Cousin Mike Cooks & More

Homemade marinara sauce is the one recipe that quietly powers half the Italian dinners in this house. Get it right and you have the base...

Homemade garlic bread should be the easiest thing on the table — and somehow it’s the thing that goes wrong most often. It comes out...

Quick answer: If your homemade Italian meatballs keep coming out dense and tough — little hockey pucks — the culprit is almost always breadcrumbs. Dry...

Quick answer: This three meat lasagna is the twist on a classic: most great versions stop at two meats — sweet Italian sausage and ground...

Quick answer: If your homemade mac and cheese keeps coming out grainy, oily, or broken, it’s almost never your fault — it’s the cheese. Two...

Quick answer: The reason most homemade coleslaw turns into a watery, sad puddle an hour after you make it is that raw cabbage is full...

Quick answer: You don’t need a smoker for real pulled pork. A low 300°F oven does the exact same low-and-slow work a smoker does, and...

Quick answer: A great chicken rub does one thing a steak rub never has to — it crisps the skin. The trick is a little...

Every family has that one cornbread, and this is ours. Grandma made it in the same cast-iron skillet for fifty years, and the secret was...

Quick answer: A great steak rub is coarse, built for high-heat crust, and — here’s the trick — it has no salt in the jar....