Homemade Ketchup
Our recipe for fabulous ketchup made at home. Oh yes, you can. And it'll have a flavor unlike anything you can find at the store.
2 hrs
Cranberry Scones
Got leftover cranberries? Then you've got the fixings for these incredible scones that balance tart berries with sweet white chocolate and knee-wobblingly flaky pastry.
50 mins
Bourbon Buttermilk Fried Chicken
Yes, bourbon-inflected fried chicken. It’s in the brine. And oh, baby, are you gonna wish you’d been doing this all your life.
2 d 4 hrs
BBQ Meatballs
Toni Tipton-Martin's meatballs take a bath in homemade BBQ sauce that boasts an incredible sweet heat and a complexity that you'd never believe happens with so little effort.
1 hr 10 mins
Whole Roasted Branzino with Lemon and Shaved Fennel Salad
Simple works. That's the lesson behind this subtle, delicate classic encountered on menus throughout Manhattan. And so easy to make at home.
40 mins
Southside Cocktail
Mint. Muddled. Mine. When we've got this gin-based mojito on our minds, those are about the only words we can muster. Well, maybe add "More."
5 mins
Blue Cheese Balls
Birthday bashes. Cocktail parties. Thanksgiving dinner. Tuesday nights. These are but some occasions we've watched these disappear.
2 hrs 30 mins
Chinese Roast Pork
Crisp, crackling BBQ pork belly just like what you find in Chinatown. Like most Chinese barbecue, It's impossibly tender, slightly sweet, and surprisingly easy to make at home.
5 hrs 20 mins
Baked Fish with Tomatoes and Olives
Sorta Italian, sorta Mediterranean, and completely easy and impressive. Works wonderfully on crazy weeknights as well as dinner parties.
45 mins
Coffee Crusted Grilled Pork Chops
"Wow!" "Off-the-charts good!" "Divine." "Amazingly juicy and tender." "A definite keeper." That's what we're hearing about these subtly and beguilingly spiced chops.
25 mins
Apple Cranberry Sauce
Apple cranberry sauce. Not quite as American as apple pie. Not until you taste this version, that is. Sweetly tart and superbly lovely with turkey and pork and so, so much more.
1 hr
How to Buy, Reconstitute, and Cook Salt Cod
The easy essentials you need to know prior to taking on any recipe—Portuguese or otherwise—that calls for the centuries-old staple ingredient, salt cod.
Honey Barbecue Sauce
Pantry ingredients and barely any effort yield you something that's sweetly tangy and spicy that you'll want to slather on ribs, wings, pulled pork, smoked or grilled chicken, burgers...
35 mins
Chipotle Maple Barbecue Sauce
This indescribably must-have-more-of-this sauce boasts the complex sweetness of maple syrup and the smoky spice of chipotle peppers. Slather it at will.
40 mins
If It’s July Fourth, It Must Be Deborah’s
David reminisces about his late friend Deborah Murphy, who brought untold love, joy, and incredible food to her annual July Fourth celebrations.
Pastrami Burgers with Russian Dressing
A make-at-home version of your fave diner-style burger but with the added smokiness from just the blissful amount of chopped pastrami mixed in with the beef.
30 mins
Blueberry Syrup
Brings back memories of that sticky, cloyingly sweet blueberry syrup from breakfasts at the diner as a child. Yet recreates it with so much more class.
25 mins
Bifanas ~ Portuguese Pork Sandwiches
In the pantheon of great Portuguese foods, there are few sandwiches that are more superlative than the bifana. Essentially pork, bread, and sauce, it's comfort food at its simplest.
2 hrs
Blackened Grouper with Peach Jalapeño Salsa
Remember the blackening craze in which EVERYTHING was baptized with a rock-your-world spice mix? This is one of the best expressions of it. And its on the table in half an hour.
45 mins