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…
Gluten-free pretzel bites that are actually soft, actually chewy, actually salty in the right places, and actually worth making — this is the specific promise that most gluten-free pretzel recipes fail to keep, and this is the recipe that keeps it. The texture problem that plagues most gluten-free baked goods — the slightly gummy, slightly…
Paella is the dish that most people assume requires seafood or meat, a special pan, and years of Spanish grandmother supervision to produce correctly. Two of those three things are negotiable. The pan actually helps, though a wide skillet works perfectly well. The Spanish grandmother supervision is, regrettably, unavailable to most of us — but…
Orzo is pasta shaped like rice, which means it cooks faster than most pasta, absorbs flavour like risotto, and produces a creamy, cohesive dish from a single pan without the constant stirring that risotto requires. This makes it one of the most quietly useful ingredients in a weeknight kitchen — and this garlic butter orzo…
Brown sugar salmon is one of those recipes that sounds like it should be complicated — a sticky, deeply caramelised, sweet-savoury glaze over perfectly cooked salmon that looks like it came from a restaurant — and is actually one of the fastest, most reliable dinners in the collection. Twenty minutes from refrigerator to table. One…
A Dutch baby is the breakfast that makes people think you did something impressive when what you actually did was put five ingredients in a blender, pour them into a hot pan, and slide it into the oven for 20 minutes. What comes out is a dramatically puffed, crispy-edged, custardy-centered pancake that is visually spectacular…
Some dinners require you to be present in the kitchen, paying attention, tasting and adjusting. This is not one of those dinners. This is the dinner that requires you to spend eight minutes in the morning putting things in a pot, turn a dial, leave the house, and come home eight hours later to something…
