With just three ingredients, you can pull together an impressive appetizer perfect for holidays or dinner parties. The tangy cranberries cut through the richness of the cheese to create a balanced bite. This quick appetizer can be easily doubled to feed a crowd.

3-Ingredient Cranberry-Brie Crostini

Serves 12

Active Time: 10 minutes

Total ...Read more

For years, even decades, common wisdom was that if you wanted to eat a heart-healthy diet, you should avoid eating eggs, which are high in cholesterol. Actually, egg whites were given a pass, because the yolks contain all the cholesterol. The rationale was that dietary cholesterol would raise levels of cholesterol in the blood, especially LDL (�...Read more

My mom really wasn’t a great cook, which I sometimes think is why I was so interested in food and cooking. She had four kids and making dinner every night was not a thrill for her, to say the least. But she did have her specialties like barbecued steak and great California salads. And this delicious soup is the taste memory I think about and ...Read more

Great hosts have great tricks. For a crowd, a spiral-sliced ham, served with homemade biscuits and a tart chutney, never fails to impress. For family dinners, chicken roasted with smoked salt and olive oil, bronzed to a golden finish, keeps them coming back for more.

For an intimate holiday dinner, boneless duck breasts, served with a creamy ...Read more

As a New Orleans native, jambalaya is a comfort food for me, as it is for most Louisianans. I’ve grown up eating it at nearly every big event, from family gatherings to game days. The big-batch, ...Read more

Just the thought of a freshly baked loaf of bread invokes warm, cozy feelings. Making bread at home is a worthy endeavor, and with the right recipe (such as this one!) it can be simple and rewarding.

Potato bread is special ...Read more

Though he grew up on a dairy farm, Matt Welsch never thought much about food beyond what was on the table for lunch or dinner.

"I wanted to be a bus driver," the 48-year-old chef admits with a grin as he sits inside Vagabond Kitchen, the slow-food restaurant he opened in the McLure Hotel in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, in 2014.

Born three...Read more

Like a recovering alcoholic who knows exactly when he took his last drink, I can tell you when I had my last cup of hot chocolate.

It was Nov. 17, 2020. A Tuesday.

It's not that I quit cold turkey. It's not that I said I would never have hot chocolate again. It's not that I had the best hot chocolate of my life on that day (though it happens ...Read more

It’s become a well-documented fact that people dining out want a memorable experience, whether it’s eating in a fashion boutique or having an AI-chef prepare your meal. But the full-on obsession with spectacle had not been so apparent to me until a recent dinner at the world-renowned Eleven Madison Park in New York City.

It started with a ...Read more

This colorful gratin dish livens up any holiday plate. Creamy melted Gruyere is comforting, while a blend of cumin, nutmeg and cayenne pepper lends a warm, spicy note.

Kale-Butternut Squash Gratin

Serves 8

Active Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes

2 teaspoons canola oil

1 cup chopped onion

6 cloves garlic, minced

2 (5-ounce)...Read more

The holidays are coming up and they almost always involve family gatherings, office parties, neighborhood get-togethers, and special holidays meals, all with lots and lots of food. For most of us, it’s a chance to enjoy food and drink that maybe aren’t a part of our usual fare. But if you have food allergies, these celebrations can literally...Read more

During Hanukkah there are eight nights of celebrating to do, so it only feels right to have a signature cocktail on hand for any planned or unplanned gatherings that come your way. Make that signature cocktail this festive sparkling wine sangria. Gently spiked with pear liqueur and filled with fresh pear slices, it’s a holiday ...Read more

If you are planning on staying home this year and having a small group for dinner, I recommend making this crowd-pleasing stew for your main course. Seafood has become so expensive that I usually save it for special occasions. And New Year’s Eve is certainly a time for celebration.

The soup base and aioli can be made ahead and finished at the...Read more

Deviled eggs are the perfect party food. Set a platter of them on a buffet, and you can safely assume they’ll be gone in minutes — such is the appeal of a good deviled egg. But...Read more

Christmas morning begins sweetly with eggnog and cookies. Tins and tins of cookies lovingly baked by my sisters, children, nieces, and nephews. I can barely try them all. I do my best.

For the holiday dinner, I prefer other dessert options. The main requirements: The dessert should be make-ahead, easy to assemble, and visually appealing.

This ...Read more

Bold, spicy flavors have never been more in demand, especially when they add a global element to a dish. One of my favorite foods these days is Korean fried chicken, which I ate twice on a recent trip to New York City.

Celebrated for its crispy exterior and tender interior, Korean fried chicken has been a staple late-night snack in South Korea ...Read more

Do you ever do this? I do this all the time.

I just bought a bunch of ingredients for one meal that I will never, ever use again.

I had gone to Costco, looking to buy a leg of lamb. Costco is my favorite purveyor of lamb, which is actually kind of sad, but it is inexpensive and it is good quality and they always have it.

They didn't have it. ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Thiago Leite has a simple philosophy when it comes to making cocktails, and it applies whether you're hosting a fancy dinner party for friends or simply curling up on the couch for a quiet night with your partner and Netflix.

"Make what you like," he says.

Consider the Caipiroska he was stirring together on a test run for ...Read more

I am puzzling over what to call these cookies.

For roughly 20 years, they’ve just been oatmeal cookies, because these are the ones we make. They have dried cranberries instead of raisins, because all of the people in the world who have been scarred by raisins have scarred me with their raisin trauma.

Not really. I just like dried cranberries...Read more

Alejandro Santillan-Garcia is worried he’s going to lose the aid that helps him buy food. The 20-year-old Austin resident qualified for federal food benefits last year because he aged out of the Texas foster care system, which he entered as an infant.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — commonly referred to as food stamps, or ...Read more