In a world with thousands of chocolate chip cookie recipes, this is the one I keep coming back to. It’s perfect when I want a crispy, dunkable, comforting oatmeal chocolate chip cookie that will have ...

After reading and testing several different ones, I decided on the recipe for the thin and crispy oatmeal cookies from Cooks Illustrated (cooksillustrated.com), originally published in January 2008.

I haven’t been consistently happy with my oatmeal cookie recipe for a while. Sometimes they turn out perfectly — fairly flat, chewy and moist in the middle, with crinkly, caramelized edges (not cakey ...

My ideal pancake has crisp edges. It’s plump but not dense, a down pillowlike sponge that can absorb lots of salted butter and just enough maple syrup to tilt everything toward sweetness. Crucially, ...

One Saturday afternoon, we had a houseful of hungry kids, so I thought filling the house (and their tummies) with the smell of freshly baked cookies would be fun. As you know, my recipes must be quick ...

I don’t need a thermometer to know the weather is in bone chilling single digits. A glance at the East Fork of the Little Miami river from my kitchen window tells it all. Still flowing, but very slow, ...

Oatmeal is one of my favorite foods. My mother says she ate a lot of it while pregnant with me, which superstition would dictate is the reason for my affinity. When I was a kid, packets of instant ...

Many people have a strong preference when forced to choose between sweet and savory -- french toast or eggs, cupcakes or french fries, chocolate or cheese? These days, however, the line is getting ...

Nothing like time on your hands. I've been craving cookies these last few months, specifically the cookie-jar oatmeal raisin of my girlhood. But I wanted crisper, chewier rounds. These have less flour ...