Our Best Guacamole Recipe
Guacamole is a balance of delicate flavors.. A big secret of great guacamole was revealed to us in a small café on the High Road to Taos, where the guacamole…
How to Roast Hatch Green Chiles
On a good late-summer day in New Mexico, you'll smell tortillas being made, green chiles being roasted, and the smoke from burning piñon wood wafting in the air. Or maybe…
Best Shaken Margarita Recipe
I tasted 66 different Margarita recipes (not all at once) and most of them were not good. The slight harshness of lime juice combines with the bite of tequila in…
Best Mint Julep Recipe and Best Bourbon
While Maker's Mark Bourbon, with its wheated sweet taste, remains the popular choice for this Kentucky Derby Day classic, spearmint blends perfectly with the taste of oak from aging barrels.…
Cook Bacon in the Oven
Baking bacon in the oven results in evenly cooked strips at the perfect point between crispy and chewy. It's so much better than frying bacon in a skillet, which usually…
Recipe for French Toast with Black Pepper
Have you ever been so sleepy in the morning that you put the wrong ingredient in breakfast? I've poured cereal into a coffee cup, and cream into a sugar bowl.…
Best Way to Cook Asparagus
Asparagus seems like a pain to cook, and there's even a special pot available to cook it, but here is a way to cook it fast and easy, and the asparagus comes out delicious…
The Best Tasting Tomato in a Store is a Campari
We all know how supermarket tomatoes are picked unripe, to get them to market while they are still attractive. But if you want a tomato that tastes like homegrown, the…
Boil a Better Hard-Boiled Egg
For successful hard-boiled eggs with yellow yolks, rather than unsightly green-edged yolks, cover eggs with cold water in a saucepan, put a lid on the pan, and bring the water…
Scotch & Green Tea
Scotch and Green Tea was originally a way to make the whisky taste better for new Scotch drinkers, but it turns out to be a very refreshing drink. Scotch and…