Rachel Recommends

Thai Red Curry with Vegetables

This Thai red curry recipe is so easy to make at home! It's much tastier than takeout and healthier, too. Feel free to change up the vegetables (you'll need about 3 cups total) and skip the kale if you want a more traditional Thai curry. This recipe is vegetarian, vegan and gluten free for all to enjoy. Recipe yields 4 servings.

15-Minute Vegetable Curry

Creamy coconut milk, flavorful vegetable broth, and curry powder come together to create a simple yet delicious vegetable curry.

Vegetable Curry

This packs a serious flavour punch and is loaded with vegetables! I used plenty of variety, but feel free to use less. Just substitute based on volume rather than weight (because vegetable weight/density differs), and adjust the chilli and cayenne pepper to control spiciness, as well as using either mild or hot curry powder. 

The Best Basic Pesto

Homemade pesto is easy to make and so much better than store-bought—perfect for pasta, sandwiches, soups, or the freezer.

JUICY Pesto Pasta!

Recipe video above. This is how to make a great pesto pasta that's slick with pesto sauce without adding tons and tons of oil which makes it overly oily. The secret is using the pasta cooking water - it emulsifies with the oil in the pesto which makes it cling to every strand of pasta. A technique used in every Italian household! Make this with homemade pesto for the best flavour.

The Little Green Salad

This simple green side salad is made with Parmesan and toasted nuts, tossed in lemon dressing. It's wonderful in its simplest form, but you can add my suggested seasonal variations or put your own spin on it. Recipe yields 6 to 8 side salads.

Crusty Apple Pie

Crust lovers, unite! This low-profile apple pie features a thin layer of cinnamon-scented apples between two flaky, sugar-topped crusts.

My Perfect Apple Pie

Recipe video above. Basic Apple Pie recipes just call for piling raw apples in an uncooked pie crust. It will work ... but the crust will have raw patches, be soggy, the apples unevenly cooked and you'll have a giant empty cavity under the pie lid. Hmm.If, like me, that's not good enough for you, make my Perfect Apple Pie! The trick: bake the apples for the filling first and blind bake your crust. Result? Superior flavour, perfectly cooked apple filling, a crispy base and no unsightly gaping cave under your pie lid!NOTE: Saddened to see mixed reviews where the wrong apple types has been used. This recipe is made for Granny Smith Apples! Other apples are not juicy enough or too soft. Please follow the recipe!

Apple Pie

This apple pie has a flaky, golden crust and a cider-flavored filling that takes the classic to a whole new level.

My Best Apple Pie Recipe

With a mountain of gooey, cinnamon-kissed apples nestled under a perfectly buttery and flaky pie crust, this is most certainly my favorite apple pie recipe. To bring out the best apple flavor and texture, pre-cook the filling for only about 5 minutes on the stove. Bake and cool the pie, and then top with vanilla ice cream for the ultimate homestyle dessert. This recipe is also in my cookbook, Sally's Baking 101.

Really Good Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chewy centers, crisp edges, melty pools of chocolate, browned butter and extra vanilla. The kind of cookies you make once…and then forever!

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

These homemade chocolate chip cookies are packed with chips and loaded with buttery flavor. They walk the line nicely between crunchy and chewy: the edges are crisp, while the center is "bendy." Give them a try: They might just be the best chocolate chip cookies you've ever had.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

A few tweaks to the classic Nestlé® Toll House® recipe make this the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever.

Soft Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies

RECIPE VIDEO ABOVE. These may well be the easiest chocolate chip cookies in the world! These are big, soft, buttery and are made without a beater, no creaming butter, no refrigeration required and no rolling the dough into the balls. Adapted from Cooks Illustrated. Makes 13 large or 26-30 small. {This recipe will work no matter which country you live in - see Note 5. High altitude baking - see Note 6.}

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

These super soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies are the most popular cookie recipe on my website for good reason. Melted butter, more brown sugar than white sugar, cornstarch, and an extra egg yolk guarantee the absolute chewiest chocolate chip cookie texture. The cookie dough is slick and requires chilling prior to shaping the cookies. This recipe is also in my New York Times best-selling cookbook, Sally's Baking 101.

JB's Banana Bread

Recipe above video. The wait is finally over! After weeks of testing, tweaking and plenty of taste-testing, my banana bread is finally ready to share. Crispy golden top, caramelised sides, and a soft crumb with big banana flavours that slices like a dream. Let’s go!For metric measurements, click on the "metric" button at the top of the ingredients list.

Banana Bread

Banana bread is oh-so-simple... yet like many simple recipes, requires a few out of the ordinary ingredients to bring it from potentially boring to memorable. A hint of spice, honey for sweetness and moist texture, and one final touch—a few spoonfuls of jam—distinguish this tasty bread from run-of-the-mill versions.

My Favorite Banana Bread

With its super-moist and buttery texture, banana and brown sugar flavors, soft crumb, and 1,000+ reviews, this is a delicious AND undeniably popular banana bread recipe. You need 4 large ripe bananas. This recipe is also in my cookbook, Sally's Baking 101.