Author name: Genevieve Yam

Red wine poached pears—poire à la Beaujolaise—are a classic French dessert that’s easy to prepare but elegant enough for a dinner party.

After tasting 19 different hot chocolate mixes, we crowned an overall winner we’d be happy to sip on the night before Christmas (or any other night!), plus other worthy contenders.

An investigation into the Honeycrisp apple and how a complex string of events led to a decline in the quality of a beloved apple variety.

Packed with sweet Italian sausage, plenty of vegetables, and plump cheese tortellini, this soup is a quick and easy weeknight dinner.

After tasting our way through 11 different chicken broths, we found one we’d be happy to use in our stuffing, gravy, green bean casserole, and more.

This salty-sweet, spicy, and crunchy Chex mix is perfect for holiday parties or just a session of zoning out in front of the TV. Plus, it requires just five minutes of active prep time and lasts for up to five days, so you can make it ahead for multi-day munching.

After tasting our way through 11 brands of cornbread mix, we found two overall winners we’d be happy to serve at our own Thanksgiving tables, as well as several other worthy contenders.

These tender chicken thighs with crispy skin are bathed in a fragrant blend of soy sauce, brown sugar, and warm spices, evoking the flavors of classic Cantonese soy sauce chicken.

After tasting our way through nine freshly made pies prepared with these frozen crusts, we crowned an overall winner we’d be happy to invite to our own Thanksgiving celebrations, as well as a few other worthy contenders.

Stack layers of crisp, delicate puff pastry with vanilla pastry cream for a pâtisserie-worthy dessert.

Simmers the crepes in the buttery orange sauce, add a dash of liqueur, then set the entire thing ablaze.

This silky-smooth soup is loaded with baked potato flavor.

Sometimes you need something sweet in a hurry, so we put eight brands of boxed yellow cake mix to the test. Here’s our top pick, plus some other worthy contenders.

Many home cooks swear that the “knuckle method” yields the perfect ratio of water to rice, regardless of batch size or size of pot. But how does the technique actually work? And…does it work?

To celebrate the arrival of the show’s 12th season, we put together a list of British bakes—including tender shortbread and an airy genoise sponge—that you can make from the comfort of your own home.

After slicing and tasting our way through the contenders, we found a winning pizza we’d be happy to pop into the oven once or twice a week.

In our most recent taste test, we pulled together 19 brands of canned tuna you’re likely to find in your local supermarket and very thoughtfully tasted each to find the very best one. To be of the most service to our readers, we tasted both canned tuna in water and canned tuna in oil.

Drenched in a sumptuous sauce of butter and brown sugar, sticky toffee pudding is a classic British cake with rich notes of caramel. We got our hands on what is supposedly the original recipe—and it does not disappoint.

After tasting a dozen brownies each, we emerged from a sugar haze to crown a winner we’d happily eat at home.

With layers of tender shortbread, rich caramel, and dark chocolate, millionaire’s shortbread is a luxurious confection worth making at home.

For a no-bake dessert that pays tribute to classic Black Forest cake, layer kirsch-soaked chocolate cookies with chocolate mousse, whipped cream, and cherry compote.

Layer tender cake with strawberry jam and whipped cream to make Victoria sponge cake, an easy, fancy-feeling dessert that’s perfect for afternoon tea.

The hot milk cake is a tender, airy, exceedingly delicious cake that’s almost as delicate as a chiffon cake or genoise, but with just enough heft to feel like a lighter version of a vanilla butter cake.

Make the most of berry season with this easy strawberry compote, which requires just three ingredients and is ready in 20 minutes. Spread it on toast, swirl it into yogurt, and dollop it onto ice cream—or just eat it by the spoonful.

Layers of sweet, tangy lemon curd and savory Ritz crackers come together in this no-bake dessert that evokes lemon meringue pie.