Simple Cooking

You can put kungpao sauce on everything from eel to venison to tofu, but the one of the quickest and most satisfying canvases is shrimp.

A gâteau quatre-quarts, or four-fourths, traditionally called for a pound each of butter, flour, sugar and eggs. This version of the cake adds vanilla and fragrant citrus extract.

Shanghainese stir-fried rice cakes are often eaten during the New Year because the name of the dish also sounds like “a year of growth.”

These Sichuan-style dry-fried green beans get their punchy flavor thanks to the chile and garlic.

Perfect for breakfast or as a snack, these protein-packed bowls feature all of my favorite bagel toppings.

Transform store-bought lemon curd with mustard and garlic to make an easy glaze for broiled salmon fillets.

These shortbread-like cookies are tossed in a mixture of freeze-dried fruit pulverized with granulated sugar, coating the outsides in a fun blanket of fruity flavor.

Buttery cookie dough and brandy-soaked dried fruit make these Italian fig cookies a holiday must-have.

Store-bought versions are rarely as good as you want them to be. Take matters into your own hands with this step-by-step recipe.

Remember that tin of Danish butter cookies you used to love? These are better.

These air-fryer turkey cutlets are breaded in stuffing mix, but you can easily swap in Italian-seasoned dried bread crumbs, corn flakes, or crackers.

Battered or crumbed? That’s always the question when it comes to the fillets in fried fish sandwiches. With this air-fryer fish fillet sandwich recipe, you can have both.

This Manhattan gets its bright color and sweet pizazz from a little bit of maraschino cherry juice.

Inspired by Chinese savory egg custard, this flan steams on the stovetop for only 15 minutes, taking down the cooking time drastically.

This Thanksgiving condiment celebrates key New England flavors: cranberries, of course, but also maple syrup and apple cider. 

With an air fryer, these bagel chips turn out perfectly crunchy and stay whole, not broken to bits in the bag—all the better to hold lots of dip.

Sweetened with a wonderfully fragrant orange blossom syrup, this cream of wheat cake is simple to prepare with just a few ingredients.

Nobody knows exactly where whoopie pies came from, but we guarantee these marshmallow-stuffed chocolate cakes will go fast.

This take on a poke bowl combines cubes of sashimi-grade raw salmon or smoked salmon with a spicy marinade of Tabasco, sesame oil, and gochujang.