10 Recipes Cozier Than a Weighted Blanket

When temperatures drop below freezing, nothing soothes quite like cheesy toasts or heaping piles of pasta. Let comforting beige food reign, and make a few of our most popular recipes from this week. Break out the blender for a creamy cauliflower soup topped with croutons and fragrant rosemary olive oil, or pull out the sheet…

These Recipes Are So Smart

Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, a newsletter for busy people who still want something good to eat. As a home cook and an editor, I love and seek out recipes that are animated by a great idea: a clever technique, a sharp shortcut that defies conventional wisdom, a magic combination of flavors or…

17 Cooking Tips Our Food Staff Swears By

Make It Room Temperature If a baking recipe specifies room-temperature ingredients, there is a reason: Chemistry! The temperature of your ingredients plays a very big role in the final outcome. I, for one, rarely have the forethought to take my ingredients out of the fridge ahead of time. An easy way to bring your eggs…

Cooking With Confidence

Tejal Rao has a marvelous story in The Times this week about how restaurant cooks have taken to their home kitchens — and to Instagram — to survive during the pandemic, making small-batch meals to sell to customers, pop-up restaurant style. The food’s exciting, Tejal reports — “revitalizing and intimate,” in her words — and…