Pat Francis, Recipe Tester

A list of all the recipes Pat Francis has tested.

Spicy Chex mix scattered on a baking sheet with a spoon lying in the middle.

Spicy Chex Mix

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This is not the Chex mix of your childhood. This is something completely different. And its greatness simply must be experienced to be truly understood.

  • Quick Glance
  • 25 M
  • 1 H, 25 M
  • 0
A cooked pork loin roast, tied and salted, set on a wire rack in a baking sheet

Pork Loin Roast

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Just like what your grandma would put on the table for Sunday night supper. (Don’t you love how food instantly transports you through time?!)

  • (12)
  • 10 M
  • 1 H, 35 M
  • 65
A glass jar half-filled with basic vinaigrette with measuring spoons, a shallot, and two garlic cloves on the side.

Basic Vinaigrette

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Because, actually, yes, it is sometimes essential to have precise measurements to create even the simplest recipes. Here’s proof.

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  • 10 M
  • 10 M
  • 0
A person holding a platter of French potato salad above a wooden table.

French Potato Salad

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This is not your mom’s potato salad recipe. It relies on tangy Dijon vinaigrette and soft-boiled eggs for dressing with runny yolks that spill into the salad to form an unparalleled richness.

  • (5)
  • 45 M
  • 1 H, 30 M
  • 10
Three fried chicken and biscuits sandwiches on a baking sheet with a bowl of honey beside and drizzled around the sandwiches.

Fried Chicken and Biscuits

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Classic fried chicken is reimagined with a shatteringly crisp, delicate crust that usurps the usual thick breading. Flaky, buttery biscuits are requisite. Honey and pickles strongly encouraged.

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  • 40 M
  • 1 H, 20 M
  • 0
A bowl of spaghetti all'Aglio e Olio topped with olive oil and flakes of Parmesan cheese.

Spaghetti all’Aglio e Olio

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This Italian classic is gonna bring ease to your everyday supper situation with its understated complexity and undeniable frugality.

  • (3)
  • 5 M
  • 20 M
  • 14
A half-full jar of honey barbecue sauce with a spoon dripping excess sauce back into the jar.

Honey Barbecue Sauce

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Pantry ingredients and barely any effort yield you something that’s sweetly tangy and spicy that you’ll want to slather on ribs, wings, pulled pork, smoked or grilled chicken, burgers…

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  • 15 M
  • 35 M
  • 0
Grilled Pork Skewers with Peaches

Grilled Pork Skewers with Peaches

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Peachy keen. Pretty much sums up how we feel toward this simple, skewer-y, summer salad of sorts that comes together in far less than an hour. Just can’t get enough of it.

  • Quick Glance
  • 25 M
  • 50 M
  • 0
Bite-size bacon and cheese scones with smoked bacon and melted Asiago on top on a parchment-lined baking sheet

Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones

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Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good biscuits we’ve had in recent memory. Maybe ever.

  • (1)
  • 30 M
  • 45 M
  • 31
A blue casserole dish filled with cauliflower macaroni & cheese with a yellow ladle and a bowl of herbs and napkin on the side.

Cauliflower Macaroni and Cheese

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Adults seeking lower-carb classics aren’t the only ones cleaning their plates of this cauliflower macaroni and cheese. Kids are even asking for seconds. It’s that phenomenal.

  • (1)
  • 30 M
  • 30 M
  • 2
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