By Be your friends' favorite chef. There are a few dishes that, if you know how to make them at home, will definitely earn you praise. They're classic, they're impressive, and they taste amazing. Perfect these 15 recipes and everyone will think you're the best chef around.
1. NOLA BBQ Shrimp
Cook shrimp with the flavors of New Orleans, and your guests are guaranteed to ask for seconds.
Get the recipe from Wonky Wonderful.
2. Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie, you can win anyone's heart. This recipe from Jacques Torres is your ticket.
Get the recipe from French Press.
3. Cheese Soufflé
Being able to cook a soufflé is the ultimate sign of an expert chef. Let Julia Child be your guide.
Get the recipe from Little Ferraro Kitchen.
4. Lobster
If you walk out of the kitchen with lobster on your serving tray, you will turn heads for sure, especially when that lobster is drenched in coconut butter and pineapple green curry sauce.
Get the recipe from Pineapple & Coconut.
5. Fruit Tart
Make the prettiest, tastiest breakfast ever with this fruit tart.
Get the recipe from The View from Great Island.
6. Garlic-Yogurt Baked Chicken
There are about a billion ways to cook chicken and almost as many ways to cook it badly. This foolproof recipe will ensure you get it right.
Get the recipe from Diethood.
7. Honey Goat Cheese Pizza
This homemade pizza topped with honey goat cheese and caramelized onions will have everyone swooning.
Get the recipe from This Week for Dinner.
8. Cream Puffs
You pretty much need to master profiteroles, aka cream puffs, as they are the consummate French dessert.
Get the recipe from An Edible Mosaic.
9. Molten Lava Cakes
Are you ever sad to be served a molten chocolate lava cake? Of course not. Your guests will be thrilled to end their evening this way.
Get the recipe from From Valerie's Kitchen.
10. Boeuf Bourguignon
Boeuf Bourguignon, aka beef Burgundy, is another French dish that needs to be a part of your fancy food repertoire.
Get the recipe from Karen's Kitchen Stories.
11. A Better Brownie
These are the best brownies ever. Perfect them and you'll be everyone's favorite.
Get the recipe from This Week for Dinner.
12. Hearty Bolognese
If you know how to make a good Bolognese sauce, you will always have a wonderful dinner at your fingertips, whether it's for a weeknight alone or a weekend with guests.
Get the recipe from Lexi's Clean Kitchen.
13. Sweet Potato and Lime Taquitos
Anybody can throw together a taco. Taquitos, on the other hand, will show your guests just how amazing you are.
Get the recipe from Beard and Bonnet.
14. Chicken and Artichoke Ravioli
Pasta may sound boring, but homemade ravioli is the absolute best.
Get the recipe from Dinners Dishes & Desserts.
15. Chicken Pot Pie Crescent Braid
Even the most delicious chicken pot pie can look homely until you turn it into a beautiful braid. This is comfort food at its most delicious and most gorgeous.
Get the recipe from Wine and Glue.
This article originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.com.
Jane Maynard is a food blogger at This Week for Dinner and Babble, a writer and designer, and a lover of all things chocolate.
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