Jeanie McCallister, Recipe Tester

This green bean and cherry tomato salad is an easy, healthy side dish. We know kids that have gone back for not just seconds but thirds. Boom.

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• 15 M
• 20 M
• 0

A simple, quick, easy, cheap side that’s making kids as well as adults demand seconds. Yes, seconds. Of broccoli. You’re welcome.

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• 40 M
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This natural alternative to fancy liquid dish soap is inexpensive, effective, and gentle on hands. Doesn’t get much more practical than that.

A perfectly cooked and gently spiced specimen of cruciferous loveliness. You’re seriously not going to be able to stop noshing this.

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• 15 M
• 1 H
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Sweet and crumbly and gooey and all around lovely. That’s what we think of these spectacular—and spectacularly easy—jam bars.

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• 20 M
• 1 H
• 8

A swoon-worthy collision of creamy cheesecake and cakey brownie and sweetly tart raspberries that you simply gotta taste to believe.

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• 25 M
• 1 H
• 8

These scalloped potatoes are creamy easy cheesy side dish awesomeness. As welcome on weeknights as it is on holidays.

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• 30 M
• 1 H, 5 M
• 2

Pork wrapped in bacon and roasted until crisp outside and tender inside. Easy. Economical. On the table in 45 minutes. Any objections?

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• 35 M
• 45 M
• 8

At long last, a slice of pumpkin pie is complete in and of itself—no dollop of whipped cream required. Pumpkin and meringue. So happy together.

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• 25 M
• 3 H, 15 M
• 12

Homemade animal crackers kick store-bought animal crackers to the curb. Made from scratch with natural ingredients, they’re gonna remake all your memories of those stale, bland animal crackers in the circus box.

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• 40 M
• 2 H
• 6

You’re gonna be astounded at just how easy pretzel rolls are to make at home. And yes, they taste like the real deal—just like a German soft pretzel.

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• 30 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 4

We’ve been wobbly in the knees for these sweet and shatteringly crisp little olive oil tortas for a very, very long time.

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• 50 M
• 20

What it lacks in novelty it more than makes up for by being easy, healthy, scrumptious, simple, vegan, and done in an hour.

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• 15 M
• 1 H
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All the crunch and saltiness and satisfaction of your fave packaged potato chips. None of the icky preservatives, unhealthy fats, and other unconscionable additives.

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• 20 M
• 1 H
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