American Recipes

Serious Eats

Jul 12, 2025

The Tall Drink of Gin You Should Be Sipping All Summer

Simple ingredients, maximum refreshment: The Tom Collins is tall, fizzy, and criminally underappreciated. Here's how to make it.

Food52

Jul 11, 2025

Jeow mak Len (Lao spicy tomato dip) by Careeseeats

NYT Cooking

Jul 11, 2025

Chicken Tenders

These chicken tenders pack a punch, thanks to a generous helping of a savory homemade spice blend, revved up with Cajun seasoning. A spoonful of mustard in the marinade helps the spices adhere, serves as a tenderizer, and lends a slight tanginess. Adding a bit of that marinade to the flour mixture helps create a crust that fries up shaggy and crackly. For a crispy exterior and juicy interior with less oil, this recipe calls for pan-frying rather than deep frying. Pair these tenders with your favorite dipping sauces, and they’re sure to be a hit.

Serious Eats

Jul 10, 2025

Tired of Dry Turkey Burgers? This Juicy Smashed Version Fixes That

Juicy turkey smash burgers get a savory upgrade with Portuguese chouriço and a bold, Mozambique-inspired spiced mayonnaise.

Serious Eats

Jul 10, 2025

This Easy 3-Ingredient Ice Cream Tastes Like a Tropical Getaway

This creamy, bright-tasting mango ice cream comes together in minutes. No machine, eggs, or custard required. The secret? Sweetened condensed milk.

Serious Eats

Jul 9, 2025

Creamed Corn Deserves Better. This Recipe Proves It.

This creamed corn recipe puts real cream back in the spotlight, blending sweet summer corn with heavy cream, sour cream, red bell pepper—and a nod to Midwestern party dip—for a festive, velvety side dish.

Serious Eats

Jul 9, 2025

Stop Grilling Eggplant Wrong—Here's How to Make It Amazing

Get perfectly grilled eggplant every time with smart slicing and judicious use of a quick garlic-chile oil. A cool yogurt sauce tops off these smoky, silky, never-soggy grilled eggplant slices.

Serious Eats

Jul 8, 2025

Peaches, Custard, and Crumble—This Midwestern Cake Has It All

A sliceable custard-filled fruit cake with yeasted dough, this Dakota kuchen is built for sharing, storing, and snacking.

Serious Eats

Jul 8, 2025

Your Favorite Sandwich, Now a Buttery, Crumbly, Oven-Fresh Cookie

Occupying the space between a classic thumbprint cookie and a peanut butter blossom, these peanut butter and jelly thumbprint cookies are a light, just-sweet-enough treat.

Serious Eats

Jul 7, 2025

Meet the Meatiest French Dip Sandwich—but Hold the Beef

A hearty, meatless French dip built on browned mushrooms, melted provolone, and a herby mushroom jus for dunking.

Serious Eats

Jul 3, 2025

This Kitchen Staple Makes Grilled Corn Taste Like Magic (It's Not Butter)

This smoked corn is slathered in mayo before and after grilling—for science and because it tastes really, really good.

Food52

Jul 3, 2025

No-Bake Cheesecake with Biscoff Cookie Crust

Serious Eats

Jul 3, 2025

This S’mores Icebox Cake Is the Ultimate Summer Dessert—No Campfire Needed

Layers of coffee-soaked graham crackers, homemade chocolate mousse, and whipped cream coated in a toasted meringue evoke the flavors and textures of s’mores, no campfire or mosquitoes required.

Serious Eats

Jul 2, 2025

These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake Bars Are a Guaranteed Crowd-Pleaser

These no-bake chocolate–peanut butter cheesecake bars are creamy, easy to make, and perfect for potlucks.

Serious Eats

Jul 2, 2025

The One-Pan Italian Chicken Dish You'll Want to Make Weekly

This one-pan chicken saltimbocca features prosciutto-draped chicken, crisp sage, and a lemony white wine sauce—all ready in under an hour. It's a quick dinner that's worked-all-day impressive.

Serious Eats

Jul 1, 2025

Make This 4-Ingredient Mocha Frappé When It's Too Hot to Function

This easy mocha frappe is cold, frothy, and chocolatey—with no espresso machine required. You're just instant coffee, cocoa, ice, and a shaker (or frother) away from your new favorite summer sip.

NYT Cooking

Jul 1, 2025

Egg Cream

For a truly classic egg cream, the chocolate syrup should be Fox’s U-Bet, and the fizz should be very strong, like the bubbles in seltzer from a siphon. But however you prepare it — and feel free to adjust the proportions to your liking — it makes for a sweet, quick refresher or even dessert on a summer day.

Serious Eats

Jul 1, 2025

The Summer Tiramisu Twist You Didn't Know You Needed

This strawberry matcha tiramisu combines jammy strawberries and earthy matcha syrup with a creamy mascarpone filling—perfect for a make-ahead dessert.

Serious Eats

Jun 30, 2025

The Throwback Strawberry Cake That's Stealing the Show at My Cookouts

This summery strawberry poke cake uses jarred preserves for maximum flavor and ease, plus a whipped cream topping that holds up beautifully.

Serious Eats

Jun 30, 2025

When I’m Drowning in Zucchini, I Make These

These crisp, savory pancakes are the perfect way to use up your zucchini haul.

Serious Eats

Jun 29, 2025

This 3-Ingredient Summer Sauce Is Berry, Berry Good

This silky strawberry sauce recipe is quick and versatile. Drizzle it on ice cream, cake, custards, yogurt, and more.

Food52

Jun 29, 2025

Stuffed Jumbo Shells with Sausage & Pork

If you're looking for an easy, crowd-pleasing dinner that feels like a warm hug, these Stuffed Jumbo Shells with Sausage & Cheese are the answer. This recipe brings together simple ingredients -- ground pork, Italian sausage, marinara sauce, and a cheesy blend -- all tucked into tender pasta shells and simmered to perfection. The beauty of this dish is its flexibility. You can mix in your favorite veggies like spinach, mushrooms, or peppers, or keep it classic and meaty. The filling is savory, cheesy, and satisfying -- and once the shells are stuffed and nestled in sauce, the oven (or stovetop) does the rest. Whether you're cooking for your family, hosting guests, or prepping comfort food for the week, this recipe is easy to make and even easier to love. Serve it with garlic bread, a fresh salad, or just a fork and an appetite -- it's always a hit.

Serious Eats

Jun 27, 2025

This Smoky, Sweet, and Spicy Butter Is Everything Your Corn Needs

Grilled corn is slathered with a harissa-spiked compound butter for a quick, flavorful side that's smoky, spicy, and perfect for summer.

NYT Cooking

Jun 27, 2025

Sour Cream Baked Doughnuts

You’re a mere 25 minutes away from freshly baked sour cream doughnuts when you make them at home. The vanilla and nutmeg in the batter make them taste like your favorite store-bought cake doughnuts, but you can actually enjoy these fresh doughnuts warm, when you make them in your kitchen. Melted butter gives them a rich flavor, and sour cream ensures that the crumb is tender and moist. Enjoy them plain, or with a heavy dusting of powdered sugar. Because these doughnuts taste best the same day they are baked, this recipe only makes a half dozen, but if you’re feeding a bigger crowd, you can simply double the recipe to make a full dozen, baking the doughnuts in two batches.