Jennifer Hutchinson, Recipe Tester

Chicken Marbella, a sell-out at The Silver Palate, is quartered chicken flavored with vinegar, brown sugar, dried plums, olives, and herbs.

• 25 M
• 3 H
• 3

Forget the pan when you make this tart. The edges of the tart crust are folded around sweet caramelized onions, smoky bacon, and rich goat cheese.

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• 30 M
• 2 H
• 4

A dense, sweet, rich, buttery pound cake becomes even more indulgent, if you dare, with a heavy-handed drizzle of caramel glaze.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 40 M
• 8

Very high heat achieves a perfectly crisp skin full of flavorful seasonings. The caper vinaigrette adds a piquant counterpoint to the fresh halibut.

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• 20 M
• 30 M
• 0

Smooth goat cheese, colorful roasted beets, and walnuts speckle this creamy, quiche-like tart–all of which is nestled in a flaky buttery crust.

• 1 H
• 3 H
• 4

For this Latin dish, tender boneless chicken breasts are dusted with a masa harina coating spiced with cumin, pepper, and sugar seared, and served atop a salad.

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• 1 H
• 1 H
• 0

Scrubbing shrimp with salt cleans them. Marinating shrimp in vodka lends sweetness to them. Who knew?!

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• 1 H
• 1 H, 45 M
• 0