comfort food

Comfort Food

Chicken Meatballs With Spinach-Walnut Pesto Recipe

Try these beauties from New York's Meatball Shop

May 6, 2013 5:01 pm

These are the sleeper hit at The Meatball Shop and the star in our Chicken Parm Sliders. Find out how to make 'em at home, after the jump...

Comfort Food

Union Square Café Fried Chicken Recipe

A beloved dish from Danny Meyer's first restaurant

Apr 23, 2013 12:01 pm

Photo: Marcus Nilsson

A staff meal at one of Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group restaurants is a far cry from pasta and "leftover whatever." We're crazy about Family Table, a new cookbook we hope will popularize the trend of feeding staff well and reaping the benefits. Here's a crunchy-salty-sweet fried chicken we'd totally order off the menu.

Awesome Sandwiches

14 Oozy, Melty, Stretchy Stories To Celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day

Watch the fine art of the grilled cheese in action

Apr 12, 2013 12:02 pm

With all the spectacular food in this world, why waste a day on date-nut bread? That's right, September 8th, your national food holiday is lame! Not the case with this glorious April 12th, National Grilled Cheese Day. We've rounded up grilled cheese recipes and techniques, grilled cheese-centric interviews and odes and a few of our craziest finds to inspire you. Obtain bread and cheese. Lots of cheese. Lots of butter, too. Then it's up to you to decide what a grilled cheese sandwich means to you.

French Fare

The Ultimate Onion Tart Recipe

French comfort food starring caramelized onions

Mar 19, 2013 12:10 pm

Photo: milkandhoney2012 on Flickr

This recipe that we learned in Normandy always ends up being a huge hit. The entire thing takes an hour from start to finish and your guests will be impressed. Think of onion tart like onion soup, but with a crust. Or quiche, but better. Life just got a little sweeter.

What To Eat: Lunch

Emergency Flu Recovery Lunch: Rice And Dal

When nothing else will save you from flu symptoms

Mar 19, 2013 11:31 am

This meal will stay down more or less no matter what's wrong with you. It's vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, pretty much totally hypoallergenic and made of stuff your body wants to hang onto — easily digestible protein in the form of skinless lentils made even more easy to digest by boiling it into oblivion, and nice soft rice. Got the flu? Eat up, you'll need your strength.

The Game Plan

6 Ideas For Dinner Tonight: Salmon

Healthy, and easy, salmon recipes are on the menu

Feb 7, 2013 1:01 pm

If you want to make fish for dinner, but that's about all you know so far (and you're maybe not great at cooking fish), make salmon. Just do it. It's super easy to prepare and you'd really have to mess it up to end up with a dry, boring piece of fish on your plate. Also, insert health information about Omega-3's.

The Game Plan

7 Ideas For Dinner Tonight: Fried Chicken

Fried chicken recipes for a crunchy dinner

Feb 6, 2013 1:01 pm

Put down the bucket! Step away from the 20-piece. Tonight is homemade fried chicken night, and we've got seven innovative ways to do it. Whether you're going the fiery Korean route, or your plans call for more bite-sized grub, tonight's 7 fried chicken recipes should more than suffice.

FR Test Kitchen

Sausage and Kale Pasta Bake Recipe

This baked pasta recipe is one hot casserole

Jan 9, 2013 4:01 pm

Photo: Mark Shaw

You too can witness the melty stretch of mozzarella as you lift up a scoop of sausage and kale pasta bake. When we're not centrifuging and sous-viding stuff (*we have never done this), we're throwing together comfort food dishes like this homestyle rigatoni casserole full of the stuff we were just going to make separately anyway.