TASTElist

This classic recipe for a chocolate-hazelnut crêpe with banana will transport you to the streets of Paris. Game Plan: You’ll need to make the batter for Basic Crêpes before you begin.

A classic French egg, ham, and cheese crêpe recipe, perfect for brunch, lunch, or a light supper. Game Plan: You’ll need to make the batter for Basic Crêpes before you begin.

This classic recipe for savory mushroom, spinach, and Parmesan crêpes is perfect for an elegant brunch, lunch, or light vegetarian supper. Game Plan: You’ll need to make the batter for Basic Crêpes before you begin.

For this healthy spaghetti recipe, roasted red onion, zucchini, yellow squash, and red bell pepper combine with toasted pine nuts and chopped black olives.

Penne pasta cooked al dente combines with sautéed spinach, crumbled feta, crème fraîche, and yogurt in this easy vegetarian baked pasta dish.

For this fresh, healthy summer salad recipe that balances sweet, tart, and salty, grilled watermelon, combines with feta, and mint.

For this healthy, refreshing salad recipe, jicama combines with ruby grapefruit and mango with lime, cayenne pepper, and cilantro.

My mom’s slow cooker chocolate cake is a straightforward recipe that’s a great way to introduce little ones to cooking. I measured out all of the ingredients, and then had my daughter do all the mixing. Serve Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos with this cake for dessert, and there you have it: an easy, kid-friendly menu. Note: You’ll need a medium-sized, 3.5-quart, slow cooker for this recipe. If you use a large, 7-quart, slow cooker the edges tend to by black.

Blending up batches of these tasty margaritas for your next party is the drinks equivalent of success insurance. This version goes minimal on the sugar and has a nice kick of alcohol. If you still aren’t persuaded to blend it up, here’s a margarita on the rocks. What to buy: Get the best-quality 100 percent agave tequila you can afford; it’ll taste better, and you won’t be as regretful the day after. Also, try to use Cointreau or Grand Marnier instead of Triple Sec—they’re not as sugary and h...

For this classic Louisiana bayou crawfish boil recipe, crawfish are poached in water with onion, lemon, bay leaf, and garlic. Game plan: Unless you bought them prepurged, the crawfish will have to be soaked in an ice chest full of fresh water for about 10 minutes before cooking, to clean their exterior and cause them to get rid of the swampy muck in their intestines. For more New Orleans-style inspiration, check out our Mardi Gras recipes.

For this easy microwave chocolate mug cake recipe, flour, sugar, cocoa powder, vegetable oil, and an egg turn into a delicious treat in 90 seconds. Raspberry preserves and shredded coconut give it a Black Forest twist.

The Mai Tai is a sweet-and-sour cocktail with fruit flavors balancing aged rum. All agree that “Trader Vic” Bergeron mixed the first Mai Tai in 1944 at his bar in Emeryville, California, just outside of San Francisco. Naysayers need only heed the words of Trader Vic’s bartenders’ guide of 1947: “Anybody who says I didn’t create this drink is a dirty stinker.” Trader Vic had visited the South Seas, returning with all of the venerable accouterments now standard in a tiki lounge.