Day… 27… with, officially as of yesterday, the end of quarantine in sight, tomorrow night. But, as we all really expected, Presidente Fernandez extended it another two weeks, until the …
Shepherd's Pie Meatloaf With Parmesan Potato Crust and Stilton Sauce Recipe
This shepherd's pie-inspired meatloaf is stuffed with a mixture of carrots and peas. Then it's slathered with Parmesan potatoes, dotted with butter and baked in the oven until browned. Meanwhile, a quick Stilton cheese sauce simmers on the stove, waiting to be served alongside.
This Halloumi and Kale Gozleme Will Satisfy Any Bread Craving (No Yeast Needed!)
Hetty McKinnon is going to change your mind about how glamorous vegetables can be. First up: a recipe for a halloumi, kale, and mint gozleme, a Turkish flatbread.
I hope nobody you know is sick right now. I hope it’s, at worst, a common cold, common boredom bred by self-quarantine, or a stubbed toe because you tried some ridiculous workout video you fo…
Pizza With Zucchini, Feta, Lemon, and Garlic Recipe
The secret to great zucchini pizza is to remove as much liquid from the zucchini as possible before topping the pizza. Our technique gives you a nice crunch along with fresh, sweet, caramelized zucchini flavor.
Pop quiz: what do whipped cream, Nerf footballs, Pizza, and Tempur-Pedic mattresses have in common? That's right — they're all foams.\r\n\r\nWait, huh? Pizzas are foams? You mean those annoying, piddly things that chefs were goofing around with in the mid 2000's? That's right, as are hot dog buns, Wonderbread, Pane di Genzano, Portuguese rolls, Naan, pancakes, and pretty much every other leavened batter or dough-based product in the world.
In baking, as with much of cooking, the actual amounts of an ingredient don't matter much—it's the ratio of ingredients that matters. Think of bakers' percentages this way: The flour is equal to 100 percent. Every other ingredient is then expressed in terms of its ratio to the amount of flour. If, for example, you had a dough with 16 ounces of flour and 8 ounces of water and 0.32 ounces of salt, you'd say that the dough contains 50% water because the water weighs 50% of what the flour weighs. In baker's talk, that's called 50% hydration.
The Pizza Lab: Bringing Neapolitan Pizza Home (aka 'The Skillet-Broiler Method')
Perfect Neapolitan pizza at home is a myth. It's a golden ring that can be strived for but never quite achieved. So where does that leave the rest of us home cooks? The ones who want to throw together a quick, really good pizza that doesn't require jury-rigging the oven? Lucky for us, really-really-good-but-not-quite-authentic-Neapolitan-pizza is not an unattainable goal. All you need is a skillet and your oven's broiler.
Making pizza is a year round activity for me, whether it's a no-knead, no-stretch pan pizza in the winter, a grilled pizza party in the summer, or a Neapolitan pie baked in my Baking Steel/KettlePizza kit. Pizza can be as simple or as difficult as you'd like it to be, but here are 11 good, universal rules that anyone who makes pizza should follow.
You only need a few ingredients to make this Homemade Chocolate Sauce and it tastes better than any chocolate syrup you can buy at the store. Smooth, sweet, and incredibly chocolate-y, this is the chocolate
Learn all about quinoa—my secrets to cooking perfectly fluffy quinoa (no more mush!), 10 fantastic quinoa recipes, quinoa nutrition facts, and where to buy.
Malcolm won the second annual chili and cornbread cook-off with this sweetly cheesy bread perfect for eating out of hand. My favorite parts of this cornbread are the tiny speckles of jalapenos throughout the mix....
What’s the difference between active dry yeast and instant yeast?
If you’re going to try your hand at some of The Takeout’s most comforting recipes, you’ll need yeast. Some recipes, like sausage-stuffed gumbo bread and brown butter cinnamon rolls, use active dry yeast. Some, like cinnamon sugar-crusted Moravian cake, use instant yeast. If you’d like to quickly scroll through this article and be on your merry way, the quick answers to the questions you’re asking are:
Despite an overnight rise, these waffles are meant to be whipped up on a whim, on those late nights when you just know brunch is in the cards. To honor that impulse, the batter comes together in five minutes flat, and in the morning there's nothing left to do but plug in your iron. Minutes later, you'll be enjoying crisp and fluffy waffles, rich with brown butter and chewy from the slow interaction of flour and water.
Everything you need to know about how pressure cookers work, including answers to such questions as, "Who invented them?", "Will they explode?", and "What's up with cooking in Denver, Colorado?"
Garlic Roasted Radishes, a new way to prepare radishes. Roasting them brings out a sweetness that's otherwise masked be the peppery 'kick' they're known for