Lisa Amtower, Recipe Tester

A list of all the recipes Lisa Amtower has tested.

Halves of roasted romaine Caesar salad on a rimmed baking sheet.

Roasted Romaine Caesar Salad

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Elevate Caesar salad by roasting the lettuce. Yes, roasting the lettuce. It’ll draw out flavors and textures you’d never expect. Impressively easy.

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An oval ceramic platter topped with Sichuan pepper prawns and bamboo sticks crossed over the top of them.

Sichuan Peppercorn Prawns

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“A flavor bomb.” That’s what we’re heaing about these dry-fried Sichuan peppercorn prawns that are packed with flavor, crazy quick to get on the table, and impossible to forget.

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A small and large bowl of celery salad topped with nuts and a fork resting beside them.

Celery Salad

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Crisp celery aligns with mildly bitter, frilly frisée for an unexpected yet surprisingly satisfying salad that’s certain to cure your salad ennui.

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A yellow and white pot filled with smoked salmon pasta and garnished with fresh chives.

Smoked Salmon Pasta

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This one-pot pasta supper may sound even more enticing when you find out just how quick and easy this one-pan pasta is to prepare and to clean up after.

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A cut loaf of lemon-poppy seed cake on a white background

Citrus Poppy Seed Cake

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A harmony of sweet citrus notes nudges the classic lemon poppy seed cake in a less one-dimensional direction here. We may even be thinking of this as a 5D cake.

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A person dusting flour over a ball of quick pizza dough on a wooden table.

Quick Pizza Dough

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A quick pizza dough—the easiest we’ve ever worked with—that rests for a mere hour yet turns out spectacularly well. Because pizza cravings don’t wait. Or at least ours don’t.

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  • 10 M
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A mushroom pizza with ricotta cut into 8 slices on a piece of browned parchment paper.

Mushroom Pizza with Ricotta

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A pizza that takes white pizza up a level with several kinds of cheeses and mushrooms and a dough that’s a cinch to toss together.

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A ceramic bowl filled with greens with tomatoes, or sukuma wiki.

Greens with Tomatoes ~ Sukuma Wiki

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Sukuma wiki means “to stretch the week”—in other words, using affordable and readily available greens spiffed up with spices to help stretch any meal a little further.

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Pieces of beef stew with red wine and mashed potatoes in a white bowl with a fork nestled inside.

Beef Stew with Red Wine

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An Italian tradition that, in true form, transforms simple ingredients into something sublime.

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  • 40 M
  • 1 H, 40 M
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A fork scooping strands of roasted spaghetti squash from the center of a halved squash.

Roasted Spaghetti Squash

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“This technique really did produce those long lovely strands allowing this squash to live up to its name!” We keep hearing this about this perfectly easy and healthy spaghetti squash.

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