Anne D., Recipe Tester

One taste and you’ll forget all about that butter and brown sugar trick your mom taught you long ago. Promise.

• Quick Glance
• 10 M
• 40 M
• 4

These pretty pink refrigerator pickles are almost instant in terms of gratification, undeniably complex in terms of satisfaction.

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• 10 M
• 6 H
• 9

Perhaps the easiest gazpacho recipe ever, this Spanish classic will have you swearing off takeout all summer long.

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• 20 M
• 20 M
• 4

This panna cotta has the most luscious of textures. How to explain it? Hmmm. Sorta like swooping velvet over your tongue.

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• 20 M
• 8 H, 40 M
• 4

And you thought eating healthfully and seasonally was a chore and a bore. This little vegan number proves you wrong. So very wrong.

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• 30 M
• 1 H, 10 M
• 2

Potato chip fiends, stop your scoffing. We double-dog dare you to make a batch and stop at just one.

• 10 M
• 30 M
• 14

A tuna melt is a tuna melt is a tuna melt, right? Uh, not exactly. This is a welcome departure from what we choked down as children.

• 15 M
• 25 M
• 6

Close your eyes and we swear you’d never guess this sweet, banana-y smoothie is suffused with good-for-you greens.

• 5 M
• 5 M
• 17

No matter what its title, this little life-changer of a recipe isn’t quite Mommom’s, er, your grandma’s banana bread. It’s better.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 33

This is one besotted bird. As in blotto. Blitzed. Buzzed. Boozy. Not that we’re complaining. Nope. Not at all.

• 15 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 4

Perhaps the quickest pickles ever, these tongue-tinglingly tangy specimens come together in minutes. Bet you can’t eat just one.

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• 5 M
• 45 M
• 2

This shamelessly simple trick transforms disappointingly ho-hum tomatoes into insatiably sticky, squidgy little lovelies.

• 10 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 20

Think a recipe for roast asparagus isn’t necessary? We thought so, too…until we tried this. Perfect spears, time after time.

• 5 M
• 25 M
• 8

What exactly is a snow cookie? It’s a delicate, melt-in-your-mouth moment of loveliness, and it’s as easy to roll and bake and decorate as it is to admire–and devour.

• 25 M
• 35 M
• 11