Sandy Hill, Recipe Tester

This sophisticated chocolate fix draws on just three ingredients, comes together in minutes, and is satiating beyond belief.

• (4)
• 5 M
• 20 M
• 23

If you’re going to splurge on brownies, you may as well, you know, SPLURGE on brownies. But not in terms of effort or expense. Just taste. These brownies handle it splendidly.

• (2)
• 10 M
• 45 M
• 6

Baking a batch of these cinnamon-scented, hazelnut-inflected, raspberry-jamwiched Linzer cookies is nothing if not a testament to your heart most definitely being in the right place.

• (1)
• 30 M
• 3 H
• 2

A simple, quick, easy, cheap side that’s making kids as well as adults demand seconds. Yes, seconds. Of broccoli. You’re welcome.

• (4)
• 20 M
• 40 M
• 8

Bathed in buttermilk and spiced ever so slightly, this Cajun fried hen is memorably moist, superlatively crisp, and gosh darn perfect through and through.

• (5)
• 35 M
• 35 M
• 27

So many meatball recipes, so little time—though we strongly suggest you make the time for these intoxicatingly spiced little lovelies.

• (3)
• 25 M
• 1 H, 5 M
• 34

Take a close look at this sandwich and you’ll realize you’re just a few ingredients away from feeling like a kid again.

• (5)
• 20 M
• 25 M
• 14

Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic is a classic for one reason—it’s damn good. Using chicken thighs ensures the meat remains juicy. Using our trick for quickly peeling garlic makes it hassle free.

• (3)
• 45 M
• 1 H, 45 M
• 18

Watch out, pumpkin pie. Someone wants your job. Badly. This wonderfully luxuriant pumpkin cheesecake from Rose Levy Beranbaum is a terribly enticing alternative to tradition.

• Quick Glance
• 1 H
• 2 H
• 1

There’s chocolate bark and then there’s chocolate bark. This bark is the latter sort, a sort that intrigues and surprises, that both starts and stops conversations, a bark that knows no boundaries.

• (2)
• 10 M
• 30 M
• 9