This microwave butterscotch sauce only takes four minutes and three ingredients to make. Better still, it doesn’t contain any corn syrup, or require a candy thermometer.

If you’ve never made your own sour cream, you need to put it on to the top of your to-do list. Homemade sour cream tastes so much better than the store-bought kind, and it’s ridiculously easy to make. Just pour two ingredients into a jar, and you’re done. It’s truly that simple.

Don’t toss your vanilla beans, after you’ve used them to make a few batches of vanilla extract. The spent pods can be used to make vanilla bean powder.

These dulce de leche s’mores have been on repeat at my house this summer. We made them over the fire pit the first time, and we’ve made them in the microwave and oven a bunch of times since then.