Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes

Olive Oil Mashed Potatoes

We swoon to recipes that give us the pretense of being healthful as we douse food in fruity olive oil. Thank you, Lidia Bastianich.

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Amped Up Red Pepper Paste

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Massa de Pimentão Forte

Every Portuguese family has its own rendition of this classic, a pantry staple known as massa de pimentão. Here’s how the Leite family makes it.

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Pickled Jalapeno Peppers

Pickled Jalapeño Peppers

Perhaps not pickled in the traditional American sense, but pickled nonetheless. Wait ’til you learn the stealth ingredient.

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Broccoli Rabe with Roasted Garlic

Broccoli Rabe with Roasted Garlic

Americans may not know how to pronounce broccoli rabe, but Italians sure know how to cook it. You’re welcome. Er, prego.

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Oven-Roasted Fries

Oven-Roasted Fries

Think you don’t need a recipe for roasting spuds? Try this technique, which we think works to a faretheewel. Then get back to us.

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Braised Artichokes with Garlic and Thyme

Braised Artichokes with Garlic and Thyme

You say artichoke. We say carciofi, Italian for “pointy leafy thing that turns meltingly tender when cooked like your nonna knows how.”

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Mock Old Bay Seasoning

Homemade Old Bay Seasoning Recipe

An American classic, this mild spice blend brings a taste of the Eastern Shore too anything, anywhere, anytime.

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Summer Vegetable Gratin

Summer Vegetable Gratin

What to do with late summer abundance? Chef Alain Ducasse’s fancy-pants interpretation of a Provencal classic.

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Pickled Carrots

Pickled Carrots

Perhaps the quickest pickles ever, these tongue-tinglingly tangy specimens come together in minutes. Bet you can’t eat just one.

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Roasted Potatoes on the Grill

Roasted Potatoes on the Grill

This simple godsend of a side dish means not just superbly satiating spuds but a respite from turning on the oven.

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Fresh Carrots and Beets

Salt-Baked Carrots and Beets

Ever swoon while eating your vegetables? That’s what we thought. Next time you desire a side that’s simple yet stunning, try this.

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ketchup-splotch

Homemade Ketchup

A ketchup that attains the smooth, thick texture of bottled while respecting the inherent sweetness and acidity of the tomato.

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Bread and Butter Pickles

Bread-and-Butter Pickles

We’ve no idea where the saying “in a pickle” comes from, though we’d love to find ourselves in a jar of these subtly sweet specimens.

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Oven-Roasted Tomatoes

Oven-Roasted Tomatoes

This shamelessly simple trick transforms disappointingly ho-hum tomatoes into insatiably sticky, squidgy little lovelies.

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Watermelon Salad

Watermelon and Aleppo Salad

Yeah, watermelon juice dripping off your elbow is a swell thing. So is this incomparably elegant yet easy salad that melds sweet and heat.

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Sport Pepper Sauce

Sport Pepper Sauce

A staple down South, these pickled peppers and the hot, hot, hot solution that bathes them have a kick that’s as fiesty as it appears.

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Cantaloupe and Hibiscus Beet Sorbets

Cantaloupe Sorbet

This cooling concoction takes its kick from a shot of vodka and, for those who like to live dangerously, a pinch of cayenne.

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Fruit and Sour Beer Sorbet

Fruity Beer Sorbet

What’s that? Fruity beers are for the girls? Hmmm. Does the same go for fruity beer sorbets?

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Watermelon with Salt

Watermelon with Fleur de Sel

The simplest and most summery dessert we know–complete with juice dribbling down your chin–just got even more spectacular.

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Cantaloupe and Hibiscus Beet Sorbets

Hibiscus Beet Sorbet

Behind that tempting shade of red lurks an oh-so-swell-for-you ingredient whose virtues are masked by hibiscus’ floral lilt.

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