Four ingredients and one simple technique that will leave everyone asking—maybe even demanding—you for more. A keeper of a side dish.
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Pan Seared Scallops
Perhaps the easiest and most elegant dinner conceivable. Here’s how to cook your pricey (and worth every penny) sea scallops to perfection.
Chocolate Soufflé
If you’ve been hesitant to make chocolate souffle out of fear, worry not. This easy version is guaranteed to reach lofty heights. A no-stress, high-stakes dessert. We show you how.
Scalloped Potatoes
Essentially creamy easy cheesy side dish awesomeness., these are as welcome on weeknights as they are on holidays.
Spicy Beef Taco Bake
Taco casserole. Were there ever two words more beautiful side by side?
Frosted Cupcakes with Butterscotch Sauce
Your average frosted vanilla cupcake just went next-level with the addition of salted butterscotch filling. See for yourself.
Grilled Zucchini with Mint Salsa
This healthy, low-carb side dish of grilled zucchini topped with punchy mint salsa verde makes excellent use of an abundance of summer zucchini.
Air Fryer Shoestring Fries
These shoestring fries have all the crispy, crunchy goodness you love about traditional French fries, but are made healthier in your air fryer.
Air Fryer Hasselback Potatoes
These Hasselback potatoes are crispy on the outside, creamy on the inside, and conveniently made in the air fryer. Sounds like a perfect potato to us.
Chocolate Cream Pie with Oreo Crust
First you make an Oreo cookie crust. Then you smother it with a bittersweet and semisweet chocolate custard. The final flourish is whipped cream infused with vanilla. Sigh.
Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta
For this easy weeknight meal, angel hair pasta is tossed in a no-cook sauce of sun-dried tomatoes, fresh mint, oil, vinegar, and garlic.
White Bean Hummus
Change up your hummus game with this white bean version that’s served with a fresh herb, olive, and seed topping.
Crispy Chicken Schnitzel with Panko
Chicken schnitzel takes a twirl through the Mediterranean for an easy, healthyish weeknight meal.
Instant Pot Sopa Seca with Chorizo and Black Beans
It’s everything we love about sopa seca, from the toasted spaghetti to the spicy tomato sauce, made easier and more convenient with a multicooker.
Roasted Fennel with Rye Crumble
Getting your five servings of vegetables per day is easy when you can feast on tender caramelized fennel that’s smothered in toasted rye-Parmesan crumble.
Instant Pot New England Fish Chowder
A healthy-ish riff on the beloved New England soup that’s made entirely in your multi-cooker. Plus, there’s bacon.
Chocolate-Covered Popcorn
This easy-to-make, more-ish snack just earned its rightful place on our Super Bowl menu.
Easy Skillet Pizza for Kids
Not only is this simple cheese and tomato pizza guaranteed to please everyone at the table, it’s easy enough that your kids can make it.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins
These pack a wallop of apple flavor due to apple bits sautéed in butter and brown sugar. Breakfast will become your favorite meal.
Pasta Alla Norcina
Bowls of creamy pasta laden with homemade sausage and sautéed mushrooms that will have everyone applauding. (Get used to the attention.)