Dec 30 2025
Tender pork ribs, tangy sauerkraut, sweet onion, and a handful of simple seasonings come together in this wonderfully comforting oven-baked dinner. The ribs cook slowly over the sauerkraut until the meat is tender and richly flavored, while the sauerkraut absorbs some of the savory pork juices as everything cooks. This is the kind of meal …
Dec 29 2025
Few dishes are as closely tied to New Year’s Day in the American South as Hoppin’ John. With tender black-eyed peas, smoky bacon, aromatic vegetables, and fluffy white rice, it is a simple meal with a remarkably rich history. For generations, eating Hoppin’ John at the beginning of the year has been associated with good …
Dec 28 2025
Golden, crisp, and filled with savory seasoned pork and vegetables, lumpia is the kind of appetizer that has a habit of disappearing almost as quickly as it reaches the table. These slender Filipino spring rolls fry up wonderfully crunchy on the outside while remaining juicy and flavorful inside. This pork version is inspired by lumpiang …
Dec 27 2025
Few sandwiches have a sense of place quite like the Philadelphia cheesesteak. Thinly sliced beef hits a screaming-hot griddle, onions soften alongside it, and everything is tucked into a long roll beneath a layer of melted cheese. It is messy, savory, wonderfully simple, and one of America’s most recognizable regional foods. This homemade Philly cheesesteak …
Dec 26 2025
There is something wonderfully dramatic about opening the oven and finding a pan of popovers that have risen far beyond the edges of their muffin cups. Their tall, irregular tops turn deeply golden and crisp while the centers remain light, tender, and almost custard-like. Best of all, popovers require only a handful of basic ingredients: …
Dec 25 2025
Crisp on the outside, wonderfully airy inside, and delicate enough to seem almost weightless, homemade meringue cookies are one of those desserts that look far more complicated than they actually are. The ingredient list could hardly be simpler. Egg whites and sugar form the foundation, while cream of tartar helps stabilize the whipped whites and …
Dec 25 2025
Warm cinnamon rolls are pretty wonderful on their own, but that silky white icing slowly melting into all those cinnamon-sugar spirals may be the best part. Fortunately, homemade cinnamon roll icing is one of the easiest things you can make. This simple vanilla glaze needs just powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, and a tiny pinch of …
Dec 24 2025
A steaming bowl of pozole rojo is one of those meals that feels both celebratory and deeply comforting. Tender pork, plump hominy, and a rich red chile broth create the foundation, while crisp cabbage, radishes, onion, lime, and Mexican oregano bring freshness and texture to every spoonful. Pozole has been prepared in Mexico for centuries, …
Dec 23 2025
A classic pumpkin roll is one of fall’s prettiest desserts: a soft, warmly spiced pumpkin cake wrapped around a thick swirl of sweet cream cheese filling and finished with a snowy dusting of powdered sugar. It looks impressive on a holiday dessert table, but the ingredients themselves are surprisingly simple. The only part that requires …
Dec 22 2025
Tres leches cake is one of those desserts that seems almost impossible the first time you make it. You bake a light sponge cake, pour an enormous amount of milk over the top, refrigerate it for hours, and somehow the result is not a soggy mess. Instead, the cake becomes wonderfully soft, creamy, and moist …
