Category: cooking

There’s nothing worse than spending hours prepping for a holiday house party—to only get stuck making a zillion drinks for guests, or worse, running out of ice. We’ve found a solution: freezer door cocktails. Designed to live in your freezer indefinitely, these batched drinks are ready to pour as soon as your guests arrive—even when...

Do you know how to measure flour correctly? If you’re the slightest bit uncertain, this tutorial is for you! To be clear, the best way to measure flour is with a scale, but not all Amerians own a scale. The second-best method is “spooned and leveled.” All of the recipes on this blog use this...

The holidays are here—and, per usual, the ham’s coming. Roughly 300 million pounds of it, in this country, at least. Most of those 150,000 tonnes of cured pork leg will be baked. Much will be glazed and rubbed and glazed again. Some will don cherry studded crowns of sliced, canned pineapple. And, odds are, some...

I wish I could tell you a dramatic origin story about this clam dip, a salty-briney-creamy spread that’s made an appearance at every one of my family’s holiday parties for as long as I can remember. I’d love to say that my grandparents met while both reaching towards it, chips in hand—”No you go!”—at a...