About Claire Tansey

Claire Tansey

Claire Tansey is a chef, teacher, and former Food Director at Chatelaine. She now focuses on inspiring home cooks with easy, fun, and delicious recipes and clever tips and tricks at Claire Tansey’s Kitchen, on Cityline, the Toronto Star, and CBC Radio.

A dry-brined turkey, with rich brown skin on a white plate with sage

Dry Brine Turkey

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All the juicy, tender perks of brining. None of the fuss of finding a container large enough to contain a turkey and cramming it in your already overstuffed fridge.

  • 30 M
  • 1 D, 4 H
  • 2
A swirled gingerbread Bundt cake with a lemon glaze on top, all on wire rack over a sheet pan

Gingerbread Bundt Cake

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This gingerbread Bundt cake has all the warm spicy goodness of gingerbread cookies. As if that weren’t enough, it’s gilded with a sassy and sweetly tart lemon glaze.

  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 35 M
  • 10
A yellow pot with 3-ingredient macaroni and cheese--elbow macaroni, cream, Cheddar cheese

3 Ingredient Macaroni and Cheese

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Mac and cheese doesn’t get any easier than this 3 ingredient macaroni and cheese that’s done in 20 minutes. Kids! Dinner!

  • Quick Glance
  • 10 M
  • 20 M
  • 0
An Asian grilled flank steak, with several medium rare sliced cut from it, the outside crisscrossed with grill marks--on a plate

Asian Grilled Flank Steak

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A cinch to make, this steak requires just a quick dunk in a marinade made from ingredients you already have on hand. Then it’s slapped on the grill. Dinner, anyone?

  • 10 M
  • 45 M
  • 1