Weekend Projects®

Easy and healthy (well, SORTA healthy), these carrot cake pancakes can be made either simple or stunning depending on how you choose to stack them. Memorable either wa

• 1 H
• 1 H
• 4

Not your everyday mashed potatoes, these are ridiculously rich and comforting thanks to butter, sour cream, Parmesan, roasted garlic, and caramelized onions. Leftovers freeze and reheat beautifully.

• 45 M
• 1 H
• 2

Essentially a slightly tipsy cheesecake, this bourbon-enhanced eggnog pie is something we’re classifying as “holiday desserts for parties where people like to party.”

• 25 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 2

These red chile pork tamales are the real authentic Mexican deal. They taste like they were carefully crafted by the loveliest abuela imaginable. Here’s how to make them.

• 1 H, 30 M
• 8 H, 30 M
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“Your family will think you are AMAZING.” “A straightforward, real deal Cajun gumbo that everyone loved.” “Easy and affordable.” “A keeper!” That’s what folks are saying about this gumbo.

• 2 H
• 2 H, 45 M
• 4

A traditional Azorean dish that boasts meltingly tender oven-braised beef, potatoes, chouriço, and onions. It’s a rustic, homey, Sunday supper sorta dish from David’s VERY Portuguese mom.

• 1 H, 10 M
• 6 H, 30 M
• 4

Crackly phyllo that’s crisp as autumn leaves give way to tender wild mushrooms in this simple, sumptuous savory strudel.

• 30 M
• 45 M
• 5

This skillet full of pumpkin macaroni and cheese awesomeness ranks off the charts in its indulgence-o-rama rating.

• 1 H
• 1 H, 30 M
• 11

An autumn Tuscan tradition we learned from Italian winemakers that’s essentially flatbread baked with grapes that turn magnificently jammy and sweet and lovely.

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• 30 M
• 2 H, 30 M
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“Intensely maple-y.” “Amazing.“ “Much easier than making pie.” “A recipe I’ll make again and again.” That’s what folks are saying about these spectacularly sweet and gooey maple walnut bars.

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• 25 M
• 2 H, 30 M
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This Southern melding of pie and pudding is obscenely, ridiculously rich. Oh, Lord, just take us now.

• 1 H, 45 M
• 5 H
• 8

Bathed in buttermilk and spiced ever so slightly, this Cajun-style fried hen is memorably moist inside, superlatively crisp outside, and gosh darn perfect through and through.

• 35 M
• 35 M
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These inspired Halloween wizards’ hats are a simple assembly job made from cupcakes, frosting, sugar cones, sprinkles, and candy. Inspired by Dumbledore. Loved by all.

• 45 M
• 45 M
• 2

Traditional ratatouille gets sliced, diced, deconstructed, and reimagined–pickled, too–in this fashionably brilliant approach to Indian summer surplus.

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• 30 M
• 30 M
• 2