Honey Brown Sugar Ham GlazeRecipes
Sweet and tangy.

Easter Mains 101

My Brown Sugar-Maple Glaze Is the Secret to Perfect Baked HamRecipes
The most delicious leftover sandwich starts here.
2 days ago
The Easy Secret to Roasting the Most Delicious Leg of LambRecipes
You can have the roast turkey. Set aside the glazed ham and prime rib. In my house, leg of lamb is the celebratory roast; I love its tenderness and flavor. Though roast leg of lamb sounds intimidating, the sweet little secret is that leg of lamb is actually one of the easiest, most foolproof cuts of meat to cook. Here’s our remarkably simple, fuss-free leg of lamb recipe. It will turn out perfectly every time. It’s surprisingly easy to make.
Nov 11, 2024
Beef Wellington Is the Most Impressive Main Dish You'll Ever MakeRecipes
It doesn't get any fancier than this.
Apr 8, 2025
Slow Cooker Honey-Glazed Ham Is the Easiest Holiday MainRecipes
My father in-law is not a big fan of turkey. So about five years ago, we started adding a bone-in-ham to the family Thanksgiving menu. But each year I am the host and cook, and so I would run into a problem: After making the turkey, how do I season and heat a full ham while all the side dishes are hogging the oven space? Fortunately I settled on a solution: Put the ham in a slow cooker!I admit, spiral-cut ham wasn’t something I always loved.
Dec 20, 2024

Hall of Fame Sides

The winning creations we turn back to again and again.

My Easy Trick for “The Best Green Beans of Your Life”Recipes
In my opinion, everything tastes better with bacon. Green beans are no different. There is something quite magical about the marriage of crisp green beans and nuggets of crispy bacon, tossed in bacon fat and a little butter. This recipe is simple enough to make and serve midweek, but also a great holiday side and alternative for green bean casserole. They’re crisp and bright. Blanching and shocking the green beans first keeps them crisp with a bright green color.
You’ll Want to Eat This Classic French Side Dish Straight from the PanRecipes
It’s no surprise that green beans have a permanent spot on my grocery list. After all, the slender legumes are quick-cooking, kid-friendly, and tasty, to boot! Thankfully, there’s no shortage of ways to prepare this snappy vegetable: green beans braised with tomatoes and pepper, blistered green beans with tangy pickled shallots, and classic green bean casserole, to name just a few.
These Honey-Glazed Carrots Are So Good, Your Friends Will Demand the RecipeRecipes
There are many ways to cook carrots, but roasting them is hands-down my favorite method. It’s one of the best vegetable side dishes that pairs well with anything for dinner. Roasted carrots might seem simple, but when done right, they can rival just about any other vegetable side, be it Brussels sprouts or sweet potatoes. When it comes to glazed carrots, some recipes call for cooking them on the stovetop, but I opt for the oven so that the carrots can do their business while I do mine.
100 Best Easter Brunch Recipes Your Guests Will LoveRecipes
Make your Easter morning delicious!
Mar 29, 2024
Lauren's Favorite Apps

Tried-and-true recipes our executive editor swears by.

Classic Deviled EggsRecipes
Just trust me on this one.
Apr 4, 2025
Easy Ham & Cheese SlidersRecipes

These sliders have it all: sweet slices of ham, irresistibly gooey Swiss cheese, soft Hawaiian rolls, and a savory butter drizzled over top.

Jan 18, 2025
Puff Pastry Cheese StrawsRecipes

These 2-ingredient cheese straws will be a hit at your holiday party.

Sep 22, 2025
Raspberry Pepper Jelly Cream Cheese DipRecipes
It's the perfect combination of sweet and savory.
Aug 14, 2022

Biscuits & Rolls

The Secret to Impossibly Fluffy Southern-Style BiscuitsRecipes
Southern biscuits are the perfect fictional device for telling the narratives of Southern families. One cook makes his biscuits with White Lily flour only because that’s how his Maw Mae did it. Another swears by lard, as her family never had the funds for high-dollar butter or shortening. Most Southern cooks bake biscuits at least once a week — a ritual and rite of passage as the recipe is handed down through the generations. My biscuit recipe is much the same.
Donal Skehan’s Irish Cheddar Potato RollsRecipes
Just add Irish butter.
How to Make Soft and Tender Dinner RollsRecipes
Warm rolls will make any dinner better. Don't forget the dish of salted butter!

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Everything You Need to Know About How to Cook a Ham
Consider this your ham cheat sheet — what to buy, how to cook, and more — just in time for the holiday.
Oct 24, 2020
How To Carve a Bone-in Leg of Lamb
"Perfect slices every time."
Aug 25, 2022
How to Naturally Dye Easter Eggs (Using Ingredients You Already Have at Home!)
Skip the food coloring and drugstore kits — and do this instead.
Mar 14, 2024
How to Boil Eggs Perfectly Every Time
One bad hard-boiled egg can ruin you for life. At least, that’s what I believed until I learned how to cook soft-boiled and hard-boiled eggs, and precisely how I wanted to eat them. The perfect hard-boiled egg has no green ring around the yolk and the innards are creamy and mellow (plus easy to peel!). And if you’re in the mood, you can stop short of the hard-boil and make a gooey soft-boiled egg instead.
Mar 8, 2025
30 Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Ham
When it comes to holiday hams, whether it’s a Bourbon-Glazed Ham or a Copycat Honey Baked Ham, there are always, always leftovers. Yes, even if you’ve done your research on how to cook a ham and made estimates based on how many people you’re feeding. But honestly, leftover ham dishes can be even tastier than the centerpiece itself. There are plenty of ways — big and small — that we all can use leftover ham, now and later.
Mar 26, 2024
5 Tips for Super-Tender, Super-Flavorful Lamb
Keep these simple tips in mind when making this show-stopper.
Apr 1, 2020
The Best (and Easiest) Way to Make Glazed Carrots
Nothing fancy needed.
Mar 25, 2024
How to Freeze Ham to Make It Last
If you have lots of leftover holiday ham on your hands, learn how to freeze ham to make sure it stays fresh.
Apr 7, 2023
Our 32 Best Brunch Appetizer Recipes
The beauty of making brunch the center of any celebration, such as Easter or Mother’s Day, are the sheer variety of options. From hearty brunch casseroles, stacks of pancakes and French toast, and cinnamon rolls, the best brunch spreads have a little bit of everything. But let’s not forget the appetizers!Bite-sized mini quiches, breakfast sliders, and sweet mini Dutch baby pancakes are great options, along with classic deviled eggs, creamy dips, and puff pastry tarts.
Mar 13, 2024
My Brown Sugar-Maple Glaze Is the Secret to Perfect Baked Ham
The most delicious leftover sandwich starts here.
2 days ago
Everyone Demands the Recipe for My Southern Caramel Cake
My heart beats a little faster when I talk about caramel cake. The tender yellow cake, the thick, crystalline frosting that marries caramelized sugar and butter — it’s an easy cake to fall in love with. The very best caramel cakes are anything but simple; the yellow cake must only carry the whisper of caramel flavor and be both tender and sturdy enough to support the frosting, which is the real star of the show.
Aug 29, 2025
15 Leftover Ham Bone Recipes
If you’re buying a big bone-in ham for the holidays this year, consider this your friendly reminder that you’ll be left with a tasty ingredient after all the meat’s been picked off: The ham bone. So, whatever you do, don’t toss it in the compost bin or trash. Ham bones are packed with so much rich, smoky flavor. Don’t have time to put the ham bone to use right away? No problem, just freeze the bone, as you would any other meat bones and food scraps.
Aug 13, 2025
60 Sides Guaranteed to Steal the Attention From Your Holiday Ham
Ham is one of my favorite things to serve as a main dish. I’ll either cook my ham in the slow-cooker or bake it in the oven. I love that it’s easy to make and provides the perfect savory foundation to build the rest of your dinner around. In my opinion, a large part of the pleasure of serving ham is enjoying the side dishes that play well with its rich flavor. Plus, leftover ham can be reinvented into several other meals throughout the week or frozen until further notice.
Aug 7, 2025
You’ll Want to Eat This Classic French Side Dish Straight from the Pan
It’s no surprise that green beans have a permanent spot on my grocery list. After all, the slender legumes are quick-cooking, kid-friendly, and tasty, to boot! Thankfully, there’s no shortage of ways to prepare this snappy vegetable: green beans braised with tomatoes and pepper, blistered green beans with tangy pickled shallots, and classic green bean casserole, to name just a few.
Jul 25, 2025
The Old-School Dish I've Been Making Every Easter Brunch for Over 15 Years
It feels totally fancy, and is surprisingly easy.
Jul 22, 2025
This Cucumber Soup Is My Favorite Way to Beat the Heat
One way I love to beat the summer heat is with cold, refreshing food. And cucumbers are the coolest of the cool. Their refreshing flavor profile is the reason that gazpacho feels so fresh. In this cold soup recipe, I let cucumbers be the star. With a handful of ingredients and a blender, you can whip up this soup in 15 minutes. This soup doesn’t require any cooking. In this easy no-cook recipe, I use English cucumbers because they are seedless and have tender exteriors.
Jul 21, 2025
My Famous Seafood Boil Recipe Has the “Most Delicious” Dipping Sauce
A seafood boil never fails to please. With ingredients like shrimp, crab legs, and lobster, seafood-lovers will be RSVPing real fast to your boil. For a perfectly cooked seafood boil, the order of when to add ingredients is everything. As a Louisiana girl, I’ve got this pacing down to a science after many Easters and 4th of Julys as sous chef for my favorite boil masters (what I call the cool people who host boils year after year).
Jul 3, 2025
Everyone Demands the Recipe for My Southern “Smashed Potato Salad"
Everyone’s mother has a signature potato salad recipe, at least in the South it seems. I’ve got about four versions that I rotate between, including an Ina Garten recipe that uses whole-grain mustard and my mother-in-law’s recipe with Greek yogurt and plenty of chives. With warmer weather promising lots of summer potlucks and backyard barbecues, I decided it was high time I came up with my own signature potato salad.
Jun 13, 2025
This Strawberry Spinach Salad Is a Classic for a Reason
Salad bars and the airport quick-grab kiosks have done the strawberry spinach salad a real disservice, I think. And there’s really only one thing that can ruin an otherwise good spinach salad: dry, undressed greens. If you pour the dressing over the top of your salad, you end up with gloppy, over-dressed greens sitting above pockets of dry greens that squeak against your teeth. (Shudder.) Woe be to you if you’re the last person to get served.
Jun 5, 2025
How To Make a Classic Angel Food Cake That Comes Out Perfectly Every Time
This is the sweet, sky-high cake that dessert dreams are made of.
May 23, 2025
My Easy Trick for Perfectly Cooked Asparagus Wrapped in Bacon
The combination of bacon and asparagus is a stellar spring pairing and a great way to celebrate the arrival of longer, warmer days. Asparagus is also one of the easiest vegetables to prep, making it a great side dish contender during this time of year, when it’s inexpensive and readily available. Here’s how to make bacon wrapped asparagus (with some tips for crispier bacon). Cooks quickly. You can have juicy, vibrant asparagus wrapped in perfectly crisp bacon in less than 15 minutes.
May 8, 2025
This Classic Lemon Tart Is the Showstopping Dessert Everyone Will Love
I rarely find a recipe that stops me in my tracks, but that’s exactly what happened when I took my first bite of Cook’s Illustrated’s lemon tart. My husband and 7-year-old daughter made it for our Christmas dessert, and while it took them the better part of the day (and left us with a sink full of dishes), it was picture-perfect and honestly the best lemon tart I’d ever had, fancy bakery versions included.
May 7, 2025
How to Temper Chocolate Without a Thermometer
Alexandra Whisnant, chocolatier and owner of a small, avant-garde chocolate company called gâté comme des filles (‘spoiled like girls’), located in Massachusetts, is truly passionate about chocolates. She shows us how to hand dip chocolates — but before we dip, we need to understand how to temper.
May 3, 2025
This Easy, Foolproof Sponge Cake Is Perfect for Any Occasion
A sponge cake (also called a foam cake) is a light and tender cake that gets its texture from whipped eggs. Cakes like angel food, genoise, chiffon, and Victoria sponge all lie under the umbrella of “sponge.” Here, I’ll let you in on all the details — and share the recipe for my very favorite one. I’ve made it even easier to make. There are many variations of sponge cake, but this recipe is closest in ingredients and technique to a chiffon sponge.
Apr 18, 2025
The Secret Pantry Ingredient That Makes Parker House Rolls 100 Times Better
These are beyond worth the effort.
Apr 18, 2025
I Tried Ina Garten’s Favorite Coconut Layer Cake
The cream cheese frosting really takes it to a new level.
Apr 17, 2025
A "French Martini" Is the Only Way I Like to Drink Vodka During Spring
Delightfully celebratory.
Apr 17, 2025
This Creamy Potato Soup Is My Favorite Way to Use Up Leftover Ham
If you find yourself with a lot of leftover ham, simmering it in a soup is one of the easiest ways to transform the smoky meat into something completely different. Adding a few humble ingredients like potatoes, onions, milk, and broth turns the ham into a comforting bowl of hearty soup that can work for lunch or dinner. If you’re a fan of creamy soups, like New England clam chowder, this ham-y version will be right up your alley. It’s perfectly creamy.
Apr 15, 2025
"Easter Cobbler" Is the Only Dessert My Family Wants This April
So rich and moist.
Apr 15, 2025
My "Sheet Pan Scalloped Potatoes" Have Changed the Way I'll Make the Easter Side
It’s all about the cheesy top.
Apr 14, 2025
Cornbread Salad Is the Southern Classic I Bring It to Every Summer Party
Cornbread salad is a classic Southern side dish with layers of colors and textures. It’s made with cubed cornbread, pinto beans, diced tomatoes, sliced scallions, shredded cheddar cheese, crispy bacon, and corn kernels. Everything comes together with a ranch dressing made with mayonnaise and sour cream.As you can see, this salad is all about the presentation!
Apr 14, 2025