Super simple yet super stunning, this seemingly fancy-pants entree is pan-seared, soy-glazed, and accompanied by a cucumber salsa. And it’s gonna rock your world.
- 30 M
- 35 M
- 18
Cindi Kruth, Recipe Tester
A list of all the recipes Cindi Kruth has tested.
Cindi Kruth’s culinary background is vast and varied. She became a home economist, managed a fast-food restaurant, and sold mayonnaise and peanut butter for a corporate conglomerate. She opened her first shop, a fruit basket and produce store, when she lived in NJ. After moving to CT, she worked at the Connecticut Culinary Institute, did private catering and taught cooking lessons, and again opened a shop, this time a little gourmet take-out place. The demands of retail didn’t mesh well with raising a family, so she left the food business for a few years to become a lawyer. That’s about when she stumbled upon David’s story of Thor, his stove, in Bon Appétit and shortly after became a tester. Now, being in regular contact with others who are doing the same has expanded her interests and her recipe collection. And she even got her 1.5 seconds of fame on national TV when David mentioned her work on his renowned Orange Olive Oil Cake on the Today Show.
Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones
Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good biscuits we’ve had in recent memory. Maybe ever.
- 30 M
- 45 M
- 31
Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Chicken, water chestnuts, and scallions take a bath in ginger and soy sauce before being wrapped with butter lettuce leaves. Did we mention on the table in 20 minutes?
- 20 M
- 20 M
- 8
Southern Fried Chicken Wings
Perfectly battered. Nicely seasoned. And easy as heck. That’s how we like our fried chicken wings, thank you very much. This recipe delivers all that.
- 45 M
- 1 H
- 18
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Pies
These lovelines are sorta like chocolate-dipped macaroons in reverse with their abundance of chocolate and modest coconut presence. And just 6 ingredients.
- 20 M
- 45 M
- 26
Buttermilk Drop Biscuits
“The best biscuits I’ve ever had!” is what we’re hearing from many, many, many folks who when they first try these easy no-rolling-required biscuits. Amen to that.
- 15 M
- 35 M
- 13
Chocolate Cookies
Sometimes cookies are so amazing your instinct is to keep ’em all to yourself but you find yourself simply not being able to resist sharing them with loved ones. These are them.
- 20 M
- 1 H
- 2
Bacon Cheddar Biscuits
These Southern-style biscuits are just the thing for almost any occasion. Go on, we dare you. Try to think of a time you wouldn’t want them. (See what we mean?!)
- 20 M
- 45 M
- 14
English Crumpets
Crumpets with butter and jam. How every British. We’ve never felt more English than the moment we made these.
- 45 M
- 1 H, 20 M
- 2
Braised Chicken with Cinnamon
Dating back to an Andalusian cookbook from the 13th century, this recipe makes us suspect folks dined vastly better in the Middle Ages than we’d ever imagined.
- 45 M
- 2 H
- 14