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Sea Bass with Soy Glaze Recipe

Sea Bass with Soy Glaze and Cucumber Salsa

Super simple yet super stunning, this fancy-pants, pan-seared, soy-glazed sea bass with cucumber salsa will rock your world.

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  • 30 M
  • 35 M
  • 10
Red Eye Devil's Food Cake

Red Eye Devil’s Food Cake

This caffeinated incarnation of a classic comprises layers of cocoa-inflected cake and fudgy ganache that take their bittersweet jolt from a cup of joe.

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  • 50 M
  • 2 H, 30 M
  • 26
Fried Egg Sandwich Recipe

Fried Egg Sandwich

Bread. Cheese. Egg. Hot sauce. Five bucks says you’ve already got the makings for this masterful midnight snack sitting in your kitchen.

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  • 10 M
  • 10 M
  • 19
Chili Cheese Fries

Chili Cheese Fries

Dude food with demolish-the-entire-panful-while-standing-at-the-counter allure. Gentlemen, grab some napkins.

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  • 20 M
  • 1 H
  • 14
Grilled Flank Steak Recipe

Grilled Flank Steak With Chile Spice Rub

If you can master this über basic recipe, you can grill a steak waaaaay better than any of your friends. Promise.

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  • 30 M
  • 1 H, 40 M
  • 15
Blueberry Crumble

Blueberry Crumble

Not too sweet. Not too tart. Just right. That’s what we think of this obscenely simple crumble and its come-hither appeal.

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  • 15 M
  • 50 M
  • 17
Katharine Hepburn's Brownies

Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies

Who knew Katharine Hepburn was as agile at baking as she was acting? These brownies make us think she missed her true calling.

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  • 10 M
  • 1 H
  • 16
Grilled Asparagus Recipe

Grilled Asparagus with Sweet Mint Dressing

Go on, dribble this diva of a summer dressing over any vegetable you’ve pulled from the grill. You know you want to….

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  • 20 M
  • 20 M
  • 8
Eggs in Hell Recipe

Eggs in Hell

Eggs in hell? It’s an edible incarnation of Dante’s inferno. Don’t worry, it’s far more fetching than he’d have you believe.

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  • 5 M
  • 15 M
  • 12
Chicken Karaage Recipe

Chicken Karaage | Japanese Fried Chicken

You haven’t lived until you’ve had chicken karaage, which is marinated, dredged, and fried twice until oh so nice.

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  • 35 M
  • 1 H, 40 M
  • 10
Victoria Sponge Cake Recipe

Victoria Sponge Cake

This cake, a nod not just to Queen Victoria but British sensibility, defines the very notion of simple yet sophisticated.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H
  • 17
Refrigerator Jam Recipe

Refrigerator Jam

This won’t bring you the satisfaction of a proper preserving project that’ll last the year. But it will bring you instant gratification.

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  • 35 M
  • 2 H
  • 8
Chile Garlic Sauce Recipe

Chile Garlic Sauce | Nga Yoke Thee Achin

Man does not live by hot sauce alone. That’s why this authentic Burmese hot sauce also has notes of tart and sweet.

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  • 20 M
  • 20 M
  • 9
Chicken Lettuce Cups Recipe

Chinese-Chicken Lettuce Cups

You know how sometimes you try to recreate a restaurant classic at home and it doesn’t work? This isn’t one of those times.

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  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 10
Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe

Strawberry Ice Cream

The tempered sweetness and innate yumminess of this summery ice cream relies on in-season strawberries, not lots of sugar.

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  • 30 M
  • 1 H
  • 8
North Carolina Barbecue Sauce Recipe

North Carolina Barbecue Sauce

This isn’t your typical sweetly gloppy barbecue sauce to squirt onto burgers or dogs. This is thinner and tangier than most and it’s something sorta special.

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  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 16
Smoky BBQ Potato Chips Recipe

Smoky Paprika BBQ Potato Chips

Why bother to fancy up store-bought potato chips when you could just buy them already seasoned? Uh, because you can.

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  • 5 M
  • 20 M
  • 16
Slow Cooker Barbecued Ribs Recipe

Easy Slow Cooker Barbecued Ribs

Easiest. Ribs. Ever. Yet with the same scintillating, fall-off-the-bone goodness as their grill-roasted or smoked counterparts.

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  • 25 M
  • 6 H, 45 M
  • 21
Smoked Brisket with Coffee Recipe

Smoked Brisket with Coffee

Behold, one of the most beautiful briskets you’ll ever pull off your backyard barbecue. Truly. Here’s how.

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  • 30 M
  • 7 H, 15 M
  • 8
Long Island Iced Tea Recipe

Frozen Long Island Iced Tea

Blender drinks don’t get much boozier than this rendition of that raid-the-liquor-cabinet classic. Umbrella optional.

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  • 10 M
  • 10 M
  • 5
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