Stop What You’re Doing and Muddle Raspberries With Soy Sauce
Raspberries are nature’s SweetTarts. For me, they’re always just slightly too sweet and too tart, but I moved into a house with so many raspberry bushes that for a long…
Make Super Savory Carrot Fries in Your Air Fryer
I have a bad habit of taking carrots for granted. They’re everywhere—in lunch boxes with hummus, alongside potatoes and pearl onions under pot roast, chopped or shredded in garden side…
Koshō is the Citrusy Umami Bomb You’ll Want to Put on Everything
Yuzu koshō is like sunlight on your tongue. A fermented paste of yuzu, chilies and salt, it brings the umami, but with a brightness you only get from fresh citrus.…
Orzo Is the Pasta of the Summer
We don’t celebrate orzo enough, but its adorable, small size and shape makes it hardly feel like pasta. It can trick you into believing it’s a grain, or chewy kind…
You Should Pick and Pickle Green Strawberries
I hate picking strawberries. I love the berries themselves, and I romanticize picking them every year until I’m there, crouched on the ground, reminded of my age and proclivity for…
How Long Do You Need to Marinate Protein?
I am bad at letting things marinate: ideas, problems, meat. The issue is I don’t know what I want to eat until an hour after I’m hungry, which is not…
Save Money by Making Your Ground Meat Supply Last Longer
Photo: Mikhaylovskiy (Shutterstock) It’s not your imagination: Buying food has gotten expensive. Even as we collectively recover from the trauma of the Great Egg Price Shock of 2023, overall grocery…
TikTok’s Upside-Down Puff Pastry Hack Is Actually Pretty Good
Sometimes I wonder if TikTok is just a collection of food “hacks” that aren’t hacking anything, or if it’s some great conspiracy to get me to do silly things, like…
Three Things You Should Do With That Crusty Maple Syrup Bottle (Before Tossing It)
Maple syrup is so good, it’s hard to believe it comes out of a tree. Or maybe it’s easy to believe. Trees also give us peaches, olives, and lemons, three…
Replace Mayo With Brine for a Better Tuna Salad
I have no qualms about mixing mayonnaise with an item and declaring it “salad.” Indeed, I love a good bacon pickle salad any day. However, for the past year or…