Cheap beer doesn’t have to taste cheap, and fruity beer doesn’t have to taste like a juice box, especially if you bake with it. These beer blondies are made with a cheaper, grapefruit beer and are so tasty that everyone, even beer snobs, can enjoy...

I can’t get the cakes I make to look like the ones in my head.In there, there’s no effort. I sweep my hands across the counter a couple of times like a weird little frosting magician and there’s a cake. As soon as I try to make a cake in real life,...

Did I see a bunch of ingredients, turn the other way, make a vegan raw green bean salad thing and call it a day? Of course not. You know me too well for that. I put a giant crab cake on a giant buttery slab of bread and added other stuff. Sweet, buttery...

Naming drinks can be a catch 22. Either you come up with something that describes it perfectly but makes you sound like a jerk, or you go with something generic like Grapefruit Gin Spritzer which sounds like it belongs at a book club.It’s even more...

I’ve always agreed with the philosophy, and you should, too, that you can usually trust a national dish. Yes, there is the occasional outlier, and that outlier is usually near some ice caps and involves a kind of fermented dead fish. Regardless, nine...

Certain foods come with a particular level of animosity attached, and apple pie is one of those foods.I love apple pie, but I also understand the mind-numbing process of peeling every single apple each time I shove a forkful into my mouth. It’s one...

I’m not really one for ... “natural” medicine.Sure, I can appreciate a good bowl of chicken soup or a hot cup of Earl Grey when I’m busy blowing my own personal toxic waste dump out of my nose, but that’s about my limit. As soon as you start...