Kim Beaulieu, Recipe Tester

Wanna know how to stretch a single steak into supper for four without seeming skimpy? Your answer awaits.

If you’re going to splurge on brownies, you may as well, you know, SPLURGE on brownies. But not in terms of effort or expense. Just taste. These brownies handle it splendidly.

Easy. Economical. On the table in 45 minutes. And essentially pork wrapped in more pork and roasted until crisp outside and juicily tender inside. Comfort food for when you need it.

Yoohoo, you who’s trying to eat more healthfully, start cramming carrots in your pieholes with this satisfying little number.

The words “orange chicken” used to make us think of gloppy Chinese takeout—until we tried this orange chicken.

For those of us who dread cleaning up the kitchen, this innovative lazy man’s approach for homemade french fries is a godsend. It’s also darn good.

Normally we have an issue with people talking fresh to us. But in the case of these agua frescas, or fresh flavored waters, we’re all ears.

Stylish on any salad, this versatile little number is a staple in every discerning cook’s recipe wardrobe.

Sweet meets salty. Salty meets sweet. There. That didn’t take long for them to get acquainted.

Cold, creamy, and eminently slurpable, just like the vanilla milkshakes mom used to make. In other words, perfect in all ways.

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