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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

Pan-Seared Scallops With Chorizo and Corn

Treat scallops to the flavorful oil left behind when you cook chorizo—it’s basically liquid gold.

Radish Rainbow Salad

A colorful, stunning (and dead simple) salad made with a farmers’ market bounty of different radishes.

Plum-Cardamom Crumble with Pistachios

On the rare occasion you need an “excuse” to use up fruit before it goes bad, well, that’s what crumbles are for.

Salted Watermelon Juice

It’s two ingredients and the most refreshing thing you’ll drink this summer.

Charred, Spicy, and Tangy Tandoori Chicken Wings

A new recipe that will show you the wonders of chicken marinated in yogurt.

Tandoori Chicken Wings

The yogurt tenderizes the chicken as it sits, so the further in advance you make it, the better!

BA's Best Shrimp Cocktail Is Ready to Party

A recipe for the shrimp cocktail you deserve.

Fruit Sandwiches

AKA fruit sandos, the delightfully squishy Japanese dessert we can’t get enough of.

Curried Tofu Wraps

If the cooked tofu isn’t as hot as you’d hoped, amp it up by tucking a slice or two of Fresno chile into your wrap.

BLT Wraps with Horseradish Mayonnaise

The classic components of a BLT get enhanced with a spicy, zesty horseradish mayo.

Sambal Shrimp Lettuce Wraps

Crisp lettuces and bright toppings turn sambal shrimp into the DIY dinner you’ll want on your table all summer.

Yellow Tomato Bloody Mary

A bright golden Bloody Mary made with bruised (but still juicy wonderful!) farmers’ market tomatoes.

Spicy Steak Salad Wraps

These adobo-marinated steak wraps are garnished with corn nuts, which add salt, crunch, and sweet toasty flavors to each bite.

Make This Salted Watermelon Juice and Then Turn It into a Margarita, You Wizard You

I will blending up this perfect salty-sweet refresher ALL SUMMER LONG.

Salted Watermelon Margarita

It’s refreshing, naturally sweet without added sugar, and just look at that PINK!

Chill-Out Honeydew Cucumber Slushy

High in B vitamins, cucumbers both cool and calm you.

Beauty-Food Mango Slushy

Mangoes are packed with vitamins C and A, both of which provide major skin-brightening benefits. Lime and chile keep this slushy spicy and bright.

Inflammation-Busting Pineapple Slushy

This slushy has just enough ginger to let you know you’re ALIVE.