Author: Chef M

Always buy the best-quality steak you can afford. Look for steak from grass-fed British-reared beef that has been hung for at least 28 days. Its flavour and texture will blow you away!

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This simple topping can be enjoyed on a great variety of cakes. It goes particularly well with the Red Velvet Chocolate Beet Cake, Honey Spice Cake, and Gingerbread Cake.

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You don’t see them too often, but butternut squash sandwiches can hang with the great sandwiches of the world the turkey clubs, the BLTs, the tuna melts. It’s all thanks to the squash itself, which is hearty and takes well to almost every flavor (in this case a sweet and garlicky mojo). A tip about working with the mojo: The garlic tends to settle at the bottom of the jar, so give it a stir before you measure it out.

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A Dutch oven is the perfect vessel for making soups that serve a crowd: The wide bottom is great for creating a flavorful base right in the pot, and the generous capacity means you can make a large volume of soup at once. For our classic chicken noodle, we made a streamlined from-scratch broth using chicken thighs instead of a whole bird. Our tasters liked the richness that the thighs added to the broth but preferred white meat in their soup, so we also poached breasts in the broth to shred and stir in. Cooking the noodles right in the…

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A cheesy, bubbling lasagna is the pinnacle of comfort food. We wanted a rich and appealing version that could be made with minimal effort (and minimal dishes), and decided to do everything in our Dutch oven from simmering the sauce to assembling and baking the casserole. We started building a flavorful sauce by sautéing onion, garlic, and red pepper flakes. We then briefly simmered a combination of canned crushed tomatoes and canned diced tomatoes, which gave our sauce just the right consistency. Adding a little bit of extra water to the sauce ensured that the noodles could fully hydrate in…

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