Serious Eats
This Week in Recipes

Home Bean: Warm up with Nick Kindelsperger's adaptation of hickory house baked beans.
Fire These Sweet Potatoes: Joshua Bousel ember-roasted sweet potatoes and coated them with a sweet maple cinnamon butter.
Filled Up: Deviate from the rich meats and sugar laced holiday goodies and try Barbara Hanson's stuffed pasta shells with spinach.
Simple Soup: On a budget? Blake Royer perfected a cheap and easy version of potato leek soup.
Cookies Galore: Tis the season to bake a million and one cookies. Test out the all-purpose cutout cookies, linzer cutout cookies or the simple sugar cookies.
Seven and Half Hours Later: Tam Ngo went the extra mile and completed two of Thomas Keller's elaborate recipes from his latest book. Find out how she made the grilled octopus tentacles and caramelized fennel.