This creamy and dreamy dessert comes together with just a few pantry staples that you likely already have on hand.

It was during a recent class on holiday cooking that the subject of vanilla extract came up. One of the items I made was a trendy salted caramel sauce flavored with homemade vanilla. Well, there was ...

Vanilla suffers typecasting as ordinary. In software, it’s vanilla versus custom. In finance, it’s vanilla versus exotic. In the bedroom, it’s vanilla versus kinky. But vanilla hardly counts as plain.