Category: Recipes

Thin, Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cookies, Desserts, Recipes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS To get a recipe for thin, crisp chocolate chip cookies that would still be tender and flavorful, we had to find just the right ingredients in just the right proportions. We used a combination of light brown sugar and white sugar to get a butterscotch flavor and sufficient...

Wonder Sauce

Recipes, Sauces

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS Our inspiration was tare—a Japanese term for an all-purpose dipping sauce used for yakitori, noodles, sushi, even hot pot dishes. But ask anyone how to make it, and you’ll never get a straight answer. It’s essentially thickened soy sauce and sugar with anything else to make...

Creamless Creamy Tomato Soup

Main Courses, Recipes, Soups, Vegan

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS We wanted a creamy tomato soup recipe that would have velvety smoothness and a bright tomatoey taste, without added cream. We started with canned tomatoes because they had better flavor than supermarket tomatoes and were already peeled. Finding that butter muted the tomato...

Chinese Barbecued Pork

Main Courses, Recipes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS For a Chinese barbecued pork recipe suited to the home kitchen, we started by slicing a boneless pork butt into strips. Our marinade of soy sauce, sherry, hoisin sauce, five-spice powder, sesame oil, ginger, and garlic introduced traditional Asian flavors, especially after...