9 recipes found

Hot Dogs, Three Ways
The cookout essential. Three ways to cook a hot dog at home, plus every regional topping worth knowing: Chicago style, New York style, and the chili dog.

Pancakes
American pancakes are deceptively simple and surprisingly easy to ruin. The technique is counterintuitive: the less you mix the batter, the better the pancakes.

Baked Potatoes Recipe
The baked potato is pure technique — oven heat and time transform a raw starch into something fluffy and crisp-skinned that works as a meal on its own or a side for almost anything.

Home Fries Recipe
Home fries are what you cook when you want hash brown flavour but can't be bothered with the grating. Skillet, hot oil, patience for the crust — that's the whole recipe.

French Fries Recipe
The double-fry is the secret. One fry makes them cooked. Two fries makes them crispy. Skip the second and you've made soft potato sticks.

Grilled Vegetables Recipe
A contact grill or outdoor barbecue adds something a roasting tray cannot — direct char, smoke, and grill marks. Even stovetop, vegetables can taste like summer.

Roasted Vegetables Recipe
High heat, a hot oven, and space on the tray. That's all roasting vegetables requires — and it transforms almost anything into something worth eating on its own.

Mashed Potatoes Recipe
The most forgiving dish in the kitchen — and the one most people get wrong by working it too hard. Mashed potatoes want heat, fat, and a light hand.

Boiled Eggs Recipe
Six minutes gives you dippy. Eight gives you ramen. Twelve gives you hard. Once you know the timing, you're in control.
