Morgan Eisenberg, Serious Eats

Morgan Eisenberg

Serious Eats

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Bacon-Wrapped Figs With Blue Cheese and Bourbon Recipe

These quick and easy-to-make hors d'oeuvres are the ultimate mash-up of sweet and salty, creamy and crisp. The combination of juicy fresh figs, rich blue cheese, crisp bacon, and a sweet bourbon caramel glaze gives you a little bit of everything in each bite. → Read More

Your Holiday Table Is Begging for This Warm Butternut Squash and Cheddar Dip

This unapologetically cheesy, creamy appetizer gets its flavor from sweet and nutty roasted butternut squash, caramelized onions, garlic, crispy sage, and a generous amount of melted cheddar. Cream cheese and a bit of sour cream join the mix to make sure everything stays smooth and scoopable. → Read More

Your Holiday Table Is Begging for This Warm Butternut Squash and Cheddar Dip

Roasted butternut squash, sage, and cheese, buzzed up and perfect for dipping. → Read More

Sheet-Pan Cuban Sandwiches Recipe

These sheet-pan Cuban sandwiches feature all of the flavors of the classic sandwich, but in an easy-to-make, party-friendly package. → Read More

One-Skillet Dinner: Chicken Spanakopita Pot Pie

This riff on spanakopita is cooked entirely in a cast iron skillet for less mess and fuss, and merges the Greek classic with elements of chicken pot pie for a creamier, heartier, dinner-worthy recipe. → Read More

Cheesesteak Nachos Recipe

Philly cheesesteaks served as the inspiration for this twist on a platter of nachos, with thinly sliced steak, melted provolone, homemade cheese sauce, and hot peppers standing in for the classic condiments and toppings. → Read More

Slow-Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu Dip Recipe

Who says Chicken Cordon Bleu is reserved for sit-down dinners? Here, we've transformed it into a dip with chicken, ham, and plenty of melted cheese. Plus, by using a slow-cooker, you can make it in advance and just keep it warm until it's time to serve. → Read More

Mozzarella-Stuffed Crispy Baked Onion Rings Recipe

Ultra-crunchy onion rings and melty mozzarella sticks combine to make a bar food mash-up that's out of this world. No fussing with hot oil necessary—these are baked, not fried! → Read More

Smoky Bacon-Wrapped Baby Potatoes Recipe

With a creamy and tender potato center, crisp and smoky bacon exterior, and a flavorful and spicy seasoning, these potato bites will disappear before your eyes. → Read More

Cajun Burgers With Spicy Remoulade: A Holy (Trinity) Marriage

Instead of cooking up plain beef burgers all season, have your hand-ground beef chuck cozy up to smoky Cajun andouille sausage to create patties that ooze with flavor. Replace the typical burger topping trio (lettuce, onion, and tomato) with the NOLA trinity (bell pepper, onion, and celery). Top it all off with spicy remoulade and blue cheese, and don't look back. → Read More

Slow-Cooker Pulled-Pork Chili With Cornbread Dumplings Recipe

For a meal that's perfect for Football Sundays or chilly-evening dinners, make this chili right in your slow cooker. It's not your traditional beef-based recipe, but pulled pork shoulder and tender cornbread dumplings make this version stand out among the rest. → Read More

Reinvent Rice Krispie Treats With Potato Chips, Pretzels, and Stout

Rice Krispie treats aren't good only to those of us nostalgic for our childhoods—they're actually really delicious. But that doesn't mean we can't upgrade them. Here we swap out the puffed rice for salty/savory pretzels and potato chips, then infuse the marshmallow with a bitter chocolate stout and finish the bars off with melted milk chocolate. Childhood snacks are great. These are even greater. → Read More

Mexican Chicken and Waffles: A Mashup of Chicken, Waffles, Nachos, Tamales—Plus Bacon

Take all your ideas of what chicken and waffles should be—all of your reluctance to mess with the soulful original—and toss it all. Now open your mind to this insane concoction that combines the fried chicken classic with nachos and tamales, adding green chili and corn to the waffles and topping them with guacamole, salsa roja, and ancho-honey bacon. → Read More

Honey-Glazed Hasselback Butternut Squash With Parmesan Breadcrumbs Recipe

Butternut squash is thinly sliced crosswise a la Swedish-style Hasselback potatoes, then roasted with a sweet and garlicky glaze and crunchy breadcrumb topping. It's a perfect fall and winter side dish. → Read More

Sometimes Sweeter Is Better: Mini Hawaiian-Style Salmon Burgers

For such little sandwiches, these sweet and ultra-summery salmon burgers boast a huge explosion of flavor. Cooked to a perfect golden-pink, brushed with homemade glaze, and nestled between pillowy buns, they're everything I've ever wanted in a finger food, and more. → Read More

Reinvent Retro This Holiday With A Trio Of Updated Cheese Balls

There is one mid-century dish that does not deserve to be lumped in with the other molds and loaves. It, too, involves processing ingredients until smooth and then molding them into an unnatural shape. It's the cheese ball, and it's actually delicious. But how do we inject some allure into the kitsch? We take away the junk, (I'm looking at you, waxy pre-shredded cheddar,) we use more flavorful… → Read More

Reinvent Retro This Holiday With A Trio Of Updated Cheese Balls

There is one mid-century dish that does not deserve to be lumped in with the other molds and loaves. It, too, involves processing ingredients until smooth and then molding them into an unnatural shape. It's the cheese ball, and it's actually delicious. But how do we inject some allure into the kitsch? We take away the junk, (I'm looking at you, waxy pre-shredded cheddar,) we use more flavorful… → Read More

Upgrade Your Potato Skins With Beer-Cooked Onions, Beer-Simmered Brats, Beer Cheese, and Bacon

One of my go-to Game Day foods has always been potato skins. This time around, we can settle for nothing less that the ultimate champion of skins—the MVP of football feasts. If we're truly bringing our appetizer A-game, we need to mix it up a bit by drafting some beer right into our recipes. Brew-loving brothers and sisters, if you're with me, allow me to introduce an ale-filled appetizer just… → Read More

Easy, Cheesy Chicken Cordon Bleu Dip: A Slow-Cooker Crowd-Pleaser

Like all classic chicken cordon bleu recipes, this dip includes chicken, Swiss cheese, and ham, but those ingredients, plus herbs, wine, and cream cheese, are reconfigured here into an indulgent crowd-pleaser. → Read More

Honey-Glazed Hasselback Butternut Squash With Parmesan Breadcrumbs Recipe

Butternut squash is thinly sliced crosswise a la Swedish-style Hasselback potatoes, then roasted with a sweet and garlicky glaze and crunchy breadcrumb topping. It's a perfect fall and winter side dish. → Read More