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Explore recipes from celebrity chefs, iconic Chicago restaurants, and your favorite PBS cooking shows with WTTW Food. Discover comfort food classics, restaurant-inspired dishes, seasonal meals, and unforgettable desserts from Luella’s Southern Kitchen mac and cheese to Morton’s legendary key lime pie. And cook along with trusted PBS favorites –America's Test Kitchen, Pati's Mexican Table, and Milk Street, with new recipes added every month to bring WTTW from screen to table.

A Simple, Cheesy Quiche from 'America's Test Kitchen'

Daniel Hautzinger

Celebrate the return of America's Test Kitchen in its twenty-fourth season with this simple, cheesy quiche recipe from the new season. 

PBS Kids' Cheesy Popcorn for Family Movie Night

Daniel Hautzinger

Popcorn is the perfect recipe to try in the kitchen with your children as they test out their chef skills. And with a dairy-free option, this popcorn recipe is meant for everybody.

Our Most Popular Recipes from 2023

Daniel Hautzinger

Sure, some of the most viewed recipes we published this year are summery, but don't let that stop you from making them now and imagining the warm months!

Flying Flapjacks from 'Donkey Hodie'

Daniel Hautzinger

This easy and fun recipe is a perfect introduction to measuring, mixing, and pouring to help your child gain confidence in their kitchen skills.

A Ukrainian Cider Recipe for the Holidays from a Respected Chicago Chef

Daniel Hautzinger

Uzvar is a cider of dried fruits and nuts typically served around the holidays in Ukraine. Chef Johnny Clark, who recently opened a Ukrainian restaurant and named it after his grandma, Anelya, shared a recipe for the warming drink.

A Simple Gnocchi Recipe to Celebrate 25 Years of Lidia Bastianich on Public Television

Daniel Hautzinger

In a new special celebrating Lidia Bastianich's 25 years teaching Italian recipes on public television, she makes gnocchi with her grandchildren, just as she did years ago on her shows. Try her simple recipe.

Teach Your Kid Math with Cupcakes

Daniel Hautzinger

As you bake and decorate a delicious honey cake in this activity from PBS KIDS, look for all the ways you use math.

Chocolate Ginger-Molasses Cookies Great for Kids and Adults

Daniel Hautzinger

It can be difficult to find recipes that please both children and adults, but these cookies from Martha Stewart manage to do so by adding chocolate chunks to ooey-gooey molasses cookies.

A Puerto Rican Holiday Bread Pudding You Can Make with Your Kids

Daniel Hautzinger

In Puerto Rico, budín de pan or bread pudding is typically served during Nochebuena or Christmas Eve. This recipe from PBS KIDS' Jessica Martinez is adapted from her grandmother, who took out the traditional raisins in favor of making the budín like a pineapple upside-down cake.

A Kid-Friendly Fruitcake Recipe

Daniel Hautzinger

Fruitcake may be a polarizing holiday dish, but if you make it fresh at home with your children, it can become a memorable new tradition – and it's easily customizable in terms of what fruit and nuts you include in it.

An Easy Thanksgiving Side of Brussels Sprouts and Apples from 'Milk Street'

Daniel Hautzinger

A simple vinaigrette enlivens this fall side dish from the new cookbook Milk Street Simple that's perfect for Thanksgiving.

A Delicious 15-Minute Recipe from a New Chinese Cookbook Published by 'America's Test Kitchen'

Daniel Hautzinger

Cold Sesame Noodles are one of the simplest dishes in America's Test Kitchen's new A Very Chinese Cookbook, but also "one of the most delicious," says its author Kevin Pang, a Wilmette resident and former Chicago Tribune writer. 

Try a Healthier Longanisa Recipe from Chicago's A Taste of the Philippines

Daniel Hautzinger

The new cookbook We Cook Filipino aims to show Filipinos and others that Filipino dishes can be healthy without losing integrity, as in a recipe for the sausage longanisa from Chicago's Kathy Vega Hardy of A Taste of the Philippines. 

Make the Soup That Started Everything for Chicago's Beloved, Stalwart Lula Cafe

Daniel Hautzinger

Jason Hammel's first taste of his wife's cooking was this cabbage soup. He and she started a soup business before opening the ahead-of-its-time Lula Cafe, now in its 24th year and still one of Chicago's favorite restaurants. A new cookbook highlights its recipes and stories. 

New Cookbook Argues Midwestern Food is More than Casseroles and Cheese. But Here's a Recipe for Fried Cheese Curds Anyway

Daniel Hautzinger

Paul Fehribach, the chef and owner of Big Jones in Andersonville, explores the stories behind Midwestern foods familiar and lesser-known in a new book, arguing that it deserves to be taken seriously. “What I would like to do is present it as a beautiful regional cuisine that has a history," he says. 

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