Samin Nosrat’s Instant Green Soup With a Power Ingredient

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

This soup, which comes from our great Salt Fat Acid Heat teacher Samin No…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


This soup, which comes from our great Salt Fat Acid Heat teacher Samin Nosrat, could not be more satisfying, just as it's written. It comes together in moments, yet makes an astonishingly green soup that sings and dances and hula-hoops with flavor.

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The #1 Most Fun Way to Eat More Vegetables

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

Sohla El-Waylly started with a mission to make a refreshing, Dorito-free …

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


Sohla El-Waylly started with a mission to make a refreshing, Dorito-free road trip snack—that could compete with the deliciousness of Doritos.

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No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies in 5 Minutes

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

These mystical treats—cookies you don’t bake, candies that need no precis…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


These mystical treats—cookies you don’t bake, candies that need no precision, an iconic dessert that a kid could stir together in five minutes—are chef Scott Peacock’s very favorite from childhood. “I feel myself blushing just thinking about that,” he told me.

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The Summery Vegetable Soup That Makes Itself

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

When we find ourselves with a garden overrun, a Pandora’s CSA box, a disc…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


When we find ourselves with a garden overrun, a Pandora’s CSA box, a disconnect of loose odds and ends at the back of the crisper (or when we just want a nourishing bowl of vegetables), one fulfilling answer can be found in soupe au pistou.

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The South Indian Comfort Food We All Need

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

When I’ve found myself overwhelmed and stymied lately, or uninspired by t…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


When I’ve found myself overwhelmed and stymied lately, or uninspired by the repetitious cooking of the five meals my family knows by heart, this recipe has consoled me, in even more ways than expected.

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The 2-Ingredient Southern Side Dish That Needs No Salt

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

If you think of scallions strictly as a garnish or seasoning, you’re in f…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


If you think of scallions strictly as a garnish or seasoning, you’re in for a rather life-changing surprise.

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Extra-Creamy Beans From Scratch—Without Babysitting

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

I know how easy cooking dried beans should be. Not to mention cheap, fort…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


I know how easy cooking dried beans should be. Not to mention cheap, fortifying, delicious. I’ve preached to patient loved ones how much I love simmering beans from scratch, and that a big tub in the fridge for the week fills me with pride and relief.

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The Genius Secrets to Carla Hall’s Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

Anyone can make a great biscuit—even if you didn’t grow up patting out do…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


Anyone can make a great biscuit—even if you didn’t grow up patting out dough, even if you don’t possess baker’s intuition or cold hands or a proper cutter. Carla Hall will make sure of it.

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Weekday Steel-Cut Oats in 7 Minutes, Thanks to a Genius Shortcut

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

It’s 7 a.m. What I want is the strength and staying power of chewy, cream…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


It’s 7 a.m. What I want is the strength and staying power of chewy, creamy, whole-grain nubbles of steel-cut oats. What I get is the quick-cook kind, zapped in haste at the last possible minute. If I’m lucky, it doesn’t explode in the microwave.

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My New Favorite Green Side—in 10 Minutes

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.

Curled with smoke and salt, blistered shishito peppers have in recent yea…

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook.


Curled with smoke and salt, blistered shishito peppers have in recent years seemed to be the one thing everyone could agree on ordering at izakayas and trend-observing restaurants (1).

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