comfort food

Forget the state fair. You can have funnel cakes whenever you want. And as many as you want. Without asking your parents’ permission. And they’re as quick and easy as pancakes.

• Quick Glance
• 45 M
• 1 H
• 9

This Italian classic is gonna bring ease to your everyday supper situation with its understated complexity and undeniable frugality.

• (3)
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• 20 M
• 14

Time to change into your baggiest sweatpants—the ones with the no-longer-elastic waistband. (We can’t be the only ones who keep those around, can we?!)

• (8)
• 45 M
• 3 H, 15 M
• 51

This is less a recipe and more a reminder as to the fact that some nights, simple cheese and bread and olive oil makes a perfectly respectable—enviable, even—supper.

• (1)
• 10 M
• 15 M
• 8

“Best brownies” is a bold assertion. Yet these merit exactly that distinction. Shatteringly crisp on top, fudgy in the center, and intensely chocolatey through and through.

• (35)
• 15 M
• 30 M
• 192

They look like fudgsicles. They taste like fudgesicles. Yet they’re made from cocoa, coconut milk, and honey, so don’t give a second thought to indulging in them.

• (2)
• 10 M
• 2 H, 10 M
• 18

Characterized by its distinctly rectangular shape and, in true French form, buttery taste, this classic loaf is traditionally made in a Pullman pan although any old loaf pan can work.

• (4)
• 30 M
• 3 H, 30 M
• 34

No, not New England clam chowder. North Carolina clam chowder. It’s a brothier, clammier, lighter chowder that lets the clamminess come through. No complaints here.

• (1)
• 30 M
• 2 H
• 6

Who knew Katharine Hepburn was as agile at baking as acting? These brownies make us think maybe she missed her true calling.

• (14)
• 10 M
• 1 H
• 47

“Magical.” “An 11 out of 10.” “The finest peach cobbler that I have ever, or will ever, eat.” “WOW!” That’s what folks are saying about this crazy easy peach cobbler.

• (15)
• 30 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 62