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Doughnut Muffins: All the Joy of a Doughnut, None of the Deep-Frying
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May 12, 2025

Doughnut Muffins: All the Joy of a Doughnut, None of the Deep-Frying

Unlike traditional doughnuts, there’s no deep-frying involved for doughnut muffins: All you need is doughnut batter, a 12-cup muffin tin, and a hot oven. Crisp, fluffy, and dusted with cinnamon sugar, these muffins taste remarkably like a freshly fried doughnut.

50m12
This Briny, Cheesy Dip Is a Dirty Martini Lover’s Dream
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May 9, 2025

This Briny, Cheesy Dip Is a Dirty Martini Lover’s Dream

This briny, cheesy dip is inspired by the dirty martini—olives, pimento, blue cheese and all.

1h 15m8
Simple Fiddlehead Ferns
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May 7, 2025

Simple Fiddlehead Ferns

This is the simplest and most classic way to prepare spring's second most exciting forageable (I'm looking at you ramps).

25mServes 4
Creamy, Nutty Za’atar Roasted Carrot Dip
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May 6, 2025

Creamy, Nutty Za’atar Roasted Carrot Dip

Roasted carrots, za’atar, and tahini make this a wonderfully sweet, earthy, and creamy dip.

45m4
The Retro Strawberry Dish That's a Staple at My Potlucks
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May 5, 2025

The Retro Strawberry Dish That's a Staple at My Potlucks

Delightfully salty-sweet, creamy, and crunchy, strawberry pretzel salad is a staple at picnics, potlucks, and holiday celebrations.

5h 45m15
Giant Strawberry Turnover
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May 2, 2025

Giant Strawberry Turnover

This showstopping strawberry turnover is like your favorite toaster pastry, writ large and ready to share. It’s also easy to achieve with flaky layers of store-bought puff pastry, and a jam-enhanced strawberry filling means that it will be delicious even if your berries aren’t top notch. The final flourish is a buttery vanilla glaze, which is just sweet and rich enough to make this giant turnover look beautiful and feel extra special. It’s the perfect centerpiece for a festive brunch and is sure to wow any guests.

1h 15m8 servings
The Ultimate Loaded Nachos, but Fresh off the Grill
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May 1, 2025

The Ultimate Loaded Nachos, but Fresh off the Grill

Take your nachos to the next level with this smoky grilled version. They're loaded with charred onions and tomatoes, blistered fresh chiles, black beans, and mounds of cheese. They’re sure to impress at your next cookout.

1h8
Loose Meat Sandwich
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Apr 30, 2025

Loose Meat Sandwich

The sandwich of choice around Sioux City, Iowa is the loose meat sandwich — think Sloppy Joes without the tomato-based sauce. Here, ground beef and onions are cooked into intensely flavorful crumbles with a few seasonings, then piled high on a hamburger bun with dill pickles and yellow mustard. Sometimes known as a Maid-Rite (named after the restaurant chain that popularized it), a “tavern” or a “canteen,” this is the nostalgic sandwich of a million Iowan childhoods. The recipe easily satisfies a crowd: Just make a double batch of the beef filling, then scoop onto buns until you run out.

40m4 servings
Classic Crepes Suzette Get a Colorful Twist With This Everyday Ingredient
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Apr 29, 2025

Classic Crepes Suzette Get a Colorful Twist With This Everyday Ingredient

Oranges and carrots come together in this fun riff on crêpes Suzette, the classic French dessert.

50m4,12 crêpes
How to Make a Picture-Perfect Cobb Salad
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Apr 29, 2025

How to Make a Picture-Perfect Cobb Salad

This classic Cobb salad recipe hits the sweet spot with just the right balance of hearty ingredients, such as crisp lettuce and bacon, savory chicken and hard-boiled eggs, creamy blue cheese and avocado all tossed together with the star of the show: a tangy vinaigrette. It’s a hearty dinner salad perfect for any night of the week.

15m6
Crispy, Savory Carrot Pancakes, the Japanese Way
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Apr 29, 2025

Crispy, Savory Carrot Pancakes, the Japanese Way

In this easy okonomiyaki recipe, carrots take the place of traditional cabbage, giving the pancakes a sweet, earthy flavor and plenty of crunch.

1h 20m4,1 (8 to 9-inch) pancake
How to Make Tender, Fluffy Biscuits in Under an Hour
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Apr 26, 2025

How to Make Tender, Fluffy Biscuits in Under an Hour

These tender chive and cheddar drop biscuits require zero rolling and chilling—and take less than an hour to make from start to finish.

45m12,12 biscuits
Hotter in the Hamptons Strawberry Spritz with Tinx
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Apr 25, 2025

Hotter in the Hamptons Strawberry Spritz with Tinx

In celebration of Tinx's new book, Hotter in the Hamptons, we developed a refreshing strawberry and St. Germain spritz perfect for summer.

1h 10mmakes 1 drink
This Restaurant-Worthy Pork Tenderloin Brings the Sauces—One Fruity, One Fresh
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Apr 24, 2025

This Restaurant-Worthy Pork Tenderloin Brings the Sauces—One Fruity, One Fresh

Doused with a sweet tart cherry compote and drizzled with an emerald-green arugula sauce, roasted pork tenderloin has never looked better.

1h 30m4
This No-Bake Chocolate Dessert Combines the Best of Brownies, Fudge, and Mousse
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Apr 23, 2025

This No-Bake Chocolate Dessert Combines the Best of Brownies, Fudge, and Mousse

Topped with a shiny layer of chocolate ganache, these no-bake chocolate bars are luxuriously rich and fudgy—and the perfect excuse to not turn on the oven.

2h 10m18
Liven up Your Weeknight Chicken Dinner Routine With This 1 Simple Ingredient
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Apr 22, 2025

Liven up Your Weeknight Chicken Dinner Routine With This 1 Simple Ingredient

A marinade of harissa, honey, orange, and warm spices gives this easy sheet-pan chicken dinner a bold flavor.

40m6
Easy Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
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Apr 22, 2025

Easy Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

The whole point of carrot cake is that, in its most ideal form, it’s a vehicle for cream cheese frosting, a triple stack of fluffy spiced cake, finished with generous swoops of frosting. Baking the cake batter in a half-sheet pan, then cutting the flat cake into three rectangles delivers thin, even layers and skips the hassle of baking and slicing tall cake rounds. To highlight the tang of cream cheese, this frosting includes sour cream instead of butter. It gives the whole thing a fresh lightness, each forkful equal parts tender cake and silky frosting. The resulting cake looks modern with its sharp angles but can still be cut into classic triangular wedges.

2h 20mOne 13-by-5-inch cake (8 servings)
The Strawberry Cheesecake Bars I’m Bringing to All My Potlucks This Year
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Apr 21, 2025

The Strawberry Cheesecake Bars I’m Bringing to All My Potlucks This Year

These silky smooth strawberry cheesecake bars are rich and creamy, and one worth bringing to all your picnics, potlucks, and barbecues.

7h 20m12
Penicillin by Michael Voltaggio
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Apr 18, 2025

Penicillin by Michael Voltaggio

An all-agave riff in the classic Penicillin cocktail, developed by acclaimed chef Michael Voltaggio

10mmakes 1 drink
Carrot Cake Meets Baklava in This Delightful Spring Dessert
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Apr 18, 2025

Carrot Cake Meets Baklava in This Delightful Spring Dessert

With layers of buttery phyllo dough and a spiced carrot and nut filling drenched in simple syrup, this homemade carrot cake baklava is irresistibly flaky and delicious.

3h 35m24
Chicken à la King
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Apr 15, 2025

Chicken à la King

This regal midcentury favorite of tender poached chicken draped in a creamy sherry sauce is due for a revival. Think of chicken potpie filling without the crust, or the kind of banquet poultry served at weddings. Many hotel chefs in the 19th century, including George Greenwald of the Brighton Beach Hotel, claim to have invented chicken à la king, which has as many variations as there are cooks. This particular iteration of the retro dish comes from Craig Claiborne, adapted from a column he wrote for The New York Times in 1969. For the full effect, serve the comforting chicken with toast triangles, as they still do at nostalgic restaurants like Musso & Frank Grill in Los Angeles and Cecchi’s in New York City, or enjoy with rice, noodles or biscuits, whatever makes you happy. This dish reheats beautifully in the microwave or over low heat on the stove.

1h4 to 6 servings
Lemon Layer Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
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Apr 14, 2025

Lemon Layer Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

This soft and moist lemon cake is doubly lemony, thanks to lemon juice and lemon zest, and is soaked in a tangy lemon syrup to further boost the flavor. These cake layers bake up nice and flat, so you don’t even need to worry about trimming them. The cream cheese frosting comes together easily with two simple tricks: Start by blending the powdered sugar with the butter until thoroughly smooth before adding the cream cheese, and be sure to use room-temperature cream cheese so it incorporates easily. (Firm cream cheese can lead to overbeating and liquidy frosting.) Practice your piping skills by using a little bit of the frosting and a star pastry tip to pipe a few rosettes around the border of the cake. If you’d prefer not to pipe, thinly sliced lemons make a lovely garnish all on their own, too.

2h12 to 16 servings
Lemon Pound Cake
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Apr 12, 2025

Lemon Pound Cake

Buttery, moist pound cake gets a lemon lift in this bright and cheery citrus version.

3h 30m10
Iowa Taco Pizza
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Apr 11, 2025

Iowa Taco Pizza

The gold standard for Iowa taco pizza is a crispy, chewy crust with the nostalgic toppings of a school cafeteria taco: a refried bean base, heavily seasoned ground beef, shredded iceberg lettuce that wilts (in a good way!) into the cheese, plump chunks of fresh tomato, briny black olives straight from the can, and a roof of crumbled orange “taco chips.”

5h 10m6,2 12” pies