Pasta with Butter and Parmesan

Whether you're five or fifty-five, sometimes nothing is more satiating than a plate of spaghetti with butter and cheese.

20 mins

Flounder with Lemon Butter Sauce

One of our most requested recipes. Easy, elegant, and pretty much foolproof. Sorta impressive for something that you toss together in less than 15 minutes, wouldn't you agree?

15 mins

Espresso Cake

This simple yet spectacular riff on coffee cake—there's actually coffee in the cake—is rich and robust and rousing in that way only espresso can be.

1 hr 15 mins

Roast Chicken Stock

Sure, made-from-scratch stock like grandma used to make is frugal beyond belief. But wait till you see what it does for your cooking.

6 hrs

Fresh Figs with Ricotta and Honey

Fresh figs alone, while stunning if savored by you alone in the kitchen, isn't exactly what you want to serve guests. Here's what you do want to offer them.

10 mins

Watermelon Sorbet

No ice cream maker required. Just watermelon, citrus, sweetness, mint, and a little time in the deep freeze. Vodka optional. Then all you do is scoop it up and plop it in a pretty bowl.

20 mins

Chimichurri

Drizzle, douse, souse, or otherwise acquaint this emerald elixir with grilled steak, chicken, chops, seafood, or heck, anything.

5 mins

Sesame-Peanut Noodles

These gooey, slurpy, peanut butter-y wonders are the true test of a Chinese restaurant's worthiness. Although now you don't have to leave it to chance. You can simply make them at home.

20 mins

Nutella Brownies

And, on the eighth day, there was gianduia (zhahn-doo-yah). Namely, hazelnuts harmoniously cozying up to chocolate. Aka Nutella. And the world has been a more glorious place ever since.

1 hr 15 mins

French Madeleines

Who knew these buttery, airy, delicate little cakes were so simple to make...and so irresistibly delicious?! (Well, Proust, for one...)

2 hrs 30 mins

Bucatini all’Amatriciana

All’Amatriciana—go on, roll that "r" like they do in Italy—means a spicy pasta sauce of tomatoes and pancetta or bacon. Prego.

1 hr

White Peach Crostata

Not familiar with the term "crostata"? We have a hunch you're going to like what it means, which is essentially "less fussy than pie."

2 hrs 20 mins

Tom Yum Goong Soup

The lilt of lemongrass. The sour smack of tamarind. The warm-your-belly pervasiveness of galangal. The unmistakable funk of fish sauce. All in this exquisitely authentic soup.

25 mins

Oven Fried Drumsticks

Some things never go out of style. Witness this throwback to the 50s recipe for drumsticks rolled in crumbs of any sort. Potato chips. Wasabi peas. Rice crackers.

50 mins

Smoky Chipotle Vegetarian Chili

Happy World Vegetarian Day! Here's a soupy, stewy, smoky chili with stealth veggie goodness galore. Healthful never tasted so darn good.

1 hr 15 mins

Creamy Coleslaw

Sweet and simple. Nothing but cabbage, cider vinegar, sugar, mayo, a little onion, salt, and oil. Just like you'd find at a BBQ shack.

35 mins