Potato

Crispy, creamy, chewy, bright, and about a dozen other wonderful (see?) adjectives apply to this easy dinner.

Instead of icing, this spiced loaf from Elizabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson’s ‘Tartine: A Classic Revisited’ is blanketed in a fluffy vanilla meringue.

With custardy insides and charred exteriors, these sweet potatoes are everything you always wish roasted sweet potatoes could be. A crunchy mixture of toasted nuts and seeds provides pops of texture and spice, and a cooling lemony yogurt sauce cuts through the richness. 

Hash can be good—let me prove it. 

Obe Ata is a Nigerian sauce that incorporates floral habanero chiles and bell peppers. This recipe uses obe ata as the base for a spicy, warming chicken and sweet potato stew. 

Colorful, crunchy, and incredibly easy, you can pull this bright Indian dish together in 20 minutes or less.

It all comes down to Butterballs and MSG.

Ridiculously, impossibly creamy mashed potatoes with a patatas bravas-inspired topping.

When you mix hot sauce with butter, it turns into a spicy, creamy spread that’s perfect for melting atop burnished sweet potato halves, bringing them to life.

Lessons learned through a perfect meal.

The thing that makes this satisfying, spicy-tangy salad so great? It’s equally as delicious served warm for dinner as it is eaten cold for lunch the next day.

Make this simple and super-satisfying soup your go-to weeknight meal.

A waxy potato doesn't belong in Madame Tussauds.

This isn’t the crisp-skinned, high-heat-roast chicken you’re probably familiar with. Instead, it’s a melt-in-your-mouth tender, schmaltzy, slow-roast version.

The “Nothing Fancy” cookbook author on how to host the most most baller dinner party in the most low-key way possible.

Make this hands-off recipe when you want to cook fish but it stresses you out. Not anymore!

These are impossibly fluffy on the inside and shatteringly crispy on the outside.

Make this crispy potato hash on a weekend you want to host brunch, but also sleep in.

Everything we love about a German potato salad (bright vinegar, fresh herbs, a little heat)—but make it smoky, charred, and grilled.

A simple frittata packed with sweet red peppers, potatoes, and onions.

This recipe was an excuse to combine our favorite potato chip flavor with the creamy, salty "salad" of our dreams. To hammer that home, the whole dish is topped with crumbled sour cream and onion potato chips.

This classic (and familiar) potato-and-cauliflower dish is a great make-ahead party dish.

Steaming offers extreme speed and high hydration, which means that whatever you cook—from seasonal vegetables to proteins—will be done quickly and always moist.

An ode to an underrated bonafide spring ingredient.