Dress Your Pasta Salad With a Tub of Dip
Just like any other salad, making a good pasta salad is all about creating a balance of flavors and textures. The textures, in this case, are tender noodles, paired with…
Make High-End Truffle Pasta on a Low-End Budget
Some restaurant dishes are hard to replicate, but a great truffle pasta isn’t one of them. Instead of shelling out upwards of $50 for a single serving of fettuccine tartufo,…
How to Get Free Grape Leaves (and What to Make with Them)
Consider the underestimated grape leaf. Each year, grape vines are cut back, and turn brown and woody, then emerge vivaciously fresh with green shoots in the late spring. These vines…
Make the Most of Your Herbs With This Sicilian Street Food
If you’re trying to have a White Lotus summer from the confines of your home—instead of the beaches of Sicily—you can still get a taste of the lifestyle. Summer means…
Treat Yourself to Sweet, Buttery Phyllo Chips
A fine dessert doesn’t always have to be elaborate, or even pretend to be. There’s something a bit fancy about a sweet that owns its simplicity, and parades around in…
Hurry, Give Your Pizza a Cheesy Bottom
At this point in history, one would assume we have already explored the map of the world of pizza to its edges (which are probably stuffed with cheese). You can…
How to Harvest Free Food on Your Next Vacation
Occasionally, I’ll flee the warm embrace of Pacific Northwest rain to visit friends in the desert and hang poolside (and be a boastful dick about it on Instagram). Most people…
Cooking With Packaged Food Is Great, Actually
Packaged, processed, and semi-prepared foods are convenient and economical, but sadly, cooking with peel-apart biscuits and microwaveable pastas has endured a host of disparaging titles, including “cheap,” “low-class,” or “gross,”…
How to Make Pineapple Pizza Even Better
Before any of you jabronis start commenting with “Just take off the pineapple,” or “That’s not real pizza,” please consider that this has all been said before, it’s very boring,…
You Must Make These Air-Fried Caramel Pasta Crisps
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann Pasta can, and should, be dessert. There are a number of ways to transform this popular carb into a show-stopping sweet, but you can also turn…