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Home | Recipes | The Arsenal® | Page 15

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.
A pile of dried orange peel rings on a silver plate.

How to Make Dried Orange Peel

3 d

A tin cup on its side with homemade maple sugar spilling out

How to Make Maple Sugar

45 mins

A stack of buckwheat pancakes on a white plate with maple syrup drizzled over them.

Buckwheat Pancakes

45 mins

An assortment of chocolate covered pretzels with white and dark chocolate coating and sprinkles

Chocolate Covered Pretzels

2 hrs

A cup of tea with milk in it on a brown background.

Spiced Milk Tea

10 mins

A fennel, orange, and watercress salad on a decorative platter with a cup of dressing and a spoon on the side.

Fennel, Orange, and Watercress Salad

25 mins

A stack of star-shaped cutout classic shortbread cookies, lightly dusted with sugar, and a brown takeout container and a gift tag.

Classic Shortbread Cookies

1 hr

Easy Chocolate Fudge

Easy Chocolate Fudge

4 hrs 15 mins

A white dish filled with sweet potato casserole, topped with toasted marshmallows.

Classic Sweet Potato Casserole

1 hr 45 mins

Pumpkin pie spice in a glass jar on a wooden cutting board, surrounded by measuring spoons full of various spices.

Pumpkin Pie Spice

5 mins

People gathered around a cast-iron skillet on a wooden board with some spaghetti and red sauce.

Sugo di Pomodoro ~ Authentic Italian Tomato Sauce

45 mins

A loaf of braided challah bread on a baking sheet with a serrated knife.

Challah Bread

4 hrs

Three glasses of classic mojito, with two lime wedges and a jar of sugar beside them.

Classic Mojito

5 mins

A coconut panna cotta topped with peanut brittle crunch on a white plate.

Coconut Panna Cotta

4 hrs 35 mins

A cast-iron skillet plum cake with slices of fanned out plums baked in

Skillet Plum Cake

1 hr

Pieces of perfectly grilled fish made with the technique explained in 'how to grill fish', on a rimmed baking sheet with a metal spatula.

How To Grill Fish

25 mins

BBQ dry rub seasoning spilling out of a jar.

BBQ Dry Rub

5 mins

A beer battered chicken sandwich topped with slaw on a white plate on top of a paper napkin on a wooden table with a glass of beer in the background.

Beer-Battered Chicken Sandwich

5 hrs 40 mins

A hand holding a grilled fish taco topped with cilantro that is wrapped in a paper napkin.

Grilled Fish Tacos

55 mins

Eight homemade Milano cookies in a metal loaf tin.

Homemade Milano Cookies

4 hrs

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