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- Shine Food
How to Grill with a Bad Grill
When the urge for fire-cooked food calls, sometimes, you have no choice but to answer it. And sometimes, the only thing you have to use is a tiny portable grill that you found in your garage. But that’s okay.
- Shine Food
Summer Fruit Crisps Are the Easiest
There’s something so classic, so comforting about a fruit crisp. We particularly like this one, because there’s plenty of room for riffing.
- Shine Food
Cook Chicken Faster
Chicken, by nature, is quick. Even when it comes to slow-cooking methods like braising, chicken is much faster to cook relative to a meat cut like, say, brisket.
- Shine Food
6 Common Burger Cooking Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them
Rochelle Bilow, photo by Romulo Yanes
- Shine Food
Salt-and-Vinegar Chips Get a Whole New Look
Everyone knows that the best potato chips are salt-and-vinegar potato chips. So embrace that knowledge and make the most delicious version of roasted potatoes there is: Make crispy baby Yukon golds, burnished on their edges and with a proper bite. You won’t regret it.
- Shine Food
Odd Food Combos That Are Surprisingly Great
We don’t always choose our best friends; sometimes, life just sends us a person and is like, “Hey, despite the fact that you guys don’t have a lot in common, you are destined to be in each other’s lives forever.”
- Yahoo Food
Behold, the Breakfast Taco
Listen, we love tacos. We love them for lunch, we love them for dinner, and we especially love them for late-night snacks. We love them with meat and we love them with beans, and we’ll happily eat them any day of the week (whoever came up with the idea of “Taco Tuesday” was severely limiting things). So we were pretty pumped when Bon Appétit test kitchen cook Chris Wegan proposed the idea of creating three brand-new taco recipes…for breakfast.
- Yahoo Food
4 Super-Common Cooking Mistakes
There are four big things you need to watch out for, no matter if you’re making cookies, quinoa, salmon, or salad.
- Yahoo Food
Blueberry Hand Pies for the Win
How can you get your handheld warm pastry fix without eating a Hot Pocket? Easy—make an alternative dinner or dessert made with puff pastry. Our favorite (and most fun)? Blueberry hand pies.
- Shine Food
Yes, Veggie Burgers Can Taste Good
Veggie burgers have suffered a seriously bad reputation in the past. And with good reason: They’re far too-often frozen hockey pucks of stabilizers and fillers (maybe a corn kernel or two, if you’re lucky). That’s a shame, because when they’re done right veggie burgers exemplify all of the things we love. Think about it: The best meatless burgers have chewy, hearty grains, a meaty (in texture, if not taste) note from mushrooms, and, duh, colorful, fresh vegetables. Sounds like the making of an incredible meal to us.
- Yahoo Food
How to Build the Perfect Plate of Nachos for Cinco de Mayo
Nachos may flourish in sports bars alongside jalapeño poppers and chicken tenders, but I give them the consideration of a four-star meal. You can’t just dump chips and cheese together and expect crunchy-melty-salty-spicy excellence. After years of experimenting for my annual nacho party (held during one very big football game), I’ve landed on a few rules for each component.
- Yahoo Food
A Doughnut-Muffin Hybrid? Yes, Please
Muffins are so much more than unfrosted cupcakes. From a portable breakfast to a savory dinner side, muffins do it all. These are like a cinnamon-sugar doughnut in muffin form. You’ve been warned.
- Yahoo Food
Overnight Portuguese Baked Eggs
Make the base—an aromatic mix of red peppers, onions, tomatoes, garlic, jalapeño, and spices—the night ahead. In the morning, pop the eggs on top and bake, for a quick brunch.
- Shine Food
Make All Your Pork Chops Look This Good
We’ll come out and say it: Cooking pork chops is not an easy task. But we promise—you can definitely cook a tender, juicy chop, says senior food editor Dawn Perry—as long as you avoid these eight common mistakes. Here’s her advice.
- GQ
In Praise of Rotting Food
Now more than ever, we fetishize that word—fresh. Fresh market vegetables! Fresh fish! It’s imbued with moral goodness. But as Chef Chang explains, rot is where it’s at.
- Shine Food
This Rice Bowl Is Your New Lunch Go-To
If you need a quick, healthy meal that’s ready in a flash, but can’t bring yourself to eat one more chopped salad, take heart:
- Shine Food
The Best Way to Cool Your Mouth Down After Eating Chiles
This year’s Sriracha Week challenge? To test different ways of cooling down one’s mouth after eating something really, really spicy. Goodie.
- Shine Food
We're Seeing It Everywhere: Mushroom Cocktails
It’s one thing to see a trend in Los Angeles and New York, where savory cocktails have become A Thing. Bacon-infused bourbon drinks? Yawn. A barbacoa-tequila number? Sure, whatever. There’s even a whole book devoted to this genre.
- Shine Food
Inside Alaska's Food Trucks in the Middle of Winter
We at Bon Appétit would never unleash another food truck story on your eyeballs without good reason, but when our freelance contributor Jenna Schnuer told us about the food trucks that stay open all winter in Anchorage, Alaska (where she lives year-round), we had to know more about what she dubbed “some serious badassery.”