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Three ingredients. That’s really all this is — lemon cake mix, butter, and lemon pie filling — and the result is a bright, tangy, gooey-centered bar with a golden crumb top that tastes like you spent way more time than you did. I was skeptical the first time I made these. I am not skeptical anymore.

This oven-baked beef and hashbrown casserole is one of those recipes that sounds too simple to be that good — and then you make it and wonder why you don’t have it in your regular rotation already. Ground beef, frozen hashbrowns, condensed soup, cheddar cheese. Four ingredients, layered in a dish, baked until bubbly and golden. That’s really it. It comes out looking like you ...

If you’ve never made buttered cabbage and egg noodles, you’re in for a surprise. Just three ingredients — cabbage, wide egg noodles, and a generous amount of butter — and about 40 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking. The cabbage slowly caramelizes in the pan until it’s soft, golden, and almost sweet, and the noodles soak up every bit of that buttery flavor. It’s humble, it’s ...

These slow cooker brown sugar pork chops are the kind of recipe that feels like it shouldn’t work as well as it does. Just four pantry ingredients — brown sugar, Italian dressing, soy sauce, and bone-in pork chops — and the slow cooker turns them into something saucy, tender, and genuinely delicious. You dump everything in, walk away, and come home to a house that smells like...

This slow cooker beef macaroni is hearty, savory comfort food at its simplest — just four ingredients and the slow cooker does almost all the work. Elbow pasta soaks up a rich, glossy brown gravy loaded with crumbled ground beef, and the whole thing tastes like it simmered on a stovetop all day. Perfect for feeding a crowd with almost no effort.