Jo Ann Brown, Recipe Tester

Perhaps the quickest pickles ever, these tongue-tinglingly tangy specimens stack flavor on flavor all in the span of a few minutes of work and a few hours of waiting.

• (2)
• 5 M
• 45 M
• 6

This is not your mom’s potato salad recipe. It relies on tangy Dijon vinaigrette and soft-boiled eggs for dressing with runny yolks that spill into the salad to form an unparalleled richness.

• (5)
• 45 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 10

Beautiful burger buns. Were ever three words joined in such harmonious sequence? There’s a lot more lovely things to be said about these rich, pillowy specimens of bread awesomeness.

• (17)
• 25 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 60

This easy gingerbread pancakes recipe is easy to make with sugar, spice, lemon zest, and maple syrup with flavors that are welcome waaaaaaay beyond Christmas.

• (2)
• 25 M
• 25 M
• 4

Pickle-brined fried chicken?! Oh yes we did! Folks are calling it fried chicken perfection. And you won’t want to skip the Sriracha honey dipping sauce.

• (1)
• 45 M
• 5 H, 30 M
• 2

Easy and exquisitely spiced skewers that take minutes to assemble and toss on the grill. Because you have better things to do than swelter in a hot kitchen slaving over supper.

• Quick Glance
• 40 M
• 3 H, 40 M
• 2

This cake, a nod not just to Queen Victoria but British sensibility, defines the very notion of simple yet sophisticated.

• (1)
• 25 M
• 1 H
• 31

These curiously named, easy peasy, shamelessly simple meldings of biscuit and muffins may make you swear off roll-out biscuits for good.

• (3)
• 10 M
• 45 M
• 23

We know what you’re thinking. Mkate what?! Yet once you try this unique and chewy, toasty, nutty, densely magnificent sesame flatbread from Zanzibar, you’ll be crooning about it to everyone who’ll listen.

• (1)
• 45 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 4

A weeknight-friendly riff on slow-roasted pulled pork that juxtaposes tangy bbq sauce, succulent pork, and old-fashioned slaw, all in a jiffy.

• (6)
• 25 M
• 30 M
• 35