Cooking and Cookbooks

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 […]
April 13, 2020

Substitutes for Cooking: Oil, Buttermilk, Heavy Cream and More

The most important skill in the kitchen — and, arguably, life — is adaptability. The list below, which is by no means comprehensive, is meant to […]