Linda M., Recipe Tester

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

• Quick Glance
• 10 M
• 1 H, 25 M
• 4

This easy gingerbread pancakes recipe is easy to make with sugar, spice, lemon zest, and maple syrup. Perfect for Christmas.

• Quick Glance
• 25 M
• 25 M
• 2

Yup. It’s still winter. Darn good thing this simple made-from-scratch soup requires barely more effort than heating up some Campbell’s.

• 10 M
• 45 M
• 19

Step one: Make a childhood favorite. Step two: Cut it into squares. Step three: Dunk, drop, or plop into tomato soup. Step four: Sigh with content.

• Quick Glance
• 10 M
• 10 M
• 2

Cookie dough is oft a means to an end, an interim state of existence, a fleeting moment sacrificed to the creation of cookies. No more. Grab your spoons.

• 10 M
• 10 M
• 36

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

• 10 M
• 20 M
• 27

Whoever made up that silly rule about no white after Labor Day clearly has never stunned dinner guests with vegetables in shades of winter white and palest green.

• 10 M
• 10 M
• 2

Just as cheesy and comforting as it was when you were six years old. And who couldn’t benefit from feeling like you’re six again and all is right with the world?

• Quick Glance
• 5 M
• 10 M
• 2

Tender and delicate and buttery and spectacularly simple, just as classic shortbread cookies ought to be.

• 25 M
• 1 H
• 8

Just like cinnamon toast. Except better. Your kids will worship you. So will your inner kid.

• 10 M
• 45 M
• 10

Elegant enough for company, simple enough for every day, and versatile enough for breakfast and midnight snack and pretty much every moment in between.

• 30 M
• 2 H
• 5

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

“Could not have been easier.” “Perfect.” “A one-pot wonder!” That’s what folks are saying about these super simple cakey brownies.

• 15 M
• 55 M
• 8

The Attack of the Killer Cherry Tomatoes took place at David’s place last summer. [Spoiler alert!] Here’s how it ended.

• 25 M
• 2 H, 30 M
• 26