Raw Cranberry Relish

This sassy little something to go with your Thanksgiving turkey requires just cranberries, orange, sugar, booze, and a blender. Nope, it’s not a cocktail.

Parmesan Potato Gratin

We used to get our gratins and escalloped confused. But then we figured out that gratins contain cheese, escalloped just milk or cream. Guess which one we prefer?

Drunken Pumpkin Bourbon Tart

Drunken pumpkin? Punken drumkin? Drumpin punkdrunk? This innocuous seeming slice boasts just a tad more, uh, character than your typical pumpkin pie.

Sweet Pastry Dough

This all-butter, no-fuss pastry crust comes together with ease and flakiness thanks to a little well-worded hand-holding that caters to pastry-making virgins.

Cinnamon Rolls

It never ceases to confound us when something as common as cinnamon rolls turn out divinely inspired. Want to know what we mean? Just make these.

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• 45 M
• 3 H, 15 M
• 15

Pumpkin Lasagne

A lovely labor of love, this lasagna buries fresh pumpkin pasta beneath a classic quartet of cheeses–mozzarella, Gorgonzola, Fontina, and Parmigiano. Might wanna loosen your belt.

Pumpkin Pasta Dough

Spectacular handmade noodles that take their lovely color and subtle flavor from the sweet and vibrant flesh of pumpkin or whatever winter squash you fancy.

Béchamel Sauce

An all-purpose white sauce that melds rich, creamy, and nutmeg-y, béchamel is nothing but milk, butter, flour, salt, pepper, and a pinch of spice. Simple, yes?

Poached Pears with Warm Coffee Sauce

Simply stunning and stunningly simple, these fancy pants pears are steeped in a cinnamon-y syrup & napped with a caramel-y coffee sauce. Grab your spoon.

Autumn Coleslaw

A teetering tower of autumnal goodness that isn’t only stunning to behold but ridiculously healthful given its cabbage and apples and pomegranates, oh my.

Witch’s Brew Hot Chocolate

There’s melting the morning after Halloween, ‘though it ain’t who you expect. Instead it’s a ridiculously indulgent treat to trick kids into drinking their milk.

Caramel Apples

Forget bobbing for apples. Try this equally enticing apple-y endeavor instead. It requires far less effort yet yields way more caramel-cloaked gratification.

Grilled Porcini Mushrooms with Mint and Garlic

Boletus edulis–that’s the fancy-pants name for porcini–is hardly a come-hither sort of name, but with a taste like this, who cares?

Brown Sugar Cookies

These beauties aren’t unlike the classic sugar cookie in terms of ease and appeal, they’re just a littler richer, a little spicier, and a lot less expected.

Pepper Sherry

Plop some hot peppers in a bottle of booze and set it aside for as long as you can resist. What could be easier? And you get bragging rights to a boozy condiment.

Carrot and Lentil Soup

“Beautiful.” “Filled with flavors.” “A tad spicy.” “Simple.” “Perfect!” That’s just a taste of what our testers are saying about this soup. Sort of makes you want some, doesn’t it?

Concord Grape Jam

Words escape us as to just how incomparable this made-from-scratch grape jam is compared to store-bought. But that smile certainly says it all.

Applesauce Bread

Comfort finds us in unexpected ways. And thank goodness for that–or rather, thank goodness for this not-too-sweet, subtly apple-y quick bread.

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• 1 H, 30 M
• 21

Meme’s Cornmeal Griddle Cakes

Shirttail cousins to corn bread, these savory cakes wooed and wowed us with their crisped edges, ethereally airy interior, and pantry-friendly frugality.

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Butter Pecan Affogato

Rich, buttery pecan ice cream usurps the place of vanilla gelato in this riff on an Italian classic. Consider it straight from Venice…by way of Charleston.