The 10 Most-Saved Serious Eats Recipes This Week

Cookies, pancakes, burgers, soup, Thai drunken noodles, and more comfort food—this is what everyone wants to eat right now.

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Genevieve Yam
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Genevieve Yam
Senior Editor
After graduating from the International Culinary Center, Genevieve cooked at Blue Hill at Stone Barns and Per Se. Prior to joining Serious Eats, she was an editor at Epicurious. She grew up between Toronto and Hong Kong and is a graduate of the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She currently lives in New York with her husband and two cats.
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Published January 23, 2026
Side view of pouring syrup on pancakes

Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez

Here in New York, we're about to get up to a foot of snow—which means most of our editors are stocking their kitchens with everything they need to make a comforting, warming meal. Judging by this week's most-saved recipes on MyRecipes—our tool for saving and organizing recipes from Serious Eats and beyond—our readers are in a similar boat. Below, you'll find the recipes our readers loved most this week. There are easy soups, meaty entrées, and plenty of delicious carbs, including cookies, noodles, and potatoes. These recipes won't keep the winter weather away, but they'll certainly keep your taste buds and bellies satisfied.

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  • Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

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    Serious Eats / Fred Hardy

    These oatmeal raisin cookies are simultaneously soft and crisp, with slightly chewy edges and warm notes of cinnamon and freshly ground nutmeg. Browning the butter develops nutty and complex flavors, and blooming the spices in the hot butter intensifies their aromatic qualities, resulting in deeply delicious cookies.

  • Carne Asada Fries With Sliced Steak and Chile Butter Sauce

    A plate of carne asada fries topped with pico de gallo next to slices of grilled steak covered in sauce served on a table

    Serious Eats / Lorena Masso

    What if carne asada fries met another beef-and-fry classic—steak frites? Instead of chopped carne asada scattered over fries, this version features a sliced steak alongside a mountain of cheesy, loaded fries, with a carne asada–inspired butter sauce bridging the two. It's indulgent, unapologetically beefy, and designed for maximum fry-dipping.

  • 5-Ingredient Creamy White Bean and Garlic Soup

    A bowl of garlic soup with garnish and a hand holding a spoon over the surface a plate of lemon slices to the side

    Serious Eats / Melati Citrawireja

    Toasted garlic, canned white beans, and good olive oil come together in this silky, deeply savory soup that tastes far more complex than it has any right to be. It's what our senior culinary editor, Leah Colins, makes when she wants a one-pot, weeknight-friendly situation.

  • The Easiest, Fluffiest Pancakes

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    Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez

    If you want an absolutely stellar, rigorously tested, totally foolproof pancake recipe that uses nothing but basic pantry ingredients, look no further. These thick, fluffy pancakes have a tender, pillowy-soft crumb and evenly browned exterior, and are extremely easy to make.

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  • Wisconsin Butter Burgers

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    Serious Eats / Qi Ai

    In Wisconsin, butter burgers range from event-worthy to everyday. While many butter burgers are simply topped with butter, Serious Eats contributor Jed Portman incorporates butter into the burger itself, infusing fat and flavor into every bite.

  • Spaghetti Puttanesca (Spaghetti With Capers, Olives, and Anchovies)

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    Melissa Hom

    This classic Southern Italian pasta dish packs an aromatic punch. Starting with garlic oil gives the sauce a rich note that lifts the whole dish, finely chopped anchovies melt into the oil for savory depth, and capers and olives add a briny, balancing tang.

  • Taco Soup

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    Serious Eats / Fred Hardy

    This thick, hearty taco-inspired soup features ground beef, corn, and pinto beans swimming in a flavorful purée of canned fire-roasted tomatoes, charred onion, garlic, jalapeños, and cubanelle peppers.

  • Pad Kee Mao (Thai Drunken Noodles)

    Side view of Pad Kee Mao

    Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez

    Along with pad Thai and pad see ew, pad kee mao (drunken noodles) is one of the most popular noodle dishes at Thai restaurants in the US. Recreating this intensely spicy and flavor-packed dish takes just 30 minutes. This version from Serious Eats contributor Derek Lucci stars a complex aromatic base of Thai chiles, garlic, and makrut lime leaves, delivering depth in every bite.

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  • Scottish-Style Oatmeal

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    Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik

    This breakfast is easy, creamy, and extremely satisfying. Optionally toasting the oats deepens their flavor, and gentle, frequent stirring releases just enough starch to thicken the oatmeal without making it stodgy.

  • The Best Crispy Roast Potatoes Ever

    The best crispy roast potatoes ever in a bowl on a blue background.

    Serious Eats / Vicky Wasik

    These are the most flavorful crispy roast potatoes you'll ever make, thanks to a few clever techniques. Boiling potatoes in alkaline water with baking soda breaks down their exteriors, creating a starchy slurry that crisps up in the oven, and using high-quality fats such as olive oil or beef drippings enhances the potatoes' flavor and craggy texture.

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