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Ten dishes, easiest first. A weeknight, a breakfast, a steak, a vegetable, a dessert, and one project for the day you want one. Start at the top.

Simply Roasted Whole Chicken

01Simply Roasted Whole ChickenSalt, an oven and time. If you learn one thing on this site, make it this. Everything else gets easier after it.Get the recipe

Copycat Starbucks Egg Bites

02Copycat Starbucks Egg BitesThe ones you buy, made at home for a fraction of it. Blend, pour, bake. They keep all week.Get the recipe

Tomato Soup

03Tomato SoupNo cream, no shortcuts, and better than the can it is imitating. Fifteen minutes of work and it sits happily while you do something else.Get the recipe

Asian Baked Salmon w/ Rice

04Asian Baked Salmon w/ RiceMarinated overnight in tamari, mirin, sugar and garlic, then baked hot and finished under the broiler. Start here if you have never cooked fish.Get the recipe

Japanese Sweet Potatoes w/ Miso Ginger Sauce

05Japanese Sweet Potatoes w/ Miso Ginger SauceRoasted until the sugars collapse, then a miso ginger sauce you will start putting on other things.Get the recipe

Bucatini all'Amatriciana

06Bucatini all'AmatricianaGuanciale, tomato, pecorino. Four ingredients and the technique is the whole dish.Get the recipe

Pork Piccata

07Pork PiccataPound it thin, dredge, sear, build a pan sauce from what is left behind. The sauce is the part that transfers to everything else you cook.Get the recipe

Beef Chuletón with Peach Sauce

08Beef Chuletón with Peach SauceA big bone-in ribeye, cooked properly, with a peach sauce that cuts it. This is steak night.Get the recipe

Banana Bread w/ Olive Oil Ice Cream

09Banana Bread w/ Olive Oil Ice CreamThe loaf is easy. The olive oil ice cream is the reason to make it.Get the recipe

Duck à l'Orange

10Duck à l'OrangeThe project. Pan-seared duck with ultra-crispy skin and a Calabrian chili orange glaze, and rendering the fat slowly is the whole trick.Get the recipe

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