Fresh Pickled Cucumber Salad
Most cucumber salads are either bland or soggy. This one is neither. This fresh pickled cucumber salad uses a hot vinegar brine that does something regular dressings don't — it penetrates the cucumber slices fast, keeping them crisp while pulling the garlic and dill flavor all the way in. Ten…
Sweet Potato Oatmeal Cookies
A few of you asked for a healthy cookie recipe after the sweet potato posts, so here it is — and I've been making these sweet potato oatmeal cookies on repeat since I first tested them. Five ingredients. No butter, no eggs, no flour. The sweet potato binds and sweetens,…
Piña Colada Magic Bars
This is my go-to magic bar recipe and I've lost count of how many times I've made it. Piña colada magic bars — graham cracker crust, sweetened condensed milk, crushed pineapple, white chocolate chips, toasted coconut, and macadamia nuts — and they taste exactly like someone turned a beach cocktail…
Creamy Tuscan Ravioli Soup
Last November I made this on a Tuesday when the heat was broken and it was 45 degrees in my kitchen. The soup was done in 35 minutes, we ate it standing at the counter because the table was covered in winter coats, and it was one of the best…
Lemon Custard Cake
The secret to this lemon custard cake is a batter that looks completely wrong before it goes in the oven. It's thin. Watery, almost. There are visible egg white clumps floating in it. You'll pour it into the pan and think something has gone wrong. Nothing has gone wrong. That…
Frozen Greek Yogurt Peanut Butter Bites
Made these for the first time on a summer afternoon when I needed a snack that didn't require turning on the oven. Five ingredients, one bowl, five minutes of actual work — and then the freezer does everything else. These frozen Greek yogurt peanut butter bites have been a permanent…
Brown Sugar Pineapple Chicken
Thirty minutes of active time. One marinade. Chicken that tastes like you put in real effort. This brown sugar pineapple chicken recipe is a weeknight dinner that actually delivers — the marinade does all the heavy lifting while you go about your day, and the cook is fast however you…
Italian Lemon Cream Cake
I've tried more lemon layer cakes than I can reasonably justify and thrown most of them out. Too sweet, too dense, lemon flavor that disappears the second you swallow it. This Italian lemon cream cake is the one I kept — and the one I make every time someone needs…
