I Tried IKEA's New Plant-Based Meat
Whether you’re a vegan, an omnivore, or swear by steak, it’s impossible not to notice the rise in plant-based grocery products. This new wave of veggie-friendly foods goes beyond the lentils and tofu of yore—today’s vegan foods are sophisticated concoctions, made to look, taste, and even “behave” like meat. You…
Plant-Based Menu Options at Fast Food Chains Right Now
From chicken nuggets to cheeseburgers, there’s been an explosion in plant-based meat-alternative options at fast food chains across the country. This is due in large part to producers like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, who have created incredibly realistic plant-based proteins that look, smell, and taste similar to the real…
Blueberry Cookies Recipe
Homemade cookies are one of life’s great pleasures. And if the recipe for them is easy, calls for a minimal amount of ingredients, is one-bowl, vegan, results in soft cookies, and are literally bursting with fruit in every bite, well then all the better. This recipe for blueberry cookies is…
I Tried the TikTok-Famous Honey Garlic Lemon Pepper Chicken Thighs
I am a proud, bone-in, skin-on chicken thigh enthusiast. I live life with the motto that thighs save lives, and I believe in this sentiment wholeheartedly. The meat is darker, richer, and tastier than any chicken breast I’ve ever eaten, so why would I bother with any cut besides a…
I Tried Ina Garten's Perfect Roast Chicken
I will freely admit to going to somewhat preposterous lengths for roast chicken before; lengths that betray the things I love most about roasting. I have cleaned out my fridge so I could air-chill my chickens in pursuit of ultra-crisp skin. I’ve wet-brined and dry-brined for moister meat. I’ve cranked…
I Tried All the Vegan Cheese Products at Trader Joe’s So You Don’t Have To
I get it, cheese is difficult to give up even when you are severely lactose intolerant like me. The good news is that vegan cheese products have advanced and are more popular than ever. Whether you have an allergy or want to decrease your dairy intake or carbon footprint, a…
The Moments That Defined Food in the 1990s
Remember when everything tasted of strawberry-kiwi, the complexities of Asian regional cuisines were distilled into ambiguous fast-food “Chinese chicken salads,” and you could even have pizza in the morning, pizza in the evenin’, pizza at suppertime, because when pizza’s on a bagel, you can eat pizza any time? The 1990s…
I Tried the TikTok Cinnamon Rolls and They Really Are That Good
I’ve been baking professionally for more than half my life, and devouring baked goods like a ravenous hyena for nearly all of it. (Had I been born with a full set of teeth, that first year of my life would have involved a lot more cookies.) This means I’m a…