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
Never has an overabundance of garden lettuces and herbs been so easily remedied—or made so memorable—as this soup.
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.
Chai Spiced Whipped Cream
An incredibly easy and exquisitely spiced embellishment for everything from pumpkin pie to quick breads.
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
Crushed graham crackers. Melted butter. Slippery fingertips pressing said ingredients into a pie plate. Brings back memories.
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.
Apple Cake
What’s easy peasy to make, lovely to look at, even lovelier to taste, and certain to impress? This cake.
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
Tartly sweet. Or sweetly tart. We can’t quite discern which best describes this simple, stunning sorbet. Not that it really matters.
Pigs in a Blanket
Without further ado or feigned guilt, allow us to reacquaint you with a long-lost childhood friend.
Pierogi
This family Christmas tradition will land 120 pretty little pierogi in your lap…and on your countertop…and on your tabletop….
Classic Old-Fashioned Cocktail
A little sugar, a splash of bitters, and a lotta booze—your grandma’s go-to drink. (Oh wait, was that just our family?!)
Three-Cheese Grilled Cheese
This confluence of cheeses is like a lazy man’s croque monsieur. Cheesy faux French accent and glass of wine optional.
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.
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
From the folks at The Splendid Table, these sophisticated coconut macaroons are simply mounds of sweetened coconut toasted to perfection.