This is based on Kenji’s pan pizza recipe over at Serious Eats, but adapted to use sourdough starter instead of commercial yeast.

The first proof can take as long or as short a time as you want, but I often find it convenient to start the dough late the night before I intend to bake it and …

Basic buffalo-style wing sauce, with a little brown sugar to help it stick better to wings with no breading.

My favorite hot sauce to use is a homemade one using fermented peppers, but you can use whatever you like or have on hand.

A festive, Italian-inspired holiday loaf. This recipe is somewhat involved, but the results are incredible. As of this writing, it’s the best bread I’ve ever made.

This recipe includes figs and candied orange peel, but you can replace the fillings with any mixture of dried fruit and …

Based on some scones a friend of mine devised in a dream.

For the filling recipe, see my raspberry dulce de leche, or improvise another thick raspberry caramel.

For the raspberry juice, I puréed a bunch of raspberries and strained the seeds out of it.

This is the result of a confluence of me being on a rosemary kick and my mother being on a quest for the shortbread cookies of her youth—solid and crisp when you’re handling them, but sandy when you bite into them. The trick to getting that texture turns out to be replacing some of the flour …

This is my go-to side for a variety of meat dishes, and I’m going to lobby the family to replace the mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving. Don’t know how successful I’ll be there, but I expect to win at least a few converts.