on a coffeeshop’s…
Bacon jam on a burger > bacon on a burger
When I still lived in Chicago, a friend’s family had a tucked-away lake house across the Indiana-Michigan line on the…
Yes, you can make cheesecake in under one hour
At the office, we often have “pie person vs. cake person” debates, but truth be told, I am neither of those things. I…
If I can make delicious refrigerator quick pickles, anyone can
My current food exploration involves tackling things that previously have been too intimidated to try: like pie crusts,…
Yellow cauliflower curry is the answer to Meatless Monday—or any day
Fed up with our family meetings on the topic “What Do We Want To Eat For Dinner This Week?”, my husband prepared a list…
So you want to be an Italian meatball baller
In my travels, I have chomped on crispy dead crickets atop a salad like they’re croutons and sawed through a rubbery…
How to perfectly sear pork chops without drying them out
As a trusted butcher and meat life coach, customers sometimes bring me pages torn out of food magazines or turn their…
You’ll owe everything to Sophia Loren’s lemon spaghetti
In Celebrity Recipes, we tackle a favorite recipe from a beloved star, past or present.