Every once in a while you stumble upon a culinary trick that changes your life in the kitchen. Learning how to peel ginger with a spoon. Finding out how to save a broken sauce. Figuring out how to ...

I don't know why we only use puff pastry around the holidays. It's such an easy and wonderful thing. Throw a square on top of a pot pie, and now it's elegant. Wrap it around a little sausage and ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Though I like to bake, I don’t consider myself a ...

Making puff pastry at home has always felt a little magical to me. Flour, butter, and time come together to create delicate flaky layers that rise in the oven without yeast or commercial leavening.

Whether serving as a crisp, buttery platform for seasonal fruit or a flaky wrapping for salmon fillet, puff pastry makes everything seem a little more elegant. With the holiday season nearly here and ...

Whether it's mouth-watering dumplings, crispy snacks or on-the-fly desserts, discover 9 easy and inexpensive ideas to breathe ...

If you’re like me, from time to time, you buy a package of puff pastry to make a special treat, use one sheet and then put the rest in the freezer, thinking you’ll bake something else with it someday.