Molly Baz
Senior Associate Food Editor, Emeritus
A former food editor at Bon Appétit, Molly Baz is a cook, recipe developer, video host, cookbook author, and Caesar salad enthusiast with a lifelong love of cooking, eating, and teaching other people how to cook. She was placed on this earth with one mission: to convince you all that cooking is nothing but FUN, salt is the single most important ingredient in your kitchen, and delicious food is really not that hard to make. For more Molly, check out her cookbook Cook This Book or her YouTube series Hit the Kitch. mollybaz.com
Recipes
Simple Strawberry Shortcakes
You can make this classic summertime dessert with whatever seasonal berries are calling your name.
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3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
This easy peanut butter cookie recipe is streamlined for minimal fuss and they’re flourless, so those on a gluten-free diet can enjoy them too.
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Crispy Smashed Potatoes
And on top? A condiment made up of walnuts, anchovies, garlic, and red pepper flakes that’s the ultimate umami bomb.
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Ants on a Log Celery Salad
A sophisticated take on the beloved children's snack of celery with peanut butter and raisins, this salad is a study in textures with chewy dates, crisp apple, and fresh herbs.
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Molly Baz’s 4-Step Checklist for Saving a Mediocre Meal
Even Molly messes up (gasp!) in the kitchen. Here’s how she fixes it.
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Seared Short Ribs With Mushrooms
When we crave beef but don’t want a capital-S steak, we opt for a smaller cut (hello, short ribs!), then pile on lots of meaty mushrooms.
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Cheesy Winter Squash Gratin
You can make this recipe with nearly any winter squash, but delicata or acorn don’t need peeling and will save you prep time and maybe even a little sanity.
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Brown Butter and Pistachio Sablés
Buttery, crumbly, sugar-glazed cookies that you can make with any nut, really.
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Grilled Vinegar Turkey With Chiles and Rosemary
Our Thanksgiving 2020 cover star turkey is grilled and topped with a zippy chile-spiked vinegar sauce.
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Grilled Leeks With Brown Butter and Spiced Hazelnuts
The glory of these leeks is the contrast between their deeply charred exteriors and jammy, sweet interiors.
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Kielbasa-Cabbage Stir-Fry
The key to stress-free stir-frying is all in the prep work. Be sure to chop, slice, and grate everything before even thinking about turning on the stove. Top this dish with fried eggs to put it over the top, but it’s also great without them.
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Caesar Salad Roast Chicken
When you find yourself with more garlic than you know what to do with, whip up this extra-garlicky Caesar dressing, slather it on a chicken, and roast it to perfection.
Restaurants
This Is the Rotisserie Chicken of My Dreams and I’ll Eat it Five-Times-a-Week If I Want To
At Kismet Rotisserie in Los Angeles, chefs Sara Kramer and Sarah Hymanson put a Mediterranean spin on their burnished bird.
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Blistered Cheesy Peppers
It’s almost silly how easy this dish of impossibly delicious, ooey-gooey cheesy chiles is to execute.
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Anything-Goes Green Goddess Salad
This pick-your-own-protein salad is all about the green goddess dressing, an herby, punchy, creamy green sauce that originated in San Francisco in the 1920s. It's just as delicious as it is versatile: You can use any combo of tender herbs (cilantro, mint, basil, parsley, dill, tarragon, chives), cultured dairy (yogurt, sour cream, buttermilk, labneh, crème fraîche), and acid (lemon juice, lime juice, unseasoned rice vinegar, apple cider vinegar).
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I'm So Passionate About Great Chicken Salad, I Made a Checklist
I'm righting the wrongs done to chicken salad.
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How Molly Baz Developed BA’s Best Chicken Parm—and Lived to Tell the Tale
It was tense, it was trying, it was really really worth it.
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My Favorite (Only?) Way to Escape Right Now Is Making This Seafood Chowder
I may not be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard any time soon, but at least I’ve got this recipe from my favorite fish shack to transport me there.
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Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry With Celery and Peanuts
This one-skillet recipe is fast and furious—ideal for those nights when you have 10 minutes to stand at the stove, tops. The cooking technique is in the tradition of Chinese stir-fry, in which proteins and vegetables are chopped small so that they cook quickly over high heat, then bound together with a cornstarch-thickened sauce.