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Slow-Roasted Chicken with Shallot-Garlic Pan Sauce

Cook's Illustrated (January 2015) Let's start the new year on a comforting note. That's right, good ol' roast chicken, a perennial favorite of ours -- and, we're guessing, many of yours. We've done our fair share of roast chickens ...

"I Love You": Herbed Faux-tisserie Chicken and Potatoes

Bon Appétit (March 2014) Let us tell you a story that we love: We're lucky enough to be able to walk to work (our offices are just a few blocks from each other). But some days -- super cold, terribly rainy, running insanely behind fo...

Lemon and Rosemary Chicken (Pollo Arrosto)

Saveur (March 2010) Dear Saveur Magazine: Okay, okay -- we give up! We'll begin planning a trip to Los Angeles ASAP. It's almost as if you knew, in planning your special Los Angeles issue, that L.A. has been on our "long w...

Chinese-Style Poached Chicken with Pear and Orange

Food & Wine (January 2014) It's the beginning of the year, and it's a safe assumption that at least some of you are starting the year on a healthy note (whatever "healthy" means to you). We're not resolutions people (only Clay has ma...

Roasted Butternut Squash with Browned Butter and Hazelnuts

Cook's Illustrated (January/Februrary 2014) We love traveling. By which we mean, we love eating while traveling. Sure, we enjoy exploring foreign cities, wandering through different museums, seeing historic sites and traipsing around...

Roasted Cauliflower and Grapes

Food & Wine (January 2015) Clay was having coffee with his friend Rachel, comparing notes about recent restaurant visits and recipes, when she offhandedly mentioned a recipe she had just made from the most recent Food & Wine: Roasted ...

Orange-Cardamom Roast Chicken

Food Network Magazine (March 2015) We don't think we've ever mentioned this, but one of our favorite TV guilty pleasures is "Food Network Star," the reality competition where chefs compete to host a cooking show on the Food Network. ...

Grilled Chicken Thigh and Cucumber Salad

Food & Wine (June 2015) Are we being Inception-ed by Food & Wine? Leafing through their June issue, we stopped dead in our tracks when we spotted this Grilled Chicken Thigh and Cucumber Salad. It's like the summer dish of our dreams...

Food Network Magazine Cover-To-Cover: All the Recipes in the October 2012 Issue

Part 6 of The Super Awesome Cover-to-Cover Project As you may have heard, we had a little bit of wind and rain in D.C. over the past couple days. We took the opportunity to hunker down and finish pulling together the final installme...

Herb-and-Lemon Roasted Chicken

Food & Wine (April 2008) Every cook seems to have a favorite roast chicken recipe. Ours happens to be the Barefoot Contessa's lemon and garlic version. There are two main things we love about her recipe: It's terribly easy (n...