Amy Giezentanner, Recipe Tester

This spicy tomato soup gets its heat from Thai Sriracha sauce and depth from blue cheese. San Marzano tomatoes are used, so the soup can be made anytime.

• 15 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 25

Relax with these crunchy-tender fish tacos filled with a kicky cabbage slaw and sweet-tart mango-banana salsa. Think flip-flops and a beer—all year long.

• 15 M
• 1 H
• 4

Mmmmm…doughnuts. Ethereally fluffy, wonderfully drippy, homemade glazed doughnuts. What are you waiting for? Go make some.

• 1 H
• 3 H, 30 M
• 81

No need to wait for a big game to make these Spanish-inflected, finger-lickingly outstanding chicken wings. Trust us.

• 30 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 2

Simple. Surprising. Spunky. Just what we look for in a summer salad. Just what we found in this jumble of cucumbers, vinegar, and ginger.

• Quick Glance
• 10 M
• 10 M
• 6

Classic bistro cooking at its best, sole meuniere maintains a balance between nutty brown butter and the lilt of lemon. A simple dish with a complex taste.

• 30 M
• 45 M
• 2

Renee, a sucker for the crates of summer stone fruits at the farmers market, shares what to do with underripe peaches.

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• 15 M
• 2 H, 15 M
• 7

The official Spanish summer sipper. And, for those who don’t care for sodden, wimped-out fruit mush, a nifty little party trick at no extra charge.

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• 10 M
• 10 M
• 8

These gooey, chewy Samoas are worth every second they take to make seeing as you can have them any time the craving strikes. Uh oh.

• 45 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 9

This diminutive mac n cheese arrives in teensy dishes at hoity-toity Balthazar, though it creates no less a sensation when scooped straight from a big old baking dish unceremoniously plonked in the center of the kitchen table.

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• 25 M
• 50 M
• 0

Gingerbread pancakes, a perfect holiday treat, are filled with warm spices, including ginger. Gingerbread pancakes are a unique weekend breakfast.

• 45 M
• 3 H, 45 M
• 6

For Thai Basil pork, ground pork is cooked with garlic, shallots, Thai chiles, and sweet basil. Serve white rice alongside mounds of Thai basil pork.

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• 15 M
• 15 M
• 2

This strudel, filled with sweet potato, raisins, and cranberry, is a great lunch or side. Phyllo makes the strudel a cinch to make. Serve the strudel warm.

• Quick Glance
• 35 M
• 1 H, 25 M
• 2

This peanut butter fondue is oozing with semisweet chocolate and creamy peanut butter. A unique fondue, it’s a great recipe for peanut butter fiends.

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• 15 M
• 15 M
• 1