Simple Cooking

This one-pan pasta offers the best of two viral recipes.

A Midwestern dessert most easily described as peanut butter Rice Krispies Treats layered with chocolate and butterscotch, scotcheroos are practically impossible to dislike.

This easy, elegant lemon cake takes 10 minutes to pull together and can be made a day in advance.

The little black dress of Italian American cooking—get the recipe for the stuffed shells here.

Filled with poached shrimp and fresh mango, these Vietnamese-style spring rolls are a surefire crowd-pleaser.

This adaptable Moroccan tagine can be as mild or as hot as you can handle. Serve with crusty bread to sop up all the braising juices.

This shortcut to cocktail orgeat is easy to pull off when you start with store-bought almond milk. 

This tres leches cake recipe gets its tenderness from the addition of a fourth type of milk and a kick from a shot of rum.

Quick-cooking gnocchi goes in the same pan as the chicken for this cheesy, crowd-pleasing weeknight meal.

This easy pan-roasted fish dinner looks and tastes like you spent hours in the kitchen, but it’ll be on your table in less than 30 minutes.

Bright, bubbly, and hard to resist, a well-made peach bellini is a thing of beauty.

Crisp, clear, and preferably ice cold, a vodka martini is anything and everything you want it to be.

A Hollywood hopeful turned all-American success story, this 1970s classic deserves a modern renaissance.

Martinis get all the glory, but this is the first cocktail James Bond ever ordered.

Consider this citrusy sidecar cocktail recipe a friendly reminder to stock up on cognac.

Topped with a tangy sauce of grainy mustard, capers, and a hint of sriracha, these seared scallops make an easy but elegant dinner.