7,151 light recipes

This quick and easy dessert inspired by an Italian classic Crema di Mascarpone ai lamponi. Iced fresh raspberries and mascarpone cheese.

Chinese-style whole steamed fish topped with fermented black beans, fresh red chilis, ginger, garlic, and scallions. A Cantonese-inspired dinner that steams in 20 minutes and delivers clean, pungent, savory flavor.

Roasted salmon rubbed with olive oil, baked skin-on at high heat, and finished with fresh chives and optional tarragon. Clean, simple, and ready in 30 minutes with only four ingredients.

Oatmeal raspberry bar cookies with a buttery brown sugar oat crust and crumble top sandwiching seedless raspberry jam. A simple 7-ingredient bar cookie that's easy to batch bake.

Sautéed broccoli with lemon and anchovies quickly blanches broccoli, then tosses it with garlic, melted anchovies, cayenne, and fresh lemon juice. A salty, briny Southern Italian side in 15 minutes.

Homemade peach ice cream with fresh chopped peaches folded into a microwave-thickened custard base of milk, half-and-half, sugar and egg. Smooth, scoopable and a Southern summer ritual.

A copycat Kenny Rogers barbecue sauce, sweet and fruity with an applesauce base, brown sugar, lemon, and a hint of cinnamon. A glossy basting sauce that caramelizes beautifully on ribs and chicken.

Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream made at home: a rich, eggless vanilla cream base churned and studded with chunks of cookie dough. The ice cream parlor classic from your own freezer.

Gnocchi with chickpeas, butternut squash, and greens pan-sears pillowy gnocchi, then tosses them into a skillet of sage-scented squash, currants, garlic, and wilted spinach. A hearty vegetarian one-pan meal.

Cream cheese ice cream is an ultra-rich frozen dessert with the tangy cheesecake-like flavor of cream cheese, sweetened with sugar, eggs, vanilla, and a hit of lemon. Frozen cheesecake in scoopable form.

Spinach and fresh fruit salad with strawberries, blueberries, avocado, brie, and walnuts in a bright lemon-basil vinaigrette. A no-cook 10-minute summer salad that eats like a full meal.

My version of Bobby Flay's very distinctive southwestern, egg-less potato salad from his restaurant, Mesa Grill. Make sure you pour the sauce over the potatoes while they're still warm to ensure the flavors soak in. This salad goes nicely with grilled meat, poultry or seafood.

Black-Eyed Pea broccoli cheese soup recreates the famous restaurant chain's silky velveeta-and-broccoli classic with half-and-half and a cornstarch finish. Ready in 30 minutes.

Mashed potato pancakes folded into a sweet breakfast batter with eggs, milk, corn syrup, and nutmeg. Tender griddle cakes that recycle leftover potatoes into Sunday brunch.

Easy and Moist Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe

Dark rum balls made with crushed vanilla wafers, cocoa, nuts, and a generous pour of dark rum, rolled in powdered sugar. No-bake holiday cookie that improves with age in the tin.