Snack

 Fried bread is good. A slice of fried bread piled with creamy, curried egg salad is even better. 

These savory hand pies are flaky, melty, and, thanks to a package of frozen puff pastry and sliced deli ham and cheese, really simple to assemble.

A decadent, holiday-worthy, make-ahead breakfast that’ll feed a crowd? Look no further than this kringle-inspired hazelnut breakfast tart.

Rib eye makes these antipasto skewers extra special, but there’s lots of room to play around with proteins, cheeses, and briny bits.

As good with a cocktail as they are with tea or coffee, these mostly savory scones are perfect for a hair-of-the-dog brunch when the party continues into the next day.

Take olives from snack to PARTY snack by coating them in panko and deep-frying them until golden brown and shatteringly crisp.

Kettle corn is undeniably delicious, so there’s no reason to mess with it—unless the alternative is utterly showstopping. Enter this maple-za’atar kettle corn.

The love child of French onion soup and French onion dip. Need we say more?

These buttery frangipane-filled pecan buttons are decadent without being fragile, and they make excellent cookies for boxing up and giving as gifts.

This tender, gently spiced cake enrobed in dark chocolate ganache requires that you make your own sweet potato purée. And yes, it’s absolutely worth it.

If a caramel apple and a snickerdoodle got together and created some seriously delicious magic, you'd end up with these soft and chewy cookies that taste like a mug of warm spiced cider on a crisp fall day.

On a cheese plate, in a sandwich, over scrambled eggs—is there anything that isn't improved by a spoonful of silky marinated peppers? (No.)

These deliciously savory crispy fried samosas from Amma restaurant in New York feature a spiced potato filling packed with bright, lemony flavor.

The secret to layered, flaky, chewy-crunchy Chinese scallion pancakes? It’s all in the roll (and the spin, and the re-roll).

These adorable Japanese stuffed rice balls just might be the most perfect snack.

Fresh summer tomatoes take center stage with these saucy Margherita pizza-inspired beans.

A great appetizer or an indulgent snack, these crispy little fritters are best eaten right away.

The fizziest, most fun way to use up all of those end-of-week veggie scraps.

This easy guacamole recipe is best made in a Mexican mortar and pestle called a molcajete, but a bowl and a fork works fine. Just don’t rush to get it on the table. It takes a while for the avocado to absorb all the flavors you add to it. 

Your two favorite breakfasts (syrupy pancakes and doughnuts) now coexist in the form of a pillowy, maple-glazed doughnut. 

Freeze-dried strawberries are our new baking obsession. You’ll understand why once you’ve made these strawberry doughnut muffins.

Sure, pickled cucumbers are great. But have you tried pickled cauliflower? Its crunchy brightness makes for an ideal counterpoint to rich dishes.

Juicy summer melon with a salty-sweet crunchy bacon topping makes for a low-effort but universally crowd-pleasing appetizer.

Warm ginger and fragrant cardamom kick this classic loaf cake up a notch.