Irene Seales

Comfort in a bowl, Italian-style. Quite adept at healing all that ails you.

The sort of simple dish that looks (and tastes!) like you spent all day preparing it but, in reality, requires only a handful of pantry ingredients and is completely doable on a weeknight.

It doesn't take an engineering degree to make a decent smoothie. Although it does take a little know-how to make one that makes you want to drink your veggies. Here's how.

We pinky swear these whole wheat chocolate chip cookies don’t taste healthy. Not even remotely. Quite the contrary. Experience why folks are calling this their new go-to cookie recipe.

This classic brings good luck to all who partake on New Year's Day. Or so says Southern tradition. We can't vouch for that, but we can vouch for it's ability to bring sated appetites.

Sugar—well, molasses—and spice and everything nice. That's what pear chutney is made of.

So easy to toss together. So understated yet sophisticated. So wise in capturing and preserving something during its season.

All the flavor of the classic without any of the purported hallucinogenic properties. With apologies to Baudelaire, Hemingway, van Gogh, et al.

Oh, the places you'll go with this sweetly spicy pumpkin syrup. So long, Starbucks. DIY pumpkin spice latte, here we come!

A tangy sweetness that's irresistible to all ages. (Although if you’re looking to make it more grown up, we can help with that, too.)

A dreamy, creamy, pretty-in-pink dessert that casts everyone's favorite berry in a starring role.

That frugal Italian trick of adding buttery bread crumbs to just about anything to make it more enticing works its considerable charms here. Swoon.

Summer posole cravings are satisfied with this cooling summer riff on the classic Mexican soup that we simply can't stop wanting yearround.

An easy, no-fuss, one-sheet meal of seasoned, roasted pork chops, peach wedges, and red onion. Another reason to be grateful for the summer season.

An exceptionally easy, ridiculously satisfying, and even righteously healthy use for that leftover steak in the fridge. (And yes, there is such a thing as leftover steak...)

Bored by plain old water? Allow us to introduce you to your solution.

An Italian classic. Pork loin is rubbed with an intoxicating blend of garlic, rosemary, and sage and then slowly roasted until sigh-inducingly tender. Easy, elegant and certain to impress.

An easy and comforting mash-up of Chinese mapo tofu and Japanese ramen in a mouth-tingling sauce with plenty of chiles.

A Catalan dish consisting of a Moroccan-inspired marinade, a spoon-licking-good Spanish pepper sauce, and a cooling Middle Eastern cucumber-yogurt salad. Our sorta fusion food.

In the words of at least one person who’s made these light and fluffy griddle cakes, they're “hands-down the best pancakes I have ever made!”