This recipe for homemade udon noodles shows you how to make thick, chewy Japanese noodles from scratch using just a handful of pantry staples, including wheat flour, water, salt, and potato- or cornstarch. Udon’s appeal lies in its...
French cuisine has a reputation for precision: glossy sauces, just-so pastries, and techniques that feel better left to chefs in starched jackets. But here’s the truth—many of the most beloved French recipes are deeply practical, designed for home...
Need your daily dose of vitamins? To relax and fall asleep faster? Help being more, ahem, regular? There's a gummy for that. The market for health- and wellness-boosting gummy supplements has ballooned in recent years (by one estimate,...
Before I became a mother a year and half ago, mealtime mostly meant assembling "girl dinners" or overspending on Postmates. As a result, I was unprepared for the sheer logistical load of feeding a family every day: the...
I’m a big fan of meal kits. Even though I love cooking, living in New York City makes grocery shopping a bit of a slog. Supermarkets can be far from my apartment, and hauling a week’s worth of...
I grew up in a family that regularly ate seafood, but other than a brief phase of liking lobster when I was 5, it never appealed to me. No matter how it was prepared, something about the look,...
Getting that first brownie out of the pan is, for me, a nightmare. Always has been. Digging a spatula or cake cutter down below the rim of a normal baking pan gives me broken crumbles of brownie that...
There are recipes you make when you’re looking to impress, and then there are the ones you make when you’re bone tired and need sustenance fast. That’s why we love these 15-minute meals: They can do both. From...
December 31st is your last opportunity to cook something epic—until next year, of course. Still, this is the time to go all out with our best New Year’s Eve dinner ideas. From savory starters, like party-ready dips and...
But when it comes to using these botanicals to “optimize” or “cleanse” the liver of an otherwise healthy person? There’s no strong evidence. “No single ingredient in isolation, no matter how healthy, will cure disease, heal an organ,...
