Nut-Free

Two chicken halves won’t fit in a standard 10-inch cast-iron, so this recipe calls for both a pan and a baking sheet. If you have a 14-inch pan, you can go straight from stovetop to oven.

No blood oranges? Use 4 navel oranges instead, and slice into 5 or 6 rounds, depending on their size.

There’s lots of flavor locked inside the citrus peel, which is why the pros marry the peels with sugar until the fragrant essential oils emerge in a syrupy puddle.

Make any kind of shape you’d like. The cookies can be rounds instead of rectangles, and you can use any smaller cutter for the cutouts.

Sure, this recipe can make standard-size latkes, but the minis are just right for noshing while chatting.

The butter cookie recipe you'll come back to year after year. Pro tip: Using chilled butter and freezing the cookies before baking encourages clean, tidy edges.

Salting draws excess moisture from the cucumbers and seasons them simultaneously.

The intensity of this ganache balances out the other sweeter components in our Bûche de Noël. If you prefer rounder, less sharp flavors, use semisweet or milk chocolate instead of bittersweet.

Upgrade store-bought dough with spicy sausage, torn hardy greens, and dollops of ricotta. Presto: “homemade” pizza night.

For more variations and veggie inspiration, check out our roasted veggie matrix.

For more variations and veggie inspiration, check out our roasted veggie matrix.

For more variations and veggie inspiration, check out our roasted veggie matrix.

Get creative with how you mold the dough; these instructions are for shaping crossbones, but you could also make several small loaves or divide the dough into thirds to make a braid.

Meaty mushrooms compliment nutty, chewy grains in this savory dish.

A vinegar-and-chile glaze adds heat to sweet squash, spicing up the traditional Thanksgiving flavor profile.

Mint, ginger, fennel, and cayenne are known for their digestive properties. Turn this into a spritzer by using club soda instead of water.

You can prep your vegetables ahead of time (store them in a zip-top bag in the crisper drawer), but wait to assemble these at the last minute.

Thick slab bacon is key to this dish. Buy it packaged if you can find it or from the butcher.

When shopping for celeriac, look for firm, unblemished roots that feel heavy for their size, with a greenish hue.

Have yolks left from a recipe? Get curing. Don’t want to wait? Cure the yolks and freeze the whites in ice cube trays.

We transformed the regular hands-on skillet method to a very hands-off oven technique.

You know how sometimes the turkey is dry and there’s not enough gravy? We fixed that by braising dark meat in a robust pan sauce. Ta-da!

Coming soon to a kitchen near you: an escapist fantasy set under the sun, starring spicy-fruity pineapple glazed pan-roasted chicken. This recipe might change the way you look at pineapple forever.

Use the largest skillet you have and a fish spatula—the thin angled edge is just right for helping potatoes release from the skillet.