Cindy Zaiffdeen, Recipe Tester

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.

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• 25 M
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Yup. Vegan chocolate cake. If you tasted it without knowing, all you’d experience is chocolate through and through. No one will ever know it’s vegan…unless you tell them.

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• 1 H, 30 M
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A drinkable dessert composed of, quite simply, bitter grapefruit segments soused with sweet sparkling wine. Cin cin!

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Think you’ve got nothing in the house for supper? Take a look at this nifty little pasta recipe that comes together in minutes. And then think again.

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Tired of settling for an ordinary blue cheese dip that practically necessitates a search party to locate a stray chunk of cheese swimming in mayo? This one won’t disappoint.

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In this inspired Italian creation, traditional lasagna noodles are supplanted by polenta. Trust us, you’ll feel no guilt nor regret over forsaking custom.

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• 2 H
• 12

Rabe. Raab. Rapini. Call it what you will, but it’s never better than when jumbled with sautéed garlic and crisped potatoes.

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Making stock from scratch was never difficult. And it just became even easier thanks to this slick slow cooker approach.

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• 12 H
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Forget Robitussin. This fragrant infusion not only makes a run to the pharmacy unnecessary, but it goes down with far, far more ease than that syrupy medicinal stuff.

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• 15 M
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An exceptionally tender roast and crisp-as-can-be roasted potatoes that will make any meal memorable beyond words.

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• 2 H
• 4

Does the true beauty of this cake lie in its stunning silhouette? Its intensely chocolatey chocolatiness? Or its lazy-day ease? You tell us.

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• 1 H, 30 M
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What’s not to love about Brussels sprouts–yes, Brussels sprouts–when they’re buried beneath nutty, buttery Gruyère? Nothing. Nothing at all.

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• 4

How poetic that a recipe whose ingredients scream out for Thanksgiving would, in and of itself, be reason to give thanks.

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• 20 M
• 1 H, 25 M
• 4

Surprise is underrated. That’s exactly why we love this unexpected yet inspired riff on roasted winter squash.

• 15 M
• 2 H, 15 M
• 4