Recipes

Have your cake, and eat it for breakfast, too.

Once you’ve made your own fresh, homemade salsa (also known as pico de gallo), you might never go back to store-bought. For this easy salsa recipe, start with juicy plum tomatoes—known for their crisp texture—and then mix in onion, cilantro, lime, garlic, and jalapeño. As for the heat level, the seeds are the key. Not so into spice? Skip the small white seeds inside the jalapeño. Want to go hot? Keep ‘em in. Serve this easy salsa recipe with tortilla chips, over fish tacos, or to brighten up your morning scrambled eggs.

This salad is beautiful, filling, and easy—just what a great recipe should be.

A tasty, classic, and easy chicken dinner is just what you need tonight.

This hearty soup comes together in just 30 minutes.

These are everything an energy bar should be: packed to the brim with nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. Almonds are filled with heart-healthy fats, quinoa is an excellent source of protein, goji berries are loaded with antioxidants—and those are just a few of the nutrient-packed ingredients you’ll find inside. This recipe is customizable, too, so feel free to swap cashews for almonds, or dried cherries for goji berries. Brown rice syrup is available at most health foods stores, and does the best job of binding the ingredients together without making the bars sticky. It also gives the bars a gorgeous shiny finish, which you can further enhance with a drizzle of dark chocolate.

To be honest, we’d liken this “cake” to an amped-up mega-delicious apple crisp. The base is made with baking apples, cinnamon, and a squeeze of lemon juice for balance, just like pie filling. In the spirit of dump cakes, the fruit mixture is covered with a crispy topping that you quickly dump together (we added some rolled oats for texture, plus cinnamon and ginger for oomph). For a finishing touch that plays up the dessert’s similarity to apple crisp, we decided to top it off with an extra layer of streusel. And not just any streusel: big, buttery, crunchy crumbs.

Tender pork and perfect fresh corn polenta are on the menu tonight.

Meltingly tender short ribs with the press of a button.

Eggplant parm was made to be sandwiched into a melty panini.

You know what I’m talking about: those sweet, creamy little swirls of ice cream clustered together in a small cup, covered in colorful toppings. Rolled ice cream is a frozen dessert that originated in Thailand, often referred to as 'Thai rolled ice cream' or 'stir-fried ice cream.' Many will recognize the creamy concoction as the treat that floods their Instagram every summer. If you thought you could only buy rolled ice cream from the pros, we have good news: it’s super simple to make your own version from scratch, and believe it or not, you only need 2 ingredients. Here’s how to make rolled ice cream at home.

This pretty Mai Tai cocktail is fruity and refreshing. If you’re wondering how to make a Mai Tai (or what’s in a Mai Tai), you’ve come to the right place. Each one of the Mai Tai ingredients adds depth and flavor to the tropical cocktail. The tart lime juice balances the sweet pineapple juice and orgeat syrup (a sweet almond flavored syrup) offers a base note to anchor the flavors together. Feel free to replace the orgeat with simple syrup and a drop of almond extract, which will mimic the almond undertones. Though we call for dark rum in the recipe, we tested it with white rum and it was just as delicious. Make this easy Mai Tai recipe while you’re relaxing on the beach—or if you just want to pretend you are.

Cooking jasmine rice is one of those seemingly simple tasks that is actually pretty difficult to master, even for some professional cooks. But once you master the technique, you’ll be steaming to perfection in no time. One of the big problems people encounter is rice stuck to the bottom of the pot. This is actually a sign that you’ve nailed the jasmine rice-to-water ratio. To release it, all you have to do is remove the pot from the stove, and let it rest, covered, for 5 minutes. The starchy grains will magically release from the bottom for a perfectly cooked batch of jasmine rice.

Browning the chicken first gives this comforting one-bowl meal its flavor—and eliminates the need for chicken broth.

This quick take on shakshuka is perfect for an easy weeknight meal.

You'll feel like you're on a tropical vacation when you sip this bright, creamy smoothie. Even better, it's so much healthier than it tastes!

Sometimes we make the mistakes so you don’t have to. When we first made these slow cooker cakes we used dish towels that had been washed in some pretty strong detergent (we work in a professional kitchen after all). Instead of apples and spice, the cake tasted like, well, the inside of the washing machine. Try to pick a towel that hasn’t been washed in a super fragrant load but most home detergents won’t cause the cakes any harm. We like this bundt dusted with a light coating of powdered sugar, but it would be equally delicious drizzled with caramel sauce.

Vegetables and potato dumplings get cozy in this easy weeknight dinner.

If you have a jar of peanut butter in the house, you can make these simple cookies right now. With just a handful of pantry staples and a half an hour, you can bake up a batch of these classics for an after school treat or a fuss free dessert. We prefer to use chunky peanut butter but if creamy is all you have on hand, that’s OK too. However, we do recommend using a kid-friendly peanut butter here: the natural varieties will bake into a crumbly cookie which can be tough to transport in lunch boxes.

Elegant and easy steamed clams, all from the comfort of your kitchen.

Once you make pizza in your slow cooker, you might never call for delivery again. 

Eggplant is the best kind of vegetable, which is to say, a multi tasker that can take on many different forms. It’s as equally at home breaded and fried or, as it is here: roasted until it has a deliciously melted center. Topped with a rich miso dressing, this recipe works equally well as an appetizer course or as a side dish for salmon or chicken. Cooking tip: Watch the sesame seeds while you toast them in the skillet. They can quickly turn from perfectly toasted to burned.