Merlyn Cafaro, Recipe Tester

A make-at-home version of your fave diner-style burger but with the added smokiness from just the blissful amount of chopped pastrami mixed in with the beef.

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• 15 M
• 30 M
• 0

Know when you taste something and can’t help but pause and sigh with content? This subtly sweet lemon cake does that to us each and every darn time.

• (12)
• 35 M
• 2 H
• 38

Let us introduce you to the most Googled recipe of 2019. No, it doesn’t have cauliflower. And it’s certainly not keto. It’s a not-quite-classic shepherd’s pie gilded with sweetly caramelized onions and smothered with Cheddar. To heck with tradition.

• (4)
• 1 H, 20 M
• 2 H
• 13

Slightly sweet, fudgy, and full of bittersweet chocolatey goodness. Certain to satisfy both the kid and the grown-up in you.

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• 30 M
• 3 H, 20 M
• 0

Store-bought puff pastry makes this elegant baked Brie a cinch to pull off. (But that can be our little secret.)

• (1)
• 15 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 2

Elegant yet exceedingly simple, this white wine linguine beguiles with its rich and silken flavor despite the absence of cream and only a touch of butter.

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• 15 M
• 30 M
• 0

Stilton, the famous blue cheese, gets rolled up into a puff pastry pinwheel and topped with walnuts and honey for a sensuous, rich tasting appetizer.

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• 35 M
• 2 H
• 4

Bet you already have everything you need for these brownies in your house. Which is a very good thing. (Also sorta a very dangerous thing.)

• (1)
• 15 M
• 40 M
• 4

A traditional Azorean dish that boasts meltingly tender oven-braised beef, potatoes, chouriço, and onions. It’s a rustic, homey, Sunday supper sorta dish from David’s VERY Portuguese mom.

• (2)
• 1 H, 10 M
• 6 H, 30 M
• 10

Sorta like apple pie without the crust, this simple autumn dessert comes together with absolute ease…and will earn you quite a lot of accolade.

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• 10 M
• 1 H, 25 M
• 0