budget | cheap eats

This smoked pork shoulder with its simple and soulful dry rub and foolproof instructions mean no more standing in line ever again for takeout ‘cue. Here’s how to make it at home.

• 1 H, 15 M
• 22 H
• 6

This tangy vinegar-based barbecue sauce, typical of eastern Carolina-style ‘cue, is exactly what you want—nay, need—for anything you pull from your smoker or grill.

• Quick Glance
• 5 M
• 10 M
• 4

Serve it alongside grilled fish, spring lamb, or roast chicken. Smear it on a cracker. Set it out with crudités. Twirl it with pasta. This lovely spring pea purée knows no limits…

• 10 M
• 20 M
• 2

Four ingredients. Ridiculously easy. Wonderfully inexpensive. And, quite frankly, the best gnocchi we’ve ever had.

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 6

Made with the requisite mustard and mayonnaise for classic deviled egg traditionalists. And bacon drippings and Sriracha for the rebels in the rest of us.

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 6

Not your standard roast vegetable side dish. Not at all. And all it takes is adding a pinch of curry powder and a generous splash of lime. So simple. So spectacular.

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• 20 M
• 1 H
• 0

Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic is a classic for one reason—it’s damn good. Using chicken thighs ensures the meat remains juicy. Using our trick for quickly peeling garlic makes it hassle free.

• 45 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 14

Um, 5 minutes hands-on time for a loaf of bread? Please. That’s nothing. Nothing short of a miracle.

• 10 M
• 5 H
• 316

Mussels take a twirl through a classic red pasta sauce and linguine. Most certainly able to inspire laughter, scintillating conversation, perhaps even a twirl on the dance floor afterwards.

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• 40 M
• 40 M
• 0

The intensity of the classic buffalo wing is tempered here, usurped by a deliciously, defiantly untraditional blend of beguiling spices.

• 15 M
• 2 H, 15 M
• 9

Add this simple skillet mac and cheese, with its brilliant and time-saving trick we suspect you’ve never heard of, to your dinner arsenal and you just might achieve superhero status with the kids. And with yourself.

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• 15 M
• 35 M
• 0

Yet another failproof recipe from Deborah Madison that’s hearty and healthy and satisfying beyond words.

• 45 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 6

Behold, the no-knead bread recipe that incited an insurrection among home bakers everywhere.

• 30 M
• 3 H, 30 M
• 213

Easy peasy. Simply peel, slice, place flat on a baking sheet, freeze, and then yank out of the deep-freeze whenever you have a smoothie-making whim.

• 5 M
• 5 M
• 6