recipes

The obsession of bartenders with making better and more creative cocktails has trickled down to their sober sisters, the mocktail, or nonalcoholic cocktail.

(halve the amount of liquor)

See how easy it is to make your own lemon-infused olive oil at home with this simple recipe using just olive oil and fresh lemons.

Substituting Dutch-Process Cocoa Powder for Natural Cocoa Powder If you have Dutch-process cocoa powder, you can add a little bit of acid to it (cream of tartar, white vinegar, lemon juice) to simulate natural cocoa powder. Replace the natural cocoa powder called for with an equal amount of Dutch-process cocoa. Then, bump up the acidity in the recipe by adding 1/8 teaspoon of cream of tartar, white vinegar, or lemon juice for every 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder used.

Whether you're juicing standard supermarket lemons or their seasonal Meyer cousins, save the rinds for this vibrant yellow syrup. It's pure sunshine in a bottle, made from nothing but sugar dissolved by the acidic pulp—no cooking required! Since there's no added juice, it tastes more sweet than sour, but is balanced by the subtle bitterness of lemon oil.

Golden syrup is extremely easy to make at home, requiring just 3 common ingredients (regular sugar, water, and lemon juice), and very little active prep!

Chimichurri is a herbaceous and vinegary sauce from Argentina that’s classically paired with grilled meats, especially beef, but its uses don't end there You can combine it with a dollop of mayonnaise to marinate chicken cutlets (That same mayo-and-chimichurri mixture makes an excellent potato salad dressing, or toss it with sliced scallions and grilled or boiled corn cut from the cob.) Combine chimichurri with equal parts olive oil to use as a marinade and dressing for grilled vegetables

How about we start with the likely most popular one, the Moka pot or Moka Press. This coffee maker can be found in numerous countries all over the world and

A simple recipe for self-rising flour.

In many South Asian households, making yogurt is standard practice The writer Priya Krishna’s father has been making yogurt at the family’s home in Dallas for as long as she can remember, using a yogurt culture he has kept going for more than 25 years No store-bought yogurt has ever held a candle to the homemade version, which is thick and pleasantly tangy

This is a simple garnish of scallion and oil for Vietnamese foods. It’s found on a lot of dishes such as bún chả giò (egg rolls with noodles), thịt nướng (grilled pork), bánh hỏi, sườn nướng (pork chops), bánh bèo, cơm tấm bì and many others. So it goes very well with grilled meats or rice noodle dishes. What is it?…Continue Reading→

The most important skill in the kitchen — and, arguably, life — is adaptability. The list below, which is by no means comprehensive, is meant to help you replace ingredients with confidence. Every alternative listed may not work in every case, especially when it comes to baking, but if you consider the ingredient’s texture, flavor and cook time, and make decisions according to taste, you’ll greatly expand your options — and you may even end up with a dish you like better than the original.

How to make Italian Pastry Cream (Crema Pasticcera) from scratch in only 10 minutes. Use it to fill pastries, tarts, cakes and so much more!

I usually have to double this flour tortilla recipe because we go through them so quickly. The homemade tortillas are so tender and chewy, you’ll never use store-bought again after learning how to make tortillas. —Kristin Van Dyken, Kennewick, Washington

This is one of the ways I make a simple quesadilla at home. Quesadillas made like this can be found at Mexican restaurants.

This tasty white hot chocolate mix looks beautiful layered in a glass storage jar… Perfect as a teacher gift, thank you gift, hostess gift, etc!

With a beautiful layered presentation, this homemade hot chocolate mix recipe is a fantastic inexpensive and simple mason jar gift idea!

Toasted milk powder adds a rich malt flavor to Alton Brown's homemade hot cocoa mix, while cayenne pepper adds a warming kick.

This butter is delicious spread over toast or on top of pancakes, waffles, and French toast.

Egg, milk, cream? They all work differently. Which do you prefer?

A good compound butter recipe can truly bring a steak dinner together. Try this one that uses chives, thyme, and parsley.

A twist on the Cantonese classic ginger-scallion sauce, this aromatic purée focuses on the flavor of scallions slow-cooked to draw out their gentle sweetness Adding more scallions at the end brings a fresh complexity to the sauce, but if you want to keep the whole thing mellow and sweet, feel free to omit that step, and just cook all the scallions at once It's great as a dressing for noodles, boiled or roasted vegetables and simple meats and fish.

Grilled cheese is a near-perfect food on its own, but adding bacon, kimchi or, in this case, heaps of caramelized onions really makes it special Caramelizing onions takes a good half-hour, so save this recipe for when you have a little extra time and company (this recipe serves two) If time permits, you could even prep them ahead in a slow cooker

Made with only two ingredients, our fantastic Honey Butter comes together in a snap! (Who knew something so simple could taste SO good?)

Want to hone your basic knife skills? Here's a video tutorial for home cooks on how to cut fruits and vegetables: you'll be chopping like a pro in no time!

Never learned how to carve a chicken? We've got you covered with this easy step-by-step photo tutorial.