Category: Recipes and Cooking Tips

  • Thanksgiving turkey recipe: Get a perfectly crispy crust with chef’s ‘shrouding’ trick

    There are turkey hacks that sound dubious at best. Deep-fried turkey sounds downright dangerous. But Linton Hopkins’ go-to turkey trick, which yields a crisp, shattering crust he likens to laminated baked goods, is more than a trendy technique. It’s a recipe that just might change the way you think of Thanksgiving dinner. Atlanta-based chef Hopkins…

  • Gretchen’s table: Coconut curry beef from Milk Street

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  • Baked Oysters

    Baked Oysters

    In this baked oyster recipe, oysters on the half shell are quickly broiled until golden brown and bubbling. They’re then filled with a lemon and parsley dressing and finished with crispy bread crumbs. These easy-baked oysters will satisfy oyster lovers and skeptics alike!  Photo Credits: Ruth Bardis These baked oysters take on a tender-meets-meaty texture…

  • Stop! Don’t Order Aloo Tikki Again Until You’ve Tried These 4 DIY Recipes

    What is your favourite street food snack? For vegetarians, more often than not, it’s aloo tikki. This crispy and fried patty never fails to stimulate our appetite. It’s impossible not to find a vendor selling this snack in your neighbourhood. However, as much as we love it, we can’t ignore the hygiene factor when eating…

  • Healthful cooking For one (or two)

    Cooking for one, or even two, can be challenging. It may be tempting to turn to fast food, or open a can of something processed, but those aren’t the healthiest options. If you find a recipe you like, don’t be deterred because it serves at least six. You can always freeze leftovers (mark freezer bags…

  • Live Like It’s Charc Week With These Charcuterie Board Ideas

    Live Like It’s Charc Week With These Charcuterie Board Ideas

    Cheesemongers have a game plan for building their perfect board: “Something old, something new, something goat and something blue.” While you don’t have to follow this strategy to the letter, it can be a great launch pad for what to buy. The end goal is to offer guests different flavors and textures. That way they…

  • Anybody Can Cook, But How Do We Learn?

    Anybody Can Cook, But How Do We Learn?

    Remove lid. Add room temperature water (6.4 fl. oz) to inside Fill Line. Place in microwave center. Microwave uncovered for four minutes on HIGH (1000W).* Let stand for one minute. Stir and enjoy! * Cooking time varies with microwave wattage. If you’re a college student, these instructions are probably familiar: they come from cup noodles.…

  • Sohla El-Waylly Just Published the Cookbook We All Need Right Now

    Sohla El-Waylly Just Published the Cookbook We All Need Right Now

    The moment I cracked open Sohla El-Waylly’s new cookbook, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook, I had a gut feeling that it would be my favorite book of the year, and possibly the decade. With its meld of clear step-by-step photo technique, recipe instruction that accounts for every possible user error, goofy-yet-instructional asides…

  • Bumble, Butterball partner for Thanksgiving Day promotion

    Bumble, the online app known for forming platonic relationships, and Butterball Turkey have partnered together to help those in need this Thanksgiving. Bumble recently conducted a survey on there target demographic of 25- to 34-year-old adults to see what they want most out of the holiday season. They found that half of those that responded…

  • Cheuk Kwan among finalists of the 2023 Taste Canada Awards celebrating Canadian food writing

    Cheuk Kwan among finalists of the 2023 Taste Canada Awards celebrating Canadian food writing

    The Taste Canada Awards annually celebrate the year’s best in Canadian food writing. Gold and silver medal winners were awarded across five English-language and five French-language categories at an awards ceremony in Toronto.  The ceremony was hosted by Ali Hassan, comedian and host of CBC Radio’s Laugh Out Loud and frequent guest host of The Next…