Bones are what you want on Halloween night, and your best bet for plenty of them—along with generous amounts of succulent meat—is beef short ribs.

Cooking by color might not be the surest way to devise holiday-appropriate recipes, but who can resist the lure of black linguine on Halloween?

This obvious choice for a Halloween dessert will far exceed your expectations of deep chocolaty naughtiness hidden under a fluff of espresso-tinged frosting.

Grilling the hot dogs first lends them a deeper, smokier flavor, and the buttermilk-cornmeal coating fries up to a thick, fluffy shell.

Punch is one of the easiest ways to set the Halloween mood—all you need is a cauldron, perhaps, and ice block “hands. ”

Too often crackers get short shrift. Not here. By incorporating cheese into the dough, along with poppy seeds, these crackers become crisp snacks.

Celebrating St. Joseph’s Day at church, many families pay tribute to the Sicilian carpenter saint by sprinkling this flavorful bread crumb “sawdust” over pasta....

The flour you use for fresh pasta determines its texture. All-purpose makes softer noodles, while bread flour or semolina, makes sturdier pasta with more bite.

This butter works the best when it’s prepared ahead. I like to use this seasoned butter on just about everything, from pasta to sautéed shrimp.

This sauce is classic for New Orleanians. Recipes vary, but canned tomatoes can be brought back to life by adding spices and pinch of sugar.