Test Kitchen: Bakery-style chocolate chip muffins
Almost every year for my birthday for as long as I can remember, my mom has made me Betty Crocker-cookbook muffins as a special breakfast.
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Test Kitchen: Chilled Peach Soup with Fresh Goat Cheese
It’s almost summer (or, by the time you’re reading this, it hopefully will feel like it), so I’m skipping the oven this month and trying an entree that just uses a blender.
Test Kitchen: Coconut curry shrimp
I’m on an Indian-food kick at home, which started after I learned the frozen Indian meals you can buy at Trader Joe’s are pretty healthy and pretty delicious. (It’s been a busy winter.)
Test Kitchen: Glazed baked donuts
A few years ago, my friend Kelsey and I were having an adult sleepover and decided we wanted post-dinner donuts. We also decided we wanted to make them.
Test Kitchen: Marvelous marble cake
I never have been more anxious about a Test Kitchen recipe than this one. I’m pretty good at baking. But I am terrible (TERRIBLE!) at decorating things, in part because I lack the skill for it and in part because I lack the patience. I’m just being honest.
Bacon cheeseburger garbage bread
When I make food for a party, I usually opt for a dessert or a dip—something that’s quick for me and easy for my friends to eat. I’ve prepared my fair share of homemade queso and cake-mix cookies, so when I found this recipe for bacon cheeseburger garbage bread, I was excited about trying something different.
Test Kitchen: Pineapple barbecue chicken
When it’s summertime, I like my meals to be a little tropical. I know you might not want to turn on your oven in July, but I like this recipe because it’s low-effort. There aren’t many ingredients, you don’t have to chop anything, and you mostly can forget about it once you stick it in the oven.
Test Kitchen: Chicken & guacamole enchiladas
Happy Cinco de Mayo month! Let’s make enchiladas. I have cooked enchiladas once before (the salsa verde variety, not the red-sauce kind), but I opted for this recipe because it also incorporates guacamole, which is on the short list of my favorite foods.
Test Kitchen: Homemade pizza
My homemade pizza can’t compete with the beauty of the professionally crafted slices the About staff tried for this issue, but it sure has heart.
Test Kitchen: Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Bars
I moved away from Ohio to Missouri when I was 22 and promptly began to learn how to cook. I had no college cafeteria or leftovers from family dinners to count on for sustenance.
