Messy adventures in the modern kitchen
Sometimes you just need a cake fast. This simple No-Bake Strawberry Cake is an old favorite from grandma’s kitchen — and once you try it, you’ll see why! All you need is four store-bought ingredients and about 10 minutes to whip up a sweet delight that looks almost as good […]
Plantains, or cooking bananas, have been delighting palates since the days of Cleopatra. To eat a banana raw, in fact, is a particularly modern phenomenon. And as much as we love a mildly sweet, mutated modern banana, there is something earthy and magical about this ancient bitter fruit that transforms […]
Flour tortillas don’t typically make the cut when we talk about “authentic” south-of-the-border cuisine, but despite what you may think, corn hasn’t completely cornered the tortilla market in Mexico. For the people of Sonora, a region in northern Mexico, wheat has been a staple crop for hundreds of years. Head […]
This creamy mix of mushroom, shredded chicken and cheese offers a welcome twist on the classic chicken-mushroom casseroles we grew up eating and loving. You have to hand it to 20th-century American housewives for perfecting easy family recipes that don’t burn, and if you value your time and your stress […]