Brown-Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
In regular chocolate chip cookie recipes, you usually mix softened butter with sugar. But in this one, you melt the butter in a pan until it's golden brown and smells nutty. It takes a bit longer because you have to chill the butter afterward, but it's worth it.
Easy Polenta
Most polenta recipes usually need a lot of stirring for about an hour. But this one is easier - you don't need to stir it while it's cooking. You just mix it quickly at the end before serving. It makes really smooth and creamy polenta.
Egg in a Bagel Hole
Pouring water into the pan helps make sure the eggs cook evenly without burning the bagel pieces. This gives you a lightly toasted bagel with a yolk that's just right - not too runny or too firm.
Thousand-Layer Duck Fat Potatoes
When chef Shaun Searley makes crispy potatoes at The Quality Chop House, he begins with fluffy King Edward potatoes. It's important to start preparing them a day in advance so they can cool down properly.
Poulet Mafé
In Senegal, at the Keur Moussa monastery, they usually eat a meal called poulet mafé. It's a thick sauce made from peanuts and chicken, along with root veggies and cabbage, served over rice, fonio, or millet couscous.
Auntie Monica's Seafood Mac and Cheese
This macaroni and cheese is filled with tasty shrimp, crab, and lobster, plus lots of cheesy goodness. We give it some extra flavor with a special seasoning called liquid shrimp-and-crab boil.
Grown-Up Chicken Nuggets with Herb and Radish Salad
Molly Stevens, who writes cookbooks, cuts chicken breast into small pieces for crispy chicken nuggets. She coats them in breadcrumbs and fries them in olive oil and butter. It's important to make the chicken the same thickness (about 1/3 inch).
Dutch Oven Classic Beef Stew
Imagine how nice it feels to walk in the door on a chilly day and smell a delicious stew cooking away in your kitchen. This stew is packed with big pieces of beef that get super tender from cooking slowly in your Dutch oven.