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Home | Recipes | The Arsenal® | Page 6

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 cook demonstrating how to grill asparagus with several rafts of asparagus spears connected with wooden skewers.

How to Grill Asparagus

20 mins

A person holding an ice cream cone filled with rich vanilla ice cream.

Vanilla Ice Cream

30 mins

A diner-style dispenser half-filled with blueberry syrup.

Blueberry Syrup

25 mins

A mason jar mostly filled with pickled cherries, pickling liquid, star anise, and a cinnamon stick.

Pickled Cherries

1 hr 45 mins

A thin circle of stretched pizza dough being tossed in the air.

Jim Lahey’s Pizza Dough

18 hrs

A New York-style pizza sliced into 8 pieces, with one slice missing and a bowl of parmesan on a red pizza plate.

New York Style Pizza

1 d

Seven pieces of gluten-free fried chicken on a paper towel-lined rimmed baking sheet.

Gluten-Free Fried Chicken

45 mins

Halved slices of sourdough stacked on top of each other on a white and grey marble surface.

Sourdough Bread

12 hrs 30 mins

Several open glass bottles of barbecue sauces, including a vinegar barbecue sauce.

Vinegar Barbecue Sauce

10 mins

A stack of several oatmeal raisin cookies on a wire paddle.

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

40 mins

A whole grilled beef tenderloin, partially sliced on a wooden cutting board with a knife, meat fork, and twine beside it.

Grilled Beef Tenderloin

1 hr 30 mins

Homemade Greek yogurt being strained through cheesecloth into a white bowl with a spoon and a small bowl of honey beside it.

Homemade Greek Yogurt

12 hrs

A small white dish of gochujang, a Korean chile past with a spoon, jar, and bowl beside it.

Cheater’s Gochujang

5 mins

Strips of homemade red wine pasta on a wooden surface.

Homemade Red Wine Pasta

1 hr 45 mins

Three pieces of mkate wa ufuta (Zanzibar sesame bread) with some sesame seeds sprinkled around it.

Zanzibar Sesame Bread ~ Mkate Wa Ufuta

1 hr 30 mins

Four Hoosier sugar cream pies, one dusted with confectioners' sugar on a sheet of parchment.

Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie

5 hrs

A glass spice jar filled with cinnamon sugar, lying on its side with some cinnamon sugar poured out.

How to Make Cinnamon Sugar

5 mins

A serving of Portuguese sawdust pudding layered in a martini glass.

Serradura ~ Portuguese Sawdust Pudding

1 d 30 mins

A sheet pan of homemade egg pasta in different shapes: ruffled mafaldine ribbons, rectangular sagnarelli, nests of tagliatelle and spaghetti, and ear-shaped orecchiette.

Fresh Homemade Egg Pasta Dough

25 mins

A classic flan de leche on a white plate, covered with caramel and a spoonful of custard missing from the flan.

Spanish Flan ~ Flan de Leche

2 hrs

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