Test Kitchen: Barbecue Chicken and Apple Bread Pudding
My New Year’s resolution probably should be to eat more vegetables or something like that, but I don’t enjoy setting myself up for failure.
Recipes
Recipes to Reboot Your Diet
The accompanying recipes, starting with this honey-glazed salmon, are designed to address a specific habit that can help you make a shift toward eating better in a way that is so simple and pleasurable it will feel good to go there.
Test Kitchen: Overnight Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls
Christmas Eve falls on a Tuesday this year, which means my morning will consist of coffee at my cubicle instead of cinnamon rolls with my sister. But if I were going to be having a leisurely Christmas Eve at home, I definitely would upgrade my cinnamon-roll game by making these overnight gingerbread cinnamon rolls. They might be my favorite Test Kitchen recipe yet.
Test Kitchen: Signature spicy, smoky, sweet chili
I was sitting in a cabin in middle-of-nowhere Minnesota the first time I tried a chili recipe I actually liked. The secret ingredient that made the difference for me was baked beans—a shock, considering I thought baked beans on their own were gross. But to this day, I remember how sweet and smoky the chili tasted.
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.
What’s on the grill?
The best recipes for your next patio party.
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: 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.
Triple-chocolate peppermint treats
If I make Christmas cookies to take home to my family celebration, I always bake a batch of peanut butter blossoms. When my sister and I were little, our mom informed us those were Santa’s favorite, so they’ve become a Christmas tradition in the Matas house.
On the Menu: Thanksgiving Recipes
Every year, I volunteer to bring a few dishes to take to my family’s Thanksgiving celebration, and every year, I find myself feverishly scrolling through Pinterest to find something new and better to make than what I showed up with the previous year.
