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Easy Ghanaian Light Soup Recipe

Here’s some good news worth shouting from the rooftops: Yewande Komolafe is back! After a serious illness that kept her out of the kitchen for more than a year, she’s sharing her creative, soulful words and recipes in her column once again. First up is her Ghanaian light soup, a popular dish across West Africa….

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Fast, Easy Stir-Fried Shrimp Recipe

My husband’s current favorite dinner category is “spicy tomato seafood.” This, as you may well know, is a generous category with delicious offerings: puttanesca, bouillabaisse (with added chile flakes) and all manner of seafood stews. It doesn’t hurt, either, that spicy tomato seafood makes good use of pantry and freezer staples: canned tomatoes, garlic, chile…

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Easy, Healthy Chicken Dinner Ideas

These recipes are light and nourishing and bring some weeknight dinner excitement to the table. Martha Rose Shulman’s lemon and garlic chicken with cherry tomatoes.Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Published April 28, 2025Updated April 28, 2025 It’s easy to hear the word “chicken” around dinnertime and feel immediately bored….

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Easy and Elegant Olive Oil Cake

I consider myself a pretty good cook. I can neatly break down a chicken, and make mayonnaise from scratch. I can pleat dumplings, roll futomaki, fry doughnuts and, on one occasion, have turned carrots into roses. But I cannot, for the life of me, take butter out of the fridge to soften. This is why,…

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Lazy Daisy Cake Is as Easy as It Sounds

“Lazy people, this cake is for you.” So goes Melissa Clark’s clarion call to her lazy daisy cake, also known as Danish dream cake (drømmekage). The “dream” part, I’d guess, is the tender cake flavored with a generous dose of vanilla or cardamom. The “lazy” bit is its so-easy frosting of melted butter, brown sugar…

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Easy Fish Recipes – NYT Cooking

These delicious, streamlined dishes make it a breeze. Andrew Purcell for The New York Times. Food Sylist: Barrett Washburne. Published March 20, 2025Updated March 20, 2025 When you’re wandering the grocery store aisles at 5 p.m., trying to figure out what to make for dinner, it’s easy to overlook fish in favor of a more…

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