8 Easy Banana Bread Recipes

If you're anything like us, you want your banana bread, and you want it now. Here are our quickest and easiest banana bread recipes.

1 hr 15 mins

Blueberry Custard Pie

A custardy pie, filled with summer's favorite berry (come on, you know it's true), and baked into your choice of crust. Sweet, silky perfection.

4 hrs 10 mins

Easy Chocolate Crêpes

French-y but not at all fuss-y, these superbly chocolate-y crepes satiate that certain je ne sais quoi.

45 mins

Vanilla Syrup

You’re going to want to drizzle, douse, and dribble this fragrant homemade vanilla syrup over and into and onto just about everything.

40 mins

Pecan Pie Rugelach

A welcome collision of all the expected goodness of classic pecan pie and rugelach but with the unexpected hint of bourbon and cayenne.

3 hrs 50 mins

Smothered Pork Chops

Juicy pork chops are a perennial favorite around here. Smother 'em in a creamy, Creole, caramelized onion gravy... oh my lord.

1 hr

Homemade Chicken Pot Pie

No ordinary chicken pot pie, this one seems to have gone to finishing school but without a lot of fuss. Just a couple of simple yet significant aspects done exceptionally well.

1 hr 45 mins

Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

These pumpkin swirl brownies are just as outrageously rich as you'd expect thanks to pumpkin spice cheesecake colliding with a pan of fudgy brownies.

1 hr 10 mins

Butter Chicken

Often overlooked at Indian restaurants, butter chicken really can be a truly captivating dish. Give this version a try and see what you think.

1 hr 10 mins

Michelada

The customary morning-after equivalent of a Bloody Mary in Mexico—except this is lighter, less tomato-y, and all around lovelier.

5 mins

10 Swanky Holiday Side Dish Recipes

Once you've decided on the main dish, you're going to need to fill the rest of the table, right? Luckily, we've got some exceptionally good ideas.

S’mores Pie

"If I could make only one pie in my lifetime, this would be the one." That's what folks are saying about this conversation-stopping version of the campfire classic.

2 hrs 15 mins

Red Eye Devil’s Food Cake

A classic chocolate cake on caffeine, this impressive yet easy to assemble stack of chocolatey elegance takes its rounded chocolatey-ness from a cup of joe and its ample fudgy-ness fro ganache.

2 hrs 30 mins

Homemade Muesli

This lovely homemade muesli number, with nary any cardboard-like, dusty-tasting grains or too many raisins, will upend your notion of morning cereal.

10 mins

Blue Cheese Balls

Birthday bashes. Cocktail parties. Thanksgiving dinner. Tuesday nights. These are but some occasions we've watched these disappear.

2 hrs 30 mins

Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones

Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good biscuits we've had in recent memory. Maybe ever.

45 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

Easy Chicken Tortilla Soup

Here’s a soothing dinner fix with a ridiculously high taste-to-effort ratio. And you'd never guess it's healthy. Consider it the soup equivalent of Taco Tuesday. 

50 mins