Kate S., Recipe Tester

A toasted bun cradling sweet-as-can-be lobster swaddled in mayo. Just like what you’ll find along the winding highways and byways of coastal Maine.

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• 17

Just whisk, chop, toss, and behold! A simple, stunning, sumptuous, summery weeknight winner of a repast.

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• 10 M
• 10 M
• 4

Commercial tartar sauce tends to be crammed full of sugar and corn syrup and preservatives. Not this little homemade lovely.

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• 10 M
• 10 M
• 22

More tart than sweet is what you’ll find this perfectly puckery little limeade to be. And that’s exactly the way it was always intended to be.

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• 10 M
• 6

Hey, ‘member those mushy mashed potato cakes mom used to make from leftovers? Yeah, well, these are nothing like them.

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• 15 M
• 1 H
• 2

Mother Nature is a savvy, savvy hostess. We know this because endive makes the perfect platter-to-piehole vehicle for cheese.

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• 10 M
• 10 M
• 5

Cranberries and sugar. Two things you probably have in abundance at the moment. May as well put them to extra sparkly use.

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• 20 M
• 11 H
• 16

This one’s for the gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, and Paleo peeps. It’s unlike anything you’ve ever had, we guarantee it.

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• 15 M
• 25 M
• 3

Mast-o-khiar. Sounds more like a medieval torture device than a chic cucumber and yogurt dip. But we assure you, it’s the latter.

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• 10 M
• 20 M
• 4

Sweet, moist, tender, can’t-stop-at-just-one coconut macaroons that are reminiscent of what’s found at the loveliest bakery in town.

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• 1 H
• 2

Not every stack of meat slapped between some slices of bread qualifies as a proper supper. This one does.

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• 25 M
• 45 M
• 4

New York Times’ reporter Julia Moskin divulges the recipe for City Bakery’s Peanut Butter Sandies. You’re welcome.

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• 50 M
• 13

A Mexican staple, this sauce of sorts is essentially fresh salsa that’s named, curiously, for a rooster’s beak.

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• 45 M
• 2

If you’ve yet to heat butter ’till it turns nutty brown then dribble it over any and every thing, you’ve yet to live. Here, let us show you how.

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• 6