Salty Buckwheat Chocolate Chunk Cookies
This is a chocolate chip cookie. But not just any chocolate chip cookie. This one, which gets its speckled look, earthy, nutty flavor, and chewy middle from buckwheat flour, might just become your new favorite. You can substitute whole-wheat flour for the buckwheat flour and still get a great cookie, though it will (obviously) be […]
Pizza Crust
What a treat — hot homemade pizza, with exactly the toppings you like. And this crust adapts to YOUR schedule: make the dough now, and serve fresh pizza up to 2 days later. Please read this recipe all the way through before starting. It gives you a lot of baking options, and you want to […]
Air Fryer Falafel (or Baked!)
Homemade baked air fryer falafel is absolutely delicious, crispy, and packed with freshly ground baharat. Allow 4 hours soaking time for chickpeas, preferably overnight. Then, quickly whip up in a food processor.
Apple Cake
This easy apple cake recipe is the perfect fall treat! It’s moist, lightly spiced, and jam-packed with tender apples.
Confit Chicken Thigh and Andouille Sausage Cassoulet
This riff on a classic cassoulet skips most of the exotic ingredients and elaborate preparation but still delivers deep rich flavor.
BA’s Best Peanut Butter Cookies
What makes this peanut butter cookie recipe The Best? Well, there are a few reasons actually. We call for natural peanut butter so that you can dial the sugar and salt amounts exactly. Instead of just adding roasted peanuts from the can, we roast them a second time for even more peanutty flavor. And the […]
Praline Pumpkin Snack Cake
Pecan Praline Pumpkin Cake is my favorite new pumpkin dessert recipe, and that’s saying a lot. This cake has the perfect tender crumb, a lightly spiced pumpkin flavor, and an out of this world pecan praline frosting — get ready to drool.
Cheese and Tomato Lasagna
While removing both meat and vegetables from lasagna makes it a much simpler affair, it can result in a dish lacking in texture, flavor, and stature. This recipe upgrades each of the components—tomato sauce, cheese, and noodles. Tomato paste, minced anchovies, grated Pecorino Romano, and a dash of sugar boosted the complexity and body of […]
Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
The problem with spice cakes? Spice. Some variations suffer spice overload, which makes them gritty and dusty. Others are so lacking in spice flavor that it seems as if a cinnamon stick has only been waved in their general direction. We wanted an old-fashioned, moist, and substantial spice cake with spices that were warm and […]
Peanut Butter Cookies
We wanted a peanut butter cookie that was crisp around the edges and chewy in the center, with a buttery, sweet, and deeply peanutty flavor. We added peanut butter to our dough until we reached 1 cup; any more and the cookies were dense and heavy. To increase nuttiness without adding more peanut butter, […]
Salty-Sweet Party Mix
Whether you prefer the buttery richness of classic party mix or you’re on the sugarcoated puppy chow team, this recipe has you covered. Sweet from honey, savory from miso and nutritional yeast, and a touch spicy from chili powder—it’s the perfect crowd-pleasing snack. When choosing crackers, nuts, and cereal for the mix, be sure to […]
Classic Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
Many oatmeal cookies are dry, cakey, and overly spiced. To make ours dense and chewy, we combine unsaturated fat (vegetable oil) and saturated fat (butter) in a ratio of nearly 3 to 1, and we reduce the proportion of flour. Adding an extra egg yolk boosts moistness and richness, while a touch more salt […]
Irish Apple Crumble Cake
Apple crumble is one of my most favourite desserts of all time, I remember making it growing up and to this day still swoon at the smell of it coming out of the oven. This Irish apple crumble cake is nice little twist on the classic with a moist apple cake interior and a […]
Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies
This recipe is modestly adapted from Grandad Danner’s Favorite Peanut Butter Cookies in My Father’s Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow. Our only changes were to replace the dark brown sugar with light brown sugar (just to simplify), omit the additional sugar for rolling (we found them a bit too sweet), and add chopped peanuts for texture. […]
Cheddar Scalloped Potatoes
We love scalloped potatoes, but most recipes call for more than an hour of oven time to soften the potatoes. We wanted a streamlined recipe that could be made any night of the week. We started by parboiling sliced russet potatoes in a combination of heavy cream and chicken broth on the stovetop. Then […]
Oat and Pecan Brittle Cookies
These oversized, undulating, oaty-butterscotchy-toasty cookies get their crispy-edges and chewy center from a few essential moves. It may feel cruel to have to wait, but the dough MUST rest overnight. “By chilling in the fridge, the dough ‘cures,’ and the sugar further dissolves, contributing to a chewier texture,” Claire explains. “The rest also allows the […]