Every recipe,
by course.
What is worth cooking, what it costs you in time, and what you can get out of the way before anyone arrives.
Starters
Mains
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Sausage Orzo with Sage Bread Crumbs One pot and 35 minutes, finished with sage bread crumbs toasted in brown butter.
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Bolognese Sauce Give it three hours at the laziest simmer; the fat floating free tells you it is done.
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Avgolemono Chicken Soup With Gnocchi Temper the yolks and this one-pot soup is on the table in twenty minutes.
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Salmon Rice Bowl Built for one, out of the air fryer, and barely a pan to wash.
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Baked Ziti Three layers of tubes, and a sauce that mostly looks after itself.
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Chicken Parm Meatballs Baked, not fried. The batch makes fifteen because most are headed for the freezer.
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Rigatoni with Easy Vodka Sauce An onion, a tube of tomato paste, and twenty minutes of patient stirring.
Salads
Sweets
Drinks
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Espresso Martini Freeze the espresso before it meets the ice, and the drink stays strong and cold.
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Los Yetras Margarita My house margarita. Muddle the jalapeño into the agave, not the tequila.
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Frozen Watermelon Margarita Fresh watermelon juice, blended with ice. A pinch of salt makes the fruit taste like fruit.
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Kentucky Buck Bourbon, lemon, one muddled strawberry, and ginger beer. Easy to like, easy to make twice.
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The Crush Vodka, lemon, grapes, and basil over crushed ice. Restaurant summer drink, made at home.
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Salty Dog Vodka and fresh grapefruit. The salt rim is what makes it more than a Greyhound.
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Gulfstream Refresher Tequila, Aperol, and muddled cucumber. The cucumber is what makes it work.
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Rum Punch One sour, two sweet, three strong, four weak. Scale it to whatever pitcher you own.
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Nutty Russian A White Russian with a peanut butter cookie floating on it.
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Aperol Spritz More prosecco and less Aperol than the bottle tells you. It drinks drier and lasts longer.
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Tequila Sunrise Pour the grenadine down the back of a spoon. That is the whole trick.
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Bourbon Arnie Palmie Lemonade, iced tea, and bourbon. The easiest drink here to make for a crowd.
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Millionaire Bourbon sour with Grand Marnier, egg white, and a whisper of absinthe.
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Crisp Martini Gin and elderflower, finished with a float of Sauvignon Blanc.
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Fall From the Tree Apple and cinnamon in a glass. Pour the bourbon heavy and the syrup light, or it turns to pie filling.
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Sidecar Cognac, Cointreau, lemon. The sugar rim does the job a sweeter spec would.
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Toasted Almond Amaretto, coffee liqueur, and cream. It is dessert, and it does not pretend otherwise.
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Frosé A half bottle of rosé and a bag of frozen strawberries. The blender does the rest.
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Bee's Knees Three ingredients. Pull the honey back to ½ oz. and it stops tasting like cough syrup.
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Old Pal Equal parts on paper. Double the rye and halve the vermouth in practice.
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