Renee H., Recipe Tester

Maybe what the world needs is a single currency. Like jars of this sweet, rich, intense bacon jam that makes everything better.

• 15 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 94

Pull out your slow cooker and sate yourself with this tender, sweetly spiced, subtly smoky shredded pork. And with nary any effort.

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• 30 M
• 12 H
• 0

Cajeta. It’s how you say “obscenely indulgent, ridiculously easy, and gosh darn good caramel” when you’re south of the border.

• 20 M
• 2 H
• 6

We find this lovely, albeit subtly flavored, little number to be one of the simpler pleasures in life. We think you’ll concur.

• 15 M
• 25 M
• 22

This sweetly spicy little number wooed us from our very first spoonful, banishing bottled barbecue sauce forever from our pantries.

• 20 M
• 1 H
• 6

Incomparably easier than traditional English muffins yet with all the requisite nooks and crannies that God—and the British—intended.

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• 15 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 2

Expect a slightly ginormous, squat, thin cookie that’s chewy in the center, crisp at the edges, and uncommonly good through and through.

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• 25 M
• 55 M
• 4

This panna cotta has the most luscious of textures. How to explain it? Hmmm. Sorta like swooping velvet over your tongue.

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• 20 M
• 8 H, 40 M
• 4

Sweet meets salty. Salty meets sweet. There. That didn’t take long for them to get acquainted.

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• 45 M
• 50 M
• 2

The words “orange chicken” used to make us think of gloppy Chinese takeout—until we tried this orange chicken.

• 40 M
• 2 H, 40 M
• 13

A tuna melt is a tuna melt is a tuna melt, right? Uh, not exactly. This is a welcome departure from what we choked down as children.

• 15 M
• 25 M
• 6

We believe in feeding kids real foods. But when you think about it, how much more real does it get than fish and bread crumbs?

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• 20 M
• 30 M
• 8

New York Times’ reporter Julia Moskin divulges the recipe for City Bakery’s Peanut Butter Sandies. You’re welcome.

• 20 M
• 50 M
• 13