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Father's Day Giveaway: Win a Baking Steel!

the one that never showed up

Father's Day Giveaway: Win a KettlePizza Pro 22 Kit

forgetting to make dough Thursday night

Father's Day Giveaway: Win a Jumbo Cowboy Chop Steak

A homebrewed IPA

Bake the Book: Smoke & Pickles

AHT Giveaway: Case of Pat LaFrieda Burgers

Western burger at the Channel in Fairmont, MN

Mole Verde

Would it be better to use dried epazote (which i can get locally) or the substitute noted in the recipe?

Mole-Crusted Fajitas

Cook the Book: 'New York a la Cart'

Al Pastor and Wood Fired Pizza

Cook the Book: 'New York a la Cart'

Al Pastor and Wood Fired Pizza

Better Tacos al Pastor

After trying this and several other similar Al Pastor recipes, my new method of Al Pastor reverses this recipe a bit. I stole the method from America's Test Kitchen's St. Louis BBQ Pork Steak recipe. "http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/recipes/st-louis-bbq-pork-steaks-from-america-s-test-kitchen/article_b669c5ba-ec3e-5a38-8fdf-6c2195ccad8c.html". I simply salt and pepper the pork steaks and then grill them over a hot bed of coals. Then I put the steaks into a aluminum pan cover with the Al Pastor marinade, cover with foil, and braise for 1.5 hours. After the braise, grill again to get the crisp up the edges. My most successful Al Pastor yet!

Cook the Book: 'Classic Snacks Made from Scratch'

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Camp Bacon Gift Box

In a BLT with homegrown summer tomatoes.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Counter Culture Coffee Subscription

black, sometimes with 1/2 and 1/2

Holiday Giveaway: The Amazing Thermapen Thermometer

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: La Quercia's Pork Belly Heaven Package

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Korin Chef Knife

Alice Waters' Olive Oil Fried Eggs with a Crown of Herbs

I love a soft fried egg, I will try this recipe the next time I have some good olive oil.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: The Baking Steel

Serious Eats NY style pizza sauce, mushrooms, red bell pepper, onions, sometimes pepperoni or sausage.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: La Quercia's Pork Belly Heaven Package

sneaking a piece straight to the mouth while slicing cheese for guests

Grilling: Rotisserie Turkey

I really curious about how you trussed and spitted (is that a word?) the turkey pictured. You seem to have the legs extended away from the bird, This seems like a great idea, unless the whole thing wasn't secure enough to the spit rod and forks.

Ask The Food Lab Anything, Thanksgiving Edition

Since you asked me to ask.
I have a 22.5" Weber kettle with the rotisserie attachment and a Weber Smokey Mountain smoker. I have made good turkeys using both (and just in the kettle without the rotisserie), but wondered your opinion on the best method. I leaning toward spatchcocked in the smoker at roasting temp using your salting method.

Competition-style Barbecue Ribs

been smoking St. Louis style ribs for years and I've never been able to make them look that pretty. Of course they don't last long enough for that to matter much.

Ask a Bartender: What's Your Favorite Drink On A Hot Summer Day?

been drinking spiked Arnold Palmers and shandys made with a home brewed light belgium ale and minute maid light lemonade

The Pizza Lab: In Which We Get The KettlePizza Insert Working And Meet Its Maker

I think that the upper grate would be a perfect use for a stack of quarry tile. much cheaper then a stone and less likely to crack (and so what if a couple did crack).
Now how to convince my wife that I need another upgrade to my weber kettle. I just got the weber rotisserie last father's day.

The Homemade Pantry's Coffee Liqueur

I've made a similar coffe liqueur with instant espresso instead of instant coffee and love it

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Pickled Red Onions

About the author: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is the Chief Creative Officer of Serious Eats where he likes to explore the science of home cooking in his weekly column The Food Lab. You can follow him at @thefoodlab on Twitter, or... More

Stir-fried Garlic and Sriracha Shrimp

Although peeled and deveined shrimp would benefit greatly from the simple, but lively glaze of garlic, sugar, lime, and sriracha, this recipe utilizes head-on shrimp which lends a more robust shrimp flavor to the finished dish—just rip off the shrimp heads, slurp out the richness from within, then plop the succulent shrimp bodies into your mouth. The glaze is a little bit sweet, plenty spicy, and will have you licking your fingers before washing everything down with a cold beer. More

The Pizza Lab: Three Doughs to Know

We've gone through a lot of pizza styles and recipes here at The Pizza Lab, but I still often get asked "what's the best pizza crust recipe you know?" When I'm in the mood to fire up the grill or heat up the broiler, I might take my time and make a Neapolitan-style lean dough. If I want to relive my childhood without stepping out my apartment door, it's a New York-style. Company coming over and I want to feed a crowd without messing up the kitchen? It's Sicilian-style square pie all the way. Here's a brief run-down on the three recipes that every home pie-maker should have in their arsenal to tackle all manner of pizza-centric circumstances. More

Cook the Book: Pumpkin Pie with Cinnamon Crunch and Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream

For a very special Thanksgiving-themed episode of Throwdown!, Bobby Flay showed down with Michele Albano of Michele's Pies for a Pumpkin Pie bake-off. As someone who has always preferred pecan to pumpkin when it comes to Thanksgiving desserts, I have to say that Bobby's pie was the best of both worlds. It had the ideal ratio of pumpkin flavor cut with the warmth of brown sugar and molasses. And I'd be happy eating anything topped with that fantastic Bourbon-Maple Whipped Cream and Cinnamon Crunch. More

Should You Cook Your Turkey in Parts?

Here's the problem with turkey: above 145°F or so, white meat begins to dry out. Dark meat, with its connective tissue, on the other hand, has to be cooked to at least 165°F. How do you cook a single bird to two different temperatures? It's difficult at best, and downright impossible at worst, even more so when you consider the variation in shape and thickness of turkey meat, especially on the breast of a large bird. More

Bread Technique: Preshaping Bread Dough

Since The Art of Baking Bread by Matt Pellegrini is technique-heavy rather than recipe-heavy, we're giving you some techniques here that can be applied to your own bread-baking routines. The book has instructions for two different preshaping techniques: the round and the oblong. Today, we're talking about the method for shaping the oblong. More

Nigel Slater's Shrimp with Asian Greens

Once you start becoming accustomed to the flavors of Thai food—the pungency and sweetness especially—hey quickly become addictive. Right now, I can hardly get enough of the rather magical combination of lime juice, fish sauce, sugar, and chile, and it happens to play a major role in this lightning fast recipe from Nigel Slater's Tender. More

Overnight Buns

These were baked on a half-sheet pan, so they snuggled together during rising and baking. If you prefer buns that remain separate instead of the pull-apart kind, you'll need two baking sheets. More

Jeff Koehler's Moroccan Grilled Lamb Kefta Brochettes

I've seen sausage-like brochettes in North African restaurants in the past, but I'd never attemped to make them. I like that it's essentially like making a hybrid meatball and sausage, but with no need for stuffing or casing--and more immediate results. The spice combination and the herbs were also intriguing: nutmeg, paprika, cinnamon and cumin. More

Grilled Coq au Vin

A barbecue sauce made from all the flavors of coq au vin: deep Burgundy wine, earthy mushrooms, sweet onions, and woodsy herbs, caramelized and grilled onto juicy, bone-in chicken. Stew hits summer! More