SnacksTiropita (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
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Snacks
MainsChicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
Beef, not chicken — it takes the name from being fried the way chicken is. Tenderised thin, double-dredged, and served under a gravy made in the same pan.
45 minServes 4Medium
SnacksHomemade Chicken Nuggets
Minced chicken rather than chopped, which is what gives the smooth bite of the ones from a box — except you can see everything that went in.
50 minServes 4Easy
BakingBlueberry 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
BakingVanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream
A reverse-creamed sponge, which coats the flour in butter before any liquid arrives. Less gluten, finer crumb, and a cake that stays tender for two days instead of one.
1 hrServes 12Easy
BakingBerliner Doughnuts
No hole, filled after frying, and marked by a pale stripe around the middle that tells you the lid was on. Germans judge a Berliner by that stripe before they taste it.
3 hr 30 minServes 12Medium
BakingGlazed Ring Doughnuts
Yeast-raised and fried for barely a minute a side, then glazed while still hot so it soaks in and sets to a thin shell rather than sitting on top as icing.
3 hr 30 minServes 12Medium
DessertsNew 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
BakingBrown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Browned butter, chopped chocolate rather than chips, and a rest in the fridge. Three small changes that turn a decent cookie into one worth the oven being on.
1 hrServes 18Easy
SaladsCobb Salad
Everything chopped to the same size and laid out in stripes rather than tossed. The arrangement is the recipe — you dress and mix it at the table.
40 minServes 4Easy
SaladsClassic Caesar Salad
Anchovy mashed to a paste, egg yolk whisked to an emulsion, and croutons fried in the garlic oil. No bottled dressing comes close.
30 minServes 4Medium
BreakfastBreakfast Tacos with Egg and Cheese
Soft-scrambled eggs pulled off the heat while still glossy, folded into warm corn tortillas with melted cheese and a sharp salsa to cut through it.
25 minServes 4Easy