New Year's

You’ll have enough honey syrup that you can easily scale up this cocktail for a crowd. Created in partnership with Chef Watson.

When you get right down to it, very few people actually really and truly want a green bean casserole. Lacy fried green beans with an addictive shallot dip? That’s another story, and a great way to use up any leftover beans.

Save the hard-boiled egg yolks for your caviar accoutrements.

Don’t let the sugar cube and dainty bubbles fool you: This is a very stiff drink.

An easy-drinking aperitif made slightly more potent with the addition of gin.

An antidote to the many mayo and sourcream dips out there (which we also love).

If you have leftover "everything" spice, stir it into Greek yogurt drizzled with olive oil for a savory breakfast.

You want all of your cheese ball ingredients at room temperature to make sure the goat cheese mixture is smooth and homogenous.

Brining the nuts with herbs and some spice infuses them from the inside out, and the long roasting time gives them extra toasty flavor.

Set this up in advance and serve it at room temperature. The cheese will be soft enough to scoop with a cracker—and will taste better, too.

The flavor of this salad deepens as it sits, and we’d use the vinaigrette on any bean salad, including green beans.

"Hard-boiled yolks are the secret to making these savory cookies dissolve-in-your-mouth tender." —Claire Saffitz, assistant food editor

Choose an unaged aquavit like Aalborg.

We use sparkling rosé wine here mostly for its color. Any decent bubbly will work as a substitute.

In place of collards, you can make this with the same amount of curly or Tuscan kale.

Hot-smoked salmon, unlike cured, is fully cooked.

These delicate cheese puffs always impress. Once you get the hang of the dough, you’ll serve them at every opportunity.

If your Marcona almonds haven’t already been oiled and salted, add another 1 Tbsp. oil when toasting.

Prep like a pro: Chef Mike Lata of The Ordinary in Charleston, South Carolina, makes the vierge (a Southern take on the traditional French accompaniment to seafood) in the morning, so that when dinner rolls around, all that’s left to do is sear the fish.

This take on rice cereal treats--studded with pork cracklin's--will sustain you during car rides and afternoon hikes.

Your next weeknight dinner is this steak stir fry recipe. We like skirt steak because it's a tasty and affordable cut. Slice it thinly so it's tender.