18 Cooking Resolutions You Can Keep With Barefoot Contessa Recipes

Enough of the resolutions that do nothing but deprive! Allow Ina Garten's Instagram [1] and recipe collection to inspire you to bust out your finest sticks of butter (storebought is fine) and start cooking the coziest comfort foods the Barefoot Contessa can offer. This is one batch of recipes you'll resolve yourself to make this year, so like Ina, you'll simply say, "How easy is that?" by the end of 2017.

Cook Jeffrey's "new favorite dinner."

Get the recipe: skillet-roasted lemon chicken [3]

Have oatmeal for breakfast.

Get the recipe: maple oatmeal scones [4]

Drink coffee and bourbon in moderation.

Get the recipe: bourbon honey cake [5]

Go "gluten-free."

Get the recipe: raisin-pecan oatmeal cookies [6] made with Cup4Cup gluten-free flour

Turn soup into pot pie.

Get the recipe: creamy chicken stew [7] with pastry crust [8] to form French chicken pot pies

Nosh on an alternative to avocado toast.

Get the recipe: On a sheet pan, top slices of fresh French bread with Camembert cheese and prosciutto. Toast in the oven until bread is crisp and cheese is melted.

Experiment with a one-pot meal.

Get the recipe: crispy mustard-roasted chicken [9]

Salt something sweet.

Get the recipe: vanilla rum panna cotta with salted caramel [10]

Make homemade bread.

Get the recipe: sour cream cornbread [11]

Eat a balanced plate . . . cheese plate that is.

Get the recipe: easy cheese board [12]

Cook up Ina's famous roast chicken.

Get the recipe: perfect roast chicken [13]

Bake something elaborate on Sunday.

Get the recipe: easy sticky buns [14]

Cool it on the cocktails; go for spritzers instead.

Get the recipe: Aperol spritzers [15]

Eat more fruit.

Get the recipe: raspberry corn muffins [16]

Fill your freezer with foods you'll actually eat.

Get the recipe: frozen key lime pie [17]

Snack on nuts like candy.

Get the recipe: salted caramel nuts [18]

Incorporate more butter into your life.

Get the recipe: chocolate chunk cookies [19]

Try the toasted coconut trend.

Get the recipe: toasted coconut marshmallows [20]

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