Homemade Maple-Espresso Bacon

A richly porky, nicely salted, slightly peppery, pleasantly sweet taste with a lingering maple syrup flavor. That's what you can expect from this crazy easy homemade bacon.

7 d 4 hrs 50 mins

Brodo di Pollo ~ Italian Chicken Soup

Brodo di pollo is, in essence, Italian chicken soup. And it's a strong contender for the most soothing chicken noodle soup anywhere. Made by nonnas everywhere.

1 hr 15 mins

Chocolate Ginger Crinkle Cookies

The classic cookie benefits enormously from a hit of ginger here with these surprise sleeper hits of your Christmas season.

1 hr 15 mins

Standing Rib Roast

Pricey but not pretentious, a standing rib roast is essentially a slab of bone-in rib eye steaks standing on end. You could do worse, eh?

2 hrs 25 mins

Sheet Pan Eggs

Your mornings just got a heck of a lot easier. Not only is there about to be more time to hit that snooze button but there's no annoying standing at the stove and cleaning up spatters afterward.

25 mins

Beef Bone Broth

Remember the good old days when "bone broth" was simply called "beef stock"? Sigh. Whatever you call it, it's still simple to make. And still spectacular to taste.

24 mins

Za’atar Cacio e Pepe

It's Ottolenghi. Enough said. (Well, okay, we have to say more. Like how everyone who’s tried this swears it’ll forevermore be their simple supper standby.)

35 mins

Espresso Cake

This simple yet spectacular riff on coffee cake—there's actually coffee in the cake—is rich and robust and rousing in that way only espresso can be.

1 hr 15 mins

7 Chili Recipes

It's beginning to look a lot like chili season, with incarnations ranging from classic to unconventional, healthy to indulgent, inexpensive to a little more extravagent.

Sheet Pan Sausage, Peppers, and Onions

Ballpark style sausages without going to the ballpark. We dare say we like this approach even better when demolished from the comfort of our own couch.

45 mins

Pecan Pie Bread Pudding

When you've got leftover bread, sure, you could make bread crumbs. Or you could make this Southern melding of pie and pudding that's obscenely indulgent. Tough decision, eh?

5 hrs

Beef Stew with Red Wine

An Italian tradition that, in true form, transforms simple ingredients into something sublime.

1 hr 40 mins

Spicy Mushroom Lasagna

Ottolenghi does it yet again with another inspired melding of ingredients and techniques that upends our notion of what any recipe should and could be.

2 hrs 40 mins

Roasted Cauliflower with Cilantro Sauce

So intriguingly spiced and perfectly roasted that even avowed non-cauliflower eaters will change their minds. That's what folks are saying about this stealthy healthy side.

45 mins

Nutmeg Cake

This spice cake is soaked with rum syrup, making a lovely, albeit slightly boozy, gift when wrapped in parchment and tied with a bow.

1 hr

Veggie Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Make veggies less yawn-inducing by stealthily sneaking them into this good-for-you grilled cheese sammie. Eating your veggies never tasted so sinful.

15 mins

Chocolate Mug Cake

Molten, gooey, dense, chocolatey, and done in minutes with nary any evidence, er, we mean cleanup, this microwave mug cake is the solution to when you need dessert stat.

15 mins

10 Gratin Recipes

Perhaps the most pleasing vegetable delivery system there is come cold weather. And equally adept at doing the job on a random weeknight as they are come Christmas dinner.

Coconut Lime Cookies

Think sugar cookie meets margarita. Or something like that. And just as difficult to stop at a single taste.

1 hr 15 mins

Easy Raised Doughnuts ~ Cuddureddi

Cuddureddi. It means "a cause for celebration" if you're from Italy. Well, actually, it means "a sort of doughnut." Sorta the same thing.

1 hr