Lisa Ward, Recipe Tester

A list of all the recipes Lisa Ward has tested.

A loaf of beer bread with a slice cut off on a wooden surface.

Beer Bread

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Beer bread just got fancy. Well, sorta. It’s still quick and easy and incredibly difficult to stop noshing. This one just seems a little more lovely than most. And we betcha already have everything you need to make it.

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  • 10 M
  • 1 H, 15 M
  • 4
A crock of beer cheese with a knife resting on top, and a mug of beer and piece of pretzel bun on the side.

Beer Cheese

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A boozy cousin to pimento cheese, this beer cheese is essential entertaining fare during football season. And, actually, outside football season.

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  • 25 M
  • 4 H, 25 M
  • 2
A jar of quick red chile adobo sauce with the lid and a spoon resting beside it.

Adobo Sauce

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Perhaps best known as the earthy sauce bathing canned chipotle peppers, this Mexican staple is actually ridiculously versatile. And easy to make at home. Here’s how.

  • (1)
  • 15 M
  • 15 M
  • 14
A slice of banana rum cheesecake with maple rum sauce and pecan pieces on top and a marigold beside the cake.

Banana Rum Cheesecake

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Make it regular or make it dairy-free and vegan. Either way, it’s going to be satisfying as can be.

  • (1)
  • 1 H
  • 5 H, 30 M
  • 2
An old-fashioned zucchini cake on a silver plate with lemon glaze being drizzled over it.

Old-Fashioned Zucchini Cake

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No matter how much soggy steamed zucchini you were forced to choke down as a child, you won’t turn away this moist zucchini cake that tastes just like grandma used to make.

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  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 40 M
  • 0
Nine slices of raspberry peach coffee cake with a bowl of raspberries nearby and some more raspberries scattered around the cake.

Raspberry Peach Coffee Cake

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Oh baby. We wait all year for stone fruits to be in season so we can make this. Ideal for breakfast, desert, and everything in between.

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  • 35 M
  • 1 H, 55 M
  • 2
A slice of coconut lime macadamia cake on a yellow plate with a fork resting beside it

Coconut Lime Macadamia Cake

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Inspired by the tropics, this simple single-layer cake is quick and easy yet lacks nothing in terms of satisfying richness.

  • (6)
  • 20 M
  • 1 H, 10 M
  • 12
A white bowl filled with sichuan chili oil, with chiles and pepper flakes surrounding it

Sichuan Chile Oil

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A tongue-tingling chile oil with a haunting and earthy and floral taste thanks to the dance of dried chiles, Sichuan peppers, cinnamon, cloves, and star anise.

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  • 15 M
  • 2 H, 15 M
  • 0
A cream cheese pound cake with a lemon glaze

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

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Everything you would imagine in a pound cake. Buttery. Indulgent. Moist. Rich. And with a perfectly balanced and ever so slightly puckery lemon glaze.

  • (3)
  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 40 M
  • 10
A glass casserole dish filled with golden brown easy scalloped potatoes

Easy Scalloped Potatoes

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Weeknight comfort food with ease. That’s what we’re talking about when it comes to these easy scalloped potatoes. Barely any effort or time. Lotsa payoff.

  • (1)
  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 35 M
  • 2
Three ceramic dishes with baked pasta with tomatoes and eggplant and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese

Baked Pasta with Tomatoes & Eggplant

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Cook once. Eat twice. This baked pasta casserole cleverly relies on a big batch of tomato soup as its sauce. Leftover soup means you have lunches done for the rest of the week.

  • (1)
  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 2
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