Recipes
Desserts
Strawberry Syrup
Use this syrup to make milkshakes, pour it over waffles or pancakes, or add it to soda water to make a sparkling strawberry spritzer.
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Vanilla-Mascarpone Cream Pie with Honeyed Fruit
This simple filling is great with any kind of seasonal fruit, especially strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and peaches.
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Mixed Berry and Walnut Crumble Bars
EmilyC’s take on a fruit-filled granola bar is a wonderful after-school snack or a weekday dessert. I love how easy it is, and that it calls for ingredients that I already have in my pantry and freezer. I used some frozen apricots and sweet cherries from last summer and they were divine. If your fruit is a bit tart, consider adding a tiny amount of sugar to the fruit layer.
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Bacon Cheeseburger Pasta
This bacon cheeseburger pasta recipe puts a spin on a comfort food classic by combining hearty pasta, ground beef, crispy bacon and melted cheese.
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Angel Food Cake
This angel food cake recipe yields a snow-white, crazy airy treat so tender it melts in your mouth (especially when topped with tons of fresh berries and homemade whipped cream).
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Skillet Lasagna
Skillet lasagna is made in a single skillet and features creamy, cheesy layers full of classic flavors. The best part? No oven required.
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Spanish Rice with Ground Beef
For a fast and flavorful dinner, look no further than this Spanish rice with ground beef—it's the ultimate one-skillet dinner when you only have 20 minutes to cook.
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Turkey Shrimp Gumbo
This slimmed-down version of gumbo tastes just as hearty as the classic version.
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Modern Tuna Casserole
Tuna casserole was my favorite as a kid, and I found myself craving it as an adult. I reconfigured the recipe to include more vegetables, and the result is perfection.
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Sausage and Swiss Chard Pasta
I whipped up lunch with fresh produce from the farmers market, and the result was amazing. The pasta absorbs the cooking liquid quickly, so serve immediately to guarantee the best texture.
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Pumpkin Sausage Soup
This dish is well suited to my lower-carb way of eating. It's definitely soul food, and I love that it's very simple to prepare.
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Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Before I met my husband Tad, I’d never been to the Hamptons on the east end of Long Island, and now we go, like his family has for decades, every August. But I went on vacations there for 5 years before anyone in his family told me about the cinnamon swirl bread from Breadzilla, a bakery that’s tucked away in their tiny hamlet of Wainscott. Breadzilla’s piece de resistance is a pan loaf that’s poufy on top with a sugary, cinnamon crust, and is loaded up inside with a curl of cinnamon butter. When we’re there in the summer, I eat it every morning for breakfast, thickly sliced, toasted and spread with butter and a scattering of sea salt.
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Potato and Chorizo Casserole
I love the smoky flavor chorizo gives this dish, but I’ve also made it with Italian sausage and substituted an Italian blend cheese for the Mexican cheese. For a vegetarian option, you can use cream of mushroom soup and fresh mushrooms.
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Black Tea Jelly
A few weeks ago, I just happened to be thinking about all those great homemade jellies as I sipped a cup of my favorite tea, and it occurred to me that a tea-flavored jelly could be a wonderful, light end to a meal – or even part of a composed dessert, perhaps with a rich, milky ice cream and a crisp cookie of some kind.
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Texas Ruby Red Grapefruit Cake with a Hint of Mint
A citrus-kissed cake that has a gloriously soft crumb, topped with a mint-flecked glaze.
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Buttery Lemony Lace Cookies
These lace cookies contain ground almonds, by the way. I love almonds, they’re good and good for you! They’re good for your heart and packed with antioxidants and nutrients.
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Almost Flourless Chocolate Cake with Meyer Lemon Whipped Cream
This cake is only very lightly adapted from Molly Wizenberg's Winning-Hearts-and-Minds Cake -- and it gets better as it ages (or is stashed in the freezer for a bit). Serve it with powdered sugar, whipped cream, this lemon whipped cream, or nothing at all.
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Almond Butter, Dark Chocolate & Coconut Cookies
These cookies bake up gorgeously, with a crackled top and chewy interior. They are delicious as is or with a handful of dried cherries stirred in with the chocolate and coconut.