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The Best Crispy Roast Potatoes Ever

These are the crispiest, most flavorful roast potatoes you'll ever make.

Sturdy Royal Icing for Gingerbread Houses

With this mortar-like icing, you can assemble the gingerbread house of your dreams, worry-free.

Ultra-Crispy Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder

Pull-apart tender meat and ultra-crisp skin: It's not the most gorgeous roast in the world, but you'd be hard pressed to find one more flavorful.

Easy Dulce de Leche

How to make dulce de leche from a can of sweetened condensed milk.

The Best Slow-Cooked Bolognese Sauce

A few unexpected ingredients and an oven-based technique produce a supremely rich, silky Bolognese.

Sous Vide Steaks

Perfectly even edge-to-edge cooking and foolproof results.

Construction Gingerbread

Build a house that's good enough to eat!

Reverse-Seared Steak

You have to try to mess up this easy method of cooking a steak.

Slow-Roasted Beef Tenderloin

The best cooking method for the most tender cut of meat around.

Crisp-Skinned Spatchcocked (Butterflied) Roast Turkey With Gravy

Stunningly crisp skin, perfectly cooked breast and leg, and a flavorful gravy in one fell swoop.

Old-Fashioned Flaky Pie Dough

This easy pie dough recipe doesn't require special equipment or training.

Perfect Prime Rib

Start low and slow in the oven and finish at 500°F for the juiciest, most flavorful, evenly cooked prime rib roast.

Butter-Basted, Pan-Seared Thick-Cut Steaks

Perfectly cooked butter-basted steak, with a deep brown crust flavored with aromatics.

Sous Vide Salmon

Never overcook your salmon again.

Perfect Royal Icing

Improve royal icing with a few simple tweaks.

Easy Pressure Cooker Pork Chile Verde

Great chile verde flavor in the pressure cooker, with just 15 minutes of hands-on work.

Quick and Easy Drop Biscuits

Just 25 minutes and five basic ingredients stand between you and these fluffy, tender drop biscuits.

Hasselback Potato Gratin

The ultimate creamy-in-the-middle, crispy-on-top casserole.

The Perfect Michelada (Spicy Mexican Beer and Lime Cocktail Recipe)

Add as much (or as little) lime and hot sauce to this light, savory beer drink as you want.

Classic Steak au Poivre

Divide the pepper, then conquer this recipe.

Classic Sage and Sausage Stuffing (Dressing)

Keep it traditional with this sage and sausage dressing.

Sous Vide Turkey Breast With Crispy Skin

All the benefits of sous vide cooking, paired with deep, roasty flavors and extra-crispy skin to satisfy a crowd.

Cajun Gumbo With Chicken and Andouille Sausage

Thick, hearty, loaded with flavor, and entirely customizable.

Fluffy Scrambled Eggs

A fast, easy method for fluffy, diner-style scrambled eggs.

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10 Basic Knife Skills for Thanksgiving Day Prep

Brush up on the basics for the big day.

Kitchen Tips

How to Keep Thanksgiving Gravy Warm (Without Hogging a Burner)

Keep your gravy nice and hot with immersion circulators, slow cookers, and more

Cakes

Calm, Cool, Collected: The Only Way to Jelly Roll

The easiest and most effective method for ensuring a jelly roll won't crack or tear.

Sides

For Better Grilled Vegetables, Use Your Chimney Starter

For grilled vegetables that keep their fresh crispness, cook them over a chimney starter.

Baking

How to Make the Best Holiday Cookie Assortment

How to mix and match cookie styles for the best holiday assortment.

French

Shell Game: How to Serve Oysters on the Half-Shell at Home

For easy entertaining, bring the raw bar home.

Baking

A Crash Course in Mastering Pie Dough

Everything you need to know when making a pie dough from scratch.

Cooking Techniques

How to Cook a Turkey in Parts

Cut it up, then choose your recipe.

The Food Lab

How to Roast Carrots and Parsnips

Nothing like a roasted root.

Kitchen Tips

Why You Don't Need an Expensive Roasting Pan

Steak

The Definitive Guide to Grilled Steak

All your questions about grilling steak, answered.

Chinese

Everything You Need to Know to Make Chinese Hot Pot at Home

Everything you need to know to host a Chinese hot-pot feast at home.

Ham

The Food Lab's Definitive Guide to Buying and Cooking Hams

Don't know the difference between a city and a country ham? Don't know how to cook and serve them? Don't worry; we've got you covered.

Chicken

The Quick and Dirty Guide to Brining Chicken or Turkey

Nothing but the facts: a quick reference guide to dry-brining or wet-brining your holiday turkey for moister, juicier results.

Deep Frying

How to Deep-Fry a Turkey Without Killing Yourself, Indoors and Out

Two methods for deep-fried turkey, indoors and out. Which do you think is safer?

Mashed Potatoes

3 Ways to Make Delicious Mashed Potatoes in Advance

Sour cream mashed potatoes, classic mashed potatoes, sous vide mashed potatoes—whatever the method, here are the best methods for making mashed potatoes in advance.

Cooking Techniques

3 Ways to Make Delicious Mashed Potatoes in Advance

Sour cream mashed potatoes, classic mashed potatoes, sous vide mashed potatoes—whatever the method, here are the best methods for making mashed potatoes in advance.