Cornbread Sausage Stuffing
Add a little Southern flair to your Thanksgiving feast with this golden, savory cornbread stuffing that’s loaded with rich sausage and fragrant herbs.This Southern-style cornbread dressing has a rich, almost spoon bread-like consistency with a perfectly toasty, golden top. It’s a bit more time-intensive than my traditional stuffing recipe since it starts with homemade cornbread […]
Balsamic Glazed Green Beans with Cranberries and Almonds
These delicious Balsamic Glazed Green Beans make the perfect side dish for any meal, whether it’s a holiday or a busy weeknight dinner. Since they take no time to make, I always make them when I entertain. They can be ready in 15 minutes! I love the sliced almonds and dried cranberries in here too. […]
Snickerdoodles
There’s nothing quite like the smell of cinnamon sugar wafting from the kitchen, except perhaps discovering its source: a warm tray of snickerdoodles. Their crinkled tops and pillowy thickness come from a blend of butter and coconut oil—a natural alternative to shortening. Historically, snickerdoodles were actually a type of coffee cake, which is why […]
Chocolate-Orange Tart
The ricotta cheese in this tart—inspired by one in Rose Carrarini’s book, Breakfast, Lunch, Tea—creates a deliciously creamy yet surprisingly light filling that highlights the orange and chocolate that flavor it. The crust, made partly with almond flour, has a sandy crispness that contrasts well with the filling. For do-ahead ease, the tart shell […]
French Apple Cake
This simple dessert is less cake than sautéed apples set in a thick, buttery custard encased in a golden crust. We liked using two varieties of apples here, one tart and one sweet—the variation in the apples’ sweetness gave the cake a full, complex flavor. The cake is delicious served unadorned, but it’s equally […]
Fluffy Mashed Potatoes
We wanted a mashed potato recipe that allowed more of the prep work to be done in advance, but still delivered a fully smooth mash with robust, earthy flavor. So in our mashed potato recipe, we peeled and steamed the potatoes rather than boiling them and rinsed them midway through cooking to prevent them from […]
Cheesy au Gratin Potatoes
Few foods seem as all-American as potatoes. But what you actually get from au gratin potatoes can range from curdled cream and unevenly cooked potatoes to cheese that's barely there and slices that fall into sloppy heaps. This American classic needed perfecting.The choice of potato was critical for our Cheesy au Gratin Potatoes. We settled […]
Cider-Braised Pork Roast
Pork and apples are a classic combination, so for this recipe, we pair a flavorful bone-in pork butt roast with apple cider. Boston butt is a good candidate for braising—its fat and connective tissue break down over the long cooking time, resulting in tender, silky meat. Rubbing the meat with a brown sugar–salt mixture and […]
Zach’s Garlic, Herb, and Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
These Garlic, Herb, and Parmesan Mashed Potatoes are smooth, creamy, and full of flavorful. Yukon Gold potatoes have a natural buttery consistency that whip up fluffy and smooth and they are high in starch so they readily absorb the creamy butter and half and half. These potatoes are embellished with roasted garlic, herby cheese spread, […]
Triple-Oatmeal Cookies
These buttery brown sugar cookies may be loaded with crunchy pecans and tart cranberries, but they’re all about the oats: rolled for the heartiness of a granola bar, steel-cut for a toothsome chew, and flour for a tender crumb. Pick up a bag of oat flour online or in stores, usually in the baking […]
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 […]
Swedish Apple and Almond Cake
Where we stay in Sweden the gardens are filled with apple trees heavy with fruit every Autumn. Although I love the summer in Sweden, the Autumn is quite unique and equally special. This apple and almond cake is a wonderful way to celebrate the seasons fruit and is heavily spiced with comforting cinnamon and cardamom.
Double-Apple Bread Pudding
For a bread pudding that was chock-full of apple flavor, we chose bright Granny Smith apples and combined them with cubes of toasted challah and a rich custard laced with autumnal spices. Par Cooking the apples in a little water, butter, and sugar prior to combining them with the bread and custard not only helped […]
Cranberry Orange Muffins
Fresh cranberries and the bright flavor of orange come together in this easy recipe.
Noodle Kugel
After an intense internal debate about how a noodle kugel should be—naked or cereal-topped? wide noodles or extra-wide noodles? souffléed or custardy? sweet or savory?!—this is where we landed. Our kugel is a touch sweet and a touch eggy, landing somewhere between airy and pudding-like. Don’t tell your guests, but we like the corner pieces—where […]
Mexican Wedding Cookies
Mexican wedding cookies are as well traveled as Carmen Sandiego. In some circles, these little treats are known as "Russian tea cakes," while in other places, they masquerade as "Danish wedding cookies." Where I grew up, in Kentucky, they're called "snowballs," but down in Florida, they're "butterballs" instead. Food historians say this culinary enigma […]