Below you’ll find information about the recipes I most strongly recommend:
Main Dishes
- Braised Beef Short Ribs (Cook’s Illustrated, January 2009; also featured on America’s Test Kitchen TV in 2010)
- Herb-crusted Salmon (Cook’s Illustrated, May 2013; also featured on America’s Test Kitchen TV #1407, “Salmon and Latkes“, in 2014) — my take (and one of the most consistently popular articles on this blog)
Soups and Stews
- The Best Corn Chowder (J. Kenji López-Alt, SeriousEats) — my quick take
- The Best Vegetarian Chili (Lan Lam, Cook’s Illustrated, November, 2012; also appeared in America’s Test Kitchen #1324: “Chili and Stew Go Vegetarian“) — my take
Side Dishes
All of these can also be main dishes if you adjust the serving size appropriately.
- Chef Corey’s New England-Style Baked Beans with Thick-Cut Bacon (Joanne Chang, Flour, too, p. 188) — my take
- Mung ki dal (lentils and onions and cumin and butter, oh my!)
Holiday Favorites
- Chocolate caramel walnut tart (Cook’s Illustrated, reprinted in Cook’s Illustrated Holiday Baking 2007) — my take
- Cranberry Sage Pie (Emily & Melissa Elsen, The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book, p. 182) — my take
- Deep, Dark, Spicy Gingerbread (Joanne Chang, Flour, p. 200) — my take
- Golden Pumpkin Pie (King Arthur Flour, Whole Grain Baking, p. 471) — tied for first place in Pumpkin Pie Fest 2014
- Old-Fashioned Stuffed Turkey (Marcus Walser, Cook’s Illustrated, November, 2009) with Sausage and Fennel Stuffing and Best Turkey Gravy
- Ooey, Gooey Caramel-Nut Tart (Joanne Chang, Flour, p. 228) — my take
Desserts
- Bittersweet chocolate sorbet (Joanne Chang, Flour, p. 264) — my take
- Chocolate Five-Spice Flourless Cake (Ming Tsai, Simply Ming #525) — my take
- Double-Fudge Brownies (King Arthur Flour, Whole Grain Baking, p. 341) — my take (easily my favorite brownie recipe ever, and it’s 100% whole-wheat!)
- Salted Caramel Apple Pie (Emily & Melissa Elsen, The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book, p. 148) — my take
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