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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter, a 24-hour rest and two sizes of chocolate produce cookies with crisp edges, a chewy middle and pools…
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Breakfast
Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
Tall, tender pancakes with a tangy edge and a golden, even surface. The lumps in the batter are not a mistake — they…
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Dinner
Classic Smash Cheeseburger
A smash burger with lace-edged, deeply browned patties, American cheese melted to the edges and a soft toasted bun…
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Desserts
Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
Cocoa-based brownies with a paper-thin crackly top and a dense, fudgy middle. No chocolate to melt, no mixer needed…
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Baking
One-Bowl Banana Bread
One bowl, one whisk, and the darkest bananas you can find. Browning the butter first adds a nutty depth that turns…
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Desserts
New York Cheesecake
Dense, tall and creamy with a faint tang, on a buttery biscuit base. The water bath and a slow cool in the…
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Dinner
Baked Mac and Cheese
A baked macaroni cheese with a proper béchamel, three cheeses and a buttered breadcrumb top. Evaporated milk and a…
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Baking
Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Soft, tall rolls made with a tangzhong starter that keeps them pillowy for days, filled with cinnamon-butter and…
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Desserts
Deep-Dish Apple Pie
A deep-dish pie with a properly crisp bottom crust and apples that hold their shape. Pre-cooking the filling is the…
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Dinner
Carolina Pulled Pork
Pork shoulder rubbed and cooked low for six hours until it pulls apart in strands, dressed the Carolina way with a…
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Appetizers
Buffalo Wings
The Anchor Bar original, baked rather than fried using a baking powder trick that makes the skin crackle like it…
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Dinner
Southern Fried Chicken
Buttermilk-brined chicken in a craggy, well-seasoned crust, fried in a cast-iron skillet. The double dredge and a…
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Desserts
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
Individual chocolate cakes with a liquid centre, from oven to table in twenty minutes. The whole trick is pulling…
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Baking
Artisan Sourdough Bread
An open-crumb country loaf with a blistered, mahogany crust and a genuine tang. Long autolyse, gentle handling and a…
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Dinner
Hearty Beef Stew
Chuck browned properly, then braised low with red wine, stock and root vegetables until the meat gives way under a…
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Lunch
Caesar Salad
The original Tijuana Caesar: whole romaine leaves, a dressing built on egg yolk, anchovy and garlic, and croutons…
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Dinner
Texas Smoked Brisket
Salt, pepper and twelve hours of smoke. Central Texas brisket asks for almost no ingredients and almost total…
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Breakfast
Brioche French Toast
Thick brioche soaked long enough to reach the centre, cooked slowly so the custard sets rather than scrambles. It is…
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Healthy
Chicken Noodle Soup
Built from a whole chicken so the broth carries real body, with the noodles cooked separately so they never turn to…
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Breakfast
Three-Egg Omelette
Three eggs, butter, and about ninety seconds. The French rolled style has no colour at all and a barely-set centre…
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Dinner
BBQ Baby Back Ribs
Oven-baked ribs with a dry rub, a low three-hour cook and a final glaze under the grill. No smoker needed, and the…
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Dinner
Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…
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Baking
Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins
Tall domed muffins with a crunchy sugar top and berries that stay suspended rather than sinking. The high-then-low…
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Appetizers
Buffalo Chicken Dip
Shredded chicken, cream cheese, ranch and hot sauce baked until bubbling. Invented in Buffalo, adopted by every…
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Quick Meals
Skillet Grilled Cheese
Mayonnaise on the outside instead of butter, two cheeses for flavour and melt, and eight minutes over patient…
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Baking
Vanilla Cupcakes
Light vanilla cupcakes with a flat-ish top for frosting, made by the reverse-creaming method that coats the flour in…
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Lunch
Philly Cheesesteak
Thinly shaved ribeye, sweated onions and melted cheese crammed into a soft hoagie roll. The debate over Cheez Whiz…
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Breakfast
Eggs Benedict
Poached eggs and ham on a toasted muffin under a blanket of hollandaise. The sauce is the whole game, and the…
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Breakfast
Crispy Hash Browns
Grated potato squeezed bone dry, pressed into a pan of butter and left completely alone until a solid golden crust…
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Desserts
Red Velvet Cake
A tender buttermilk cake with a whisper of cocoa, a tang from vinegar and buttermilk, and a proper cream cheese…
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Breakfast
Crisp Belgian-Style Waffles
Waffles with a crisp, deeply grooved shell and a light, almost hollow interior. Cornflour and whipped egg whites do…
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Baking
Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts
Yeasted doughnuts fried until they wear a pale band around the middle, then rolled straight into cinnamon sugar…
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Desserts
Spiced Carrot Cake
A properly spiced carrot cake, moist from oil and crushed pineapple, with walnuts for bite and a tangy cream cheese…
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Holiday Specials
Classic Pumpkin Pie
A silky custard pie with proper spice and a blind-baked base that stays crisp. Cooking the purée down first…
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Baking
Snickerdoodles
Soft, cracked sugar cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar, with a distinctive tang from cream of tartar. Without the…
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Baking
Buttermilk Biscuits
Tall, flaky Southern biscuits that pull apart in layers, made with cold butter, buttermilk and as little handling as…
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Appetizers
Deviled Eggs
Hard-boiled eggs halved, the yolks whipped smooth with mayonnaise and mustard and piped back in. The most reliably…
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Lunch
Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Pork shoulder rubbed, slow-roasted for seven hours until it shreds under a fork, tossed in a vinegar sauce and piled…
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Breakfast
Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
Flaky buttermilk biscuits split open under a peppery sausage gravy. A Southern breakfast built on cheap ingredients…
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Baking
Peanut Butter Cookies
Dense, sandy peanut butter cookies with the fork-crosshatch pressed into the top. That pattern is not decoration —…
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Holiday Specials
Herb-Butter Roast Turkey
A dry-brined, herb-buttered turkey that comes out with crisp skin and breast meat that is actually juicy…
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Dinner
Louisiana Jambalaya
Louisiana rice cooked in one pot with the holy trinity, andouille sausage, chicken and prawns. The Creole version…
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Baking
New York Bagels
Boiled then baked, with a chewy interior and a glossy, blistered crust. The malt in the boiling water and the…
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Desserts
Pecan Pie
A dense, chewy custard of eggs, syrup and butter under a layer of toasted pecans, in a blind-baked shell…
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Lunch
The Perfect BLT
Three ingredients, no room for error: bacon fried to the exact point of crispness, tomatoes salted and drained, and…
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Dinner
Shrimp and Grits
Lowcountry breakfast turned into dinner: prawns in a bacon and stock pan sauce over grits cooked slowly with cream…
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Healthy
Creamy Tomato Soup
Roasting the tomatoes first concentrates them into something far deeper than a stovetop soup, and a splash of cream…
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Baking
Skillet Cornbread
Batter poured into a screaming hot skillet of bacon fat, which sets a crust the instant it hits. The Southern style…
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Desserts
Key Lime Pie
Sharp, silky lime custard in a buttery graham crust, set by nothing but the chemical reaction between lime juice and…
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Holiday Specials
Gingerbread Cookies
Cut-out gingerbread that holds a sharp edge, tastes strongly of spice and molasses, and stays chewy rather than…
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Breakfast
Chicken and Waffles
Buttermilk-brined fried chicken on a yeasted waffle, with hot sauce and maple syrup poured over both. Sweet, salt…
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Dinner
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Everything in gumbo rests on the roux: flour and fat cooked patiently to the colour of milk chocolate, then built…
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Appetizers
Mozzarella Sticks
Batons of low-moisture mozzarella double-breaded and frozen solid before frying, so the crust sets before the cheese…
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Desserts
Lemon Meringue Pie
Sharp lemon curd in a crisp shell under a cloud of meringue browned at the tips. Three components, three ways to go…
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Dinner
Classic Meatloaf
A meatloaf that slices cleanly and stays moist, built on a panade and free-formed on a tray rather than steamed in a…
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Lunch
Reuben Sandwich
Corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing between rye, griddled in butter until the cheese runs and…
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Breakfast
Loaded Breakfast Burrito
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
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Lunch
Classic Potato Salad
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm so they drink in the vinegar, then finished cold with mayonnaise, celery, egg…
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Lunch
Maine Lobster Roll
Maine lobster, barely dressed with mayonnaise, lemon and celery, piled into a split-top bun griddled in butter on…
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Drinks
Chocolate Milkshake
Ice cream, milk and cocoa blended thick enough to hold a straw upright. The ratio matters far more than the…
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Dinner
Cioppino
San Francisco's Italian-American fishermen's stew — crab, clams, mussels, prawns and firm fish in a tomato and wine…
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Appetizers
Maryland Crab Cakes
Maryland crab cakes are mostly crab: just enough binder to hold them, Old Bay for seasoning, and a grill rather than…
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Appetizers
Beer-Battered Onion Rings
Thick onion rings in a beer batter that fries into a light, blistered shell. The carbonation and the alcohol both do…
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Desserts
S'mores
Toasted marshmallow and a square of chocolate pressed between graham crackers until the chocolate slumps. A campfire…
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Healthy
Cobb Salad
A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…
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Dinner
Chicken Fried Steak
Tenderised beef, double-dredged and fried like chicken, under a peppery milk gravy made in the same pan. Texas…
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Dinner
Sloppy Joes
Beef mince cooked down in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce and spooned onto a soft bun, engineered to be eaten with both…
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Healthy
Creamy Coleslaw
Cabbage and carrot in a dressing balanced between mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar. The technique that matters is…
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Desserts
Boston Cream Pie
Not a pie at all — two layers of sponge with vanilla pastry cream between them and a chocolate glaze poured over the…
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Lunch
New England Clam Chowder
A proper white chowder — thickened with potato starch and a light roux rather than a bucket of cream — with sweet…
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Quick Meals
Tuna Melt
Tuna mayonnaise under melted cheese on griddled bread, in the diner tradition. The tuna is dressed with celery and…
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Quick Meals
Corn Dogs
Hot dogs on sticks dipped in a sweet cornmeal batter and deep fried until the coating is crisp and hollow-sounding…
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Baking
Philadelphia Soft Pretzels
Philadelphia pretzels are oblong rather than fat, chewy rather than fluffy, sold in rows stuck together and eaten…
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Lunch
Boston Baked Beans
Navy beans baked for six hours with molasses, salt pork and mustard until the sauce is dark and thick and the beans…
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Dinner
Chicken and Rice Protein Bowl
Chicken breast cooked hard in a dry pan, sliced over rice with edamame and a lemon-tahini dressing, built to put a…
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Healthy
Baked Salmon and Quinoa Bowl
Salmon roasted just to the point of flaking, over quinoa with roasted broccoli and a dill-yoghurt sauce — a bowl…
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Breakfast
Cottage Cheese Protein Pancakes
Pancakes bound with cottage cheese and eggs rather than mostly flour, sweetened by nothing but a ripe banana, and…
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Breakfast
Banana Oat Pancakes
Pancakes made from oats, eggs and a very ripe banana, with no sugar, syrup or flour — soft in the middle and…
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Breakfast
Savoury Cottage Cheese Bowl
Cottage cheese with tomato, cucumber, olive oil and plenty of black pepper — eight minutes, no cooking, and 26 g of…
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Breakfast
Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins
Baked egg muffins bound with cottage cheese and packed with spinach and cheddar — six to a batch, 42 g of protein a…
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Lunch
Chicken Caesar Lettuce Cups
Caesar without the croutons: chicken breast seared hard, tossed in an anchovy and Parmesan dressing and served in…
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Baking
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Chewy in the middle, crisp at the rim, and heavy enough with oats that they hold their shape instead of spreading…
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Baking
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
A cut-out sugar cookie that holds a sharp edge: no spreading, no puffed middles, and a crumb firm enough to ice and…
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Baking
Brown Butter Blondies
The blondie done properly: brown butter, dark brown sugar and no leavening at all, so the middle stays dense and…
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Baking
Lemon Bars
A thick, sharp lemon curd on a shortbread base that stays crisp underneath — the two problems every lemon bar has…
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Baking
Magic Cookie Bars
Seven layers, no mixing bowl: buttery crumb base, condensed milk, chocolate, butterscotch, coconut and pecans…
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Desserts
Classic Chocolate Layer Cake
The birthday cake standard: three dark, tender layers made with cocoa bloomed in boiling coffee, under a silky…
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Desserts
Angel Food Cake
A cake made of nothing but egg whites, sugar and a little flour, baked in an ungreased tin so it can climb the…
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Baking
Chocolate Cupcakes
Deep, dark cupcakes with a flat-enough top to frost and a crumb that stays moist for days. One bowl, a whisk, and no…
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Baking
Sour Cream Bundt Cake
A sour cream bundt with a fine, damp crumb and a lemon glaze that sets to a thin shell. The tin does the decorating…
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Breakfast
Chocolate Chip Muffins
Bakery-height domes, a crumb that tears rather than crumbles, and chocolate the whole way through instead of sunk in…
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Baking
Courgette Bread
A spiced loaf that uses up a glut and tastes of nothing green whatsoever: the courgette dissolves into moisture, and…
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Baking
Pumpkin Bread
Dark, damp and heavily spiced, with the pumpkin purée cooked down first so the loaf tastes of squash rather than of…
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Breakfast
Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
The American coffee cake, which contains no coffee: a sour cream crumb cake with a thick cinnamon streusel on top…
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Desserts
Apple Crisp
Sharp apples under a topping of oats, brown sugar and cold butter that bakes to gravel rather than paste. No pastry…
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Desserts
Peach Cobbler
Southern-style: a loose batter poured over hot peaches so the fruit rises through it, baking into something between…
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Dinner
Juicy Baked Chicken Breast
The answer to the driest thing in the fridge: a brief brine, a hot oven and a thermometer. Twenty minutes, and the…
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Appetizers
Air Fryer Chicken Wings
Shatteringly crisp wings with no deep-frying and no batter. Baking powder on dry skin is the whole trick, and it…
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Quick Meals
Honey Garlic Chicken
Chicken thighs seared hard and glazed in a four-ingredient sauce that reduces to a lacquer in the time it takes to…
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Dinner
Lemon Pepper Chicken
Bone-in thighs roasted hard under a rub of lemon zest and coarsely cracked pepper, with the juice going on only…
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Holiday Specials
Prime Rib Roast
A standing rib roast cooked low until the whole joint is one shade of pink, then blasted at the end for the crust…
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Dinner
Salisbury Steak
Seasoned beef patties browned hard and simmered in a deep onion and mushroom gravy. Diner food done properly, which…
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Dinner
Baked Ziti
Ziti layered with a quick tomato sauce, ricotta and two more cheeses, baked until the top blisters. The pasta comes…
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Lunch
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Thick, orange and unapologetic, with half the broccoli blended into the base and half left in pieces. The cheese…
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Lunch
Split Pea and Ham Soup
A ham hock and a bag of split peas turned into something thick enough to stand a spoon in. No stock needed: the hock…
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Dinner
Creamy Mashed Potatoes
Floury potatoes, a ricer, and butter before milk. The order matters more than the quantities, and it is the reason…
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Dinner
Baked Potato
Dry skin, oil and salt, and a wire rack rather than foil. Seventy minutes for a skin that crackles and an interior…
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Holiday Specials
Green Bean Casserole
The Thanksgiving standard rebuilt from ingredients rather than tins: a real mushroom velouté, blanched beans that…
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Holiday Specials
Sweet Potato Casserole
Roasted rather than boiled sweet potatoes, so the sugars concentrate instead of leaching into the water, under a…
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Holiday Specials
Cranberry Sauce
Fifteen minutes, four ingredients, and better than anything in a jar. The pectin in the berries does the setting, so…
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Appetizers
Spinach and Artichoke Dip
Hot, thick and properly cheesy, with every drop of water squeezed out of the spinach first. That one step is the…
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Appetizers
Buttermilk Ranch Dressing
Real buttermilk, fresh herbs and no packet. Ten minutes to make and it needs an hour in the fridge before it tastes…
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Appetizers
Quick Refrigerator Pickles
Cucumbers in a hot brine, in the fridge, ready by dinner. Not preserved and not shelf-stable — just crisp, sharp and…
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Dinner
Corn on the Cob
Eight minutes in unsalted water with a spoonful of sugar, and butter that goes on while the cob is still steaming…
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Dinner
Creamed Spinach
The steakhouse side: spinach wrung dry, folded into a nutmeg-scented béchamel and finished with Parmigiano…
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Lunch
Club Sandwich
Three slices of toast, two fillings, four cocktail sticks. The architecture is the recipe: bacon and chicken get…
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Lunch
Tuna Salad Sandwich
Tuna in oil rather than brine, drained but not squeezed dry, with celery for crunch and enough lemon to keep it from…
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Lunch
Egg Salad Sandwich
Eggs boiled to a set-but-not-chalky yolk, half of them chopped and half mashed for texture, with mustard and chives…
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Lunch
Meatball Sub
Baked meatballs simmered in a quick tomato sauce, loaded into a roll that has been toasted with cheese first so it…
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Dinner
Tuna Noodle Casserole
Rebuilt without the tin of soup: a proper mushroom béchamel, egg noodles cooked short, and a buttered crumb top with…
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Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Eight minutes from the fridge to the table. Prawns seared in a screaming pan, then finished in garlic butter with…
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Desserts
Chocolate Fudge
Proper boiled fudge, taken to the soft-ball stage and then beaten as it cools. A thermometer and a clean pan are all…
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Desserts
Marshmallow Crispy Treats
Extra butter, extra marshmallow, browned butter rather than plain, and pressed lightly rather than packed. Six…
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Desserts
Banana Pudding
Layers of vanilla wafers, sliced banana and a real cooked custard, left overnight so the biscuits soften into cake…
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Desserts
Strawberry Shortcake
Sweet, craggy biscuits rather than sponge, split while warm and piled with macerated strawberries and barely-whipped…
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Drinks
Fresh Lemonade
Made properly, with a sugar syrup rather than sugar stirred into cold water, and with some of the zest oil in it…
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Drinks
Old Fashioned
Whiskey, sugar, bitters and a great deal of stirring. No muddled fruit, no soda — the cocktail is the spirit…
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Holiday Specials
Honey Glazed Ham
A gammon joint simmered in cider, then scored, studded and glazed in a hot oven until the honey lacquers and…
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Drinks
Eggnog
A cooked custard base rather than raw eggs, spiked and chilled overnight. Thick enough to coat a spoon and nothing…
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Breakfast
Dutch Baby Pancake
A single enormous pancake that climbs the sides of a screaming-hot skillet in the oven and collapses within a minute…
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Dinner
Cauliflower Mash
Steamed rather than boiled, then blitzed with butter and cream cheese until it is genuinely smooth. Not a substitute…
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Breakfast
Bacon and Cheddar Egg Bites
Cooked in a bain-marie so they set like custard rather than scrambling into rubber. Twelve of them, and they reheat…
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Baking
Cloud Bread
Three ingredients whipped and baked into light, flexible rounds that stand in for a roll. Not bread in any real…
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Appetizers
Bacon-Wrapped Asparagus
Bundles of five spears in a spiral of stretched bacon, roasted hot so the bacon crisps at the same moment the…
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Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Steak Bites
Cubes of sirloin seared hard in a smoking pan, then tossed off the heat in garlic butter. Ten minutes from fridge to…
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Breakfast
Baked Avocado Eggs
An egg baked in the hollow of an avocado half, which sounds like a magazine idea and works because of one…
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Healthy
Roasted Cauliflower Steaks
Thick slabs cut through the core so they hold together, roasted hard until the cut faces caramelise, then dressed…
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Healthy
Kale Caesar Salad
Kale massaged with the dressing an hour ahead so it softens without wilting, under a proper anchovy Caesar and…
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Healthy
Green Goddess Salad
Everything chopped to the size of a pea and bound in a herb dressing thick enough to cling, eaten with a spoon or a…
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Healthy
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Squash roasted until it is caramelising at the edges before anything is blended, with the onions and garlic roasted…
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Quick Meals
Smashed Chickpea Sandwich
Chickpeas crushed with tahini, lemon and capers into something with the texture of a tuna mayo but none of the fish…
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Dinner
Butternut Mac and Cheese
A sauce of butternut squash, cashews and potato, blended smooth with nutritional yeast and mustard. It is orange, it…
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Dinner
Pot Roast
A whole chuck joint browned and cooked three and a half hours with carrots and potatoes until it falls into pieces…
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Dinner
Sloppy Joe Skillet
Minced beef in a sweet-sharp tomato sauce, spooned onto soft buns. Thirty minutes, one pan, and no packet mix.
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Lunch
Potato Salad
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm with mayonnaise, mustard and egg. Forty minutes, and it wants an hour in the…
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Lunch
Coleslaw
Cabbage and carrot salted, drained and dressed. Fifteen minutes of work and it is the draining that makes it good.
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Lunch
Egg Salad
Hard-boiled eggs chopped rough with mayonnaise, mustard and chives. Twenty minutes, and the texture depends entirely…
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Lunch
Tuna Salad
Tinned tuna with celery, red onion and mayonnaise. Ten minutes, and the celery is not optional.
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Lunch
Chicken Salad
Poached or leftover chicken with grapes, celery and toasted pecans in a light mayonnaise dressing. Fifteen minutes…
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Desserts
Fudge Brownies
Dense, dark and barely set in the middle, with a papery crackled top. Forty minutes, and the whole thing turns on…
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Breakfast
Fluffy Pancakes
Thick American pancakes that rise in the pan. Twenty-five minutes, and the batter must be lumpy.
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Quick Meals
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Bread buttered on the outside, cheese in the middle, cooked slowly until the crust is deep gold and the inside has…
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Breakfast
Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Eggs cooked slowly with butter until they set in soft curds. Eleven minutes and there is nothing else in them.
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Breakfast
Banana Pancakes
Ripe banana mashed into pancake batter, which makes them sweeter and denser than plain ones. Twenty-five minutes.
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Lunch
Corn Chowder
Sweetcorn simmered in a thin broth with potato and finished with cream. Forty-five minutes, and the cobs go in the…
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Dinner
Loaded Baked Potato
A potato baked until the skin is crisp and the inside floury, split and filled with butter, cheese, bacon and soured…
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Lunch
Chicken Caesar Wrap
Griddled chicken, cos lettuce and parmesan rolled in a warm tortilla with a proper anchovy dressing. Under half an…
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Appetizers
Chili Cheese Fries
Chips under beef chilli and melted cheese, eaten with a fork before the bottom layer surrenders. Forty-five minutes.
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Lunch
Shrimp Po Boy
Fried prawns in a light baguette with lettuce, tomato and remoulade. New Orleans, and "dressed" means all four.
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Lunch
French Dip
Thin roast beef in a roll with a cup of the roasting juices to dip it in. Forty-five minutes, and the jus is the…
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Dinner
Patty Melt
A burger patty between rye bread with caramelised onion and Swiss cheese, griddled like a toastie. Thirty-five…
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Breakfast
Cheesy Grits
Coarse cornmeal cooked slowly in milk and stock until creamy, finished with butter and cheese. Thirty minutes.
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Breakfast
Corned Beef Hash
Corned beef and potato pressed into a hot pan and left alone until a crust forms. Forty minutes and one flip.
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Baking
Monkey Bread
Balls of enriched dough rolled in cinnamon sugar, stacked in a ring tin and baked so they pull apart in a caramel.
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