Easy

Perfectly balanced, perfectly pourable, infinitely usable.

Made with just a few ingredients, this is the ideal fancy-but-easy dinner.

This is what I call a fridge-eater recipe. The key here is getting a nice sear on the sausage and cooking the tomato down until it coats the sausage and vegetables well.

Crisp winter greens and tender slices of steak get the restaurant treatment with a punchy peppercorn dressing, crisp bacon bits, chives, and blue cheese.

This apple cake is the poster child for fall.

Easier to sip than a cupful of dairy and booze has any right to be.

Go high-low this year with fresh green beans and mushrooms, Parmesan béchamel, and plenty of store-bought fried onions.

Rehydrating dried cherries in hot water turns them plump and juicy—exactly what you want scattered throughout a rosemary-scented pan sauce for pork chops.

Creamy and bright with just a subtle bit of heat, this five-ingredient, make-ahead dip is ready for company—just add crudités.

Slowly roasting purple sweet potatoes in a sticky-sweet mixture of brown sugar and spices gives them a glossy sheen that’s as stunning as it is flavorful.

Warm, cozy, and plush—and the cream cheese frosting doesn’t hurt.

More than 10 years after its publication, this Thanksgiving classic keeps them coming back for more.

A can of pumpkin puree adds richness, body, and an autumnal hue to this speedy chili, letting the flavors of the spices, aromatics, and ground beef shine.

We tried seven boxed stuffings, including Stove Top and Pepperidge Farm, to find one worthy of your holiday meal.

Melty American cheese transforms into a silky gravy (yes, really) to make the base for this pastry-clad turkey pie.

Smoky brown-butter pasta is a pantry-friendly, grown-up version of beloved buttered noodles. Salted almonds and parsley elevate this to bistro-worthy fare.

All the flavors of chicken piccata, only instead of meat, the dish is built upon plump potato gnocchi (the shelf-stable kind) in this no-boil one-pan recipe.

Cooked beets, flaked salmon, and an array of crunchy vegetables crown a bed of spicy horseradish yogurt in this hearty salad.

Seasoned with Old Bay and loaded with crunchy celery and red onion, this easy recipe for creamy shrimp salad is ideal heaped on slices of olive oil toast.

An accidental recipe (sbagliatio means mistaken in Italian) yields a delicious herby tahini dressing that is excellent poured over lightly blanched green beans.

Crisp through the center, these honey-oat cookies mimic a classic British packaged treat.

Hot pickled cherry peppers add acidity and heat to this beloved regional pasta.

An optional splash of orange liqueur makes the simple condiment shine.

The beergarita perfectly encapsulates laid-back summer sipping in a single pitcher, combining the familiarity of a margarita with the effervescence of beer.