1. Ricotta Pasta Bake This recipe from Ali Slagle is a lighter, brighter answer to stuffed shells, and much faster to make, too. Serve with salad or easy green beans like these, with the recipe halved; the beans can roast on a separate pan in the oven alongside the onions and tomatoes for the pasta.…
I hate stunt food. You will not see me ordering a steak wrapped in gold leaf. I won’t do a caviar bump. I don’t care about that time you drank wine with a snake in it. Nor am I a fan of the Cajun turducken, which is a boned chicken wrapped in a boned duck…
Do you care more about how dinner rolls look in a basket, or how well they work for sandwiches the next day? Do you want to be able to pass off a frozen pie crust as homemade, or do you want picture-perfect crimping? In September, we gathered a big group of New York Times tasters…
How do you sift through Mexico City’s roughly 57,000 places to eat — more than twice as many as there are in New York City — and choose the most essential dishes? “In a city like Mexico City, how do you narrow it down? It’s insane. The exercise is absurd to begin with,” says Gabriela…
After he closed Cyrus, the Healdsburg, Calif., restaurant for which he’d earned two Michelin stars, in 2012, it took the chef Douglas Keane a decade to scout the dream locale for his new restaurant. Mr. Keane finally landed last year at a former prune-packing plant overlooking vineyards where the Russian River snakes through the Alexander…
Not enough Thanksgiving guests for a 12 to 16 pounder? There are other avian options to bronze in the oven and present with panache. There’s guinea fowl (above), a pasture-raised bird with luscious dark meat that’s not gamy, which is as easy to roast as a chicken. Season the interior with salt and pepper, tuck…
“What are some other cooking cliches that they say on food TV all the time? I wish there was Smellovision. I do this joke in every shoot, and it always gets cut out.” [LAUGHS] [AUDIO LOGO] “I think what’s really exciting about the next couple of days is we’re going to learn a lot about…
Are you Team Turkey, or Team Sides? My Thanksgiving happy place is all about gathering as many of my favorite side dishes as I can and throwing a big, buttery veg-and-carb-fest. It’s permission to eat both honey-roasted sweet potatoes and brown-butter mashed potatoes at the same meal without even a tinge of guilt. Thanksgiving comes…
Last Hope Distillery is one of the only real cocktail bars in Puerto Natales, a horseshoe of a city that wraps around a windy inlet in Chilean Patagonia. To enter, visitors buzz, speakeasy-style, then hang up their coats and settle in at the bar. A server sets a glass down. “Hi,” the server says. “Have…
Good morning. At last, it’s oven weather where I stay. I set the thermostat low, put on a sweater under my apron and get to work: a Guinness pie, say, or a braised leg of lamb? Better yet, a perfect lasagna (above). Regina Schrambling wrote the recipe more than 20 years ago after studying scores…