Roasted cauliflower. Andouille sausage. Spinach. Goat cheese. Bowtie pasta. What’s not to love about this quick weeknight meal? You’ll be fighting your loved ones for leftovers.
Debbie Vargo, Recipe Tester
A list of all the recipes Debbie Vargo has tested.
Dirt Bombs
These wonders of wonders are irresistible cakey donuts baked in muffin tins that are spiked with nutmeg and cardamom and rolled in melted butter and cinnamon sugar.
Keto Chicken Coconut Soup
An Asian flavored soup that’s also pretty healthy and incredibly tasty. What else could you ask for? Dairy-free and full of mushrooms? It’s all here.
Chicken and Preserved Lemon Salad
Traditional Moroccan tagine reimagined by turning it into a slightly less hearty yet no less compelling salad.
Roasted Cauliflower with Jalapeño and Capers
Roasted cauliflower has been the darling of the veggie world for a while. But this version goes beyond with jalapeños, capers, lemon, and parsley. Roasted cauliflower 2.0.
Green Chile Macaroni and Cheese
This grown-up mac-and-cheese gets some gusto with its mild heat from chiles and its smattering of—are you sitting?!—crushed tortilla chips in place of bread crumbs.
Stir-Fried Spinach with Miso and Ginger
A fast, easy, and unbelievably enticing way to get your greens. (And a perfect way to use up that container of miso in the back of your fridge.)
Zingerman’s Sour Cream Coffee Cake
A highly addictive and obscenely moist coffee cake from the legendary Zingerman’s Bakehouse. You’ll be making this cinnamon and walnut beauty often.
Chicken Dan Dan Noodles
There are as many reasons to adore chicken Dan Dan noodles as there are variations on it. We’re particularly smitten with this one.
Pressure Cooker Pork and Pinto Bean Chili
This is why we have pressure cookers. Because they render an inexpensive cut of pork and plain pinto beans into a smoky, soulful, put-your-spoon-down-and-sigh chili in a fraction of the usual time.
Honey Barbecue Sauce
Pantry ingredients and barely any effort yield you something that’s sweetly tangy and spicy that you’ll want to slather on ribs, wings, pulled pork, smoked or grilled chicken, burgers…
Crispy Smashed Potatoes with Herbs
Imagine the crispness of a French fry colliding with the fluffiness of a baked potato. That’s what this recipe delivers. You’re welcome.
Spiced Carrot Cake
Not the carrot cake of your childhood. Unspeakably better. With an ever-so-slightly exotic edge of chai tea and cardamom that makes this childhood dessert all grown up.
Mile-High Popovers
Shirley Corriher, the doyenne of all things food science, divulges her foolproof secrets to gloriously golden and puffy popovers.
Roasted Squash with Chile and Honey
A little chile and honey elevate roasted squash to another dimension entirely. Trust us. This is not your typical roasted winter squash.
Maple-Candied Bacon
Dessert for breakfast. That’s the best we can do to convey–in words as opposed to contented moans, anyways–what this maple-candied bacon recipe means to us.
Portuguese Fish Chowder
An intoxicatingly aromatic Portuguese classic that’s a tomato-based combo of stew and soup and chowder made of fish, potatoes, and chorizo.
Charred Corn Salad
You just found your next sweet corn infatuation that’ll entice you night after night all the way through the end of summer.
Lime Soda
Bored by plain old water? Allow us to introduce you to your solution.
Middle Eastern Chicken Thighs
Fast. Flavorful. And flaunting just enough Middle Eastern flair to intrigue but not frighten anyone. Even kids. Swear.