Kristin Cole, Recipe Tester

Yeah, watermelon juice dripping off your elbow is a swell thing. So is this incomparably elegant yet easy salad that melds sweet and heat.

• 15 M
• 15 M
• 6

Whether you have unripe berries, overripe berries, or an abundance of the season’s most fragrant berries, say hello to your sweetly sticky solution.

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• 10 M
• 50 M
• 13

We know. You already have an egg salad sandwich recipe. But trust us, it’s nothing like this one, which is whoppingly old school in taste, blissfully healthful in every other way.

• 10 M
• 25 M
• 10

Sweet. Spicy. Earthy. And a touch puckery. When did anything–or anyone–at your table boast such character? Certain to compensate for your duller dinner invitees.

• 15 M
• 50 M
• 2

Ooooh baby! Broccoli blanketed with a creamy rich white sauce that takes its oomph from blue cheese and its hint of heat from cayenne.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 25 M
• 12

One taste and you’ll forget all about that butter and brown sugar trick your mom taught you long ago. Promise.

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• 10 M
• 40 M
• 4

Plonk unpeeled onions on a baking sheet. Shove in oven. Come back later for achingly sweet, tender, mellow oniony goodness. Accept accolades. See how easy that was?

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• 5 M
• 1 H
• 14

You say artichoke. We say carciofi, Italian for “pointy leafy thing that turns meltingly tender when cooked like your nonna knows how.”

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 4

Three ingredients. One pot. And less than 15 minutes from stovetop to table—barely enough time to uncork a bottle of wine or crack open a beer. Somehow, we think you’ll manage.

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• 5 M
• 25 M
• 2

Make an all-too-ephemeral ramps season everlasting simply by tossing the stinky veggies in a jar with some vinegar and sugar.

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• 5 M
• 5 M
• 11

This sophisticated chocolate fix draws on just two ingredients, comes together in minutes, and is satiating beyond belief.

• 5 M
• 20 M
• 17

Fear not. This Bugs Bunny rabbit confit is so delicious, so falling-off-the-bone tender, you’ll not think once of the cartoon. Promise.

• 30 M
• 3 H, 30 M
• 8