Skip to content
☞

Subscribe to my FREE newsletter!

☜
  • Recipes
    • Round-Ups
  • Mother’s Day
  • Memorial Day
  • Articles
    • Essays
    • How To & What Is
  • Videos
  • Meet David
    • My Publications & Published Works
    • Why You Can Trust our Recipes
    • Press, TV & Radio Appearances for David Leite
    • Masthead
    • Contact
  • Login

Home | Recipes | The Arsenal® | Page 17

The Arsenal®

Just started cooking? Is the kitchen as foreign to you as Uzbekistan? Have no fear. These are the recipes that will build the foundation of your pantry and teach you the skills you need to grow as a cook, not to mention rack up compliments faster than Katy Perry gains Twitter followers.

A single basic crepe, folded into quarters on a sheet of parchment with two lemon wedges beside it.
The ingredients for vegetable broth, including carrots, celery, bay leaves, and onions, in an enamel pot.

Vegetable Broth

4 hrs

A pottery bowl filled with tortilla soup, garnished with radish, cotija cheese, tortilla strips, and avocado.

Tortilla Soup

2 hrs 30 mins

An old roasting pan filled with cooked nuggets of chicken skin

Gribenes ~ Roast Chicken Skin

1 hr 15 mins

A roast pork loin with apples and onions scattered around it on a baking sheet.

Roast Pork Loin with Apples and Onions

1 hr 20 mins

A jar of garlic confit with loose garlic cloves and husks nearby.

Garlic Confit

1 hr

Six slices of white bread with mustard squiggles on each slice.

Homemade Yellow Mustard

1 hr 45 mins

A perfect hot dog in a white bun, topped with a squiggle of mustard.

How to Cook the Perfect Hot Dog

5 mins

A white plate topped with classic madeleines.

French Madeleines

2 hrs 30 mins

A whole sweet cherry pie with a lattice crust on a baking sheet on a wood table.

Sweet Cherry Pie

3 hrs

A cardboard bowl filled with easy potato salad an a plastic fork resting on top.

Easy Potato Salad

2 hrs 20 mins

A skillet filled with pan seared scallops cooked in butter

Pan Seared Scallops on the Stove

15 mins

Three breakfast sausage patties on a blue plate with two fried eggs, bedside a cup of coffee.

Breakfast Sausage Patties

5 hrs

A glass bottle filled with homemade lemonade syrup, a bowl of lemons, and two glasses on a wooden table.

Homemade Lemonade

1 hr

Two jars of lemon vinaigrette, two lemon halves, and a wire whisk.

Lemon Vinaigrette

5 mins

A white baking dish filled with easy rhubarb crisp and a spoon resting in the center.

Easy Rhubarb Crisp

45 mins

A rimmed baking sheet with rows of Southern buttermilk biscuits.

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

45 mins

A vanilla cupcake decorated with white frosting and pink sprinkles on a red book.

Vanilla Cupcakes

1 hr 15 mins

A cedar plank with 3 eggs Florentine, one with spinach, one with tomato, one with ham.

Eggs Florentine

30 mins

A close-up of a glass jar, filled with sliced, pickled zucchini and a few slices of onion.

Pickled Zucchini

1 hr 45 mins

Blood orange and prosecco cocktail, in a coupe glass, on a small tray.

Blood Orange and Prosecco Cocktail

15 mins

Posts navigation

  • 16
  • 17
  • …
  • 21

As Seen In

New York Times Logo.
The Today Show logo.
NBC logo.
The Splendid Table logo.
Martha Stewart logo.
Bon Appetit logo.
NPR logo.
Saveur logo.
ABC logo.
Back to top
Leite's Culinariafooter logo
  • Recipes
  • Articles
  • My Books
  • Meet David
  • Contact

© 1999-2026 Leite's Culinaria, Inc. Terms • Editorial Policy • Privacy • Accessibility • Powered by CultivateWP.