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Roasted eggplant, cinnamon-spiced lamb, and a golden cap of cheesy béchamel. Make it ahead, then claim a corner piece.

The umami-packed pasta you'll be making all season long.

Tender ground beef, savory pancetta, and a splash of white wine make this slow-simmered Bolognese worth the wait.

Canned purée delivers rich body and deep flavor, without the nonna-level cook time.

A mountain of greens cooks down into one very satisfying bowl of pasta.

Ground chicken, Parmesan, marinara, and plenty of mozz in a supersize sheet-pan dinner worth sharing.

Crisp, citrusy, and bubbly, this classic gin-and-Champagne cocktail is elegant enough for a party and easy enough to make in 5 minutes.

Potatoes meet butter in this crispy, golden cake fit for a French bistro.

Also known as a fancy French potato puff.

France’s silky-smooth take on mashed potatoes.

Just as great with coffee for breakfast as it is with amaro for dessert.

French toast, the French way.

Fulfill your 10 p.m. Parisian dinner dreams with a deeply seared steak drenched in creamy cognac-peppercorn sauce.

A salad that's 75% croutons? Yes, thanks.

Made with just a few ingredients, this is the ideal fancy-but-easy dinner.

This classic carbonara traps crispy pancetta and all that silky sauce in big tubes of rigatoni.

We tasted 17 jars of pasta sauce. These are the ones we’d recommend.

From Neapolitan to sheet-pan pie with hot dogs and kimchi.

A slightly unhinged vegetarian version of the classic Parisian sandwich.

With dramatic choux layers and fruit-rippled cream, it’s the drag queen of Polish desserts.

This streamlined Italian tomato sauce makes magic out of a handful of pantry ingredients.

Made with canned tuna, anchovies, lemon, and olive oil, this creamy, savory condiment is good on just about everything.

The secret to flavorful, never-greasy eggplant parm? Brine the eggplant first.

The elegant French classic with butter, lemon, capers, and herbs.