Easy Chicken Satay
Chicken satay is what I make when I want grilling to feel like an event without actually being much work. Skewers of marinated chicken, charred over high heat until the edges catch, served with a peanut sauce you can't stop dipping into. It looks like a restaurant appetizer. It's mostly…
Gut-Boosting Berry Jam
This gut-boosting berry jam is the recipe that finally got me to stop buying jars of jam from the supermarket. It's raw, it's blended in about a minute, and it skips the mountain of sugar that regular jam leans on to set and keep. Instead it thickens with chia seeds…
Homemade Soft Pretzels
The first homemade soft pretzels I ever made came out pale, flat, and weirdly bread-like — nothing like the chewy, deep-brown twists I was after. The problem turned out to be one step I'd skipped because it sounded fussy: the baking soda bath. Once I started boiling the shaped pretzels…
Vanilla Pudding Poppers
These vanilla pudding poppers are the kind of treat that disappears off the plate before I've finished frying the last batch. They're little nuggets of fried biscuit, rolled in cinnamon sugar while they're still warm, then filled with cold vanilla pudding so the center is cool and creamy against the…
Crockpot Mac and Cheese
Crockpot mac and cheese earned a permanent spot in my rotation the year I hosted Thanksgiving and ran out of oven space. I had one rack free and four dishes that needed it. The mac went in the slow cooker out of pure desperation, and it came out so creamy…
Instant Pot Chickpea Orzo Soup
This Instant Pot Chickpea Orzo Soup is what I make when the fridge is mostly empty but the pantry isn't. Chickpeas, a little pasta, canned tomatoes, a fistful of herbs — most of it is shelf-stable, and the whole thing comes together in about fifty minutes with one pot to…
Monkey Bread
Monkey bread is the recipe I pull out when I want my kitchen to smell incredible and I have approximately zero patience for actual baking. It's pull-apart cinnamon-sugar dough, gooey with a brown sugar caramel that sinks into every crevice, and it starts with canned biscuits. That's not a confession.…
Labneh
Labneh is one of those things I assumed I had to buy until a friend showed me there's basically nothing to it. You salt yogurt, you hang it up overnight, and the next day you have a thick, tangy spread somewhere between Greek yogurt and cream cheese. That's the whole…
