No ice cream maker? No problem. This no-churn vanilla ice cream only requires three ingredients, and five minutes of hands-on time to make, and produces a rich, flavorful, hard-scoop ice cream. Enjoy it plain, or use it as a base for flavored ice creams.

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.