Cooking and Cookbooks

May 21, 2020

Our Best Memorial Day Recipes

Summer may officially begin on the solstice, the longest day of the year, but the unofficial start to the season is the long Memorial Day weekend, […]
May 20, 2020

At Home Newsletter: All the Google Docs that are fit to print.

Welcome to At Home. Here’s an example of an email I used to get roughly four times a week before the pandemic, when my main job […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Consuming an Obscene Number of Calories Before Noon

ImageCredit…Illustrations by Tom JollyThe New York Times and Tom Bodkin/The New York Times The Joy of Consuming an Obscene Number of Calories Before Noon By May […]
May 13, 2020

At Home: This Isn't Forever. But We Can Make It Better Now.

Welcome! It’s a funny feeling to think that it might not go on forever, the isolation and social distancing, the scary trips to the market, the […]
May 7, 2020

21 Quarantine Baking Recipes for Every Skill Level

What’s more comforting than stirring together a bowl of brown, beige and white ingredients, sliding it into the oven and watching as it transforms into something […]
May 4, 2020

For Joanna Gaines, Home Is the Heart of a Food and Design Empire

The first Chip Gaines heard of avocado toast was in 2017. He and his wife, Joanna, were about to open a 200-seat restaurant in downtown Waco, […]
April 29, 2020

The Lightest, Brothiest Soup for When You Can’t Eat Another Bite

Even a person as enthusiastic as I am about home cooking can feel fatigue, and six going on seven weeks of this quarantine, I am feeling […]
April 28, 2020

8 Delicious Ways to Use Your Sourdough Discard

Part of caring for a sourdough starter is “feeding” it: a process that begins by removing half of the starter before adding more flour. The portion […]
April 22, 2020

The Best Way to Freeze Baked Goods

Whether you’ve made a too-big batch of muffins for your household of one or you just like having a stash of freshly baked bread in the […]
April 20, 2020

How to Make One-Pot Pasta With Practically Any Pasta

There’s one thing you can do to make any pasta dish easier, and arguably more satisfying: Cook the pasta and the sauce together in a single […]