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The best tuna melt is properly cheesy and made with a tuna salad that’s good enough to shine on its own.

This fluffy, tender whipped cream cake decorated with fruit is a staple of family celebrations.

The salty-sweet crust on this no-bake peach cheesecake is not to be missed.

These easy ice pops get their rich, velvety texture from full-fat yogurt and a teaspoon of agar agar, while lemon curd adds a sweet, tangy brightness.

Wake up deviled eggs with a bright and briny tonnato-inspired filling. Top with crispy fried capers and salmon roe for extra salty pop.

Your brunch guests will never know this is diet-friendly. Steak, lentils and an egg deliver 30 grams of metabolism-revving protein per serving.

Farofa is the term for a side dish using toasted farinha de mandioca—in English, manioc flour, which is a dried flour similar in looks and texture to breadcrumbs, made from yucca. The making of farofa as a dish couldn't be easier. It is plain manioc flour toasted in butter. A few of the classic farofa dishes include eggs and scallions, eggs and bacon, banana, bell peppers, and dendê oil, green beans and carrots, peas and corn, and so on and so forth. Farofa can be extremely dry, since the manioc flour immediately sucks up all the juices from anything it encounters, especially when it's served plain. The trick to making a moist farofa is to use a small amount of manioc flour in proportion to the other components, turning a side dish into a savory accompaniment that is so tempting, you may even forget there is a main course.

The beer and cheese combo gets saucy, turning toast and fried eggs into a truly luxurious meal all about extras: extra-stout beer, extra-sharp Cheddar, and extra good.

Use this stock to make Brandied Giblet Gravy.

Super-simple and super-satisfying — for breakfast, brunch, or supper.

Uova Ripiene di Tonno Recipes are some of my favorite souvenirs of memorable dining experiences. Whenever I make these eggs, for example, I am reminded of the first time I ate them at Belvedere, a favorite restaurant in La Morra in Piedmont. The owner told me what was in them, and at home I experimented with the proportions of the ingredients to get the flavor I remembered.

(Sharbat-e gol-e Mohammadi) Editor's note: The recipe and introductory text below are excerpted from Najmieh Batmanglij's's book New Food Of Life. Batmanglij also shared some helpful cooking tips exclusively with Epicurious, which we've added at the bottom of the page. To read more about Batmanglij and Persian cuisine, click here.

An egg breakfast was once dubbed heart-stopping, but we now know that the egg's cholesterol needn't be a liability. Experts say one a day is OK, and its protein can keep you full until lunch. This burro — too big on satisfaction to be called a burrito — partners eggs with another protein player: lean machaca, a beef filling borrowed from Mexican ranchers. Adapted from A Real American Breakfast by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison (William Morrow), this dish will give you the energy to wrangle presents for even the toughest-to-buy-for relative.