A.A. Newton's posts

For reasons I will never fully understand, the only part of pie-making that anyone tries to hack is by far the…

A hearty stock is the foundation of every great Thanksgiving menu. And if you’re vegan, you can’t do better than the…

Cramming a whole Thanksgiving’s worth of ingredients into an already full fridge can be a physically impossible…

If there’s one downside to freshly whipped cream—an otherwise perfect and surprisingly versatile food—it’s that you…

Water is the enemy of crisp, perfectly golden brown roasted vegetables—which sucks, because vegetables contain a lot…

Allegedly, there’s no wrong way to make a pot of puréed vegetable soup. But I dunno—have you ever made a really bad…

Half the fun of stew season is choosing which carb to serve on the side. As much as I love a crusty loaf of bread…

It’s hard to beat sheet pan meals for convenience. Roasting proteins and vegetables side by side in the same pan is…

Making meat stock on the stove necessitates standing over a boiling hot pot, scooping weird congealed meat scum off…

The greatest gift that home cooking has to give is happiness, and few things make people happier than a slice of…

At some point in the post-Instant Pot recipe landscape, “meal planning” became code for “packing five or six…

Baking a loaf of bread from scratch seems like the quintessential winter cooking project. The coziness of a warm…

At some point in the history of salads, everyone agreed that the correct dressing ratio is one part vinegar to three…

Happy weekend, everyone, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super-simple…

Every cook needs a go-to dessert recipe. Even if you insist you’re really more of a cook than a baker, even if…

In this week’s truly heinous edition of Ask Polly, the letter writer casually describes what amounts to multiple…

There seems to be no good way to get corn kernels off the cob. Most “hacks” involve precariously balancing an ear of…

Making pastry in the summer means fighting an uphill battle against the laws of thermodynamics. Even when you’ve…

We’ve officially reached Peak Summer Produce, which means we’re all desperate for a new angle on mountains of…

“The Pill” is not a monolith: there are hundreds of birth control pills out there, and they’re not all the same. But…