Recipes & Menus

The best way to boil corn on the cob is to keep things simple so that nothing gets in the way of the vegetable’s sweet, summery flavor.

The lilac essence comes through this homemade lilac vinegar with a sweet floral scent that lingers just above the acidity.

You can make delicious apple cider vinegar at home, whether you start from store-bought apple juice or already-fermented hard cider.

Inspired by Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda, a fixture in NYC delis, this celery shrub is savory and refreshing.

Pair this sweet, slightly spicy carrot-ginger shrub with vodka or gin, or use it in salad dressing with olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Floral and fruity, with just the right amount of tang, this blueberry-lavender shrub is your new summer fave.

This homemade vinegar recipe works with any type of wine—red, white, rosé, or a mix if you find yourself with open bottles after a party.

With smooth chocolate pudding buttercream sandwiched between layers of moist devil’s food cake, the Brooklyn blackout cake is a dessert fit for chocolate lovers.

Ribbons of raw zucchini take well to the Caesar treatment in this mostly no-cook summer dinner.

Golden sweet-tart lemon bars are like squares of sunshine. And they’re quick to make.

You can think of the chiffon cake as angel food cake’s even fluffier cousin.

Baking these at 400°F results in brownies that are moist and fudgy on the inside with a delicate, thin crust on the outside.

For this towering crepe cake, thin crepes are stacked and sandwiched with an easy pastry cream.

This easy no-cook pastry cream requires no hand-whisking or tempering, and the ingredients don’t even have to come to room temperature.