13 Easy Peasy Recipes

A deep baking dish lined with parchment and filled with baked ricotta

Baked Ricotta1/13

Entertaining gets no simpler than this rich, creamy, indulgent, elegant cheese spread made from three ingredients. Tasting is believing. Go on.

Turkey Cutlets with Marsala2/13

Simple enough to commit to memory, these tipsy turkey cutlets take minutes to make yet taste like you slaved for hours.

A sheet pan with an onion thyme tart on it, covered with cooked onions, thyme on a puff pastry crust

Onion Thyme Tart3/13

"Delicate." "Flaky." "Perfect." "I could not stop eating it!" That's what folks are saying about this hors d'oeuvre that's a cinch to make—and devour.

A grilled cheese sandwich cut into cubes of grilled cheese croutons.

Grilled Cheese Croutons4/13

Step one: Make a childhood favorite. Step two: Cut it into squares. Step three: Dunk, drop, or plop into tomato soup. Step four: Sigh with content.

A square grey plate containing a bowl of cantaloup soup and a prosciutto mozzarella sandwich on a baguette.

Cantaloupe Soup with Prosciutto-Mozzarella Sandwiches5/13

For those nights when you want to simply make supper out of a cheese and cold cut plate with some fruit.

Two puffy, golden Parmesan and Gruyere Cheese Souffles in white bowls on a towel

Parmesan and Gruyère Cheese Soufflé6/13

Airy and oh so rich, these stunning souffles take stiffly beaten eggs, Parmesan, and Gruyère to lofty new heights.

Easy Rhubarb Jam7/13

Pink preserves were never so pretty—or so easy—as this foolproof old-fashioned recipe that relies on just four ingredients and an occasional stir. No prior canning experience required.

A woman's hand using a biscuit cutter on cream biscuit dough

Easy Cream Biscuits8/13

Scandalously simple. Ethereally airy. Magical. That's but a sampling of what folks are saying about these two-ingredient, Southern-style cream biscuits.

A pot of fork-mashed potatoes with a fork resting inside.

Fork-Mashed Potatoes9/13

These fork-mashed spuds are indulgence defined with their easy execution, deceptively rich taste, and lack of bowls and beaters to clean.

An earthenware bowl with an open lasagna of mushrooms, pine nuts, and thyme in it and a fork resting in the bowl and a glass of white wine in the background.

Open Mushroom Lasagna10/13

Elegance was never achieved with such ease. Simply stack cooked lasagna noodles with sautéed 'shrooms and smother with a luxurious cream sauce for some everyday extravagance.

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

Pigs in a Blanket11/13

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

Three resealable plastic bags filled with freezer tomato sauce.

Freezer Tomato Sauce12/13

1. Turn your glut of garden tomatoes into this sauce. 2. Stash it in the freezer. 3. Thank yourself come winter.

A large pot of easy tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich being cut into croutons beside it.

Easy Tomato Soup13/13

Yup. It's still winter. Darn good thing this simple made-from-scratch soup requires barely more effort than heating up some Campbell's.