Merlyn Cafaro, Recipe Tester

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

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.

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• 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

A dreamy, creamy, pretty-in-pink dessert that casts everyone’s favorite berry in a starring role.

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• 30 M
• 8 H, 15 M
• 2

Fresh crab necessitates only Old Bay and very little in way of other ingredients. That’s exactly what you’ll find here.

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• 30 M
• 45 M
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The iconic summer cocktail. Gin. Lemonade. Ginger ale. Citrus. Cucumber. Mint. Yes, please.

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• 5 M
• 5 M
• 2

For vanilla ice cream purists, nothing competes with a recipe that relies on just the essentials: milk, sugar, vanilla bean, eggs, and cream.

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• 25 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 0