Cooking Tips

How We Cook Weeknight Chicken Dinners Without Recipes

Weeknights are all about easy chicken dinners. Here's how we improvise our birds, from a coconut-milk-and-soy-sauce braise to a roast that lasts all week

Rochelle Bilow

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Avoid These Common Pizza Mistakes So You Can Make and Eat the World's Most Perfect Food

Whether you're a cheese or pepperoni fan, learn how to make the perfect pie at home by avoiding these common pizza mistakes.

Rochelle Bilow

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Combat the Mid-Week Cooking Slump with these Easy Dinner Ideas

These easy weeknight dinners, including pastas and frittatas, come together with minimal effort.

Rochelle Bilow

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Eggplant Common Mistakes—And How to Avoid Them

Nobody likes bitter-tasting eggplant—are you making any of these common eggplant cooking mistakes?

Rochelle Bilow

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10 Healthy Office Snacks: The Anti-Vending Machine Guide

These healthy office snacks beat whatever junk is in the vending machine any day.

Danielle Walsh

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How to Cook That Massive Zucchini That's Growing in Your Garden

Tips for using up your really big summer squash, from soups to pastas to quick bread.

Danielle Walsh

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Common Ice Cream Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

Whipping up homemade ice cream can be tricky. These are the common ice cream mistakes to avoid, from overfilling the machine to not being patient

Rochelle Bilow

Culture

What We Learned About Cooking from Movies Like 'Goodfellas,' 'Diva,' and 'Moonstruck'

From Chaplin's 'The Kid' to Scorsese's 'Goodfellas,' the movies have taught us an awful lot about cooking. Here, our favorite clips and techniques

Rachel Friedman

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Pesto Common Mistakes to Avoid When Making this No-Cook Sauce

We love this simple, no-fuss sauce—but when it comes to whipping up a pesto, are you making any of these common mistakes?

Rochelle Bilow

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Recipes

Easy Vacation Recipes For Beach Houses, Lake Escapes, and More

25 easy vacation recipes for wherever you go, from the lake to the beach to the woods.

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Avoid These 7 Common Quick Pickling Mistakes and Your Pickles Will Be Awesome

The 7 pickle mistakes you should avoid, from oversweetening your brine to mixing up your vegetables

Danielle Walsh

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7 Fried Chicken Common Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

From skipping the brine to using the wrong oil, these common mistakes will ruin your fried chicken. Avoid them to make the crunchiest, juiciest bird ever

Rochelle Bilow

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How to Cook Chicken Even Quicker

Quick chicken recipes, from spatchcocking to stir-frying to grilling.

Culture

11 Bon Appétit Staffers' Hilarious Grilling Disasters (but Everyone Is Fine Now)

From setting a pig ablaze to glazing chicken with its used marinade, here are Bon Appétit staffers' most embarrassing grilling disasters

Danielle Walsh

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The 7 Most Common Ways to Screw Up Your Chocolate Chip Cookies

It might seem impossible to mess up chocolate chip cookies, but people do. Here are the 7 mistakes you should avoid when baking them.

Danielle Walsh

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How to Cook Scallops, with a Helpful GIF

Beautifully browned scallops are easy to achieve with high heat and a hands-off approach

Alison Roman

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I Was Terrified of Grilling—Until I Learned These 7 Reassuring Tips

Don't be intimidated by the challenge of grilling. These 7 reassuring tips from the chef at grill-focused restaurant St Anselm will help you face the flames

Rochelle Bilow