SnacksHomemade Chicken Nuggets
Minced chicken rather than chopped, which is what gives the smooth bite of the ones from a box — except you can see everything that went in.
50 minServes 4Easy
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SnacksBuffalo Wings with Blue Cheese Dip
Fried, then tossed in nothing more than cayenne pepper sauce and melted butter. That emulsion is the entire recipe, and it is why bottled buffalo sauce never tastes the same.
1 hrServes 4Medium
SnacksCrispy Baked Chicken Wings
Baking powder and an overnight sit in the fridge, and the skin comes out of the oven as crisp as fried. No pan of hot oil, no clearing up afterwards.
1 hr 30 minServes 4Easy
BakingBlueberry Muffins
Mixed until barely combined and baked hot to start, which is what throws up the high domed top. A smooth muffin batter is a failed muffin batter.
45 minServes 12Easy
BakingVanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream
A reverse-creamed sponge, which coats the flour in butter before any liquid arrives. Less gluten, finer crumb, and a cake that stays tender for two days instead of one.
1 hrServes 12Easy
BakingGlazed Ring Doughnuts
Yeast-raised and fried for barely a minute a side, then glazed while still hot so it soaks in and sets to a thin shell rather than sitting on top as icing.
3 hr 30 minServes 12Medium
DessertsNew York Cheesecake
Dense, tall and barely sweet, baked in a water bath and then cooled with the patience of a saint. Every crack in a cheesecake is a cooling mistake, not a baking one.
2 hrServes 12Medium
BakingBrown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Browned butter, chopped chocolate rather than chips, and a rest in the fridge. Three small changes that turn a decent cookie into one worth the oven being on.
1 hrServes 18Easy
DessertsDeep-Dish Apple Pie
Two kinds of apple, cooked down before they go anywhere near the pastry. That precooking is the whole answer to the hollow dome every apple pie threatens to become.
2 hr 30 minServes 8Medium
SaladsCobb Salad
Everything chopped to the same size and laid out in stripes rather than tossed. The arrangement is the recipe — you dress and mix it at the table.
40 minServes 4Easy
SaladsClassic Caesar Salad
Anchovy mashed to a paste, egg yolk whisked to an emulsion, and croutons fried in the garlic oil. No bottled dressing comes close.
30 minServes 4Medium
SnacksHot Dogs with Quick Pickled Onions
Score the sausages, steam the buns, and make a quick pickled onion. Three small steps that take a hot dog from stadium food to something you would serve on purpose.
25 minServes 4Easy