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We’re here to help make mealtime more delicious, memorable, and achievable—with expert advice from our Test Kitchen, grocery store taste tests, curated recipe collections, reader-favorite columns like Feel-Good Food Plan and Fourth Trimester, and more.
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There's No Better Time to… Make Yourself a Bedtime Elixir
It's the equivalent of leaving the office.
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Make the Most of Allium Hype—Er, Season—With These 5 Recipes
Garlic, onions, ramps, and leeks get their time in the spotlight.
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This One-Size-Fits-All Lid is Perfect For Clutter Haters and Kitchen Minimalists
And yes, it's better than a baking sheet.
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10 Tips For Keeping Produce Fresh Until Your Next Trip to the Grocery Store
Because it's going to be a while.
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There's No Better Time to… Stock Your Freezer With Homemade Dumplings
That cooking skill you’ve been meaning to master? Now's your chance.
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16 Helpful Tips for Home Cooks of Any Level
A few PSAs on freezing, reheating, refrigerating, and cooking—including, of course, dried beans.
Lifestyle
How to Turn One Blender Sauce Into a Week’s-Worth of Delicious Meals
We’d eat just about anything with this spicy cashew dressing drizzled on top.
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86 Comfort Foods for Cold Nights, Broken Hearts, and Wednesdays
Meaty pastas, velvety vegetables, and more cozy recipes to curl up with.
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Line Your Pan with Parchment Overhang, Make Life a Smidge Easier
You’ve got better things to worry about than stuck-on cookie bits.
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5 Rules For Making the Best Pasta, From a True Pasta Master
Wise words from chef Evan Funke, plus five of his must-make recipes to boot.
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89 Ways to Cook With Root Veggies That Beat Regular Old Roasting
Carrots, beets, and potatoes have way more to offer.
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Cooking at Home in the Time of Coronavirus
The recipes and cooking resources to help get you through.
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Don’t Stress Over Caramel When You Can Make Butterscotch Instead
A case for caramel's low-key cousin.
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You Don’t Need a Recipe to Make a Damn Good Smoothie
The BA Test Kitchen’s Smoo Crew shows us the way.
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Why I'm Still Having Happy Hour, Even At a Distance
I can't tell 10 a.m. from 2 p.m., but I do know when it's time for a drink.
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92 Cooking Projects to Keep You Busy and Extremely Well Fed
Steaming soup dumplings, fluffy milk bread, and more cooking adventures to get fully consumed by.
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17 Recipes Nearly As Comforting As FaceTiming Your Best Friend
Give yourself a big hug and get cooking.
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15 Quick Pasta Recipes for When You Need Noodles Now
The question, of course, is “What's for dinner?”
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81 Leftover-Friendly Recipes to Get You Through the Week
They’re the kind of meals you’ll want to enjoy again—and again.
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13 Recipes That Prove That Where There's a Bean, There's Dinner
How many beans is too many beans? (Asking for a friend.)
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My Most-Requested Recipe Starts With a Bag of Frozen Peas
It's so easy, I'm almost embarrassed to share.
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I’ll Be Baking A LOT Over the Next Few Weeks—Here’s My Plan to Keep It Under Control
I'm giving myself one non-negotiable rule.
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29 Healthyish Chickpea Recipes Here for Your Weeknight Dinners
Hangry? Broke? Chickpeas are here for you.
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An Asparagus Stir-Fry That’ll Get the Whole Family to the Table
Deb Perelman’s kids and husband all like varying degrees of spiciness in their food. This dinner manages to satisfy them all.
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3 Things to Make You Feel Better About Cooking at Home
Finding relief, and release, in front of the stove.
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15 Comforting Recipes the BA Staff Is Cooking This Week
It’s all about making the foods that makes us feel better.
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6 Very Good Things to Eat Right Now
We asked a holistic health practitioner which foods she's reaching for to feel well.
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How to Make Flaky Bakery-Style Biscuits at Home
They've got more layers than that poem you had to analyze in high school.
Lifestyle
When I’m Feeling Chaotic, Gentle Food is There for Me
Cooking helps me hang up my swirling thoughts at the door and instead focus on small tasks.
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You Might Have Everything in Your Pantry to Make Tahini Brownies This Weekend
Plus a photo series called “regular-sized people, over-sized food” and more from the Beggs newsletter.
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36 Tinned Fish Recipes, Because Big Flavor Comes in Small Packages
If you have tuna, sardines, and anchovies in your pantry, you're partway to a meal.
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Steamed Eggs Might Be For Actual Babies But I'll Never Stop Making Them For Myself
Tastes like creamy, custardy nostalgia.
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Cocoa Powder is the Secret to Superior Brownies
We picked apart every element of these brownies—but the cocoa powder was never in question.
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Meal Prep These 97 Big-Batch Recipes and Eat Well All Week
A little extra work on the weekend means you can eat well for days.
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Soup, Tea, and Other Nourishing Recipes to Help You Feel Well
All the recipes we reach for when we’re feeling down or under the weather.
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68 Homemade Pasta Sauce Recipes That Aren't Marinara
These non-marinara, creative pasta recipes will come in handy when you want to give red sauce a rest.
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How to Make Your Own Double Boiler
There are lots of kitchen tools we encourage you to buy—this isn't one of them.
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73 Vegetarian Pasta Recipes So You Can Eat Your Veggies
Meat? We hardly miss it in these satisfying vegetarian pasta recipes.
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Six Days of the Year I've Got My Life Together. On Every Other, I've Got Smashed Chickpea Salad
It loves me at my best and props me up at my worst.
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French Onion…Beef Noodle Soup?
There’s a special satisfaction in taking the star ingredient of a dish you could take or leave and shoehorning it into one you already adore with a passion.
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43 Ways to Cook With Canned Tomatoes, Your Pantry Hero
There’s so much you can do with this workhorse staple ingredient.
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43 Tomato Sauce Recipes for All Your Pasta-Adjacent Needs
Whether you're looking for ways to doctor up canned tomatoes or use summer's ripest fruits to top pasta, fish, chicken, and more, your new favorite tomato sauce recipe is here.
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71 Creative Rice Recipes for Our Favorite Pantry Staple
These 71 dinner recipes with rice are nutritious and easy to make.
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The Ingredient That Takes Shortbread From Meh to Marvelous
It's better than butter and sugar. (Yes, we said it.)
Lifestyle
A Giant Pancake, Vietnamese Soup, and More From Christina Chaey's Kitchen
Peek inside Chaey's week of home cooked meals, including her very official Bean Strategy™
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The Most Popular Recipes in February 2020
One-pot gingery chicken thighs, ultra-tender caramelized cabbage, and more recipes readers swooned for this month.
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5 Very Smart Ways to Use Frozen Hash Browns
When you just can't deal with scrubbing, peeling, grating, or boiling.
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This Cheesy Baked Pasta Was Designed For Children—I Feed It To My Adult Friends
When everyone I'm hosting has allergies and dietary restrictions, I make this.
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This 4-Ingredient Amaro Spritz Is Your Ultimate Pre-Dinner Drink
Meet (and memorize) the Lil' Ripper.
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Vegetarian Cooking Can Feel Hard, But This Crispy Tofu Is Easy
I felt like Goldilocks trying to find the perfect tofu recipe, but this one is juuuuuust right.