Finding the right balance of four simple ingredients, paired with a little time, is all that's needed to make an excellent whole grain Dijon mustard at home. More

This elegant salad is perfect for Thanksgiving. The goat cheese and pecans dress it up, and the dressing is one of those salty-sweet flavor combinations that everyone loves. More

I rarely miss an opportunity for rack of lamb, and the herb and breadcrumb coating made this perfectly medium-rare rack exemplary. A masterpiece in my mind, but was it enough to coax a lamb lover out of my lamb-averse wife? More

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I’ve almost given up on crab cakes, because restaurants seem to want to put anything in them—from breadcrumbs to mashed potatoes—but crab. Ironically, Le Bernardin puts its crab-only crab cakes in quotation marks, so as not to mislead the... More