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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
  • 12
Homemade Limeade Recipe

Limeade | Agua de Limón

More tart than sweet is what you’ll find this perfectly puckery little limeade to be. That’s sorta the point, eh?

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  • 10 M
  • 10 M
  • 23
Twisted Chocolate Toll House Cookie Recipe

Twisted Toll House Cookies

What’s so twisted about this variant on classic Toll House cookies? You’ll have to try these uber crisp chipper champs to find out.

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  • 20 M
  • 50 M
  • 7
One-Bowl Mocha Brownies Recipe

One-Bowl Mocha Brownies

If you’re going to splurge on brownies, you may as well, you know, SPLURGE on brownies. But not in terms of effort or expense.

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  • 10 M
  • 45 M
  • 22
Sichuan Pickled Vegetables

Sichuan-Inspired Pickled Vegetables

No ordinary pickle, this simple recipe with the complex taste will make you forget forevermore the classic Vlasic.

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  • 20 M
  • 20 M
  • 5
Pastrami Sandwich Recipe

Pastrami, Caramelized Onion, and Gruyère Sandwich

Not every stack of meat slapped between some slices of bread qualifies as a proper supper. This one does.

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  • 25 M
  • 45 M
  • 9
Spiced Shrimp with Paprika Mayonnaise Recipe

Spiced Shrimp with Paprika Mayonnaise

This crowd-pleasing spiced shrimp is served hot, hot, hot alongside a dip that’s sigh-inducingly cold.

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  • 35 M
  • 35 M
  • 5
Pigs in a Blanket

Pigs in a Blanket

Without further ado or feigned guilt, allow us to reacquaint you with a long-lost childhood friend.

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  • 20 M
  • 40 M
  • 15
Muffin Biscuits

Alabama Muffin Biscuits

These curiously named, easy peasy, shamelessly simple hybrid hussies may make you swear off roll-out biscuits for good.

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  • 10 M
  • 45 M
  • 32
Roasted Tomato Basil Tart

Roasted Tomato-Basil Tart with St. George Cheddar

Whether you’ve sad-looking plum tomatoes or stunning heirlooms, you won’t regret transforming them into this all-sins-forgiven tart.

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  • 45 M
  • 6 H
  • 18
Indian Corn with Curried Yogurt

Indian Corn with Curried Yogurt

Butter is nice, but we have a hunch you may find this tangy, spicy, cooling drizzle of yogurt, honey, and curry to be just as swell.

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  • 10 M
  • 20 M
  • 22
Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding

Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding

Not a lot has changed since you last had this after-school classic. It’s still simple. And it’s still gosh darned comforting as heck.

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  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 8
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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  • 25 M
  • 3 H, 25 M
  • 6
Lobster Salad Recipe

Lobster Salad

A tumult of sensations, this cool, creamy, simple salad juxtaposes tastes and textures to fancy schmancy effect.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H
  • 7
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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  • 5 M
  • 5 M
  • 8
Barbecued Pork Burgers with Slaw

Barbecue Pork Burgers

A weeknight riff on slow-roasted pulled pig that juxtaposes tangy barbecue sauce, sweet pork, and old-fashioned slaw. All in a jiffy.

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  • 25 M
  • 30 M
  • 24
Blueberry Crumble

Blueberry Crumble

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

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  • 15 M
  • 50 M
  • 15
Lemon Cucumber Cocktail

Lemon Cucumber Cocktail

A gentle and genteel sipper, this libation draws on gin, cucumber, club soda, mint, and the lilt of lemon as a solution to lazy, languid summer nights.

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  • 10 M
  • 10 M
  • 9
Sausage and Chutney Puffs

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.

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  • 20 M
  • 45 M
  • 3
Grilled Vegetables and Goat Cheese Sandwiches

Grilled Vegetable and Goat Cheese Sandwiches

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

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H
  • 11
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