Michelle P.

This simple caramel sauce was made for weeknight cravings that desperately demand scooping something sweet by the spoonful.

Spaetzle is like homemade pasta but without all that fussy rolling out, which makes it as easy as it is satisfying. Not to mention cheap as can be.

This natural alternative to overpriced, chemical-laden liquid dish soap is inexpensive, effective, and gentle on hands. Doesn't get much more practical than that.

Quick, easy, flaky, buttery, and basically foolproof. That's how we like our pie crust. Here's how to make it.

Let's get clear about what hummus is and what it ain't. Real hummus tastes like nothing but hummus. Not fancy. Just perfect.

This brash and boozy sorbet is just what we crave come summer. It's sorta the sorbet equivalent of an after-dinner digestif. Opa!

Never has an overabundance of garden lettuces and herbs been so easily remedied—or made so memorable—as this soup.

This lovely homemade muesli number, with nary any cardboard-like, dusty-tasting grains or too many raisins, will upend your notion of morning cereal.

These oatmeal cookies are like the baking version of those Choose Your Own Adventure books, which means your cookies end up exactly the way you like them.

We could blather on and on about this surprising (and stealthy healthy) riff on a Southern classic that everyone is swearing is the best cornbread they've ever had.

We got nothing against the Larabars we've been noshing for years. Save for the crazy price tag. Here's a less expensive, more customizable alternative.

"This was beyond the best carrot cake I have ever had." That's what we're hearing about this cake, which ingeniously relies on puréed, rather than grated, carrots.