The Arsenal®

Just started cooking? Is the kitchen as foreign to you as Uzbekistan? Have no fear. These are the recipes that will build the foundation of your pantry and teach you the skills you need to grow as a cook, not to mention rack up compliments faster than Katy Perry gains Twitter followers.

Chocolate fudge pops with popsicle sticks melting on a white surface.

Chocolate Fudge Pops

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They look like fudgsicles. They taste like fudgesicles. Yet they’re made from cocoa, coconut milk, and honey, so you don’t have to worry at all about having something that’s not healthy.

  • (1)
  • 10 M
  • 2 H, 10 M
  • 16
A basting brush with chipotle maple barbecue sauce

Chipotle Maple Barbecue Sauce

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This indescribably must-have-more-of-this sauce boasts the complex sweetness of maple syrup and the smoky spice of chipotle peppers. Slather it at will.

  • (2)
  • 5 M
  • 40 M
  • 4
A mason jar filled with iced coffee, a straw, and a leftover coffee ice cube sticking out the top.

Leftover Coffee Ice Cubes

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Got leftover coffee in that pot? Don’t toss it in the sink. Pour it into ice cube trays, freeze, and simple as that, no more watered down iced coffee EVER.

  • (2)
  • 1 M
  • 1 M
  • 6
An overhead view of a glass of blueberry kale smoothie with a straw and some blueberries and kale scattered around the glass.

Blueberry Kale Smoothie

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Tastes like “bananas and blueberries and creamy icy summertime.” That’s what folks are saying about this spectacularly simple smoothie that has made converts of even avowed kale loathers.

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  • 5 M
  • 5 M
  • 2
A cast-iron skillet plum cake with slices of fanned out plums baked in

Skillet Plum Cake

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Skillet cake is moist and tender and sweet (not too sweet, though) and sorta like upside-down cake except it’s right-side up.

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  • 15 M
  • 1 H
  • 6
A slab of Katharine Hepburn brownies cut into 9 pieces, on parchment paper, with a knife nearby

Katharine Hepburn Brownies

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

  • (13)
  • 10 M
  • 1 H
  • 45
A spoon resting in a dish of cornmeal drop-biscuit peach cobbler.

Peach Cobbler

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“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.

  • (14)
  • 30 M
  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 60
Two large glass bottles filled with Southern sweet tea.

Southern Sweet Tea

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Nothing slakes thirst, quells worries, and comes together with such ease quite like Southern sweet tea.

  • (2)
  • 5 M
  • 40 M
  • 47
A cook demonstrating how to grill asparagus with several rafts of asparagus spears connected with wooden skewers.

How to Grill Asparagus

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Never again curse as your pricey spears of asparagus fall between the grill rack into oblivion. All you need is this simple trick.

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  • 10 M
  • 20 M
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