Make-Ahead Mashed Potatoes

Yeah, yeah, we know. You don't need a recipe for mashed Yukon Golds with butter, milk, and salt. Or so you think. Try this and get back to us.

45 mins

Sweet Potato and Apple Latkes

These lovely latkes are crisp without, creamy within, and sweet throughout. Entirely appropriate for Hanukkah as well as a random Tuesday night...

1 hr 10 mins

Okra Cornmeal Cakes

These quick, easy, gritty-in-a-good-way little corn cakes come from a doyenne of Southern cooking. Put simply, they don't disappoint.

35 mins

Barbecue Potato Chips

A cheater's version of homemade barbecue potato chips that will have you hooked for life. Taste 'em and get back to us.

20 mins

Grilled Kale

Summer's answer to the kale chip. Chewy, nutty, smoky, healthy, and unfathomly impossible to resist.

15 mins

Grilled Artichokes

Simple and stunning. That's what we expect outta any side that we pull off the grill. These artichokes deliver all that—and then some.

1 hr 40 mins

Stir-Fried Cauliflower ~ Bong Cai Xao

The complex, almost caramelized taste of this sweetly savory side illustrates just why the last few years have seen a resurgence in respect for cauliflower.

15 mins

Breakfast Oven Fries

These richly spiced, slowly roasted spuds will zap as much life into you as your morning caffeine fix.

1 hr

Homemade Tater Tots ~ Spuddies

A spuddy, you ask? It's what happens when a chef creates crisp potato-y lusciousness but the name Tater Totsâ„¢ is already taken.

1 hr 50 mins

Southern Sweet Potato Pie

Sugar and spice and everything nice—that's what you'll find in this magnificently spiced traditional Southern pie from baker extraordinaire, Cheryl Day.

2 hrs 30 mins

Roasted Potatoes on the Grill

Now you can indulge your craving for roast potatoes when it's sweltering outside without heating up the entire kitchen. You're welcome.

40 mins

Italian-Style Artichokes ~ Carciofi

You say artichoke. We say carciofi. That's Italian for "pointy leafy thing that turns meltingly tender when cooked like your nonna knows how."

1 hr 5 mins

Crawfish Boil

Call some friends, set a pot of water to boil, and chill some beer. There's mudbugs to be had.

1 hr 10 mins

Salt-Roasted Potatoes

This recipe turns out obscenely aromatic, ridiculously moist spuds the likes of which you ain't ever seen before. And you thought potatoes were boring.

1 hr 25 mins

Pan Boxty ~ Irish Potato Pancake

An Irish classic for a darn good reason. Actually, three reasons—it's shamelessly simple, flagrantly frugal, and undeniably delicious. Lovers of colcannon, rösti, latkes, and hash browns will find comfort here.

1 hr

Roasted Carrots with Allspice

Sweet. Spicy. Earthy. And a touch puckery. When did anything--or anyone--at your table boast such character? Certain to compensate for your duller dinner invitees.

50 mins

Candied Carrots

Sometimes carrots aren't quite as sweet as we'd like them to be. This kid-tested tactic takes care of that occasional oops on the part of Mother Nature.

15 mins