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10 recipes found

Tiropita (Greek Cheese Pie)Snacks

Tiropita (Greek Cheese Pie)

Feta and ricotta between layers of filo brushed with butter, one sheet at a time. The work is repetitive and the payoff is a top that shatters.

1 hr 15 minServes 8Medium
Beer-Battered Onion RingsSides

Beer-Battered Onion Rings

Cold beer, a lumpy batter and oil that never drops below 180°C. The bubbles in the beer are doing structural work, so mix it at the last possible moment.

40 minServes 4Medium
Oven-Baked BBQ RibsMains

Oven-Baked BBQ Ribs

No smoker, no grill. Four hours in a low oven, wrapped tight, then glazed and blasted — and one small step at the start that most people skip entirely.

4 hr 30 minServes 4Easy
Lasagne al FornoPasta

Lasagne al Forno

Thin layers, restrained sauce and a béchamel made properly. The failure mode is always the same — too much filling, not enough patience, and a slice that slides apart on the plate.

5 hrServes 8Medium
Crispy Baked Chicken WingsSnacks

Crispy Baked Chicken Wings

Baking powder and an overnight sit in the fridge, and the skin comes out of the oven as crisp as fried. No pan of hot oil, no clearing up afterwards.

1 hr 30 minServes 4Easy
Blueberry MuffinsBaking

Blueberry Muffins

Mixed until barely combined and baked hot to start, which is what throws up the high domed top. A smooth muffin batter is a failed muffin batter.

45 minServes 12Easy
New York CheesecakeDesserts

New York Cheesecake

Dense, tall and barely sweet, baked in a water bath and then cooled with the patience of a saint. Every crack in a cheesecake is a cooling mistake, not a baking one.

2 hrServes 12Medium
Baked Mac and CheesePasta

Baked Mac and Cheese

Cheese grated by hand and added off the heat, so the sauce stays glossy instead of splitting into oily strings under the grill.

55 minServes 6Medium