No Peek Beef Tips: Fork-Tender Beef and Gravy, Oven or Slow Cooker Prep 10 minutes · Oven 2–2½ hours (325°F) or slow cooker 6–8 hours low · Serves 6 · About $2.40 per serving No Peek Beef Tips is the dinner I make when I want the house to smell like something has been cooking […]

Baked Scallops: Buttery Garlic Parmesan Scallops Ready in 20 Minutes Prep 10 minutes · Bake 18–20 minutes · Serves 4 · About $3.60 per serving This is my third attempt at these baked scallops this week, and tonight's batch is the best one yet — ridiculously good, the kind of good where you eat one […]

Bisquick Cheddar Biscuits: Buttery, Fluffy Cheese Muffins With a Secret Pinch of Vanilla Prep 5 minutes · Bake 12–15 minutes · Makes 12 muffins · About $0.22 each I made these Bisquick cheddar biscuits on a Sunday morning when my sister showed up unannounced, still in my coffee robe, with half a carton of buttermilk […]

  Oven-Baked Banana Pudding: The 5-Ingredient Caramelized Dessert You'll Dream About Prep 10 minutes · Bake 30–35 minutes · Serves 6 · About $0.73 per serving There is a moment, usually around 7:45 on a weeknight, when you open the fruit bowl and find three bananas that have gone from "perfect for breakfast" to "nobody […]

Easy Slow Cooker French Onion Chicken Thighs Recipe (4 Ingredients) If you're looking for a supper that will have your whole family begging for seconds, this easy slow cooker french onion chicken thighs recipe is it. With just 4 simple ingredients, you can toss everything into your crockpot and come home to a cozy, bistro-inspired […]

Hot Crab Dip: An Easy Baked Crab Dip Recipe   I made this for a potluck last month without telling anyone what it was, and three people asked if I'd ordered it from somewhere. That's when I knew this Hot Crab Dip was staying in my rotation forever.   It's one of those recipes that […]

Impossible Custard Pie: The Pie That Makes Its Own Crust   My mom made this every Sunday after church, and I swear the smell alone could pull you out of bed before the alarm even went off. That warm vanilla-and-butter smell filling the whole kitchen. She'd slice it while it was still barely warm, and […]

Coconut Snowballs (No-Bake Cream Cheese Balls)   My sister brought these to Christmas dinner last year and I watched three grown adults nearly fight over the last one. I've been making them ever since — they're dangerously good and you don't even turn on the oven. These little coconut snowballs are creamy, sweet, just coconutty […]

Chicken Tetrazzini: 41 Grams of Protein and the Step Every Recipe Skips My mother made chicken tetrazzini every single time somebody in the family needed cheering up. Bad day at school, rainy Saturday, a hard week for no particular reason — tetrazzini. And it worked every time, not because it is complicated or fancy, but […]

Bisquick Sausage Muffins: The Freezer Breakfast That Gets My Teenager Out of Bed My son has been sleeping through his alarm for weeks. Every morning has been the same forty minutes of shouting, and I had given up on the idea that a breakfast could fix it. Then I made a batch of these on […]