Recipes

Plus: The debate over the correct way to cook pasta, Halloween-inspired meatloaf, and food trend predictions for 2020.?Cosmic Crisp apples, the first apple variety to be bred in Washington, is finally coming to stores in December after 20 years in the making. It's supposed to be a cross between Honeycrisp and Enterprise apples. Last week one person on Twitter said that you h...

Just in time for hot dog season, we reached out to a few of our chefs in Williams Sonoma’s Chefs’ Collective who happen to share our passion for the American icon. Here are their favorite ways to top a hot dog.Ashley Christensen, Chef and Proprietor, AC Restaurants in Raleigh, NCGriddled hot dog + kewpie mayo + American cheese + diced dill pickles + diced tomatoe...

Sweet, bright, creamy, satisfying: There's just something about macaroni salad done right that's impossible to explain to pasta salad haters. But we’re okay with that ?it just means more for us!When a recipe knocks it out of the park, as this one does, it delivers all the flavors you want at once: Creaminess thanks to dollops of sour cream and mayonnaise, a bit of brig...

Outdoor parties call for cold brews! When it comes to beer, the flavor possibilities are endless — but there’s something for nearly everyone. To get you started, here’s an overview of some of the most popular styles of beer, plus serving tips to bring out the best in each one.Lager?All beers fall into two categories, depending on the yeast used: ales and la...

What if you could make a perfect, silky hollandaise sauce using your Vitamix? (You can.)New and longtime Vitamix owners alike tend to, at some point, fall for the gadget so hard that they look for any excuse to use it more often. Maybe smoothies were your gateway recipe, but you quickly found yourself moving to homemade nut butters, pestos, sauces, dressings, ...

Making homemade ramen, with noodles made from scratch, might seem daunting, but it's actually much easier to do than you would guess, especially if you have a Philips Pasta Maker, which can be used to make ramen noodles. You'll need to heat baking soda in the oven for an hour to make the baked soda, which gives the noodles their characteristic springy texture, but you can ba...

While the Instant Pot may go down in history as the trendiest small appliance of all time, we have the humble-yet-game-changing airfryer in a very close second place. You've probably heard that these futuristic-looking machines can help you enjoy fried foods with a fraction of the oil, but that doesn't mean you understand how they work. Or anything else about them, really. E...

Barbecuing seems so easy. You fire up the grill, throw on some meat, and hope and pray for those perfectly grilled char marks (and flavor) in the end. But seeming simplicity can fail sometimes. In fact, sometimes it’s the simpler things that wind up seeming more complicated. Barbecuing is one of those things. It’s simple, but it’s also science, and there ar...

If you're already picking up some stout to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, why not use some of it to braise short ribs, which turn meltingly tender cooked in an Instant Pot? Made with dark-roasted barley, stout lends a rich, deep color and a bittersweet flavor to this rich cut of meat. Serve the ribs with the traditional Irish potato dish colcannon for the ultimate St. Patrick'...

Chef Michael Mina has similar?philosophies on cooking and lifeboth are all about balance. For the award-winning chef, restaurateur, co-designer of the Michael Mina Grill, and cookbook author,?the key to a perfect dish is balancing the four basic flavor elements of spice, sweetness, acidity and richness.Since he’s so well-known for capturing all-American favoriteshe eve...