Bend and Snap

Use the season's sweet snap peas in a crisp salad

At the risk of sounding trite, if you want to take advantage of late spring’s sweet snap peas, well, you’d better snap to it. The short season for these crisp...

Strawberry Fields Forever

Citrus gets sweet on strawberries

Chris Hanmer is best known for being the youngest-ever contestant to win the World Pastry Team Championship, as well as Season 2 of Top Chef Just Desserts. So it comes as no...

Caesar's Return

This Caesar is no yolk

Caesar dressing is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, whether served drizzled over crisp romaine hearts, as a sauce alongside grilled chicken or in a lunchtime wrap. Making the dressing...

Broiling Point

A broiled eggplant burger that doesn't pretend

No matter how hard they try, most veggie burgers cannot masquerade as meat. That’s why we love our Test Kitchen’s eggplant burger: It doesn’t try to be something...

What a Pisto

A Spanish side meets pan-seared salmon

Dani García first made a name for himself playing with liquid nitrogen and other high-tech gadgetry at his award winning restaurant, Calima in Marbella, Spain. But at...

Peas, Man

When spring peas are sweet, make pea soup

Come late spring when balmy evenings edge into Portland, Oregon, David Padberg, the chef at Raven & Rose, gives hot soups the cold shoulder. Padberg’s savory...