Sometimes you just want cheese-spread on Ritz crackers. Sometimes you want to serve it to company and sometimes you want to be alone with your schmear-y treat and brown sleeve of crackers. Sometimes you want to make it into a sandwich and grill it up in a pan....
Plump and Tender Shrimp Cocktail
Do you long to be fancy but only in a fleeting way? Like, you'd like to fancy up some parts of your life but not go overboard and start making your bed everyday or anything crazy like that? Then let me say two word s to you: shrimp cocktail. Make it, eat this and...
Cranberry Sauce with Cider and Cinnamon
For my daughter this is the undisputed highlight of our Christmas dinner and one of her all-time favorite foods. I have been making it for years from a photocopy from a cookbook whose title had been cut off from the copy (or "Xerox" as we used to call them. Heh heh....
Dry-Brined Turkey
Photo: Evan Sung for the New York Times I think I'm done searching for the be-all and end-all turkey. Right here, this is it. Probably the best turkey I've ever made and I've made a few. I was a devotee of Cook's Illustrated's wet brine for many, many years and it...





Mmmmmmwahhh! I added about 1 tsp of lemon to bump the flavors up a bit. Thank you for posting this…