French onion soup is one of the most deeply satisfying things in the world — the caramelized onion broth, the toasted bread, the molten Gruyère pulled in strings from the surface of the crock. It is also, in its original form, a fairly committed undertaking. This recipe takes everything that makes French onion soup extraordinary…
There are pumpkin muffins and then there are pumpkin muffins. The first kind — the ones that exist in the periphery of most autumn baking — are fine. Adequately spiced, adequately moist, the kind of thing that disappears from the office kitchen by noon without anyone specifically thinking about them afterward. The second kind —…
Sangria has a summer reputation that autumn has been quietly dismantling for years. The cold-weather version — red wine and apple cider in place of white wine and orange juice, cinnamon and star anise in place of mint and cucumber, sliced apples and pears in place of peaches and strawberries — is not a lesser…
Dump cake is the most self-explanatory recipe category in existence. You dump ingredients into a pan. You do not mix them. The oven handles everything else. What comes out is a dessert that is simultaneously a cake and a pudding and a crumble — with a crispy, buttery, slightly crunchy top from the unmixed cake…
The name is not an exaggeration. You pour a single batter — liquid, thin, nothing about it suggesting it will become anything particularly interesting — into a pie dish, slide it into the oven, and pull out a pie that has arranged itself into three distinct layers without any intervention from you: a dense, slightly…
Pumpkin soup is one of autumn’s most reliable pleasures — the kind of dinner that is genuinely simple to make, genuinely warming to eat, and produces a colour so deeply orange and inviting in the bowl that it looks like autumn itself decided to become a meal. It also happens to be the soup that…
There are two kinds of chicken enchiladas. There are the ones made with red enchilada sauce from a can, which are fine and quick and entirely respectable. And then there are the ones made with a from-scratch sour cream sauce — a simple roux-thickened white sauce with sour cream, green chiles, cumin, and garlic stirred…
Crack chicken — the combination of shredded chicken, cream cheese, ranch seasoning, bacon, and cheddar that became one of the most replicated slow cooker recipes on the internet for very good reason — has a soup version, and the soup version might be the best format the combination has found. The richness of the cream…
Savoury muffins are the breakfast category that most people do not know they are missing until they make them once, and then cannot imagine going back to a breakfast that requires any active cooking on a weekday morning. Ham and cheese muffins are the version that converts the most people the fastest — because the…
There is a category of recipe that does not need cooking, does not need special equipment, does not need much technique, and still produces something so good that people crowd around the serving board within 30 seconds of it arriving on the table. Caprese bites live in this category. They are three ingredients on a…
