Category: Food
Your place to find food reviews on popular restaurants, cafes and bakeries, as well as easy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, including pop culture-inspired menu ideas you won’t find anywhere else.
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Are Chrissy Teigen’s Cravings Baking Mixes Worth It?
Baking Chrissy Teigen’s blueberry cream cheese pancakes from scratch is a process—one you’ve got to plan an hour or so for—but I love them so much, I’ll gladly put in the effort to dice cubes of cream cheese and freeze them. (I’m the type who wakes up hungry, so any breakfast recipe involving planning is…
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Everything Bagel Focaccia
Everyone made a huge deal about sourdough during the pandemic, but why wasn’t anyone raving about focaccia?! How did we sleep on focaccia? After baking a batch a few weeks ago, it became my instant obsession. Yes, it needs to rest overnight, and yes, it involves a ton of olive oil (the good kind), but…
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What to Serve with Biscuits and Gravy
One of my mom’s specialties growing up was biscuits and gravy. (My mom’s recipe is a riff on Pioneer Woman’s, with extra Jimmy Dean sausage.) Whether they’re made from scratch or aided with a few shortcuts—hey, Pillsbury Grands are pretty good—the Southern staple is the kind of soul-satisfying meal that’s so hearty you can skip…
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The Best Cold Brew Maker I’ve Ever Tested Costs $15
I’ll drink cold brew all day, every day—even walking to the subway mid-blizzard in New York (something I’ve done more than once, oddly enough). And over the years, I’ve tested all kinds of methods for making the stuff, as well as all kinds of devices. Through it all, there’s one cold brew maker I swear…
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Oreo-Potato Chip Seven Layer Bars
The first time I discovered the butterscotch-y, caramelized sweetened condensed milk wonder that are Seven Layer Bars, I…devoured 90 percent of the tray myself. Then proceeded to binge on baking them for every holiday, fighting with every ounce of willpower not to eat them all, (cue Celine Dion) all by myselllllf. Then I discovered Chrissy…
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Oreo Truffle Monsters
When it comes to kid-friendly Halloween treats, it doesn’t get better than this. Oreo truffle monsters hit all the right notes: Kids get to smash Oreos, roll balls of Play-Doh-like batter, dip things in molten chocolate and decorate away. And, by virtue of these no-bake treats being “monsters,” they don’t demand perfection. The goofier, the…
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The ‘Hocus Pocus’-Inspired Book Cake Even Toast-Burners Can Make
Years ago, I made Hocus Pocus-inspired s’mores pops, and they were an unexpected hit. (To this day, I see people recreate them, and it makes me unspeakably happy.) But then I had a child, and my baking days are often late at night, or squeezed within whatever spare 15 minutes I have, when I’m half-exhausted…
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Sunbutter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Sunbutter + chocolate chips + oatmeal? I get it. It’s so many things, but each of these ingredients—lends something special to these cookies, making them so extraordinary they’ve become my new go-to baking project. The oatmeal adds texture and chewiness, the chocolate chips (preferably Ghirardelli’s 60 percent cacao bittersweet chocolate chips) lend richness, and the…
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Rye Flour Everything Bagels
If you like the flavor of rye or pumpernickel bread, you’re going to love this riff on an everything bagel. It’s just as chewy and pillowy as a regular bagel, only it takes advantage of some of the health benefits of rye flour (like a boost of fiber and vitamin B, with less of a…
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I Tried Blake Lively’s Box Mac & Cheese Hack, & It’s Seriously Good
No child can resist the allure of Paw Patrol these days. At least, that’s what I told myself after conducting extended negotiations in aisle six of the grocery store, as my daughter begged for Chase- and Marshall-shaped macaroni, courtesy of Kraft. Now, I have fond memories of the blue box, but as an adult, it’s…
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Voodoo Doughnuts in Orlando: Is It Worth the Hype?
Strolling through Universal Orlando’s CityWalk, you can’t help but notice Voodoo Doughnuts: from the towering pink-and-black building to the 12-foot-tall replica of its Voodoo Doll doughnut to its pastry-barnacled throne outside, it’s total Instagram bait. And when you see the 50 (yes, 50!) flavors on the menu, it’s hard to resist making a detour. But…
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Pudgy, Gooey Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookies
A misunderstanding led to one of my greatest creations ever. During my Delish days, I had heard about people using cream cheese instead of butter for a pillowier cookie. Turns out, they meant subbing a tiny portion of the butter; not a 1:1 swap. I went 1:1—and I’ve never looked back. We called the end…
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