Faith Durand

For when you're bored of chicken (and pork chops).

Green tomatoes — not to be confused with tomatillos — are simply regular tomatoes that haven’t ripened to redness, yet. Tomatoes can keep producing fruit well into fall, but they need temperatures of 75 degrees or more in order to reach full growth and optimum ripeness. Therefore, most tomatoes that start growing in the fall stay small and green. Don’t throw them out, though.The good news is that green tomatoes are still edible, delicious, and good for so many things!

When cherries are in season you may want to pick up bags of dark, sweet berries at the market and eat them all fresh. But make sure you save a pint or two to bake with. What’s your favorite cherry recipe? Here are 24 recipes, from pie bars, to a frangipane galette, chocolate-covered cherries, cherry sangria, cherry dump cake, and more … And if cherries aren’t in season where you are, we fully endorse using frozen.

Make a perfect pot every time.

Have you ever roasted a leg of lamb? It may sound intimidating, but the sweet little secret is that leg of lamb is actually one of the easiest, most foolproof cuts of meat to cook.

Plus, two ingredients not normally found in chili.

It's impossible to mess this up.

Is there a more versatile and dessert-friendly fruit than bananas? From the simplest one-ingredient banana ice cream to banana pudding to lavish banana foster there are so many ways to spin this fruit into a fantastic dessert. Maybe banana cream pie isn’t your thing, but you are up for some Nutella banana bread, a caramel banana cake, or chocolate-covered frozen bananas. From unexpectedly light treats to decadent cakes, bananas make some of the best desserts.

Make it once and enjoy all week long.

Just add a loaf of bread, a salad, and a bottle of wine!

It's sweet with a golden crumb, soft and moist, and dense without being heavy.

Like the boxed stuff, but so much better. Here's a step-by-step recipe that shows how to get the taste you crave on Thanksgiving and beyond.

The best kind of kitchen magic we know.

It also happens to be pretty easy to make.

This buttery crumble does some things differently — and wow does it work.

This is one of the simplest, heartiest breakfast casseroles we know how to make.

I recently discovered that ice cream cake is a surprisingly divisive topic. When I asked friends and readers whether actual cake belonged in ice cream cake, the responses were severely split. Of course! said some. Absolutely not, insisted others. It turns out, you see, that many, many people were raised on the Dairy Queen and Carvel ice cream cakes, which are nothing but pure and cold ice cream, with chocolate cookie bits in the middle, and a luscious layer of whipped frosting over it all.

The recipe that makes almost any meal a little better.

This old-fashioned pot roast, cooked quietly in the slow cooker all day with a mess of caramelized onions, makes a rich broth and meat that melts in your mouth.

Don't try to be original — just make this four-ingredient recipe.

You're just 3 ingredients away from the ultimate spring side dish.

Hard-boiled, soft-boiled, any way you like. We've got the perfect method for eggs, your way.

Grilled pizza is a summertime, weeknight meal that has everything going for it. Whip up the perfect dough for grilling pizza, top with your favorite cheese and goodies, and let it cook while hanging out on the back deck with friends, wine glasses in hand. It’s easy, make-ahead, and elegant in all the right ways, and it doesn’t heat up your kitchen. Bonus. But to make a great pizza, you need a great dough.

Happy tap, tap, tapping!

It also happens to be the easiest.