Lemon pepper seasoning along with fresh lemon juice give the chicken and luscious sauce tons of flavor without a lot of effort. All you need is 15 minutes of cook time and even less prep time to have this entrée ready for tonight’s dinner. Serve with a garden salad and a starch like steamed white rice or mashed potatoes to soak up the sauce and dinner’s complete. What is Lemon Pepper?...

My friend Garrett had a few extra pears from a baking adventure which I decided to poach in Marsala wine, with some sugar, star anise, cinnamon, and cloves. Star anise has a strong licorice flavor, so I was a little worried my poached pears would end up tasting like Good-n-Plenty. Fortunately, the other spices rose to the occasion and along with the Marsala infused the pears with a happy, spicy, delicious aroma....

One-pot pasta may feel trendy, but there is a reason for the craze. As the pasta cooks and releases its starch and the cooking liquid reduces, a creamy sauce is created. You may end up deciding this is the only way to ever cook pasta again. What’s in My One-Pot Spaghetti This pasta involves simple ingredients that are easy to shop for, like spaghetti, chicken stock, canned artichokes, and jarred capers....

If you’re worried that a tartine means something fancy, don’t. It’s just the French version of toast. In her book Around My French Table, award-winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan explains, “The verb tartiner means to spread, and a tartine is a slice of bread spread (or more rightly topped) with something or several somethings.” This particular tartine is a glorious vegetarian meal or snack that most any omnivore will welcome into their kitchen....

This carrot salad comes from the Middle East, and depends on the addition of orange blossom water, which like rose water, is often used in Middle Eastern cooking. Orange flower water is distilled from bitter orange blossoms and is used to flavor drinks, salads, and desserts. You can get orange blossom or orange flower water at a Mediterranean market. Whole Foods also carries it. Local chef Evie Lieb made this salad in our cooking class this week and I don’t think I’ve ever tasted carrot salad so exotically delicious....

At Simply Recipes, the way we celebrate and grieve is the same: gathering around the table. Today, we’d like to share with you some recipes from some of our favorite Asian and Asian American food writers. Please support these writers and make one of their recipes this weekend. For further reading about AAPI experiences with racism, the impact of Covid-19 on Asian communities, and how to support AAPI communities right now, please check out these links:...

“What are your favorite foods?” will always get a response, and from there, I can usually figure out if the person likes to cook as well. Then the next question is, “what’s your favorite recipe?” Take my friend Bruce. Bruce loves to cook, has for as long as I’ve known him, over 20 years. He even contributed this winner to the site last year—the green salsa chicken bake. When he was visiting the other day, our chatter naturally turned to recipes....

All you need is canned tuna (packed in olive oil), garlic, extra virgin olive oil, chili pepper flakes, baby arugula, and pasta. You make a simple sauce with with olive oil, garlic, chili flakes, and tuna, and then toss it with the hot cooked pasta and greens. The arugula will wilt in the heat of the pasta. If you don’t have arugula, you can substitute fresh baby spinach to a similar effect....

The crust is almost biscuit-like and has a rich buttery flavor. Although the original recipe calls for the cake to be cooked for 1 3/4 hours, I ended up cooking mine for 2 hours, the last 15 minutes of which were without the foil so the top could brown a little. The Epicurious recipe doesn’t call for buttering the pan. I found that mine stuck a bit and I had to use a sharp knife to separate the cake from the pan....

The shrimp look so amazing packed into a jar. You can see the pink curls against the glass, with spices and herbs swirling around them. Pickled shrimp is an easy, make-ahead appetizer that never fails to impress. All you do to make it is to poach some shrimp and then pack them into a big crock or canning jar with simple pickling spices, vinegar, and olive oil. Let this sit in the fridge for a day or two, and pull out the jar just before the party starts....

There’s so much more flavor in the legs, thighs, and wings, and I’m happy to eat them at Thanksgiving – or anytime I can find them in the market. (And don’t worry if white meat is your thing — you can use bone-in half breasts for this recipe, too.) Pressure cooking turkey in your Instant Pot or electric pressure cooker is so much faster than oven roasting. The turkey is tender in no time....

The combination of pumpkin spice and tangy cream cheese brings the extra comfort you need to welcome the colder weather. They’re almost like pumpkin cheesecake, except you can have them for breakfast. These Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins are an easy and indulgent treat for a cold fall morning. They’re a welcoming recipe to share with friends and family, or you could even just make a batch for yourself. They would be an especially festive way to kick off a Thanksgiving breakfast or brunch....

Video: How to Make Red Velvet Cupcakes The Best Red Coloring The red color can come from beets or even strawberries but personally I unapologetically prefer red food dye and in large quantities as it does a better job of disguising the brown chocolate without altering the flavor. Be sure to be careful when putting this recipe together as the batter can stain, so you may not want kids putting it together (better to put them on frosting duty)....

With this tart, I keep things simple and let the natural flavors shine. I don’t add many spices or aromatics (though, of course, you could!)—I simply roast the veggies with salt and pepper. Roasting brings out their natural sweetness and adds a bit of caramelized complexity (it also eliminates excess moisture, which helps prevent a soggy tart). After that, I add some hot peppers to the mix (any can work; choose based on your heat preference and what’s available at the market) and a bit of tangy goat cheese to balance the sweet vegetables, and into the oven it goes....

I’ve been experimenting with meatball recipes and have found an excellent one here. The basic idea is to take a base of ground sausage or pork, mix in other meat such as ground beef, pancetta or prosciutto, add herbs, bread cubes, ricotta cheese and eggs, then brown them on high heat in the oven, add some crushed tomatoes and cook on lower heat until they are done. Why Make Meatballs with Sausage?...

I discovered how wonderful they were years ago when my Indian friend Sanjay would come over and make dal for us, peppered with mustard seeds. They’re so tiny, but boy do they pack a flavor punch. They are especially good toasted, spicy and nutty at the same time. In this recipe, mustard seeds help bring a kick to sautéed Swiss chard. A simple combination, that just works. If you like chard as much as we do, I encourage you to try it!...

Biscuits (American not English) typically aren’t sweet, muffins typically are. These are as sweet as you want them to be, they look like biscuits, you can eat them like biscuits, but you make them in a muffin tin. I’ve been struggling with this question for days. It’s been a good excuse to continue taste testing my way through the FIVE DOZEN I’ve made in order to perfect the recipe. What I can tell you is that they are very good, and that the recipe is wonderfully flexible....