Simple Cooking

While many cocktail sauce recipes call for chili sauce, ketchup lets you add your desired level of spice to tailor it to your exact taste.

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.

This easy blender béarnaise sauce stems from classic creamy hollandaise. A combination of vinegar, lemon juice, and tarragon gives it a bit of bright, fresh flavor.

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.

This New England clam chowder recipe gets its creamy consistency from half-and-half and smokiness from finely chopped bacon.

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.

The sourness of tamarind breathes new life into the classic millionaire’s shortbread.

The Prizefighter No. 1 is a bold sour made with lemon, Fernet-Branca, and Carpano Antica sweet vermouth. 

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