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Traditional Irish lamb stew with layered lamb chops, potatoes, and onions slow-baked for two hours with thyme and parsley. A no-brown, one-pot stew that lets the meat and vegetables flavor each other.

Authentic Sichuan bang bang chicken with poached chicken breast shredded over julienned cucumber, carrot, and scallion under a creamy peanut-sesame-chili sauce. A cold appetizer or main.

Honey lemon rosemary chicken brushes a four-ingredient glaze of honey, lemon juice, rosemary, and red pepper flakes over chicken breasts. Sticky, herby, and weeknight-easy.

Vietnamese spring rolls (cha gio): crisp rice-paper rolls stuffed with ground pork, crab, glass noodles, garlic, and shallots, fried to a deep golden crunch. The crackly fried appetizer everyone fights over.

Creamy chicken with mushrooms, water chestnuts, and celery baked under a flaky crescent roll crust topped with shredded cheese and slivered almonds. A crunchy, bubbly crowd-pleaser.

Flour tortillas loaded with spicy chorizo, soft scrambled eggs, bell pepper, and melty colby-Jack cheese, baked golden and served with guacamole and fresh salsa. Weekend breakfast, Texas-style.

Country-style rabbit stew braised in dry sherry, chicken broth, and a strained game marinade with sage and thyme. The way old hunters do it, in a black iron pot.

Creole pork chops with white beans: bone-in pork chops braised low and slow with white beans, holy trinity vegetables, tomatoes, and Creole seasoning. Louisiana comfort food in a Dutch oven.

Skinless chicken legs simmered low and slow in curried tomato sauce with garlic, cayenne, and mushrooms until the meat falls off the bone. Freezer-friendly and served over rice for an easy comfort dinner.

Chicken breasts baked in a tangy white wine sauce with soy, ginger, and brown sugar. The sauce caramelizes and concentrates as it bakes, creating a glossy, flavor-packed glaze.

Chicken pot pie topped with drop biscuits instead of pastry crust. Creamed chicken, peas, and mushrooms baked under fluffy homemade biscuit dumplings.

Russian Jewish cabbage rolls, or holishkes, are sweet and sour stuffed cabbage simmered in a tomato sauce lifted with caramelized sugar and fresh lemon juice. Classic grandmother cooking.

30-minute pork chop dinner with yellow rice, salsa-style tomatoes, and fresh cilantro. A five-ingredient weeknight meal ready before takeout would arrive.

This recipe could hardly be simpler to prepare. The chicken gets a wonderful tangy taste, and no one will know you used convenient ingredients like a bottle of salad dressing and onion soup mix unless you tell them.

Slow cooker beef stew with chuck roast, potatoes, carrots, and onion seasoned with Old Bay. Just dump everything in the crockpot and let it cook on high for six hours.

Grilled pork loin chops marinated in white wine vinegar, Worcestershire, and garlic, served with a cold Dijon mustard sour cream sauce. A make-ahead freezer-to-grill dinner.