Tray bake
Recipes
Gnocchi baked with corn and a goat cheese heart
A whole round of goat cheese goes in last and collapses into the sauce.
Baked gnocchi under a monterey jack lid
The gnocchi never touch a pan. They go in raw and come out plumped.
Sausage and gnocchi baked under mozzarella
Calabrian chile and capers doing the heavy lifting while the oven does the work.
Pierogies baked under smoky sausage
Everything goes in cold and comes out molten. No stirring, no supervision.
Spatchcock chicken over leeks and greedy bread
One bird on a bed of leeks, and torn baguette underneath drinking up every drop.
Red-lacquered chicken and winter vegetables
Gochujang does the glazing and a quick pickle talks back.
Fiery shrimp and blistered green beans
Green beans blistered black at the edges, shrimp barely cooked through, gochujang over both.
Burnished miso chicken
Miso butter under high heat. The skin turns to amber glass.
Twice-sauced chicken and carrots
The marinade is the workhorse. You are merely decorative.
Chicken and potatoes, salad included
Harissa-slicked, leek-strewn and fully dressed on one pan.
Harissa bolognese, baked in one pan
Bolognese that ran off to Tunis and came back smoking.
Sheet-pan pierogies with kimchi and Brussels
Pierogies and kimchi roasted hard on one tray until both go dark and sticky.
Sheet-pan quesadillas, six at once
The whole batch crisped in the oven while you stand around doing nothing.
Feta under the broiler with corn and shishitos
Feta blistered molten under the broiler, corn underneath, pickled onion cutting through.
Chicken tamale pie from the church-supper canon
A Jiffy-box cornbread drowned in enchilada sauce and piled with chicken. Zero shame, full flavour.
Featured
A ricotta pasta that begs to be messed with
Stir it in a bowl while the water boils, then fiddle until it tastes like yours.
Crispy spanakopita gnocchi
Spanakopita flavors massaged raw, over a cool swipe of chili-flecked yogurt.
Al pastor gnocchi
The crisp spit-roasted edges of al pastor, faked in a skillet. Pork, charred pineapple, a green pool of salsa verde.