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This easy recipe for pie dough takes all the guesswork out of making a buttery, flaky pie crust. It’s ideal for pretty much any pie you want to make.

Transform your orchard or farmers market haul into a spiced applesauce you’ll want to eat by the bowlful.

Try these halibut and canned sardine cakes instead of crab cakes for a starter or light lunch.

This simple but delicious sardine rillettes requires only two motor skills: opening a can of good sardines and smashing things together with a fork.

Forget lackluster loaves—apple cider brings big autumnal flavor to this tender pumpkin bread.

Proof that the best cornbread isn’t necessarily the most complicated, this easy recipe gets it on the table in 30 minutes.

Made with haricots verts, nutty brown butter, and toasted almonds, this French classic is a perennial favorite.

Brown sugar and chopped pecans form a crackly topping as this sweet potato casserole bakes.

Nutty marinated cucumbers are paired with curly coiled scallions in this refreshing salad.

Brown butter lends a subtle toffee-like flavor that makes these brown butter chocolate chip cookies far more enticing than your everyday version.

Creamy butter beans turn this dish of sesame broccoli into a hearty one-bowl meal, though you could leave out the beans and serve the tofu and broccoli with rice.

Celery stalks finally get their main-character moment in this creamy celery soup recipe.

Our favorite thing about banoffee pie isn’t the bananas, toffee, or whipped cream. It’s that you can make it without turning on the oven.

The classic combination of grilled chicken and bottled ranch gets a summer glow-up in this barbecue-ready salad.

This riff on panzanella pulls inspiration from memories of picking cherry tomatoes off the vine and running inside to dip them into a bowl of ranch.

Pick any pickle you want—or a mix of dill pickles, cocktail onions, capers, pickled green beans, cornichons, and hot cherry peppers—for this creamy, tangy dressing.

This salad is refreshing and light, but bursting with punchy flavors of lemongrass and fish sauce, and the sweet, caramel tones of coconut sugar.

Tossed with the lemongrass dressing, the sweet-and-sour flavors swim into the cut edges of the smoky brussels sprouts.

Keep Aperol, gin, and a few cucumber slices on hand all summer long to make this elegant cocktail whenever you want. 

This homemade chocolate syrup recipe is rich and versatile, and the process is nearly as easy as running to the grocery store to pick up a bottle of Hershey’s.