Category: cooking

If you have trypophobia, fair warning—the dish I’m about to discuss (and that’s pictured here) may make you recoil. On our Instagram this spring, Food52 resident Mandy Lee revealed her riff on a street food staple whose variations are found across Asia. Called martabak, the pancake can be sweet or savory, thick or thin, and...

Dragging open a can of anchovies. Cubing cold, snappy vegetables to toss in a mustard jar vinaigrette. Spooning anything at all onto toast, with pepper and cheese and salt. There’s something wonderfully languid about making summer dinners, the kind that come half-prepped right from the produce bag (or, okay, pasta box). The best are not...

Pesto Chicken Stuffed Zucchini Boats Savory pesto chicken stuffed zucchini boats with a homemade cashew jalapeño pesto and layers of mozzarella cheese. These easy, healthy pesto chicken zucchini boats are fun and easy to make and pack tons of delicious protein. The perfect dinner for using up fresh zucchini! My mom used to have a...

Gin cocktails can range from refreshing sips featuring mint leaves, tonic water, and lemon simple syrup, to bold and bitter, like a Negroni made with gin, dry vermouth, and Campari. In this roundup of 27 essential gin cocktail recipes, we’ll start you off with the basics—a classic (and a frozen!) gin and tonic—before diving into...