Thanksgiving Turkey Porchetta Is Worth It in the End
Porchetta is perfect. Crackling crisp skin, self-basting pork roast and a magical mélange of fennel, pepper and lemon. It’s no surprise that at some point, someone thought to try and…
Toss These Foods in Your Oven While You’re Cooking Something Else
I use my air fryer more than my oven, mainly because I’m rarely feeding more than two people at a time, and heating up the Big Oven to cook a…
The Easiest Way to Get Garlic Smell Off Your Hands
Garlic stinks. But, hey, that’s why we love it so much. This pungent allium flavors sauces, intensifies condiments, and adds complexity to marinades, but it has a nasty habit of…
Plant These Vegetables This Fall to Harvest Next Spring
Fall in the garden is often thought of as a time for harvesting and putting it to bed for winter. In areas where temperatures during the winter get below freezing,…
Aioli Is Not ‘Fancy Mayonnaise’
It seems that, in an attempt to rebrand mayonnaise, various hip food establishments insist on calling all sorts of creamy condiments “aioli,” and I refuse to stand idly by, letting…
You Should Roast a Whole Head of Garlic
Photo: PJjaruwan (Shutterstock) Garlic is great in any of its many forms but, like most plant parts, it is at its absolute best when roasted. Roasting garlic mellows its pungency…
Make Better Sandwiches, Toasts, and Crostini With a Quick Garlic Rub
Photo: zarzamora (Shutterstock) Bread is so good, there is an entire industry devoted to convincing you don’t want or need to eat it, but even the diet industrial complex is…
You Can Plant Your Own Ramps
Once a year, foragers and chefs unite in the herbaceous, springtime frenzy that is fiddlehead and ramp season. Fiddleheads, the curled, young tips of certain ferns, have always been a…
Turn Papa John’s Garlic Sauce Into a Fancy Compound Butter
Back in my college days, my roommate and I frequently ordered something we called a “hangover pizza.” There was nothing remarkable about the pizza. It was almost always a pepperoni…
An Adult’s Guide to Finally Learning to Like Vegetables
Vegetables are an essential part of eating healthy, but getting enough vegetables can be a challenge for those of us who, to be totally honest, never learned to like them.…