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Basically Croque Monsieur

Like a hot ham and cheese sandwich, but slathered with cream sauce and baked to bubbly perfection. (Yeah, it's as good as it sounds.)

Foolproof Fish With Spiced Chickpeas

Just about the most approachable at-home fish cooking method there is.

Adult Mac and Cheese

Our creamy stovetop mac and cheese is about as easy as opening a box—and a whooooole lot more delicious.

Raw and Roasted Dinner Salad

Crunchy, creamy, sweet, salty, and highly satisfying, this is the kind of salad you can make a meal out of.

Smashed and Loaded Crispy Potatoes

Cooking potatoes twice—once in water, and a second time in hot oil—is hands-down the best way to achieve extra-crispy potatoes at home.

Brown Butter Wedding Cookies

Six-ingredient cookies for people who don't think they can bake cookies.

Sheet-Pan Garam Masala Chicken

Marinating in spiced yogurt gets you a juicy and super-tender chicken every time.

Vegan Butternut Squash Soup

If you've always thought you needed hours to make a luxuriously silky puréed vegetable soup, well, this recipe is here to say you don't! 

Lemon Pound Cake

Every cook should have at least one good dessert up their sleeve, and this classic, lightly-glazed lemon pound cake should be yours.

Crispy Roasted Broccoli With Tahini Sauce

High heat and the simplest sauce ever make for roasted veggies that feel like a dish, not an afterthought.

Caramelized Zucchini Flatbread

The most delicious solution to summer squash fatigue.

Caramelized Banana Pudding

The classic we all know and love—but better.

Corn Salsa

Whether it’s scooped up with tortilla chips or spooned over a simple fillet of fish, this zippy charred corn salsa is the ultimate peak-August condiment.

Oven-Barbecued Chicken

No backyard? No problem. All the sticky-sweet goodness of barbecued chicken without having to leave the house.

Stuffed Eggplant With Crispy Beef

Custardy eggplant, sweet-tart pomegranate, creamy garlic yogurt, and crispy beef—eggplant naysayers, we're coming for you.

Slow-Roasted Onion Dip

Like the one you make with the packet of soup mix, but with no weird chemicals and 1,000 percent tastier.

Creamy One-Pot Pasta with Peas and Mint

Pantry pasta at its best.

The Basically Fried Chicken Sandwich

Everything you want in a crispy chicken sandwich, with none of the fuss.

Easy Blueberry Cream Scones

Think of these scones as the easier, cooler cousin of the blueberry muffin.

Shrimp and No-Stir Grits

Brunch, lunch, or dinner, we're never not excited about sweet, garlicky shrimp and cheesy grits.