
Food


Back to Basics: How to Make a Vinaigrette Without a Recipe
I haven't measured the ingredients for a salad dressing in years. Because once you understand this basic formula there's really no reason...

The $25 Dinner: Crispy Chicken Cutlets With Arugula Salad

Back to Basics: How to Make Really Good Scrambled Eggs

I Finally Figured Out How Not to Cry While Chopping Onions
Now I can chop them all day long, no tears in sight.

The Book I’m Cooking: No. 1 Best Indian Cookbook in the World

The $25 Dinner: Filipino Chicken Adobo With Coconut Rice

What Breakfast Muffins Do You Swear By?

The Upsides to Downsizing Dinner
When you tell someone you’re getting divorced, they usually respond in one of two ways...

Three Recipes for Peak Tomato Season

Hella Green Soup

Maple-Soy Salmon Bowls

Toby’s Pro Tip for Restaurants

Three Favorite Chicken Breast Recipes

What Would Be on Your Larry David Sandwich?

What Are Your Top Ways to Eat Potatoes?

5 Things in My Kitchen I’d Never Be Caught Without

The No-Cook Trader Joe’s Dinner I’m Making on Repeat

Three Favorite Egg Recipes

The Fix-Everything Smoothie

Red Drink for Juneteenth

What’s Your Favorite Way to Use Chickpeas?

A Potato Chip Taste Test

Red Fruit Soup (!)

Strawberry-Lemon Rice Krispies Treats

Grandma Anne’s Secret Jell-O

How To Make English Roast Potatoes

9 Meals to Bring to Friends Who Need a Boost

Mint Chocolate Mousse, Where Have You Been All My Life?

My 10 Favorite Things From Trader Joe’s Right Now
Plus, the viral TJ's dinner I've made a zillion times.

A Milk Chocolate Taste Test

8 Readers Share the Recipes They Know by Heart

The Only Cough Remedy That Worked

Minneapolis Salted Butter Pancakes

Oozi Is My New Favorite Low-Mess Dinner

This Cookbook Is Bananas, and I Love It

Soft Scramble with Shallots & Comté

Brûléed Yogurt? Yes, Please!

A Fully Loaded Potato Salad for Dinner

What’s Your Sick Day Comfort Drink or Food?

Let’s Warm Up With Oat Lace Cookies

Lulu’s Carrot Soup

My Dad’s Spaghetti Is All I Want to Eat in January

The Ultimate Chocolate Banana Bread

A Winter Vegetarian’s Best Friend

Cookbooks I Need

What Foods Are Meaningful to You?

The Treat I’m Bringing to Gathering Season
This hot fudge is the rare one-size-fits-all gift.

A Make-Ahead Thanksgiving

Pink Party Hummus

French Restaurant Mashed Potatoes

The Easy Lunch I’ve Been Eating Once a Week

Angel Food Cake Is the Answer

10 Great Reader Comments on Food
Including the best snacks to bring over and the magic of really good rolls.

Choose Your Pumpkin

I Made the Viral Salmon

My Favorite Baked Good to Bring Over

What Are 5 Things in Your Kitchen You’d Never Be Caught Without?

A Classic Pantry Pasta for Back-to-School Season
A really, really good way to use that can of tuna.

Dan Pelosi’s Tuscan Panzanella Salad

Freddie’s Baked Shrimp

What Do You Do With Summer Tomatoes?

Freezer Contents, Ranked
By the lovely Grace Farris.

A Compendium of Fun Non-Alcoholic Drinks

Zucchini Frittata With Tomato Salad

Lazy Ice Cream
Just three ingredients. Couldn't be easier.

What Do You Eat for Lunch?
My current hyper-fixation meal is this super easy fridge salad...

My 10 Favorite Things From Trader Joe’s (Right Now)
Including the snack my whole family keeps in their bags.

Three Recipes With Fresh Summer Corn

I Couldn’t Stop Thinking About This Cake, So I Tracked Down The Recipe
A cake so good, I ate it for breakfast.

I Cannot Stop Making These Instagram Beans

The Trick to a Jaw-Dropping Birthday Cake
Think: animals, flowers and squiggles.

The Frozen Staple I Always Have in Case of Emergency
Step right up, folks.

A Funny Conversation

Creamy-Scallion Potato Salad

My Secret-Weapon, Show-Stopping Mosaic Jell-O
Plus, a showstopper Mosaic Jell-O recipe.

A Really Good Five-Minute Dinner
One pot. Five minutes.

Would (or Do) You Have a House Salad?
"I live for a good house salad," says Jessica Merchant...

The Simplest Dessert

Thai Yellow Curry With Green Beans and Potatoes
Meera Sodha shares her vegetarian yellow curry that tastes even better the next day.

Two Ways to Chai
The secret to making chai.

Yogurt Bark for Everything
This easy yogurt bark recipe is a hack for for using up fruit leftovers.

What Foods Feel Romantic to You? (Even If They’re Random!)

Pancakes That Taste Like Blintzes
When I was pregnant with our daughter...

My Messy Road to Not Drinking

My Friend’s Incredible Tortilla Soup

What’s Your Coffee Order? (Plus, a Funny Paris Story)
A funny thing happened when I was in France...

My Best Friend’s Mom’s Paprikash
There's one meal that everyone in my household loves...

A Super Bowl…of Spicy Queso
Hot cheese makes everything better.

An Easy Appetizer For Low-Key Hangs
A homemade bread that looks impressive but is easy to prepare for guests, from King Arthur Baking.

Easy Garlic Bread for Dinner
My growing boys eat so much, so I'm always looking for simple recipes...

What Are Five Recipes in Your Arsenal?

My Best Tomato Soup, Scaled Up
A truly unforgettable soup.

Do You Have a House Specialty?
"She serves chips and dip, year round."

Three Easy Weekday Lunches
Christina Chaey shares her three go-to lunches.

10 Things I’ve Learned Writing This Column

My Essential Christmas Dessert Is Flan
Why this recipe from Nik Sharma's wonderful cookbook The Flavor Equation, makes the smoothest most perfect flan I’ve ever had.

Holiday Cookie Swap
What's better than an evening at home with friends and cookies?

Serve the Guests the Nuts

My Go-To Holiday Cocktail Is the Apple Cider Old-Fashioned
An easy cocktail that’ll warm your inner Grinch.

Never Show Up Empty-Handed, Show Up With Condiments
An undervalued love language.

A Giant Egg Patty to Feed a Crowd

A Stunning Holiday Appetizer
A showstopper tart of pull-apart twists, stuffed with a savory veggie filling.

Earl Grey Granola, Please!
