budget | cheap eats

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.

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• 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.

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• 5 H
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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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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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• 35 M
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Yet another failproof recipe from Deborah Madison that’s hearty and healthy and satisfying beyond words.

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• 1 H, 15 M
• 6

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

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• 3 H, 30 M
• 211

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.

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• 5 M
• 6

Exactly what you want—nay, need—when you’re crave something that’s satiating as heck but you need it to be quick as can be.

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• 35 M
• 8

Quick, easy, healthy, authentic through and through, and pretty darn delicious if we do say so ourselves. Take it to work or, if you’re willing to share, serve it up at home.

• 45 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 8

We know. You’ve tried oven fries in the past and have been sadly, miserably, devastatingly disappointed by what you experienced. Try again.

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• 1 H, 15 M
• 6

An impressive gift or cocktail party nosh with an incredibly satisfying salty sweet thing as well as a lot of bling. And you’re not going to believe how spectacularly simple it is to make them.

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• 2 H
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Sugar and spice and everything nice. That’s this cuppa cinnamon tea. So simple. So soothing.

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• 20 M
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A turkey cranberry sandwich with stuffing and gravy and all that Thanksgiving goodness sounds sorta good right now, doesn’t it?

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