Make Ahead

Store these creamy, perfectly seasoned make-ahead mashed potatoes overnight right in a buttered casserole dish, then just rewarm before serving.

The prettiest roasted onions you ever did see.

These dill seed–scented pickles would be a great snack at any point in the year, but the recipe stands the test of time as a Thanksgiving appetizer.

This rich and silky chocolate mousse recipe is really just two easy recipes—chocolate custard and whipped cream—combined to make one elegant dessert.

If you think chicken salad is boring, you haven’t had good chicken salad.

Rely on the seasonings of porchetta—fennel seed, crushed red pepper, and garlic—to give more-manageable pork shoulder enormous flavor.

Making these chocolate pots de crème isn’t quite as easy as pouring cream into jars, but it’s not far off. If you love chocolate pudding, you’ll adore this dessert.

This classic frosting couldn’t be easier to make and is a must for finishing red velvet and carrot cakes (or a batch of cupcakes). Using vanilla bean paste gives it a pretty speckled look, but if you don’t have it on hand, pure vanilla extract will lend the same flavor.

Making homemade whipped cream will transport you straight to Viennese café life, where fresh whipped cream is an essential daily treat.

This classic homemade lemon meringue pie recipe is sweet and tart with a fluffy, cloudlike meringue top and crisp and flaky pie crust.

Roasted pecans also achieve a crunchy texture that raw pecans can only dream of.

This simple, creamy squash casserole with a crunchy breadcrumb topping is the perfect way to use up summer’s most bountiful vegetable.

This simple preparation of sweet potatoes can become the base for many lunches and weeknight meals.

This dessert looks way more complicated than it is—if you have the time to whip some cream, you can throw this layered stunner together.

With smooth chocolate pudding buttercream sandwiched between layers of moist devil’s food cake, the Brooklyn blackout cake is a dessert fit for chocolate lovers.

You can think of the chiffon cake as angel food cake’s even fluffier cousin.

For this towering crepe cake, thin crepes are stacked and sandwiched with an easy pastry cream.

As the name suggests, West Africa’s most popular form of fried dough is essentially a delectable fried pillow of airy dough.

This easy pasta salad recipe will be the hit of your next potluck.

Raspberry syrup appears over and over in some of the most influential historic cocktail books.