Jeremy Schweitzer, Recipe Tester

This rich, buttery, unabashedly sweet Southern tradition is a twist on a classic and becomes even more indulgent with a heavy-handed drizzle of caramel glaze.

• (3)
• 30 M
• 1 H, 40 M
• 8

A quietly, healthily, nuttily pleasing alternative to your same old oats. Go on. You know you want to try it. So get your quinoa on.

• (2)
• 10 M
• 40 M
• 20

All the usual suspects—butter, sugar, eggs, nuts, and, natch, bananas–are here, save for gluten. And we were so tempted by the resulting taste and texture, we didn’t even miss it.

• (6)
• 10 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 53

Cold outside? Baby, come inside where there’s beef slowly braising in a heady mix of Italian red wine, garlic, tomatoes, thyme, and rosemary.

• (8)
• 1 H, 40 M
• 5 H, 10 M
• 16

Elegance was never achieved with such ease. Simply stack cooked lasagna noodles with sautéed ‘shrooms and smother with a luxurious cream sauce. Everyday extravagance.

• (2)
• 25 M
• 25 M
• 16

Unspeakably more nuanced than takeout Thai, these stir-fried noodles boast a sigh-inducing balance of salty, sour, and sweet. In other words, it’s the real deal.

• (1)
• 35 M
• 1 H
• 10

There’s nothing wallflowerish about this stir-fry, not with its gingery zing of tongue-tingling, sinus-clearing, tummy-settling ginger. Nothing at all.

• (1)
• 25 M
• 25 M
• 2

Quiche for one? It sounds a lot more ambitious than it actually is. It’s truly a cinch to make. So go on. Love yourself a little. Or a lot.

• (2)
• 15 M
• 1 H
• 6

Summer at its simplest, not to mention it’s most splendid, seeing as how five minutes of effort yields a meal that rivals round-trip tickets to Italy.

• (7)
• 20 M
• 50 M
• 33

Dark chocolate cake stacked high and smothered with gooey caramel and coconut and pecans. Don’t mind if we do.

• (3)
• 1 H
• 1 H, 30 M
• 48