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These carrots don’t just want to be a side dish. Roasted to perfection and layered over a lentil salad with a bright vinaigrette, a puddle of yogurt the whole thing is so knife-and-fork delicious, serving size becomes an abstract concept. smittenkitchen.com/2024/10/r…

A casserole, but not the boring kind. Here, I switched out pasta for a whole grain and ended up with a cozy, wildly flavorful, cheesy, crunchy-topped dinner that we make again and again.  smittenkitchen.com/2017/01/c…

A orange-zested cranberry pecan bread studded with tart berry gems and finished with a snowflake-like crunch on top so perfect it makes me forget every quickbread that came before it and also converted me to enjoying nuts in loaf cakes. It's magical.  smittenkitchen.com/2021/11/c…

This pasta bake is savory fall ease. Everything is tossed raw into a springform for a long bake and what emerges is resplendent: layers of tender squash and spinach with noodles, soft in the center and burnished to a snatch-able crisp on top.  smittenkitchen.com/2021/10/w…

A delightfully de-fussed cottage cheese pancake — one bowl, no separated eggs, just a fluffy, tender, perfect weekend breakfast. smittenkitchen.com/2008/11/c…

These are fixation-worthy apple dumplings. When you cut into each packet, flakes of buttery crust strew everywhere, a trickle of brown sugar caramel floods your plate and mingles with the whiskey-infused glaze that had melted over the sides. smittenkitchen.com/2022/09/a…

Great steak fry-like wedges of sweet potatoes roasted with honey, lime and chile flakes, topped with crispy chickpeas and yogurt to make an easy but complex meal you probably won't even want to share. (We won't tell if you don't.)  smittenkitchen.com/2016/02/r…

This roasted cabbage is so more than it seems: A warm salad for cooler days. Starter Cabbage for the cabbage-hesitant. Magically fast, it takes just 20 minutes. Don't sleep on those lacy, crunchy edge pieces; they're the best part.  smittenkitchen.com/2019/11/r…

This week's Smitten Kitchen Digest is for the people who are excited by pie season as I am, with all of my favorites rounded up. Plus, a few dinner ideas for the week. Comments are open! I want to hear all about your favorites. smittenkitchen.substack.com/…

Chickpeas, sausage, and kale simmered in a spicy tomato sauce then finished with melted and blistered mozzarella and pecorino, and scooped onto garlic bread is the best thing to have waiting for you when you get home, full stop.  smittenkitchen.com/2025/02/z…

If you woke up craving pumpkin pie just because it's November 1st, but will not actually be making pumpkin pie on November 1st, I've got you: All of the flavor, none of the fuss, perfectly portioned. Spoon some onto a gingersnap and never look back.  smittenkitchen.com/2011/11/b…

Gently roasted apples and a small heap of cheddar bake into a craggy, toasted-edge, soft-centered, peak-fall scone. smittenkitchen.com/2010/10/a…

And for a little light weekend reading, there's, at last, a new Yap -- my sporadic, not-strictly-cooking newsletter. We're talking about the telephone, a song I can't stop listening to, and the underappreciated joy of farting around. smittenkitchen.substack.com/…

The best peanut butter cookies have five ingredients, no flour, no dairy, are hand-mixed and heavenly each time. Or ghoulish, if you cannot resist eyeball sprinkles. Thank you @ovenly for the forever inspiration. smittenkitchen.com/2015/10/s…

These tacos have been a stealth archive favorite for nearly 17 years now -- they seem so simple but they hit all the perfect weeknight dinner notes with a quick black bean filling, easy slaw, and pan-crisped taco shell we should never be deprived of.  smittenkitchen.com/2009/02/c…

This is the pasta I crave every fall and my way is quick, not-too-heavy, and full of flavor from the silkiest sauce. Rigatoni, with its wide tubes and big bite, are my favorite here. Dinner tonight is sorted, yes? smittenkitchen.com/2021/02/r…

A forever favorite soup, this one is unbeatable on a weeknight: five ingredients, less than 30 minutes, and tastes incredibly rich for something so light and simple. smittenkitchen.com/2006/09/s…