The Most Popular Recipes, Slideshows, and Stories of 2013

Are you sitting down? Good. We're about to blow your mind.

Here we've compiled our top 10 most popular recipes, slideshows, and stories of the year, which is, itself, pretty neat: a smorgasbord of helpful advice and great food. But start to think about it and you might get a little lost, as we find ourselves. Many of our slideshows consist of recipes, meaning the year's most popular slideshows are also, in a way, the most popular recipes. And if the slideshow consisting of the year's most popular slideshows becomes one of the year's most popular slideshows, do we have to add it to itself? It's already a meta-slideshow, which would make it a meta-meta-slideshow. But things get even more complicated: this very collection is a meta-meta-slideshow, and if it becomes very popular, we might have to add it to the meta-slideshow, which might create a meta-meta-meta-slideshow, which could cause the whole Bon Appétit office to implode under its self-referential weight, opening a wormhole in space-time into which the universe as we know it would disappear.

Crazy, right? Try not to think about it. Just concentrate on what's here: Dorito bread, quinoa, and lots of boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Have a happy, healthy, delicious, and completely un-meta New Year!