I once heard that you can tell a great chef by how well he or she can prepare a simple roast chicken. It’s always fun to play around with haute ingredients, global influences, and esoteric spices, but if you can’t master the simplicity of a crisp-on-the-outside, juicy-on-the-inside roast, then you’re toast. You guys, I think I’ve done it. To be fair, I had some help from this NYT recipe for “Garlic and Thyme Chicken,” but after a few attempts, many edits, and a little bit of

My boyfriend’s favorite candy in the world is the Heath Bar, a delightfully crunchy slab of toffee covered in creamy milk chocolate, a combination that forms a truly satisfying experience of texture and flavor. During the second year of our relationship, I surprised him on his birthday with what quickly became his favorite dessert: a Heath Bar cake of my own design, cobbled together and rearranged from recipes found around the Internet. I’ve had a few years to perfect this co

My boyfriend’s and my lingo for junk food is usually something along the lines of “hot garbage snack.” Because we know whatever dish we’re referring to at the time is about as nutritional as hot garbage. But oh, so delicious. For Super Bowl 50, which we planned to spend at our friend Jon’s house, I wanted to make a traditional hot garbage snack, but something with a twist. Scrolling through my Facebook Newsfeed, I found some inspiration in the form of one of those Buzzfeed re