Colleen Bloxham, Recipe Tester

A list of all the recipes Colleen Bloxham has tested.

Rows of peanut butter sandies dough balls with a cookie scoop placing another dough ball on the surface.

Peanut Butter Sandies

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New York Times’ reporter Julia Moskin divulges the recipe for City Bakery’s Peanut Butter Sandies. You’re welcome.

  • (3)
  • 20 M
  • 50 M
  • 13
A glass of green smooth and a second glass that is on its side with green smoothie poured out.

Green Smoothie

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

  • (2)
  • 5 M
  • 5 M
  • 17
A red Dutch oven filled with beer-braised chicken with root vegetables on a wooden surface.

Beer Braised Chicken

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Chicken is coaxed to incredible taste and tenderness in this stew of sorts made healthful with root vegetables. Simple to make. Complex in taste. Unforgettable all around.

  • (5)
  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 25
A yellow Dutch oven filled with white bean and chicken chili, topped with pieces of bacon.

White Bean and Chicken Chili

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Stop your scoffing. This may not be conventional chili, but it’s no sissy imposter. It’s just a little subtler, soupier, and smokier.

  • (3)
  • 35 M
  • 1 H
  • 8
A small Mason jar half filled with bacon jam on a wooden board with a few pieces of bread beside the jar.

Bacon Jam

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Maybe what the world needs is a single currency. Like jars of this sweet, rich, intense bacon jam that makes everything better.

  • (17)
  • 15 M
  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 98
White oval dish with four chicken drumsticks, chopped green tomatillos, cilantro, onion, sliced chiles

Braised Chicken with Tomatillos

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Slightly tart and eminently easy, this tomatillo sauce makes ample so you can stash some in the fridge for later. Cook once, eat twice.

  • (3)
  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 23
A grey plate half-filled with mac and cheese canapes, with a few resting beside the plate

Mac and Cheese Canapés

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Fancy schmancy mac and cheese canapés? Why not? Plop these lovelies on a silver platter alongside flutes of Champagne or tuck them into a lunch box.

  • (4)
  • 25 M
  • 40 M
  • 24
A fried egg sandwich cut in half on a white and blue plate with the knife resting in front.

Fried Egg Sandwich

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Bread. Cheese. Egg. Hot sauce. Five bucks says you’ve got the makings for this easy and oozy sandwich waiting in your kitchen.

  • (6)
  • 10 M
  • 10 M
  • 12
An Italian frittata garnished with a squash blossom on a white plate with a fork resting beside it.

Italian Frittata

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Eggs, potatoes, and not much else. That’s our weeknight salvation come suppertime on a super crazy day.

  • (1)
  • 25 M
  • 30 M
  • 6
North Carolina Barbecue Sauce

North Carolina Barbecue Sauce

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This isn’t your typical sweetly gloppy barbecue sauce to squirt onto burgers or dogs. This is thinner and tangier than most and it’s something sorta special.

  • (1)
  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 9
Fancy Tuna Melt

Not Your Mom’s Tuna Melt

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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.

  • (1)
  • 15 M
  • 25 M
  • 6
Plain Bagels

Homemade Bagels

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No more excuses about how there’s a dearth of decent bagels in your neighborhood. Nope. Not when you can make these.

  • (2)
  • 3 H
  • 3 H, 50 M
  • 35
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