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These crispy little fritters taste like a three-way cross between onion tempura, blooming onion, and onion rings.

Gather a crew to help you stuff and fold these flavorful empanadas, and then pack them up and head to the beach.

This addictive yogurt-based dip is like tzatziki dressed up for a party.

Like deviled eggs—but faster, easier, more delicious, and fancier-sounding.

No, it’s not a steak. But a vegetable can dream!

This back-pocket broth is hardly even a recipe, but it's the most soothing soup we can imagine for sick days, cold nights, and any other time you need a little extra comfort. 

To the Hand Salad Haters out there: BYE! Go look at some other recipe! Get your own food website!

Serve with trout roe, live your best life.

During Chinese New Year, eating (and making) dumplings symbolizes unity, togetherness, and harmony.

The higher you toss the salad with your chopsticks, the more luck you'll bring into the new year.

An easy, cheesy dip you can serve this with pretzels, your favorite kind of crackers, or a platter of crudités.

These pretzel nubbins are crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.

This stuff is crazy good.

An appetizer you can have it ready within 10 minutes of walking in the door.

The most flavorful, hearty, and warming meal you've ever made with (almost) exclusively pantry staples.

Our version of this dip (called borani esfanaaj in Iran) uses spinach, but it can be made with cooked beets or roasted eggplant, too.

This recipe is nice twice. The roasting and honey-glazing method is a great way to make sweet potatoes, and you also get an eggless garlic sauce that you’ll use again and again.

The Topanga Living Cafe in Topanga, CA, inspired this gluten-free quiche that uses caramelized sweet potato instead of dough.

Strange as it may sound, and although it is surely not the healthiest way to cook broccoli, do give this a try. You will be amazed at how even broccoli can become what tastes like an indulgent, olive oil–laden, garlicky treat.

This cheesy, lemony twist on traditional latkes was created by Missy Robbins, chef/owner of Lilia in Brooklyn.

Store-bought puff pastry + shredded cheese = the easiest, flakiest, most irresistible dinner party snack of all time.

The chile butter is just that—mixing Calabrian chiles with butter—for this ridiculously easy appetizer.

If what you really want is a delicious clam dip that comes together in less than 15 minutes, this recipe is for you.

Keep a log stashed in your freezer AT ALL TIMES.