In the Test Kitchen

It hardly feels like the holidays without these pies: pecan, pumpkin, and apple. That said, if you’re thinking about shaking things up, Lan, Bryan, Nik and Lidey dig into three recipes that put a show-stopping spin on the classics to try at your next holiday gathering.

ATK Recipes Mentioned:

Chocolate Pecan Pie

Rum Pumpkin Chiffon

Appeltaart

Other recipes mentioned:

Banana Pudding Pie

Sablé Breton Tart with Cranberry Curd

Lemon Chiffon Pie
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Pancakes can be a canvas for all kinds of flavors and textures. Lan, Bryan, Nik, and Lidey taste their way through three ATK recipes: blueberry pancakes, katayef asafiri, and crepes, to explore what makes a pancake a pancake, and how this humble dish takes on a different character around the world.

Recipes Mentioned:

Blueberry Pancakes

Qatayef Asafiri [kuh-TAH-yef] (Little Birds)

Crepes with Berries and Apricot Beurre Monte
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South Asian cooks were masterfully blending spices long before the Europeans arrived in India, and when Portuguese traders brought chiles from the Americas in 1498, it permanently changed the trajectory of the country’s dishes, including what we now refer to as curry. Over the next 400 years, curry took on a new form in nearly every culture it touched; in Japan, America, and beyond. Nik, Lan, Bryan, and Lidey discuss the evolution of the dish as it crossed the globe.

Recipes Mentioned:

Butter chicken

Kare Raisu (Japanese Curry Rice with Chicken)

Country Captain
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Store-bought snacks offer satisfaction and convenience. But what happens when you pit quick bites against their homemade counterparts? Lan, Bryan, Nik and Lidey explore which snacks are worth the bit of extra effort!

Recipes Mentioned:

Salt & Vinegar Kettle Chips

Beef jerky

Lime pate de fruit
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Red sauce pastas can be built dozens of ways: rich and meaty, silky and tomato-forward, or deliberately burnt and charred. Lan, Bryan, Nik, and Lidey taste their way through three ATK recipes, ragù alla bolognese, pasta alla vodka, and spaghetti all’assassina, to hash out what actually makes a red sauce irresistible.

Recipes Mentioned:

Ragu alla Bolognese

Pasta alla Vodka

Spaghetti All'Assassina
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