Creamy Italian Salad Dressing
Iceberg lettuce gets a serious upgrade with this creamy vinaigrette, a handful of herbs and red wine vinegar. Not only iceberg lettuce, you’ll slather it on everything.
Sides
Purslane Salad
A simple and cooling salad made with an increasingly trendy spring green that’s capturing the attention of home gardeners and restaurant chefs across the country.
Sambal Eggplant
Sambal eggplant is an iconic Southeast Asian food because of its spicy, sweet flavors. Few ingredients and simple prep make it easy.
Hakka Eggplant
Tender eggplant covered in a deeply flavored Hakka sauce that’s ready in a snap. Eating your veggies has never been so rewarding.
Sautéed Escarole
A classic Italian treatment for an everyday green that tastes anything but ordinary thanks to the perfect technique.
Instant Pot Beans
Get ready for a simple way to serve up a tasty helping of tender pinto beans with some subtle heat from jalapeno. Did we mention they’ll be ready in minutes?
Mashed Kabocha Squash
Wait until you give Bryant Terry’s squash a try. Creamy and packed with flavor, this vegan recipe is also healthy as heck without tasting like it.
Roasted Delicata Squash and Kale Salad
Satiating and healthy-ish, this salad is a vibrant and quick dinner. No peeling required. Just a little chopping and cooking.
Chunky Ranch-Style Home Fries
Just like what you’d find at your local diner. Swear. Just simple ingredients cooked slow and patiently until they’re crisp on the outside, tender on the inside, and tempting through and through.
Potato Galette
Just potatoes, butter, and salt. That’s all you need to create this crisp-on-the-outside, meltingly-lush-on-the-inside French classic that’s loveliness defined.
Roasted Broccoli With Walnuts, Raisins, and Ricotta Salata
This unsuspecting side of caramelized broccoli and its tangy, spicy, sweetly enticing vibe is exactly what you need when you crave something unexpectedly and unobtrusively healthy.
Roasted Romaine Caesar Salad
Elevate Caesar salad by roasting the lettuce. Yes, roasting the lettuce. It’ll draw out flavors and textures you’d never expect. Impressively easy.
Red Wine Onions
Meet your newest weeknight staple for when you want something a little special and impressive. Slightly sweet, deeply flavored, caramelized red onions doused with red wine.
Crispy Herbed Parmesan Potatoes
Tender, moreish potatoes with herb-inflected, cheese-crisped bottoms. We guarantee that you’ll be smitten.
Fried Rice With Leftovers
A superlative version of the classic clean-out-the-fridge stir-fry that reinvents leftovers. Beware the optional but addictive jalapeño garlic vinegar.
Roasted Broccoli with Soy Sauce
A simple, quick, easy, cheap side that’s making kids as well as adults demand seconds. Yes, seconds. Of broccoli. You’re welcome.
Old-Fashioned Potato Gratin
This old-fashioned gratin comforts you with everything indulgent could possibly crave in a gratin, namely ample amounts of potatoes, cream, butter, and cheese. Red wine optional.
Homemade Labneh with Za’atar
Soft cheese dreams are made of labneh, which is ultra lush, creamy, and tangy. You may find you need to stop yourself from spreading it on everything.
Kale Chips
Potato chip fiends, stop your scoffing. We double-dog dare you to make a batch and stop at just one.
Parmesan Tater Tots
Frozen tater tots and Parmesan cheese. Seems so intuitive, doesn’t it? And yet it’s so wonderfully unexpected. Easy, kid-friendly, adult-appeasing.
Curried Roasted Carrots
Easy, easy, easy. Fast, fast, fast. Delicious, delicious, delicious. That’s what we’re hearing from those who’ve made these carrots. Even avowed curry dislikers.
Twice-Baked Potatoes With Bacon and Cheddar
Think of these as an easy mashed potatoes casserole loaded with bacon, Cheddar, and sour cream. Talk about awesome game day grub.
Candied Sweet Potatoes
Real-deal candied sweet potatoes that are, yes, indecently sweet in that traditional Southern way. Yet they’re also spiced just so to satisfy in more way than one.
Roasted Cauliflower with Cilantro Sauce
So intriguingly spiced and perfectly roasted that even avowed non-cauliflower eaters will change their minds. That’s what folks are saying about this stealthy healthy side.
Sweet and Sour Brussels Sprouts with Chestnuts
Easy prep. Hands-off cooking. Bold flavors—we’re talking earthy, heat, salt, and a little sweet. Vegan. Holiday worthy. And by Yotam Ottolenghi. Enough said.