Allison J.

Does it get any better (or more like you're vacationing south of the border) than grilled corn slathered with lime mayo, cheese, cilantro, and hot sauce? Nah.

Essentially spaghetti casserole with veggies smothered with cheese. Sounds like supper to us.

Chinese chicken salad is just like those salads you get at the restaurants with the oranges and cashews and the lovely balance of crunchy and tender and sweet and savory.

This may sound rather frighteningly hippie. We understand. Rest assured, it's actually a lovely oatmeal alternative that works magnificently with your most tried-and-true hot cereal stir-ins and sprinkle-ons.

Pear tarte tatin is an easy riff on classic apple tarte tatin with caramelized autumn fruit atop buttery pastry. Um, yum.

Sorta like a cheater's chicken cacciatore, these tipsy chicken drumsticks make a simple weeknight dinner that's sufficiently spectacular to serve to guests.

Made in a single pan with so much ease you'll be wanting to make them every night. We dare so you'll hear no complaints.

Every bit as boozy and as brilliant as it sounds. Inspired by the old-fashioned rum cake made in the Caribbean with dark rum in all its magnificently spiced glory.

This Mexican spaghetti, or sopa seca de fideo, is mindblowingly seductive and authentic as heck. Translated literally, it means "dry soup with noodles," and it's soooo much better than it sounds.

Chili buns are a traditional Appalachian thing and they're essentially hot dog buns slathered with the easiest chili you've ever made. Add a hot dog and slaw and you've got its kissing cousin, the slaw dog.

This easy slow cooker beef chili requires less than half an hour of effort and you'll come home to a meal that tastes like you've been cooking all day.

This life-changer of a recipe isn't your mom's banana bread. It's better. And we've got no qualms saying that.

Better known as seven layer bars, this bewitching stack of graham cracker crumbs, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate, coconut, and nuts just may exceed your childhood memories.

We know. You already have an egg salad sandwich recipe. But trust us, it's nothing like this one, which is whoppingly old school in taste, blissfully healthful in every other way.

This much-ballyhooed 'wich from Hog Island Oyster Bar in San Francisco is stuffed with fromage blanc, Gruyère, Cheddar, and Havarti.

One taste and you'll understand why this is the most popular recipe from The New York Times. A new American classic.