Leite's Culinaria

Comfort fusion food for the soul, this reflects both the frugality of Italian peasant food yet also respects the essential nature of cheese in Swiss and French cooking.

An authentic Chinese dish that's so sticky, so sweet, and so good, we've affectionately dubbed it "pork candy."

Who knew these buttery, airy, delicate little cakes were so simple to make...and so irresistibly delicious?! (Well, Proust, for one...)

Fregola is a toasted semolina pasta with a nutty flavor that's very popular in Sardinia. This salad includes orange, grapefruit, onion, and herbs.

Roasting these rotund little root veggies turns them docile as anything dug out of the ground can be. Consider them to be dirt candy.

Pretty much banana nut bread smothered in honey cinnamon butter. Feels indulgent. But actually quite virtuous.

SLIDESHOW: Whatever sorta roast chicken you crave, whether classic or spiced or lemony or beer-bathed, you'll find it here.

The perfect solution when you need a last-moment sweet something or crave a little something sweet but don’t want an entire pan sitting around to tempt you.

Sometimes what you need isn't so much a recipe as a strategy. Like this frozen cookie dough balls magic that's ready at a moment's craving.

SLIDESHOW: Quick and easy recipes that are foolproof and pleasing to everyone at the table. Guaranteed to reduce your frazzle.

The only disappointing thing about these chocolate chip cookie brownies? That we didn’t discover them sooner.