Everyone loves stuffed peppers. Almost nobody loves the evening they require — the blanching, the filling, the careful arranging, the long bake, the peppers that still come out a little underdone in the middle. This stuffed pepper soup takes every flavor you were after — seasoned ground beef, sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, and tender rice…
Taco night is wonderful, but standing at the stove warming shells and filling them one by one for a hungry family is not. This taco casserole takes everything you love about tacos — the seasoned beef, the melty cheese, the fresh toppings — and layers it into one bubbling glass dish you can carry straight…
There is a reason zuppa toscana is the soup Olive Garden is famous for: a creamy, savory broth, spicy Italian sausage, big tender chunks of potato, ribbons of kale, and crispy bacon showered over the top. It is hearty without being heavy, and every spoonful has something different in it. This is that soup —…
Watching a flat disc of dough balloon into a perfect pillow in a hot skillet might be the most satisfying thirty seconds in all of bread baking. This pita bread recipe gives you that moment eight times in a row — soft, puffy rounds with deep golden toasted spots and pale, tender sides, stacked warm…
Some desserts are modest. This lemon meringue pie is not one of them. It arrives with a mile-high cloud of fluffy meringue — swirled into tall peaks and toasted golden at the tips — sitting over a thick, glossy, sunshine-yellow lemon filling in a flaky pastry crust, with one thin lemon slice perched on top,…
Banana bread is wonderful, but it has two flaws: it takes an hour to bake, and somebody always cuts the first slice crooked. Banana bread muffins fix both. You get the exact same cozy flavor — brown sugar, cinnamon, real butter, bananas at their sweetest — baked into tall, golden, single-serve muffins in about 20…
This sausage tortellini soup is the one that ends the “what’s for dinner?” debate in one look. A rich, creamy tomato broth. Plump cheese tortellini floating in every spoonful. Two kinds of sausage — savory crumbles and smoky, golden-edged slices — plus wilted spinach and a snowfall of parmesan on top. It looks like you…
If there is one side dish that never, ever gets refused at my table, it is these air fryer potatoes. Halved baby potatoes come out of the basket with deeply golden, crispy cut sides and soft, fluffy centers, seasoned with garlic and paprika and finished with a handful of fresh parsley — exactly like the…
You know the bananas — the ones sitting on the counter under a canopy of brown spots, too far gone for lunchboxes but too good to waste. This is their finest hour. These healthy banana muffins rise into tall, golden domes with a soft, fluffy middle, a whisper of cinnamon, and a sparkle of crunchy…
If pumpkin pie is the polite guest at the holiday table, sweet potato pie is the beloved aunt who actually gets invited back. This sweet potato pie is silky-smooth and deep orange, warmly spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, and baked in a flaky, crimped pastry crust — finished with a swirl of whipped cream…