Chicken breast usually sucks. Once you take it off the bone and remove the skin, you're basically looking at protein-rich sawdust unless you brine and deep-fry (...)
Every time we tell someone how easy it is to make these incredibly crispy, juicy, bone-in chicken thighs, they try the "recipe" and come back to us raving. The (...)
Caramel custard is a dessert thatuses minimal ingredients butlooks fancy enough to impress your date.Ifyou're worried about the chemistry or scientific (...)
How to stain and finish a rustic kitchen island with ikea groland
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The IKEA GROLAND in all its naked birch gloryCounter space is a luxury in city apartments. In our kitchen, the dish rack has dibs on the only actual built-in (...)
Pan-Seared Scallops with Cilantro Lemon Butter Sauce
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When we moved to Prospect-Lefferts Gardens a few months ago, we were pleasantly surprised to learn aboutParkside Greenmarket, a small but high-quality farmer's (...)
Long time no see. We've been on hiatus during the past few months because of new jobs and new apartments (still in NYC--now in Brooklyn), but we're back. In (...)
Our friend Lana makes beautiful YouTube videos on microwaveable mug cakes--instant gratification desserts. We collaborated on a video recipe for fish tacos (...)
This dish might be more accurately called "spices we happened to have around one day" chicken. We usually don't keep curry powder or Garam Masala on hand, so (...)
We've been grilling almost daily since our AC broke last week, so it was only a matter of time until we had our fill of steak, burgers, and ribs and moved on (...)
The cherry pitter tops any list of kitchen tools taking up valuable space in your kitchen; it gathers dust in the pantry for about 10 months out of the year (...)
Classy semolina pancakes with macerated blackberries
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All too often pancakes are cloyingly sweet and anemic in texture. When we take the time to griddle some for breakfast (like during the 4th of July holiday (...)
Mimi's Hummusin Ditmas Park, a neighborhood just south of us, has some of the best Mediterranean food we've ever had. On our first visit, we ordered an amazing (...)
There are a million burger recipes out there forcing you to choose between easy or delicious. Want an easy burger? Buy some ground beef, shape it into a puck, (...)
What do you do when you have 6 lbs of dried cranberries leftover from a cranberry muffin recipe development assignment?You make kale salad.Salad recipes are (...)
You may know dolmas (stuffed grape leaves) as the mysterious, tubular garnishes that you leave untouched when you order a Greek salad. This dish is similar in (...)
Roasted Japanese eggplants with feta, mint and onion
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Last fall we drove out of the city for a foliage-bedecked long weekend getaway in the Berkshires with our friends and their adorable Westie. Along with a (...)
Grilled lamb burgers with tzatziki and pickled red onions
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When we make a classic hamburger, we like to keep it simple—just coarsely ground meat, salt, and pepper, with no crazy sauces. Anything else feels wrong. So (...)
This recipe came out of an idea to combine Caprese salad and tabbouleh, omitting regular couscous and substituting the far superior Israeli version.Regular (...)
What do you do when you've got a bushel of corn from the farmer's market and aren't feeling steamed corn on the cob yet again?If you have a few chilies and a (...)
Ice and fire salad: cucumber in spicy szechuan sauce
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This salad doesn't really have anything to do withGame of Thrones unless Daenerys's dragons are Chinese. [NOT A SPOILER]On their own, cucumbers are watery, (...)
Store-bought chili oil slams your palate with harsh heat and off flavors from various additives. Fortunately, balanced, slow-burning chili oil is very easy to (...)
Late Summer Fusilli with Sautéed Squash and Chicken Sausage
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This dish is a nice segue from summer to fall, incorporating late-summer vegetables into a meal hearty enough for a chilly evening. Chicken sausage keeps (...)
Nothing says pure class like chilled pea soup. Proof:This soup is "refined" in both senses of the word. It's quite upscale, adapted closely from the pea soup (...)
When we ordered the inspiration for this dish atCafé China, a Szechuan restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, we were looking for something light that both sounded (...)
