Linda B., Recipe Tester

Fresh figs alone, while stunning if savored by you alone in the kitchen, isn’t exactly what you want to serve guests. Here’s what you do want to offer them.

• 10 M
• 10 M
• 14

Pink preserves were never so pretty—or so easy—as this foolproof old-fashioned recipe that relies on just four ingredients and an occasional stir. No prior canning experience required.

• 45 M
• 2 H
• 91

Need to bring something to a backyard bash when all you want is mad crazy gratitude and an empty dish to take home? This blueberry crumble with a crumbly oatmeal cookie topping is your answer.

• 15 M
• 50 M
• 57

Classic white pizza meets spring greens. Talk about our kinda spring detox!

• Quick Glance
• 30 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 2

DIY Baileys, baby. All you need is cream, coffee, whiskey, sugar, and a taste for the good things in life.

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• 10 M
• 1 H, 25 M
• 4

Perhaps the easiest and most elegant dinner conceivable. Here’s how to cook them to perfection.

• 10 M
• 20 M
• 27

Forget Robitussin. This fragrant infusion not only makes a run to the pharmacy unnecessary, but it goes down with far, far more ease than that syrupy medicinal stuff.

• 5 M
• 15 M
• 14

Boletus edulis—that’s the fancy-pants name for porcini—is hardly a come-hither sort of name, but with such a rich, earthy, unmistakable taste, who cares?

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• 5 M
• 25 M
• 0

Sugo con pomodorini gratinati alla Calabrese. That’s how you say the proper title of this recipe in Italian. Uh. We’ll just say “More pasta, please.” Because you’re definitely to be requesting second helpings.

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• 30 M
• 35 M
• 2

Rich, slightly sweet, and chewy in a good way, this stunner of a loaf is New York’s answer to France’s brioche.

• 45 M
• 4 H
• 8

You don’t have to be Greek for this amalgam of tomatoes, green beans, red onion, and feta to taste like home.

• 30 M
• 30 M
• 9

Fresh herbs and a squeeze of lemon lend this chicken its effusive Greek accent. A foolproof grilling technique makes it irresistible in any language.

• 15 M
• 55 M
• 18

“The finest peach cobbler that I have ever, or will ever, eat.” “WOW!” “An 11 out of 10.” “Magical.” That’s what folks are saying about this crazy easy peach cobbler.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 52

We’re food folks, not number crunchers. But perhaps our most favorite equation ever? Chocolate + hazelnuts = gianduia.

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• 35 M
• 7 H
• 2