Potato

The “Nothing Fancy” cookbook author on how to host the most most baller dinner party in the most low-key way possible.

Make this hands-off recipe when you want to cook fish but it stresses you out. Not anymore!

These are impossibly fluffy on the inside and shatteringly crispy on the outside.

Make this crispy potato hash on a weekend you want to host brunch, but also sleep in.

Everything we love about a German potato salad (bright vinegar, fresh herbs, a little heat)—but make it smoky, charred, and grilled.

A simple frittata packed with sweet red peppers, potatoes, and onions.

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.

This classic (and familiar) potato-and-cauliflower dish is a great make-ahead party dish.

Steaming offers extreme speed and high hydration, which means that whatever you cook—from seasonal vegetables to proteins—will be done quickly and always moist.

An ode to an underrated bonafide spring ingredient.

Don't let this salad be a wallflower—it really deserves to be the first one on the dance floor.

The steak was just a bonus.

Rather than cook the potatoes underneath the chicken as it roasts—never a bad move—we boil Yukon Golds and tear them into craggy chunks for tender, buttery pieces that better soak up the tomatoey spiced pan sauce.

Eggs and roasted sweet potatoes make this salad a full meal, not a sidekick.

This filling, endlessly riffable bowl is perfect with roasted sweet potatoes, but any hardy vegetable you have on hand would be just as delicious.

Roasted vegetables are the perfect, hands-off way to prep healthyish lunches for the week.

If you want this take on classic chicken soup to have a similar consistency to congee, add 10–15 minutes to the cooking time.

We like to roast the sweet potatoes ahead of time then rewarm them by flattening and crisping them in a skillet until lightly charred.

Cooking potatoes twice—once in water, and a second time in hot oil—is hands-down the best way to achieve extra-crispy potatoes at home.

Instead of using one larger bone-in pork loin roast, this recipe calls for two smaller ones. This allows for more exposed surface areas, which decreases cooking time and develops a delicious golden brown crust.

Top your potato with green chilies, chutney, and chaat masala and you might never return to boring ol’ bacon bits.

This is the hearty, rustic, and deeply warming comfort food you'll be craving on all snowy days.

This chicken-meets-bacon-meets-sausage-meets-sauerkraut showstopper takes only 25 minutes in the oven.

These are the most perfectly light, velvety mashed potatoes you’ll ever make—two days ahead of time.