How To Make Dumpling Dough Recipe
Every dumpling you have ever loved — pan-fried potstickers, delicate steamed pockets, hearty boiled parcels — starts with the same three ingredients: flour, water, and …
How To Prepare Squash
Squash intimidates people, and I understand why: it is hard, awkwardly shaped, and every variety seems to demand a different approach. But once you learn …
How To Make Fresh Whipped Cream
Once you have made whipped cream from scratch, the canned stuff never comes home again. Real whipped cream is three ingredients and ten minutes of …
How To Make Roux
Roux is the two-ingredient technique underneath a shocking amount of great cooking: equal parts butter and flour, cooked together, ready to thicken anything from mac …
How To Make Infused Garlic Oil
Infused garlic oil is the hardest-working condiment in my kitchen, and it comes from the laziest recipe I know: a pound of peeled garlic, two …
How To Saute Fresh Spinach
Sautéed spinach is the five-minute side that belongs next to practically everything — steak, chicken, fish, eggs, pasta. It is also the dish where a …
How To Cut A Cauliflower
A whole head of cauliflower costs a fraction of pre-cut florets, keeps twice as long, and takes about ninety seconds to break down once you …
How To Cut An Orange Into Supremes
Supremes — clean, membrane-free citrus segments — are one of those small techniques that quietly announce someone knows their way around a knife. No pith, …
How To Make Red Wine Poached Pears
Red wine poached pears are the dessert that photographs like a patisserie window and asks almost nothing of the cook: ripe Bosc pears simmered gently …
Perfect Baked Potatoes: 5 Tips for Crispy Skin Every Time
The foolproof method for perfect baked potatoes — crispy skin, fluffy inside. Learn the right oven temperature, prep steps, and toppings from Chef Niko.