There’s nothing like a mug of mulled wine on a cold night. Red wine, orange, cinnamon, and cloves warm together on the stove, and your whole house smells like the holidays. It’s one of the easiest holiday drinks you can make. But it’s also easy to get wrong. Cook it too hot or too long … Read more
Microwave peanut brittle is the easiest candy you’ll make this Christmas. One glass bowl, about 8 minutes of cooking, and no candy pot to scrub. Here’s the honest catch:, the timing in most microwave peanut brittle recipes only works in the microwave it was written for. That’s why the comments under the popular versions are … Read more
The real prize of pumpkin season isn’t the jack-o’-lantern. It’s the guts. Those slick, stringy insides everyone scrapes into the trash are hiding a free snack. Roast them right and you get pumpkin seeds that are nutty, salty, and crunchy all the way through, not chewy in the middle. The trick…. is one extra step … Read more
You buy a bunch of fresh mint for one recipe. A pitcher of iced tea, maybe, or a little sauce for the lamb. You use a handful of leaves, and the rest sits in the fridge until it turns black and slimy. Then next time, you buy another bunch. We’ve all done it. Here’s the … Read more
There’s a moment every fall when the counter is covered in apples and you realize you’ll never eat them all fresh. That’s when this apple butter recipe earns its keep. A big pot of apples, a little cider, sugar and warm spices slowly cook down into something thick, glossy and dark, like apple pie filling … Read more
My golden pothos used to live on top of a bookshelf and for about a year I thought it was doing great. It was long, like really long, vines down to the floor long, which is great if you’re aiming for pothos trailing faster, but I was kind of proud of it until one day … Read more
Every “easy” meatball casserole on the internet has the same fine print hiding in step one: thaw your meatballs first. Great if you’re the kind of person who plans dinner at 7am. But if you’ve ever stood in front of the freezer at 5:30 holding a rock hard bag of meatballs, you know that step is where … Read more
You paid for the whole vegetable. So why are you throwing half of it away? That lettuce stump, the root end of your green onions, the pumpkin guts you just scooped onto newspaper: every one of them is still alive. Give them a glass of water or a scoop of dirt and they’ll grow you … Read more
You carved the pumpkin. You scooped out that slimy handful of seeds. Straight in the trash, right? Stop. Those seeds are next year’s pumpkins. Every single one is a plant waiting to happen. Here’s the deal. Squash and pumpkins are the same easy crop, and both are loaded with seeds you can dry, store over … Read more
I have a soft spot for apple pie, but give it a buttery brown sugar–walnut topping and I’m reaching for the bigger slice. Especially if a few extra crumbs happen to fall onto my plate. This Dutch apple pie has tender, cinnamon-spiced apples tucked into a flaky crust, with a generous layer of streusel that … Read more
