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There’s nothing better than being able to eat dessert while on a keto diet, but even better when you can incorporate easy, no-bake keto desserts with simple ingredients and often minimal prep time. These dessert recipes will definitely come in handy on hot summer days when you don’t want to turn the oven on, or...

Rich, decadent perfect chocolate brownies made with three kinds of chocolate.

Chef Christopher Kimball was the face behind Cook's Illustrated and "American's Test Kitchen." Now he's got a new media company and a fresh take on cooking.

We set out to make a smooth, creamy, cheesy sauce without the bother of a béchamel or custard. Making the whole dish in just 25 minutes was a bonus. Inspired by an innovative macaroni and cheese recipe that calls for adding sodium citrate, an emulsifying salt, to cheese to keep it smooth when heated (instead of adding flour to make a béchamel), we based our sauce on American cheese, which contains a similar ingredient. Because American cheese has plenty of emulsifier but not a lot of flavor…

Learn how to prepare Chicken Piccata from "America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated."

Think this classic of tender meat and rich gravy topped with mashed potatoes is the ultimate comfort food? The cook who has spent 5 hours preparing it might disagree. The traditional version of this dish of meat and gravy topped with mashed potatoes is time-consuming to make, and the end product is a bit heavy for modern palates. We streamlined the process by building and serving the pie in one skillet and by using lean ground beef rather than braised chunks of meat. To keep the meat tender…

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How do you improve upon a classic? By making the beef taste beefier. We found that treating the ground beef with baking soda (so that it retained more moisture when cooked) and then breaking it down to a fine, uniform texture in the skillet delivered a tender, flavorful, and cohesive mixture that stayed put when placed on a bun. Limiting the aromatics to just onion (also treated with baking soda to soften it) made for a beefier-tasting mixture with a rich, luxurious texture. We made…

America's Test Kitchen Lemon Bars