Sita Krishnaswamy, Recipe Tester

These Korean-style jalapenos that take a dunk in soy sauce and soda are perhaps not pickled in the traditional American sense, but pickled nonetheless. Wait’ll you taste ’em.

• 20 M
• 20 M
• 72

A tumult of sensations, this cool, creamy, simple salad juxtaposes tastes and textures to fancy schmancy effect.

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• 45 M
• 1 H
• 9

Hot enough to make you holler. That’s how they like their fried chicken in Nashville. Who are we to argue?

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• 40 M
• 55 M
• 20

Not your typical butter pecan ice cream. Not at all.

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• 30 M
• 9 H
• 0

Slightly tart and eminently easy, this tomatillo sauce makes ample so you can stash some in the fridge for later. Cook once, eat twice.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 11

With all due respect to Kermit, being green has never been so easy–nor so enticing–as this simple, savvy, spring-y sweet pea soup.

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• 30 M
• 45 M
• 0

Mmm. Buttery brioche. Incomparable to the store-bought stuff when made from scratch. And a heck of a lot easier to make than you’d imagine.

• 40 M
• 3 H, 15 M
• 2

“Luscious.” “Creamy.” “Incredibly delicious!” “Just the right amount of sweet.” That’s what folks are saying about this cheesecake.

• 30 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 14

A classic spring coupling, this melding of rhubarb and strawberries takes the form of sweet tart pie filling burbling beneath ginger-inflected goodness.

• 30 M
• 3 H
• 17

This cookie dough buttercream frosting is easy to make, insanely indulgent, and ridiculously perfect for slathering atop cakes and cupcakes, and, natch, snitching straight from the bowl.

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• 10 M
• 10 M
• 2

This weeknight friendly, company worthy, simple but not terribly subtle pasta concoction has us swooning.

• 20 M
• 30 M
• 2

Chicken is coaxed to tenderness in beer in this braised chicken with root vegetables. Simple to make, complex in taste, prepare for kudos.

• 25 M
• 1 H, 15 M
• 17

Yup. Vegan chocolate cake. If you tasted it without knowing, all you’d experience is chocolate through and through. No one will ever know it’s vegan…unless you tell them.

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• 20 M
• 1 H, 30 M
• 22

Sometimes carrots aren’t quite as sweet as we’d like them to be. This kid-tested tactic takes care of that occasional oops on the part of Mother Nature.

• 5 M
• 15 M
• 8