Just in time for Father's Day, ultra-tender meatballs with a surprising magic ingredient: water, and lots of it. 

A chilled soup that (finally) feels like soup -- thanks to a clever cooking technique and some seductive spring trimmings.

Cooked something genius lately? We want to hear about it.

Boil new potatoes just a little differently, and score a head-turning new appetizer.

An old-school American snack cake gets a little modern bling.

A mashup of all the best pasta sauces -- tomato, asparagus, and carbonara -- with surprisingly harmonious results. 

A feel-good pot roast from two genius women.

You didn't think croissants could get better, did you? They can.

A spring vegetarian chickpea soup that's lush in all the right places (but won't lull you to sleep).

Watercress, avocado, and caramelized pineapple walk into a bar, in Cuba.