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18 Red Food Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert, and Cocktail Hour

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Fun fact: your brain associates colors with different feelings and behaviors, and the presence of a certain color can actually make things taste better or worse. And while it's cool that blue bolsters creativity, yellow triggers optimism and joy, and green relieves stress, the first color in the rainbow is a particularly good one. Red boosts your attention span, makes you hungry, and jump-starts your sex drive. Sweet. We're thinking you're going to want to make one of these recipes in the slideshow above tonight, whether you're working on a project, looking to eat a great meal, or spending some time in the boudoir. And trust us, we've got something for all of those things.

  • Image may contain Food Dish Meal Animal Seafood Shrimp Sea Life Bowl and Soup Bowl
    7/19

    Shrimp Saganaki

    Saganaki, a traditional Greek preparation named after the pan in which it’s prepared, is best served straight from the skillet, with plenty of toasted bread for scooping up the savory tomato sauce. If you can find them, wild American shrimp and high-quality Greek feta really make this dish special.

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    Peden + Munk
    9/19

    Curried Beef Stew

    All Thai curries start with a handful of aromatic ingredients (chiles, galangal, lemongrass, turmeric, etc.) pounded into a paste with a granite mortar and pestle. The paste is then stirred into soups or stews (often with coconut milk), or used as the basis of sautéed dishes. Use a mini-processor to make the curry paste if you'd like, although this incendiary stew will take on a deeper flavor if you can use a granite mortar and pestle.

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    Ditte Isager
    10/19

    Citrus Salad with Fried Rosemary and Olives

    The fried olives used to garnish this colorful salad just might become your new favorite. Try scattered over crostini or salads.

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    11/19

    Cranberry-Citrus Sorbet

    This refreshing dessert is based on the classic cranberry sauce made from one bag of cranberries, one cup of sugar, and one cup of water (the recipe is usually on the back of the bag). Most cooked cranberry sauces should also work, so feel free to experiment.

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    12/19

    Strawberry Jam

    This recipe calls for grated apple, a pectin-packed fruit, which naturally jells the strawberry jam and gives it a pleasant tartness.

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    19/19

    Satan's Circus

    There's probably no one perfect hotel bar cocktail, but this one comes pretty damn close. (No wonder: The New York hotel is co-owned by Daniel Humm and Will Guidara of the restaurant Eleven Madison Park; EMP's Leo Robitschek oversees the drinks.)

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Danielle Walsh is the assistant web editor at Bon Appétit, and has also written for New York Magazine's Grub Street. She loves Korean food, tacos, and whiskey, and is trying really, really hard to like sardines. ... Read More
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