Fruit Shrub

Shrub Cocktail

You don’t have to be a hipster in Brooklyn to appreciate the latest retro cocktail craze. All you need are vinegar, sugar, fruit, a little patience, and a palate for the finer things in life.

Lettuce Soup

Lettuce Soup

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

A fried egg sandwich cut in half on a white and blue plate with the knife resting in front.

Fried Egg Sandwich

Bread. Cheese. Egg. Hot sauce. Five bucks says you’ve got the makings for this easy and oozy sandwich waiting in your kitchen.

Seven scoops of vegan banana ice cream with some small spoons tucked underneath.

Vegan Banana “Ice Cream”

This easy, cheap, weird, and truly magical one-ingredient vegan ice cream calls for nothing but bananas and your food processor. Oh, and a spoon.

Graham Cracker Crust

Graham Cracker Crust

Crushed graham crackers. Melted butter. Slippery fingertips pressing said ingredients into a pie plate. Brings back memories.

Piece of Cake cookbook cover

Goober Bars

Feel like a kid again as you swoon to these peanut butter blondies slicked with a layer of jam smack in the middle.

An apple cake on a ceramic platter

Apple Cake

What’s easy peasy to make, lovely to look at, even lovelier to taste, and certain to impress? This cake.

Vanilla Milkshake

Vanilla Milkshake

Cold, creamy, and eminently slurpable, just like the vanilla milkshakes mom used to make. In other words, perfect in all ways.

Blood Orange Sorbet

Blood Orange Sorbet

Tartly sweet. Or sweetly tart. We can’t quite discern which best describes this simple, stunning sorbet. Not that it really matters.

Eight mini hog dogs wrapped in puff pastry on a parchment lined baking sheet

Pigs in a Blanket

Without further ado or feigned guilt, allow us to reacquaint you with a long-lost childhood friend.

Five uncooked floured pierogi on a wooden board.

Pierogi

This family Christmas tradition will land 120 pretty little pierogi in your lap…and on your countertop…and on your tabletop….

Oven-Roasted Fries

Oven-Roasted Fries

Think you don’t need a recipe for roasting spuds? Try this technique, which we think works to a faretheewel. Then get back to us.

Black bowl of green gazpacho, with two ice cubes, drizzle of olive oil

Green Gazpacho

Though this cool, creamy, don’t-turn-on-the-stove soup is hardly penance, it certainly makes amends for all those burgers and brats. Summer detox, anyone?

Sally’s Coconut Macaroons

Sally’s Coconut Macaroons

From the folks at The Splendid Table, these sophisticated coconut macaroons are simply mounds of sweetened coconut toasted to perfection.