Molly Baz
Senior Associate Food Editor, Emeritus
A former food editor at Bon Appétit, Molly Baz is a cook, recipe developer, video host, cookbook author, and Caesar salad enthusiast with a lifelong love of cooking, eating, and teaching other people how to cook. She was placed on this earth with one mission: to convince you all that cooking is nothing but FUN, salt is the single most important ingredient in your kitchen, and delicious food is really not that hard to make. For more Molly, check out her cookbook Cook This Book or her YouTube series Hit the Kitch. mollybaz.com
Recipes
One-Pan Chicken Thighs With Burst Tomatoes, Harissa, and Feta
This recipe requires you to chop a grand total of zero vegetables. What's the shortcut? Harissa, a North African pepper sauce that brings the flavor (so you don't have to).
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Grilled Spicy Pork Meatballs with Nuoc Cham
If you’re not set up for grilling or the weather doesn’t permit, a cast-iron grill pan will also do the trick for making these spicy, gingery, umami-packed meatballs.
Recipes
Big Ass Beach Hoagie
Your answer to the age-old question "What can I make ahead of time and throw in my bag to feed myself (and, okay, my friends) when we finally make it to the beach/park/festival/fireworks?"
Culture
I Eat an Unhealthy Amount of These Healthy Crackers
Crispy, crunchy, and packed with seeds, I don’t feel so bad about how many bags I go through.
Recipes
Spicy Coconut Grilled Chicken Thighs
Welcome to your newest go-to summer marinade, featuring some spicy sambal, brown sugar and coconut milk to balance out the heat, and lots of fresh ginger and lime juice.
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Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad
This recipe was an excuse to combine our favorite potato chip flavor with the creamy, salty "salad" of our dreams. To hammer that home, the whole dish is topped with crumbled sour cream and onion potato chips.
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The Soft Scramble Sandwich
To get the most flavor out of this open-faced breakfast sandwich, look for spring onions with round bulbs and very tender dark green stalks.
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Dilly Beans and Peas on Ricotta Toast
A lemony, herby bean salad with lots of crunch from sliced snap peas is good. But when it's piled on top of garlic-rubbed, ricotta-spread toast, it's even better.
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Jammy Pepper Pasta Salad
This spicy, sweet, and punchy pasta salad is perfect for a hot summer picnic when you need your dishes perfect at room (ahem, air) temperature.
Cooking
These 2 Ingredients Make Even Mediocre Berries Taste Irresistible
Not all berries are created equal, but these two pantry staples are the great equalizers.
Recipes
Spicy Steak Lettuce Wraps
Lettuce wraps might be our all-time favorite weeknight summer dinner—minimal cooking, maximum flavor and freshness.
Recipes
Red Pesto Pasta
This red pesto tastes like a mash-up of your favorite spicy arrabbiata sauce and the anchovy-garlic dip bagna cauda. All of which is to say, it’s delicious.
Cooking
Smashed Green Beans Are the Best Green Beans
Welcome to the summer of crunchy, marinated, no-cook green beans.
Culture
Molly Baz Lives for Comfy Clothes and Spreadable Sausage
And more things our senior associate food editor is currently obsessed with.
Recipes
Upside-Down Caramelized Leek Tart
Yes, this is an impressive-looking, deliciously savory tart, and no, it’s not at all difficult to make.
Recipes
Pork Meatball Rice Bowls
In this weeknight recipe, magical, salty, umami-packed fish sauce is doing double-duty as a seasoning in the meatball mixture and as a part of the finishing sauce.
Recipes
Crispy Green Rice Pilaf
It’s worth planning ahead for this vibrant, springy pilaf recipe that’s made all the better by day-old rice.
Recipes
Tortellini with Brown Butter and Sage
Store-bought tortellini are the kind of weeknight hack we can get behind—especially when they're tossed with plenty of garlicky brown butter and toasty walnuts.
