Peden + Munk

Try this schmeared on toast, tossed with pasta, or dolloped on a baked potato.

Try these sprinkled on peanut butter toast or stirred into plain yogurt that’s been seasoned with fresh lemon juice and salt.

Vadouvan is sweeter and more aromatic than the typical curry, but Madras curry powder will work in a pinch.

Try these anywhere you’d use pickled onion, such as in grain or noodle bowls (like this one with ramen, escarole, and tofu), on roasted carrots, or on a cheese sandwich.

These sugary, salty, fatty almonds are how diners can begin a meal at Jeremy Fox's Rustic Canyon. Thanks to a tactical addition of lavender, your guests will actually talk about them.

Spoon some of this butter over a pork chop during the last minute of cooking.

Charred onions offer the best of three worlds: a slightly bitter taste (in a good way), caramelized edges, and crunchy-sweet flesh. If you want to eat them like potato chips, we won't tell.

The real magic in this roast chicken recipe is in the pool of schmaltz, AKA rendered chicken fat, sizzling in the pan.

Add this harissa to your next tomato sauce or try it with our Roast Chicken with Harissa and Schmaltz.

Spend some time making this, and you'll have an easy, fast way to add nuanced flavor.

Buy good grains and always soak them. They'll cook more quickly and evenly when hydrated, and the soaking liquid can be used in finished dishes.

Like a lighter riff on a classic French onion dip, this yogurt-based dip is just begging for chips or crackers. The texture will make you pause before reaching for sour cream–based ever again. We suggest using low-fat Greek yogurt (we like Fage and Wallaby brands). Fat-free is astringent and chalky, and the richness of full-fat can drown out other flavors.

Dunk cucumbers in this radish yogurt for a satisfying snack or starter. Or spoon some on a plate, throw a fried egg on top, and call it breakfast.

The secret to juicy, tender, delicately steamed white-meat chicken and squash? Going slow.

In Japanese, the word for food is the same as the one for rice. Without it, a meal is not a meal. The real genius of rice is revealed when you think about it in reverse: Add just about anything to a bowl of it and, voilà! you’ve got dinner. But don’t think of it as a throwaway fill-you-up starch. Properly cooked short-grain white rice is a craveable study in subtlety and texture, to be mixed and matched at will.

An easy stovetop method that is quicker than a rice cooker and yields tender, distinct grains that cling gently to each other.

Just like the miso soup you get in restaurants, and we mean that in a good way.

This deep savory dressing makes simply cooked vegetables come to life.

This dashi recipe is the base for countless Japanese dishes. This method requires just 30 minutes to soak the kombu.