Duck breast with golden crisp skin and a deeply rich and rosy interior can be better than a steak. I often wonder we don’t cook more of it at home. I admit I often overlook this date-night alternative, but it truly has all the ease of chicken breast and decadence of steak.
You won’t need more than a pan and a few simple prep tricks to make a gorgeous duck breast at home that rivals any restaurant prix-fixe entrée.
Food editor by day, baker by night, I spend a lot of time scrolling past recipes that simply don’t work for weeknight baking at home — too many ingredients, fussy steps, and the classic “you want me to use what now?” The good thing is that all that time searching has also given me a keen eye for recipes that will be quick, easy on dishwashing, and use common pantry ingredients so that I can bake on a whim. If you’re new to weeknight baking, these are some of the things to look for when choosing a weeknight recipe.
Ina and Jeffrey Garten are the embodiment of #CoupleGoals. They’ve been married since 1968, and in December they’ll celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Somehow, after being married nearly half a century, they still seem to be as ridiculously in love with each other as a pair of 20-something newlyweds. They make eyes at each other at red carpet events, drink wine on the sofa, and generally just adore spending time in each other’s company. They’re the most romantic couple I can think of, so of course Ina Garten has planned something wonderful for Valentine’s Day.
Healthy cooking means different things to different people, but no matter what that looks like for you, making it happen takes some work. For me, cooking healthy meals for my family starts way before I step in the kitchen to get dinner going. In fact, my secret to success happens before I hit the grocery store or even nail down my meal plan.
Everyone’s text messages are about to get even more interesting, because Unicode just announced the new emojis coming out with the Unicode Emoji 11.0 update in 2018, and we’ll be getting some very useful new food emojis.
After following the Whole30 last year I learned two things: This style of eating requires a fair amount of cooking, and it’s extremely helpful to have an arsenal of recipes you can turn to again and again. That’s where our function to save recipes really comes in handy, and so many of you have been taking advantage of it. Of all the recipes saved last month, these were our most popular Whole30-compliant recipes.
To the uninitiated: Puppy chow is an irresistible, dessert-leaning snack mix with chocolate-coated Chex cereal at its base. It really has everything going for it, with its mix of M&Ms, cinnamon hearts, and white-chocolate coated Chex. This guaranteed crowd-pleaser is made for sharing and comes together without needing to turn on the oven.
I have nothing against regular french fries, or even sweet potato fries — you’ll definitely never catch me saying no to either one of them. But fries don’t have to be synonymous with potatoes. In fact, you can easily turn just about any vegetable into fries that are crunchy and delicious.
Thanks to an unyielding appetite for speedy, single-pot suppers that practically cook themselves, we often find ourselves with a pocket of time just the right size for baking on weeknights. Whether you bake as a complement to the main dish, the centerpiece for a celebration, or to send something homemade to school for snack time, weeknight baking does not have to mean a sink full of dirty dishes or a flour-flecked apron.
Instead, make weeknight baking appealing with smart ingredient shortcuts and clever equipment choices. Here are 10 things I always have on hand for weeknight baking.
When you really want to impress your Valentine or just treat yourself with something a little sweet, these simple bite-sized chocolate bars will do the trick every single time. They’re inspired by those Crunch bars that call to you in the checkout aisle. Next time, forget the bar and remember this two-ingredient recipe. With these, you get creamy milk chocolate, crispy Rice Krispies, and a flaky salt-flecked top. It’s the crunch bar all grown-up. One bite and you’ll wonder why you haven’t been making these all along.