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Banana Bread

Is there anything associated more with the loaf pan than banana bread? Easy, quick to throw together, and with no special ingredients required, it’s no wonder that a simple banana bread is one of our favorite things to bake.

30 Thanksgiving Recipes From Our Residents

Here at Food52, we lean on our Residents—a group of cooks, chefs, and experts who contribute to our site—for cooking tips on a daily basis, and Thanksgiving is no exception. Over the years, our Residents have churned out countless recipes perfect for the occasion, whether they were explicitly created for the holiday or not. So, if you’re still planning your Thanksgiving menu, follow our lead and look to our brilliant Residents, current and past, for inspiration: Here are 30 recipes to make this turkey day.

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Appetizers

These are the dishes that greet your guests when they arrive—and, they’re arguably some of the most delicious bites of the entire night. You can’t go wrong with a cheesy centerpiece, like Marissa Mullen’s maple-glazed baked Brie, or a classic hors d'oeuvres, like Melina Hammer’s take on deviled eggs.

Our 34 Best Gluten-Free Baking Recipes

Gluten-free baking often gets a bad rap, but that doesn’t need to be the case. By using alternative flours, grains, and starches, you can get results similar to those in traditional, wheat-based recipes—but even better is using these ingredients to achieve textures and flavors that are unique and delicious in their own right. You can use glutinous rice flour to make a chewy, squishy mochi cake, for example, or reach for almond meal to make a dense, rich torte. And those are just cakes—you can also make satisfying breads, cookies, pies, and more that just so happen to be without gluten. To get you started, here are 34 of our best gluten-free baking recipes.

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Gluten-Free Breads

Of all the baked goods to turn gluten-free, breads are probably the toughest to get right. These four recipes will always have your back, though—whether you’re making a simple bread for sandwiches or cornbread to serve with your next bowl of chili.

Sohla El-Waylly’s Trick for a Cheaper, Easier Risotto

“I was always taught that good risotto starts with high-quality bone broth, but what if I don’t want to spend twenty bucks on dinner?” asks Sohla El-Waylly in her just-published, debut cookbook, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook.

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“I was always taught that good risotto starts with high-quality bone broth, but what if I don’t want to spend twenty bucks on dinner?” asks Sohla El-Waylly in her just-published, debut cookbook, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook.

It’s a fair question. Risotto is among the most comforting of foods, the kind of thing you want to eat when you’re sad, broke, and/or have nothing in your kitchen. But that quality feels somewhat incongruous with two of risotto’s most classic ingredients: good broth and wine.

5 New Recipes We Loved in October

Looking at October’s new recipes, it’s clear that baking season is in full swing: Three of the five recipes that we published this month are for baking projects—a proportion we likely wouldn’t have seen just a month or two ago. It’s clear that it was also a month for bold, dynamic flavors. Think: focaccia doused with a spicy, earthy coffee-chili crisp, big plate chicken that’s been “turbo-charged,” and pots de crème flavored with a winning combination of chocolate and hazelnuts. Without further ado, here are five new recipes we published in October.

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1. Hazelnut Chocolate Pots de Crème With Hazelnut Brittle

These individual pots de crème are ideal for all the fall and winter dinner parties you have coming up—but it’s the orange-scented hazelnut brittle that really steals the show.

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1. Hazelnut Chocolate Pots de Crème With Hazelnut Brittle

These individual pots de crème are ideal for all the fall and winter dinner parties you have coming up—but it’s the orange-scented hazelnut brittle that really steals the show.

5 Weeknight Dinners That Happen to Be Vegan

Let’s get this out of the way: I’m not vegan. I never have been, and I probably never will be. But as I started sifting through recipes to make this week, I noticed quite a few dairy- and meat-free options in the mix. I’m not entirely sure what’s gotten into me (I rarely eat a meal that doesn’t include seafood, dairy, or eggs), but I decided to lean into it and pick five all-vegan recipes for this round of weeknight dinners. Here’s what I’ll be making.

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1. Braised Shiitake Mushrooms

Last week, I wrote about Lucas Sin’s technique for cooking mushrooms by boiling them in water. It goes against every rule I thought I knew about working with mushrooms, and I’m completely intrigued.

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