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Massage your Brussels sprouts for a better, more flavorful salad
Earthy and subtly sweet with pleasant hints of bitterness, shredded Brussels sprouts make excellent slaw-style salads and balance the rich saltiness of holiday fare. Raw sprouts can be tough and slightly pungent, but a quick massage ensures the best flavor and texture. In this recipe...
Tomato-forward chicken fricase is warm and hearty
It may have a French-sounding name, but this homey, hearty, tomato-forward chicken braise, made with sofrito as its base and with golden rum as part of the cooking liquid, is Caribbean in essence and flavor. In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose...
If you want to stretch your gift game into days this holiday, check out these advent calendars
The advent calendar phenomenon is growing every year, with so many exciting, fun, beautiful, and delicious options available. In the food and drink space alone, there is truly something for everyone. Prices range from impulse buy to extravagant. If you’re looking to wow a relative or friend (or...
A fresh pumpkin becomes comfort food in this Creamy Pumpkin Mac and Cheese
While I cook with butternut squash and other winter squashes all the time, when I think about cooking with pumpkin, I picture a can of puree. But using fresh pumpkin is just another take on cooking with hard-shelled, cold-weather squash. There is more to those pumpkins than...
Mark Bittman's recipe for a gooey, melty, kid-friendly grilled cheese sandwich
Smushing a cheese sandwich in the pan leaves you with a crisp outside and gooey inside, says Mark Bittman in his cookbook “How to Cook Everything Kids.” You will need a couple cans from the pantry or a small heavy pot for this one. GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH Makes: 1...
Mark Bittman turns his attention to the small chefs in your household with a cookbook for kids
NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Bittman has taught us how to cook everything — how to bake and grill, prepare fish and vegetarian meals and do it fast. This fall, he's targeting a different kind of home chef — the little ones. “How to Cook Everything Kids” is written for children aged...
Cheesy stromboli packs pizza-like flavors into a portable spiral
Stromboli is an Italian-American invention said to have been created in Philadelphia in the 1950s, but the dish takes its name from an island off the coast of Sicily. Like the calzone, it’s a sort of portable pizza — fillings are enclosed in dough and baked — but more often than not,...
British chef Jamie Oliver urges followers to help solve the 'grate cheese robbery'
LONDON (AP) — British chef Jamie Oliver is on the case of the stolen cheddar. Oliver, who rose to fame as “The Naked Chef" on TV by stripping food down to its essentials, got cheeky in an otherwise serious plea to his social media followers to help solve the mystery of the...
Pizza inadvertently infused with THC sickens dozens in Wisconsin
STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) — Pizza inadvertently laced with THC has apparently sickened dozens of people in Wisconsin. Health officials in Dane County say Famous Yeti’s Pizza in Stoughton, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Madison, served pizza contaminated with THC, the...
For a Diwali treat with an American twist, a new cookbook serves up cardamom-spiced carrot blondies
Every year for Diwali, Hetal Vasavada’s parents used to pull her out of her New Jersey elementary school to visit friends and family living nearby. The colorful South Asian holiday is the Hindu Festival of Lights. For some, it also marks the start of a new year, and observers...
