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Baked Sesame Chicken

This baked sesame chicken recipe yields deliciously crispy, juicy, and flavorful chicken—without the need for deep-frying! We toss it in a slightly sweet, savory sauce that tastes just like restaurant-style sesame chicken.

Oven-Roasted Barbecue Chicken

Many recipes for oven-barbecued chicken disappoint with soggy skin and little flavor, so our goals were clear. To fix the issue with the skin, we tried a handful of methods including air-drying and broiling, but in the end the best solution was simply to remove it before cooking. This left the meat exposed, making it […]

Ginger Sweet Potato Coconut Milk Stew with Lentils & Kale

This sweet potato and coconut milk stew is a glowing shade of orange with vibrant pops of green from kale and cilantro. We use lots of chili and ginger in this stew, along with a bunch of other spices. The flavour profile, spice combination, and recipe itself is inspired by Indian cuisine as well as […]

Cheesy Herb-Stuffed Naan

This homemade Cheesy Herb Stuffed Naan is a slight variation on an HBH classic. It’s extra soft, doughy, chewy, and stuffed generously with cheese, spinach, and herbs. It. Is. Delicious! And the best parts? This cheesy, herby stuffed Naan bread is so easy make, and pretty difficult to mess up. Serve alongside your favorite Indian […]

Pollo a la Brasa (Peruvian Grill-Roasted Chicken)

  In Peru, maestros polleros, or poultry masters, make the wildly popular chickens known as pollo a la brasa by grill-roasting chickens on rotisseries that spin lazily over crackling wood fires to produce meat that's encased in tawny, paper-thin skin and dripping with juices. Our version calls for marinating the bird in a beer-based marinade […]

Old-Fashioned Butterscotch Pudding

  The Best Butterscotch Pudding Is Homemade. This unfussy, old-fashioned recipe is easy to stir together on top of the stove, and hard to mess up. The flavor of butterscotch pudding comes from dark brown sugar that’s been caramelized in butter and rounded out with vanilla. I also like to spike the mixture with a […]

Chocolate Cherry Layer Cake

If you love chocolate-covered cherries, this festive layer cake is just for you. With tart cherry juice in the batter and freeze-dried cherries in the whipped cream frosting, it's a bright and fruity twist on an otherwise classic chocolate cake. The flavor of the cake itself depends on rich, full-fat cocoa powder, whether natural or […]

Cheddar Potato Soup

  I LOVE soup. In my mind, there are few things that make my day better than a bowl of warm soup with fresh baked bread. Of course, all my favorite soups are usually laden with cream, but that’s what makes them good right? This cheddar potato soup is the stick to your bones, kind […]

Tortilla Soup

This sopa de tortilla is a simple, homestyle tortilla soup like we had in Mexico. It is pureed for smoothness; contrasting colors, flavors and textures are added with garnishes. For the best results, ripe tomatoes are key—in non-summer months, we find Campari tomatoes to be a good option, as well as cherry or grape tomatoes. […]

Stir-Fried Beef and Broccoli with Oyster Sauce

For our beef and broccoli recipe, we wanted to make sure our beef was tender and our sauce deeply flavored and silky. Before we stir-fried the beef, we marinated thin slices in soy sauce for an hour, drained them, and cooked the beef at a very high heat. We then sautéed and steamed the broccoli […]

White Bean Soup with Rosemary and Parmesan

A sturdy soup that is a meal in itself, this is a popular dish in northern Italy, especially Tuscany, where the locals are nick-named mangiafagioli, or “bean eaters.” Feel free to substitute other dried beans such as chick-peas (garbanzo beans), white kidney beans or cannellini beans. If you like, garnish with croutons in addition to […]

Sous Vide Vanilla Ice Cream

Before the freezing happens, an ice cream base often needs to be cooked. This cooking process denatures dairy proteins, which then capture free-roaming water in the base, resulting in smoother and less icy ice cream. Precise temperature control is important when cooking the base, especially with custard-based ice creams that include egg yolks. If the […]

Authentic Thai Massaman Curry with Chicken

For many people, massaman is their favourite of all Thai curries because of the tender braised meats and aromatic spices. It’s so popular that CNNGo once voted it to be “the most delicious food in the world!” This chicken massaman curry recipe is one that I’ve been making since I was a teenager in Thailand, […]

Beef Chow Fun

Today, let’s make a Cantonese classic: beef chow fun. Juicy, tender beef, soft and chewy stir-fried rice noodles, and that smoky, charred flavor from the wok-it’s a dish that everybody loves! And the best part of this dish is that it’s incredibly simple and easy to make, so give it a try. Something magical will […]

Almond Butter Cookies

A whole-wheat and almond butter version of the Chinese cookie classic. These treats are an ideal partner-in-cookie-crime to a cold glass of milk or a cup of afternoon tea.