Montreal Vinegar Slaw from Top 5 recipes of 2025.
What do the top 5 recipes of 2025 (measured in web traffic) on Burnt My Fingers have in common? They’re all very simple, befitting our brand personality as a lazy guy who likes to enjoy good food without a lot of work. Also they’re all delicious.
#1. Halal Guys White Sauce. There are some highly creative copycat recipes for the sauce offered with chicken and rice at the NYC food truck (and now franchised locations). We discussed the (likely intentional) misdirection of these alleged duplicates here and conducted our own experiment here. Our recipe has held the #1 position for several years, making us think folks agree with us.
#2. David Chang Pickles. Want to make the cucumber pickles served with the legendary Momofuku pork buns? You got the recipe right here and you can chow down in just 10 minutes. The recipe was so simple it felt like cheating, so we added a bonus recipe for vinegar pickles, also from this cookbook.
#3 Montreal Vinegar Slaw. Our love of crunchy cabbage preparations only grows deeper as the years pass, and as residents of Saratoga Springs we also have a fondness for all things Montreal with this popular destination an easy three-hour drive on the Northway. This one is tarter than most to cut the fat on the brisket it’s usually served with.
#4 Original Joy of Cooking Buttermilk Pancakes. By far the most complex recipe in this list because you have to melt butter, separate eggs, and beat the egg whites to frothy peaks. But the results are well worth the struggle, especially if you add some New York Dark Amber Maple Syrup.
#5. Vincent’s Cole Slaw. This evergreen recipe held the #1 position for years. It copies the slaw served at a popular seafood restaurant when we were growing up in Dallas. Be sure to read through the 39 comments, including one from the grandson of the restaurant’s founder.
Just missing the cut is Melissa Clark’s Red Lentil Soup, allegedly the only recipe the NYT chef makes exactly the same way every time. But a close reading shows many opportunities for improvising: she tweaks it and so do we.
