Samoas

Homemade Girl Scout Cookies: Samoas

These gooey, chewy Girl Scout Samoas, uh, Caramel DeLites, are worth every second they take to make, not to mention every calorie they leave on your hips. (Um, bye bye, skinny jeans.)

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 10
Robert's Absolute Best Brownies

Robert’s Absolute Best Brownies

Absolute best? You tell us. It’s a pretty pretentious name, yet these rich, chewy, chocolate-y brownie bombs from David Lebovitz just may deserve it.

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  • 15 M
  • 30 M
  • 112
confit-pork-belly

Pork Belly Confit

You’ve not truly lived until you’ve had pork belly prepared this way. Perhaps it’s time you get a life….

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  • 45 M
  • 1 D, 16 H
  • 16
Salted Butter Tart

Salted Butter Tart

A ridiculously creamy–and relatively simple–homemade caramel filling graces this properly flaky pastry. Salted butter–lots of it–lends this dessert just the right amount of decadence.

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  • 30 M
  • 2 H
  • 29
Bacon, Egg and Cheddar Scones Recipe

Bacon, Egg, and Cheddar Scones

Rich, buttery, ladylike scones are laden with bacon, scrambled eggs, and Cheddar, making sure there’s gender equality with a manly man breakfast in every bite.

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  • 10 M
  • 35 M
  • 6
Medallions of Beef with Foie Gras and Truffles Recipe

Medallions of Beef with Foie Gras and Truffles

Known as tournedos Rossini, these cuts of beef filet are topped with a slice of seared foie gras and drizzled with an unctuous Madeira wine-truffle sauce.

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  • 35 M
  • 1 H
  • 1
Fastest Cinnamon Buns Recipe

Fastest Cinnamon Buns

Soft, warm sweet buns are riddled with cinnamon and drizzled with luscious cream cheese-buttermilk glaze for extra enjoyment at breakfast.

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  • 40 M
  • 1 H, 10 M
  • 6
Toasted Coconut Ice Cream Recipe

Toasted Coconut Ice Cream

Toasted coconut is swirled through vanilla ice cream rich with egg custard. The coconut, deepened because it’s toasted, beats anything from Good Humor.

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  • 35 M
  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 17
Tea-Brined Mahogany Duck Recipe

Tea-Brined Mahogany Duck

Darjeeling tea, ginger, and star anise are used to brine ducks, or chickens, before they’re roasted over an open flame. Deeply smoky ducks is the result.

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  • 30 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 0
Beef Tenderloin with Shiitakes in Chile-Tomatillo Sauce Recipe

Beef Tenderloin Filets with Shiitakes in Morita Chile and Tomatillo Sauce

In this Mexican recipe, beef is grilled and served with shiitakes in a robust sauce infused with smoky morita chiles. Melted Monterey Jack cheese tops it.

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  • 45 M
  • 1 H
  • 2
Duck Fat-Cooked Fries

Duck Fat Cooked Fries

Dunking fries in duck fat results in gently cooked, soft not crisp spuds that wield a deep, rich duck flavor.

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  • 15 M
  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 4
Brownie Swirl Cheesecake by Alan Rosen and Beth Allen

Brownie Swirl Cheesecake

The highlight of this cheesecake is its chocolate brownie crust and squares of brownies baked into the cake. On top is a swirl of bittersweet chocolate.

German Chocolate Cake

German Chocolate Cake

A dark, bittersweet chocolate cake is layered with a caramel-y filling of coconut and chopped pecans and stacked tall for a dessert to impress guests.

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  • 1 H
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 20

Caramel-Topped Turtle Brownies

Topped with a layer of creamy caramel and crunchy pecans and then drizzled with chocolate, these brownies are cousins of the candies known as turtles.

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  • 40 M
  • 2 H, 20 M
  • 5
Burgers by Rebecca Bent and Tom Steele

Dean Fearing’s Mansion Roadhouse Burger

This grilled burger is adapted from one made by chef Dean Fearing, of Dallas. Few double cheeseburgers pack a beef wallop like this. A real he-man recipe.

Butterscotch Cake

Thankful Butterscotch Cake

What’s with the thankfulness, you ask? For starters, this sleek, sophisticated, tender-crumbed cake smothered in butterscotch and stacked to the heavens.

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  • 45 M
  • 2 H
  • 23
Pistachio Gelato

Pistachio Gelato

An ethereally creamy, subtly sweet pistachio gelato that derives its pure flavor from nothing more than the essentials.

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  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 12

Cassoulet of White Beans, Sausage, and Duck

This cassoulet is filled with plenty of white beans, called flageolet, pork sausage, and duck confit. It’s a hearty cassoulet fit for winter dining.

Chocolate-Coconut Crepes

Chocolate-Coconut Crepes

Lacy crepes, French pancakes, are filled with a creamy bittersweet chocolate sauce and topped with toasted coconut curls and softly mounded whipped cream.

Pappardelle with Slow Cooked Meats

Pappardelle with Amazing Slow-Cooked Meat

A show of hands, please. Who swoons to meat that’s slowly imbued with wine and aromatics and then tossed atop pasta? Just as we thought.

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  • 40 M
  • 3 H, 40 M
  • 29
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