Recipes
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Chicken Fajitas Indoors
Dry, stringy chicken breasts and limp, tasteless vegetables desperately need a truckload of toppings. How about chicken fajitas that taste great on their own?
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Stir-Fried Thai-Style Shrimp with Chiles and Shallots
This dish offers an exotic change of pace from Chinese stir-fries. But who has shrimp paste, tamarind pulp, galangal, and palm sugar, plus three hours to make dinner?
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Tall and Fluffy Mile-High Whole Wheat Buttermilk Biscuits
Tall, fluffy, and tangy, drop biscuits are the holy grail of biscuit making, but they require just the right mix of ingredients and technique.
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Chicken Biryani for a Crowd
Chicken biryani is a complicated (and often greasy) "gourmet" Indian dish. Chicken and rice is a simple, but unremarkable, American one-pot meal. Could we find a happy medium?
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Foolproof All-Butter Pie Pastry for Prebaked Pie Shell
All-butter pie doughs tout great flavor, but they often fail to be flaky and are notoriously difficult to work with. Could we get everything right?
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Chicken Fajitas for Charcoal Grill
Dry, stringy chicken breasts and limp, tasteless vegetables desperately need a truckload of toppings. How about chicken fajitas that taste great on their own?
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Chicken Fajitas for Gas Grill
Dry, stringy chicken breasts and limp, tasteless vegetables desperately need a truckload of toppings. How about chicken fajitas that taste great on their own?
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Vegetable Torta
Could we turn bland and soggy piles of eggplant and zucchini into a rich, savory tart?
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Fettuccine Alfredo
This quintessential Roman dish -- fresh egg noodles, cheese, butter, and cream -- requires few ingredients and little time. Why, then, does Alfredo so often fail?
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Mustard-Cream Pan Sauce
This sauce goes very well with steak.
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Tomato-Caper Pan Sauce
This recipe goes very well with steak.
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Butternut Squash Risotto
This classic Italian dish can be so sticky, starchy, and saccharine that just one bite is too much. We wanted a savory, well-balanced version that would keep us coming back for more.
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Butternut Squash Risotto with Spinach and Toasted Pine Nuts
This classic Italian dish can be so sticky, starchy, and saccharine that just one bite is too much. We wanted a savory, well-balanced version that would keep us coming back for more.
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Chicken Francese with Tomato and Tarragon
This fast-fading star of red-sauce Italian restaurants often features a rubbery coating and a puckery lemon sauce. Yet this quick dinner still holds promise for the home cook.
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Foolproof All-Butter Pastry
All-butter pie doughs tout great flavor, but they often fail to be flaky and are notoriously difficult to work with. Could we get everything right?
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Deep-Dish Apple Pie
We wanted mounds of tender, juicy apples in our deep-dish pie, but first we had to wade through half-baked apples, soupy fillings, and sodden crusts.
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Raspberry Streusel Bars
Sandy, crumbly, and bland shouldn't be words used to describe a raspberry bar. Tender, fruity, and crunchy—that's more like it.
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Chicken Francese
This fast-fading star of red-sauce Italian restaurants often features a rubbery coating and a puckery lemon sauce. Yet this quick dinner still holds promise for the home cook.
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Pan-Seared Inexpensive Steak
Tired of paying $12 a pound for porterhouse or T-bone? We tested 12 'cheap' steaks to find out how to save money without skimping on flavor or texture.
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