Cooking and Cookbooks – Page 31

Summer’s Unofficial Start

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, the start of summer, ready or not.

At Chope’s Town Bar & Cafe, one family has closely guarded a recipe that makes the most of the region’s beloved chiles.

Those luscious berries have a downside: All that liquid can weigh down baked goods, but Melissa Clark has solutions.

To make the chewy Filipino candies called pastillas de leche, you would typically simmer milk for hours. But there’s a faster way.

A dry brine gives you firmer, juicier fish fillets with kettle-chip-crisp skin.