Marilee Johnson, Recipe Tester

A list of all the recipes Marilee Johnson has tested.

A yellow Dutch oven filled with white bean and chicken chili, topped with pieces of bacon.

White Bean and Chicken Chili

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Stop your scoffing. This may not be conventional chili, but it’s no sissy imposter. It’s just a little subtler, soupier, and smokier.

  • 35 M
  • 1 H
  • 8
Sweet Cream Ice Cream

Sweet Cream Ice Cream

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No vanilla. No eggs. Just cream, sugar, cream cheese, and plain and simple goodness like you’ve never imagined. A sweet cream sensation.

  • 15 M
  • 10 H
  • 8
Three grilled artichoke halves, some lemon wedges, and dip on a wooden peel

Grilled Artichokes

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Simple and stunning. That’s what we expect outta any side that we pull off the grill. These artichokes deliver all that—and then some.

  • 35 M
  • 1 H, 40 M
  • 4
A stack of easy gingerbread pancakes topped with bacon, maple syrup, and creme fraiche in a white bowl.

Easy Gingerbread Pancakes

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

  • 25 M
  • 25 M
  • 2
A whole turkey on a white platter with parsley garnish. A gravy boat and candles in the background.

Roast Turkey with Smoked Paprika and Fennel

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This roast turkey from chef Tom Douglas (those of you familiar with his creative genius will stop reading right now and head to the store) is unlike any turkey you’ve ever had before.

  • Quick Glance
  • 1 H
  • 3 H, 30 M
  • 0
Fruit Sorbet

Easy Fruit Sorbet

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Couldn’t be easier. Simply freeze puréed fruit, water, and sugar and you have sorbet. Any-flavor-you-want fruit sorbet. Best part? No ice cream maker required.

  • Quick Glance
  • 20 M
  • 3 H
  • 0
A raspberry crostata--a rustic tart with the crust folded over a filling of raspberries--on a sheet of parchment

Raspberry Crostata

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Sometimes a pie craving is just too strong to wait for a plate and fork and fussily crimping a top crust. Enter this easy peasy yet elegant crostata.

  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 50 M
  • 2
Rhubarb Crisp

Easy Rhubarb Crisp

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An obscenely easy, sweetly tart rhubarb crisp that you simply must experience at least once. Although we doubt you’ll be able to stop at just once.

  • 15 M
  • 45 M
  • 23
Oval casserole dish with spring asparagus and Asiago gratin, topped with coarse bread crumbs

Spring Asparagus and Asiago Gratin

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Our easy and elegant solution when you buy not-quite-spring spears of asparagus from the grocery store? Just add cheese and butter and bread crumbs.

  • 10 M
  • 30 M
  • 10
A white bowl filled with lentil soup and topped with fried chiles, greek yogurt, and cilantro

Moroccan Lentil Soup

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“Amazing.” “Wonderful.” “Warm satisfaction.” “Won the make-it-again award.” “Easy.” “Quick.” That’s what folks are saying about this luxuriously satiating soup.

  • 30 M
  • 1 H
  • 18
An iron plate with a pile of sautéed romaine lettuce topped with toasted pine nuts

Sauteed Romaine

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Sauteed romaine is a quick and healthy side dish that’s gonna upend your notions of what purpose romaine was meant to serve on this planet. Bye bye, salads.

  • 15 M
  • 15 M
  • 2
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

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A classic, perfected. (Yes, we know, you’ve been promised this before by others. But we mean it.)

  • 15 M
  • 1 D, 1 H
  • 31
A scattering of chili cheese fries topped with cheddar and snipped fresh chives.

Chili Cheese Fries

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Honest grub with demolish-the-entire-panful-while-standing-at-the-counter allure. Grab some napkins.

  • 20 M
  • 1 H
  • 8
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