Air Fryer Fried Chicken
Buttermilk-brined thighs in a craggy seasoned crust, crisp all over in 25 minutes without a pot of hot oil.
- Total time
- 4 hr 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Recipes — page 4
97 recipes, newest first. Most are easy dinner recipes sized for a weeknight — thirty to sixty minutes, one or two pans, and ingredients from an ordinary grocery store.
The rest is what goes around dinner: soup recipes for a cold evening, salads and side dishes, desserts, and a few sauces worth keeping in the fridge. Every one has been cooked and written here, with the timings and quantities that actually worked.
Recipes by course
Recipes by cooking method
Orzo Pasta Salad
Dressed twice — once warm, once cold — so the seasoning goes through the pasta instead of sitting on it.
- Total time
- 30 min
- Yield
- Serves 8
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy in the middle, crisp at the rim, with oats you can still see. The dough rests overnight and it matters.
- Total time
- 12 hr 32 min
- Yield
- Makes 24 cookies
Creamy Million Dollar Chicken Casserole
Shredded chicken in a tangy cream cheese and sour cream layer under a buttery cracker crust, baked until the edges bubble and the top shatters.
- Total time
- 1 hr 5 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Creamy Chicken Gnocchi
Browned chicken thighs and potato gnocchi in a thyme cream sauce built deliberately loose, because the gnocchi thicken it themselves.
- Total time
- 35 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Cheddar Bay Crab Cakes with Lemon Butter Drizzle
Barely bound lump crab with sharp cheddar and garlic, chilled hard so it holds, seared in butter and finished with lemon.
- Total time
- 1 hr 15 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 crab cakes
Baked Chicken Chimichangas
A dry, well-seasoned chicken filling rolled tight, brushed with butter and baked seam down on a preheated pan until the tortilla blisters.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Yield
- Makes 6 chimichangas
Chocolate-Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
Deep cocoa dough rolled in cinnamon sugar, baked until the tops crack and the centers are still soft enough to fold.
- Total time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- Makes about 28 cookies
Cheesy Garlic Butter Mushroom Stuffed Chicken
Chicken breasts packed with dry-cooked mushrooms and three cheeses, seared to seal the seam and finished in a garlic butter pan.
- Total time
- 55 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Beef Tacos with Peach Vinegar Slaw
Hard-seared ground beef in warm tortillas, topped with a cabbage and peach slaw dressed at the last possible moment.
- Total time
- 32 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 tacos, serves 4
Autumn Apple Pasta Salad
Crisp diced apple, toasted pecans and cold pasta in a tangy Greek yogurt dressing that keeps the fruit pale and the noodles seasoned all the way through.
- Total time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- Serves 6 as a side
Balsamic Steak Gorgonzola Salad with Grilled Corn
Charred sweet corn, cold peppery leaves and warm sirloin sliced against the grain, with enough Gorgonzola to stand up to the balsamic.
- Total time
- 48 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Easy Fish Stew Delight
White fish poached gently in a tomato, fennel and garlic broth, with the fish added last and the pot never allowed to boil.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Cornmeal Onion Patties
A thick buttermilk cornmeal batter packed with finely chopped onion, shallow-fried crisp at the edges and tender through the middle.
- Total time
- 27 min
- Yield
- Makes 8 patties
Caramel Banana Bread Cookies
Soft, cakey banana cookies with pockets of molten caramel — a chilled dough built to stop banana from spreading it flat.
- Total time
- 1 hr 33 min
- Yield
- Makes 20 cookies
Cranberry Pecan Slaw
Salted, squeezed cabbage in a tangy maple dressing with dried cranberries and toasted pecans — crisp the next day, not soupy.
- Total time
- 50 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Chocolate Pecan Turtle Clusters
Toasted pecans under a firm-ball caramel and a coat of seeded dark chocolate, cooked to a thermometer so the chew is the same every time.
- Total time
- 2 hr 15 min
- Yield
- Makes about 18 clusters
Cheesy Spinach Dip Chicken Pasta
A cream cheese and spinach sauce held just under a simmer, folded through seared chicken and short pasta in one skillet.
- Total time
- 40 min
- Yield
- Serves 4 generously
Creamy Stuffed Mushroom Dip
Everything that goes inside a stuffed mushroom — garlic, herbs, cream cheese, a buttered crumb top — baked as one scoopable dish.
- Total time
- 1 hr 10 min
- Yield
- Serves 10 as an appetizer
Five-Spice Brussels Sprouts and Sausage Stir-Fry
Halved sprouts seared hard in rendered sausage fat, glazed with soy, honey and five-spice, done in one skillet in under twenty minutes.
- Total time
- 30 min
- Yield
- Serves 4
Black Bean Burger
Beans dried in the oven first, so the patty holds together in a skillet and browns into a real crust instead of collapsing into paste.
- Total time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Yield
- Makes 4 burgers
Amish Harvest Casserole
Sliced potatoes, seasoned ground beef and sweet corn under a sharp cheddar sauce, baked until a knife goes through the middle without resistance.
- Total time
- 1 hr 55 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Chicken and Stars Soup
The canned soup of everybody's childhood, made with real thigh meat and stelline cooked apart from the broth so it stays clear.
- Total time
- 45 min
- Yield
- Serves 6
Easy Turkey Chili Recipe for Comfort Food Lovers
Ground turkey browned hard, spices bloomed in fat and a slow, lazy simmer — the three things that keep a lean chili from going dry.
- Total time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Yield
- Serves 6