Simple Cooking

Pick any sort of coffee or tea to turn this moreish cookie into a caffeinated treat fit for breakfast or dessert.

Simple, garlicky aioli comes together in just a couple of minutes and improves everything from sandwiches to grilled fish to fresh vegetables

Everyone needs an irresistibly buttery back-pocket blondie recipe in their toolbox. This is ours. 

You don’t need to speak Italian or even turn on the oven to make this dreamy espresso-scented dessert.

The elegant three-ingredient classic Champagne cocktail makes every glass feel like a special occasion.

Soft, sweet, and buttery, scallops are like candy from the sea, and they pair beautifully with a bright and luscious piccata sauce.

This almond biscotti recipe gets oomph from a splash of brandy.

Think of this flexible biscotti recipe as a formula for whatever flavor of crunchy cookie you’re craving.

This slow-simmered Southern classic uses just six ingredients (including water) to create rich, timeless flavor. 

These simple stir-fried greens are quickly cooked over high heat in a wok, so that the vegetables remain bright green in color.

You can put kungpao sauce on everything from eel to venison to tofu, but the one of the quickest and most satisfying canvases is shrimp.

A gâteau quatre-quarts, or four-fourths, traditionally called for a pound each of butter, flour, sugar and eggs. This version of the cake adds vanilla and fragrant citrus extract.

Shanghainese stir-fried rice cakes are often eaten during the New Year because the name of the dish also sounds like “a year of growth.”

These Sichuan-style dry-fried green beans get their punchy flavor thanks to the chile and garlic.

Perfect for breakfast or as a snack, these protein-packed bowls feature all of my favorite bagel toppings.

Transform store-bought lemon curd with mustard and garlic to make an easy glaze for broiled salmon fillets.

These shortbread-like cookies are tossed in a mixture of freeze-dried fruit pulverized with granulated sugar, coating the outsides in a fun blanket of fruity flavor.

Buttery cookie dough and brandy-soaked dried fruit make these Italian fig cookies a holiday must-have.