Give this decadent dark chocolate mousse a try and see why our testers are calling it the best chocolate mousse they’ve ever tried.
Kristen Kennedy, Recipe Tester
A list of all the recipes Kristen Kennedy has tested.
Kristen Kennedy is a rather accidental cook. While completing undergrad and graduate school, her studies [and life] brought her to different parts of the world. This travel opened her eyes and expanded her palette. She quickly began planning trips around the simple pleasure of eating. To this day, she loves nothing more than learning everything about a meal–from its source to preparation. Working with Leite’s Culinaria for the past 9 years has allowed her to continue exploring her love of all things food.
When she’s not “yammering on about anything edible,” she works as a defense contractor. She also owns and operates a small company that focuses on sustainable fashion. And, most importantly, she’s a mom to a 10-year-old boy, an English Lab, and two Maine Coons.
Homemade Pasta Dough
Pasta made fresh according to Italian tradition is unspeakably more supple, satisfying, and gratifying than the dried-out store-bought stuff and will make your mouth water. Here’s how to make it at home.
Spicy Honey Lime Chicken
This easy-peasy marinated grilled chicken with sweet and spicy honey lime sauce is going to be on regular rotation at our dinner tables. We’re betting it will be at yours, too.
Paul Hollywood’s Lemon Drizzle Cake
This lemon drizzle cake is Paul Hollywood’s favorite cake of all time. One bite and you’ll understand why.
Zucchini Gratin with Fresh Herbs and Goat Cheese
What’s not to love about zucchini that’s smothered in cream, herbs, and two kinds of cheese?
Huckleberry Crisp
Sweetly tart and laced with spice, this huckleberry (or blueberry, if you’d rather) crisp recipe is gonna rock your world.
Ground Turkey Sliders
If ever there was an unabashedly, unapologetically girlie burger, this is it. Still, we’ve seen guys polish them off without complaint.
Ground Chicken Meatballs
These subtly flavored, relatively healthful (shhhh!) sliders are the sleeper hit at The Meatball Shop. Not hard to understand why.
Sheet Pan Steak Fajitas
Top these sheet pan steak, onion, and pepper fajitas with your favorite fixings for a quick and easy weeknight meal.
Stout and Soy Roasted Chicken
A marinade of soy sauce, stout, onion, and garlic takes your average roast chicken dinner to new heights.
Filet Mignon with Chanterelle Marsala Sauce
Who needs a fancy steakhouse when you can turn out a stunning pan-seared filet smothered in a creamy mushroom sauce in under 30 minutes?
Creamy French Chicken Stew
This simple chicken stew, which is chock-full of vegetables, chicken, and served in a light cream sauce, feels decadent but is surprisingly virtuous.
Roasted Fennel with Rye Crumble
Getting your five servings of vegetables per day is easy when you can feast on tender caramelized fennel that’s smothered in toasted rye-Parmesan crumble.
Prosciutto-Wrapped Chicken with Asparagus
With its prosciutto and luxurious Fontina combo, this is like an updated chicken cordon bleu. (And you get a great cheese pull, too!)
Jamie Oliver’s Beef Bourguignon
This hearty meal gets its flavor from an overnight soak in red wine, a slow braise until tender, and the addition of plenty of mushrooms and bacon.
Champagne Cocktail
The quintessential something to sip at an elegant soirée, a large party, or just because it’s a random Tuesday night.
Air Fryer Pecan Praline Candied Bacon
People often say that bacon is all you need but we put it to you that embellished bacon is that much better. Especially when it’s spicy brown sugar and pecans coating that crispy strip.
Padma Lakshmi’s Crispy Fried Chicken
This blissfully crunchy, irreverently easy, crazily unconventional coating is everything we never knew we wanted in fried chicken.
Italian-Style Meatballs
Who doesn’t love a juicy and tender meatball? Served with pasta, on a pizza, in a sub with tons of melty cheese, there’s not much better.
Southern Sweet Potato Pie
Sugar and spice and everything nice—that’s what you’ll find in this magnificently spiced traditional Southern pie from baker extraordinaire, Cheryl Day.