You Don't Need to Be a Mom to Love These Lactation Cookies

A labor of love No Images? Click here Lactation Cookies While lactation cookies remain untested by clinical trials, leaving us without any sort of hard and fast guidelines for dosage or effectiveness, nursing mothers have long turned to ingredients like oats, barley, brewer's yeast, flax seed, and ginger to boost their milk supply. Meanwhile, ingredients such as cinnamon and macadamia nuts have been anecdotally reported to be galactagogues as well. Whether or not these ingredients work as intended may be up for debate, but there's a delicious logic in bringing them together in a buttery cookie. Anyone could enjoy these hearty malted oatmeal cookies by another name, as they're loaded with macadamia nuts, chocolate chips, and spices. But by calling them "lactation cookies," nursing moms can rest assured that there's one treat in the house no one else will steal. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Oat Flour Commercial oat flour minimizes the need for all-purpose flour, translating to a higher dosage of oat per cookie. Shop Now Other chocolate-y recipes decidedly not for health purposes The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits (McVities) Hello Dolly Bars Super-Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies    Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Last Chance to Win a Free Trip to Turkey!

Airfare included! Kanat and menemen; köfte and salep: these are a few of our favorite things. Turkish street foods are in a league of their own and deserve to be enjoyed firsthand. So we want to send one of you (and a friend!) to try them yourself on a grand tour of Turkey!  We've partnered with Bright Cellars and five other great brands to bring you a seven-night stay in boutique hotels and guesthouses across Turkey, with airfare and local tours included. Click below for your chance to win. Enter Now Bring Turkey to your own kitchen! Turkish-Style Vegan Tofu Scramble (Vegan Menemen) Imam Bayildi (Turkish Baked Stuffed Eggplant) By entering the sweepstakes, I agree to the sweepstakes’ Official Rules. I also agree to receive email communication and special offers from Bright Cellars, Alala, Encounters Travel, The Zoe Report, Girlboss, Serious Eats and Boston Proper. Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Ingredient Guides: Chocolate, Olive Oil, Vinegar, and More

Shop smarter No Images? Click here     Get the Most Out of Every Ingredient We spend a lot of time testing and writing about equipment at Serious Eats. And for good reason! A functional piece of equipment can turn a tricky recipe into a simple one. It should make putting dinner on the table easier—and more fun. But cooking isn't just about the equipment you use. It's about using good ingredients. Below you'll find some of our most popular shopping guides that'll take you through how to buy better ingredients, where to find them, and how to use them, too. For the full list of ingredient guides, click here. How to Buy a Good Bottle of Olive Oil What the label won't tell you.    Our Top 6 Dutch-Style Cocoas​ For hot chocolate, brownies, and more. The Serious Eats Guide to Vinegar Marinates, sauces, and vinaigrettes, solved.   How to Choose the Best Vanilla Extract Go beyond imitation vanilla. The Best Supermarket Chocolate Chips For better pancakes and cookies.   Meet Bottarga: It's Like Parmesan, but From the Sea! What it is, how and where to buy it, and how to use it.  Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe