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The recipes readers have loved most — easy, reliable, worth making again

Published April 28, 2026 1:26PM (EDT)

Ingredients for Bite favorites (Ashlie Stevens )

A version of this essay first appeared in The Bite , Salon's food newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this, plus recipes, food-related pop culture recommendations and conversations about what we're eating, how and why.

Some recipes are designed to impress. Others are the ones people actually make—on a weeknight, without much planning, and then return to again.

Over the past few months, I’ve been paying attention to those patterns: not just what readers click on, but what they cook, share and come back to.…