Crisp Peanut Butter Cookies

Uncannily crisp, melt-in-your-mouth, shortbread-like lovelies from San Francisco’s Miette that are unlike any other peanut butter cookie you’ve experienced.

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Buttermilk Sandwich Loaf

A fast-rising home-baked white sandwich loaf that tastes–dare we say it?–better than mom’s. Way better. And just wait ’til you toast it.

Crunchy Oven-Fried Drumsticks

Some things never go out of style. They just take on a somewhat newish look now and again. Witness these kid-friendly drumsticks rolled in crumbs of any sort.

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Mom’s Soft-Boiled Eggs ‘n’ Toast

Ideal for lazy weekends as well as harried weekdays, these soft-boiled eggs are cooked to perfection in less than five minutes. You’re welcome.

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Lemon Cucumber Cocktail

A genteel and genuinely gentle sipper for lazy, languid nights–or days–that draws on gin, cucumber, fresh mint, club soda, and the lovely, lovely lilt of lemon.

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Sausage and Chutney Picnic Puffs

This easy-to-make, easy-to-transport picnic fare appeases the robust appetites of gents as well as the dainty sensibilities of ladies. Don’t mind if we do.

Freezer Tomato Sauce

Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. When you’re inundated with ‘em, there’s just one thing to do with ‘em. Make sauce. Then avail yourself of a nifty tip for space-challenged freezers.

Grilled Doves, Portuguese Style

Relax. We’re not suggesting you grill song birds. This recipe calls for a different type of dove. Scout’s honor. You’ll change your tune when you taste it. Trust us.

Grilled Vegetable and Goat Cheese Sandwiches

The quintessential summer sandwich, this stack is stuffed with eggplant, bell peppers, red onions, zucchini, squash, and goat cheese. Open wide.

Smoked Shrimp with Three Dipping Sauces

Shrimp and longnecks. There’s little else a summer shindig requires, except perhaps these three eminently easy dips.

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Grilled Littleneck Clams with Soy Sauce

Well, why not grill clams? It’s a tradition, in tandem with a splash of sake and soy, that’s endured in Japan for centuries. One taste and you’ll understand why.

Grilled Apricots with Gooey Nougat

If you’re a fool for sweet nougat and can’t get enough lovely nectarines in season, just wait until you try them in tandem, warm and fragrant from the grill.

Apple-Onion Chutney

Perhaps the easiest chutney ever, this calls for simply simmering apples, onion, curry powder, tomatoes, and sugar, and then ladling it into jars. See? Easy.

Watermelon Sorbet

No ice cream maker required. Just watermelon, sweetness, citrus, and mint. Vodka optional. Scoop it up, place in pretty bowls, and accept the oohs and aahs.

Liege Waffles

American waffles have nothing over Belgium’s best. Yet as gaufre gourmand Kimberley Lovato explains, you only think you know the real Belgian deal.

Tomato and Green Bean Salad | Tomatosalata me Fasolakia

You don’t have to be Greek for this simple salad of heirloom tomatoes, green beans, yellow wax beans, red onion, feta, and olives to taste like home.

Guinea Hen with Sweet Corn Fregula

Dark-meat chicken lovers, have we got a recipe for you. Actually, we’ve got a new bird for you. It’s called guinea, and once you try it, there’s no going back.

Balsamic Vinaigrette

Not your everyday vinaigrette, this one pushes the amount of balsamic to epic proportions—to great effect. Drizzle with impunity to lend anything oomph.

Ratatouille Pickles

Ratatouille gets sliced, diced, deconstructed, and reimagined thanks to this fashionably brilliant approach to late-summer surplus. Oh, and pickled, too.

Lamb Burger | Bifteki Arniou

Definitely a nonconformist, this beauty of a burger melds lamb, pork, grilled onion, mustard, parsley, dill, fennel, cumin, lemon, and scallion. We dare you.